Important Information:
- Nixon was the only President to ever resign from office.
- He served in the Navy during WWII and then was elected as a Representative in California.
- He was strongly against communist and it elevated to a national prominence.
- President Nixon first served as Vice President for eight years, and ran for President after those eight years.
- Nixon ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War by 1973.
- He tried to normalize diplomatic relations with China & the Soviet Union.
- He initiated detente and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- Nixon transferred power to the states and launched many campaigns to better the nation.
- Nixon's crisis came in his second term as President.
- The peace process in the Middle East had to be restarted and an oil embargo occurred.
- Revelations about the Watergate scandal then surfaced and left Nixon with no other option than to resign to avoid impeachment.