United States presidential election, 1952

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 102. Chapters: United States presidential candidates, 1952, United States presidential primaries, 1952, United States vice-presidential candidates, 1952, Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, Hubert Humphrey, Adlai Stevenson, Earl Warren, Alben W. Barkley, Harry S. Truman, Wayne Morse, Robert Taft, William Averell Harriman, Harold Stassen, Estes Kefauver, J. William Fulbright, Richard Russell, Jr., Harry F. Byrd, United States presidential election in California, 1952, Robert S. Kerr, John Sparkman, Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1952, Stuart Hamblen, Republican Party presidential primaries, 1952, Charlotta Bass, 1952 Democratic National Convention, Vincent Hallinan, Farrell Dobbs, Darlington Hoopes, Paul A. Dever, George Theodore Mickelson, 1952 Republican National Convention, Edward Longstreet Bodin, Riley A. Bender, Eric Hass, Thomas H. Werdel, Symon Gould, Enoch A. Holtwick, Henry B. Krajewski, Samuel H. Friedman, Myra Tanner Weiss, K1c2 formula. Excerpt: Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 ¿ April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, in office from 1969 to 1974. He served as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961, the only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency. A member of the Republican Party, he was the only President to resign from office. Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California. After completing his undergraduate work at Whittier College, he graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1937 and returned to California to practice law in La Habra. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the United States Navy, serving in the Pacific theater, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander during World War II. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946 representing California's 12th congressional district. In 1950 he was elected to the United States Senate as the Junior Senator from California. He was the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party nominee, in the 1952 Presidential election, becoming one of the youngest Vice Presidents in history. He waged an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1960, narrowly losing to John F. Kennedy, and an unsuccessful campaign for Governor of California in 1962; following these losses, Nixon announced his withdrawal from political life. In 1968, however, he ran again for President of the United States and was elected. The most immediate task facing President Nixon was a resolution of the Vietnam War. He initially escalated the conflict, overseeing incursions into neighboring countries, though American military personnel were gradually withdrawn and he successfully negotiated a ceasefire with North Vietnam in 1973, effectively ending American involvement in the war. His foreign policy initiatives were largely successful: his groundbreaking visit to the People's Republic of China in 1972 opened diplomatic relations between the two nations, and he initiated déten