Describe Richard Nixon as a person?

Answer 1

As a young person, I always liked him. He held himself very well in public. Talking to people who knew him personally, and who have met him, they said he would never look you in the eye. He was kind of "shifty". With all the trouble he got in, it kind of makes sense now. He was lying and spying, and to look anyone in the eye might of given him away. He did open the door to China. Before he made his trip to China, we knew very little about China. China lived in their own little world shut off from the outside world. Nixon opened China up to the US.

Answer 2

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I like the character better than I liked
Reagan. He didn't kill JFK, but that
event caused Johnson to take office,
thereby opening to door to Nixon when
Johnson did not seek another term.
Muskie didn't have a prayer.

As a politician, Nixon was sharp.
He alternated between chess
and Battleship. He used his
political advisors. That's what
a smart president is supposed
to do. He let Kissinger run the
war in Vietnam(and Cambodia,
and Laos), which was smart.
Kissinger knew more about the
game of war than Tricky Dick.

Nixon knew how to press all of
the public's buttons. But as things
got worse in Southeast Asia, and
protests were at a high point here,
Nixon started caving in. The plumbers
spelled the end of Nixon's political
career, but had to hurt him personally.
Criticism demonstrated how short the
memory of the American public is.


Richard Nixon died 13 years ago
last Sunday. He was a Quaker, played
football in High School, and married
his HS sweetie Jane Kirtin(I mean
Patricia Ryan). Nixon was the star
prosecutor at the Algier Hiss cold war
criminal trial. Both Nixon and Mrs. Nixon
were drinkers.


http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rn37.html


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Answer 3

David Halberstam described an incident in "The Powers that Be" that I find very illuminating. Nixon had just won the California gubernatorial election. So he, his wife, and his parents or her parents went to the celebration cocktail party at the Los Angeles Times. (This story comes from the matriarch of the family that owned the paper at the time.) She asked them what they wanted to drink. The wife and parents said milk (!) and Nixon then did too. Then Nixon snuck back to the matriarch and asked for an alcoholic beverage.

The poor guy! Stuck in a family like that. Can you really blame him for his political excesses later?

Answer 4

This is my impression of Richard Nixon based on the books I have read.

He was a very intelligent man, but he was really thin-skinned and insecure. He wasn't one to show emotion but his emotions ran deep. (I think there was a touch of the Asperger's in him.)

He was a strategic thinker who had great ideas and policy both domestically and foreign, but because of his deep seated insecurity about his perseved enemies he made very poor decisions regarding Watergate. President Nixon had nothing to do with the Watergate Breakin but everything he did after that was wrong.

It's a shame too, because he probably would've ranked high in leadership had it not been for that.

Answer 5

Richard Nixon was a paranoid, shifty-eyed, delusional fool. The only reason he won the election was due to his dogged persistence in running for the office. That, and the lack of a qualified Democratic candidate to run against him. Nixon thought of himself as more of a king than a president. He was above the law, because he was the law. He perpetually sold out the middle class in favor of big business. He had serious character flaws, which he could never see nor acknowledge. He froze our wages, taxed us to death and allowed oil companies to create false shortages and raise prices shamelessly. He was extremely paranoid, probably with good cause. Nixon was the only President in history worse than U.S. Grant.

Answer 6

First the anectdote on Nixon is in error. Nixon never won the Governor's election in California. He lost to Pat Brown in 1962,blamed the Press, and said,"You will not have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore". He was a brilliant man in many ways, but fatally flawed by his paranoia, insecurity, inferiority complex, and deviousness.

Answer 7

Nixon was abrasive and paranoid and he felt that as President he was above the law.

Answer 8

he was a person , who was probably the most human of all of us , he was publically and politically humam , and his fall from power was also .

Answer 9

he's a guy who doesnt deserve to be the president.....

he just won becouse of his charsisma

Answer 10

Can't. Is this a joke?