Richard Nixon: Rise from Poverty
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Who was Richard Nixon and why study his rise?
Es ist der 27. April 1994 in Yorba Linda, Kalifornien, tief in Orange County. Präsident Bill Clinton spricht an den Memorial Services seines Voraussetzungsvorsitzenden, dem alten Präsidenten Richard M. Nixon. Er beantwortet eine begründete Begründung von Dignitarien, verehrten Gästen und Medien, außerhalb der modesten Heimat, in der Richard Nixon und seine Brüder geboren wurden. A small, white, wooden kidhouse, ordered by mail from a catalog, built by his father, who assembled it piece by piece on their lemon farm. One can imagine the scene. Richard Nixon as a young boy, his face gazing out of the tiny window of the attic loft bedroom he shared with his brothers, now a short distance from where his casket rests today, draped with an American flag.
Clinton, die Haus, der Kaskett, alle verkleidet von einem mächtigen Ochtree, der sich an die enormen Reise des Jungen im Fenster erinnert. Was würde Richard Nixon in diesen vielen Jahren passieren, als die Leber auf diesem Tiefen geflogen und geflogen und wieder geflogen? Die vielen Saisonen, als er alt wurde, dann in der Krieg, in der Kampagne für den Kongress, in die Welt geflogen und dann in die höchste Office in der Welt geraten, nur um in Schmerzen zu fallen. What do we make of the man that boy became, now that he's gone? Who was, after all, the real Richard Nixon? Hallo alle, ich bin Don Wildman und ihr hört sich zu American History Hit an. Willkommen zurück zu unserer Präsidenten-Serie, als wir heute Nummer 37 erreichen, Richard Milhouse Nixon aus Kalifornien, der zweimal in der Office gewählt wurde, von 1969 bis 1974, als er infamöserweise verabschiedet wurde, den White House an seinen Vizepräsidenten Gerald Ford übergeben hat. These were the late 60s, early 70s. Heady times in America. NASA landing on the moon.
Hippies tuning in and dropping out in Haight-Ashbury. Vietnam and Woodstock and Charles Manson. Draft cards being burned along with women's brassieres as soldiers marched on Kent State University firing real bullets. In New York, the twin towers of the World Trade Center rose up as the city teetered toward financial collapse. Marvin Gaye crooned What's Going On, while Walt Disney conjured a new fantasy land in Florida. And the Supreme Court decided in favor of a woman's right to choose, if only temporarily. This was the age of the movie blockbusters, at once sublime, terrifying and absurd. The Godfather, The Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And against this boggling backdrop was the Nixon presidency.
Those of us alive at the time have very personal feelings about the man, given the length and breadth of his very public career. The arms jutted up in victory, his consternation under duress, the famously sweaty upper lip. His love of country, his sense of duty was so clear, yet at the same time it seemed obscured by behavior that was grandiose and sometimes paranoid. Who was Richard Nixon is a question we'll attempt to answer today with Professor Nicole Hemmer, political historian at Vanderbilt University, host of the This Day podcast, whose latest book is Partisans, the conservative revolutionaries who remade American politics in the 1990s. Greetings, Nikki. Welcome to American History Hit.
Thank you so much for having me, Don.
So you have gone with the flow here. We're going to do this Nixon podcast in two parts. We're doing the rise and then his presidency and the fall in a separate episode. My call entirely because there's so much about Nixon that is so important and relevant to today's politics, certainly in the presidency. Is that true?
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who was Richard Nixon and why study his rise?
0:32–5:07
2
What were Nixon's early life and humble beginnings?
5:07–14:40
3
How did Nixon's anti-communist stance shape his early career?
14:40–21:25
4
What was the significance of the Alger Hiss case for Nixon?
21:25–27:45
5
How did Nixon use the Checkers speech to save his political career?
27:45–33:30
6
How did Nixon's role as Vice President under Eisenhower influence his politics?
33:30
7
What does Nixon's rise tell us about the conservative movement in America?
31:15–41:59