American History: “Nixon’s the One”
30 November 2011
President Richard M. Nixon at his desk in the White House a few weeks after his inauguration in 1969
STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember.
This week in our series, we begin the story of America's thirty-seventh president.
RICHARD NIXON: “I, Richard Milhous Nixon, do solemnly swear…”
CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN: “That you will faithfully execute the office…”
NIXON: “That I will faithfully execute the office…”
WARREN: “Of President of the United States.”
NIXON: “Of President of the United States…”
Richard Nixon was sworn into office on January twentieth, nineteen sixty-nine.
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Nixon began his presidency at a difficult time.
(Viet Nam War battle sounds)
American forces, allied with the Army of South Vietnam, were continuing to fight against the communist forces of North Vietnam. Thousands of soldiers and civilians were dying. The Americans and South Vietnamese were making little progress, and there were anti-war demonstrations in the United States.
Anti-War Protesters chanting: “Hell No, We Won’t Go!”
Demonstrators outside Chicago's Blackstone Hotel, February 5, 1970, to protest the visit of President Richard Nixon
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