Episode 53 RICHARD NIXON The Man Who Saved the Union : (Part 1 ) Magnificent Desolation

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On January 20, 1969, Richard Millhouse Nixon was Inaugurated the 37th President of the United States. He faced a country and a World in upheaval. It was as historian Jim Prado points out "A more complicated set of circumstances than had faced any of his predecessors, at least in the modern era." That is in my opinion an understatement. Our country was divided and under siege here at home, at war abroad, and involved in a dangerous dance with the other super power, the Soviet Union, all over the Globe. 

Richard Nixon would also face inequality at home, an environment in peril, an economy sputtering, a government that had tried to do to much in to many different directions, and an electorate that was tired of it all. Richard Nixon had to look out at the crowd that January day and wonder if he could actually get our nation out of the hole he inherited, could he save this Union?

In this look at his first six months in office you will see him planting the seeds for many of the accomplishments to come. In Civil Rights, the Environment, the Federal Court System, and overseas in Europe, in China, in dealing with the Soviets and most importantly in dealing with the 550,000 American troops then stationed in Vietnam. Here the journey to a generation of peace begins.

Finally, in July of 1969, an event happens that will, for just a moment, bring the country, and the World, together and it features a moment when Richard Nixon is actually able to pick up a phone and reach for the Moon. 

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