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This report analyzes Richard Nixon's autobiography, Six Crises, and focuses on three of the "crises" to determine what kind of man Nixon was. Bibliography lists one source.
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complex man. On the one hand, he was considered - and considered himself - a loyal, true-blue American, and would claim that his actions were performed to support that loyalty.
On the other hand, Nixon is well-known as the main instigator behind the Watergate scandal, which almost drove him into impeachment, and ultimately forced him to resign from office and
place the Republic Party under suspicion for almost a decade. Scandal seemed to dog him even before Watergate - there was the scandal that prompted his "Checkers" speech, as well
as his questionable actions during the Alger Hiss trial. The first inkling that Nixon was other than a dedicated American citizen can
be found in his first set of memoirs, Six Crises. The book, which was published in 1962, is an autobiographical account of "crises" in Nixons life that he overcame by
dint of will and patriotism, to hear him tell it. And while he had many victories, as he wrote in his book, he often felt depressed after a victory, rather
than elated, which is probably what fostered the writing of Six Crises. While the stories in the book are interesting from an historical perspective, they also seem to be one
long self-justification for everything and anything that Nixon felt he had to do and accomplish. Each "crisis" represented something that he battled,
overcame and ended up better than before. In the three crises that are being analyzed as follows, Nixon proved himself to not only like the limelight, but also to show
his roots as a "poor" Quaker, as he tended to side against the privileged of society. The book, which boasted the famous line, "You wont have Dick Nixon to kick
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