Richard Nixon: Positive or Negative President to America By: Cam Hall

           One of the most recognizable and well-known presidents in the history of America was Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was the president of the U.S.A. from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. Many people had mixed reviews of Nixon during his presidency, some stating that he was good in some ways but bad in other ways. Others felt complete hatred towards him or completely loved him. Personally, I feel as though Richard Nixon was more negative towards America and it's people, during his presidency. One reason why he was more negative is because of his response to the situation of low American supplies that came from the war in the Arab nations, connected with the oil crisis. Many Americans were angry to see the prices of their everyday natural resources go up, as a result of this. Bread went from 28 cents to 89 cents, and gas went from 25 cents to 65 cents. Another reason why Nixon was more negative was because of his need to not support civil rights. Many black people, and other groups of people, too, were outraged over Nixon's ignorance to their hopes of living the American Dream. Nixon ended busing to integrate schools and hr cut the funding for fair housing laws. Nixon did all of this as a result of his lack of support from the black community when he was in the process of being elected. One other reason that Nixon was more negative towards America was his whole involvment in the Watergate Scandal. Nixon tried to secretly wiretap all of the phone lines in the Watergate Hotel so he could hear the discussions of the people in the Democratic Party in hopes of copying their ideas to make his image look better. Unfortunately for Nixon, his henchmen were caught and the evidence was traced back to him and eventually the whole situatuion was made public. This made Americans lose their trust in the government and they viewed Nixon as a theiving, lying, greedy snake. This whole situation resulted in Nixon getting impeached and sworn out of office, being replaced by Gerald Ford as the president. Many bad remarks were made about Nixon after the Watergate Scandal. Overall and finally, it is clearly evident that Nixon was more negative than positive to America, especially little the positive things that he did do during his presidency did little to make him be viewed any better by the American public.