Richard Nixon was born into a poor family in California in 1913. He grew up with his older brother and his three younger siblings. Richard excelled at school, graduating third in his class in 1937.
Nixon then attempted to go into law in California, but changed his mind to go work for the government in Washington DC. He didn’t like his job there either, and so he applied to join the Navy, and was accepted. Nixon worked for the Navy for two years before he decided to run for a position in the House of Representatives for California. Shortly afterwards, he was elected to the Senate. After this, Nixon served two terms as vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower. Nixon then ran for President, but lost to JFK. He then tried to run for California Governor, but he also lost that election. After these two defeats, Nixon decided to take two years away from politics.
Nixon then ran for the 1968 Presidential Election, and was able to beat Humphrey Davy and win. Nixon was not a very good president for the people; inflation increased, and he didn’t really do anything good for the people outside of ending United States involvement in the Vietnam war, if you can count that.
For Nixon’s second election, he sabotaged the election, and so of course he won. Nixon decided that he would rather resign from being President than be impeached and be forced from office. With his reputation in tatters, Nixon left Washington D.C.