Richard Milhous Nixon was the thirty-seventh president of the United States and the only
president to have resigned from office. He was on his was to success after receiving his law
degree from Duke University Law School in 1937.
California Republicans persuaded Nixon in 1946 to be their candidate to challenge Jerry
Voorhis, the popular Democratic Congressman, for his seat in the United States House of
Representatives. He accuses Voorhis of being "soft" on Communism. This was damaging to him
because the Cold War rivalry between the United States and USSR was just beginning. …
