Nixon’s Watergate Scandal
The Watergate Scandal led Richard M. Nixon to resign. He was the first President of the United States to have ever done this. He even mentioned, “I have always tried to do what is best for the nation.”
Nixon’s Watergate Scandal
Calvin Coolidge
Vice president Calvin Coolidge took over the presidency after the death of President Warren Harding in 1923. He won the presidential race in 1924 and served until 1929. He was a supporter of a laissez-faire foreign policy and small government so he had a good rep when his term ended. The soft-spoken President of the United States fought for racial equality and civil rights. He also made lynching a federal crime, a move disapproved by the other government officials at the time. He also passed the Indian Citizenship Act which gave American citizenship to all the native Americans on reservations. His biographer described him in this manner: “He embodied the spirit and hopes of the middle class, could interpret their longings and express their opinions. That he did represent the genius of the average is the most convincing proof of his strength”.
Calvin Coolidge