This course will outline the life of Richard Nixon. Remembered as a complicated man, he travelled the rough roads of life stemming from his boyhood in Yorba Linda, California, to the Halls of Congress, to the White House and back to his final resting place alongside his wife in Yorba Linda. The course will detail his early years in High School and College where he gained the reputation as being a “High Achiever”. His next stop would be an assignment in the South Pacific when he served in the U.S. Navy during WWII. His work in Congress and the U.S. Senate helped form his political focus. He would go on to become Vice President under Dwight Eisenhower and would lose the Presidential Election to John F. Kennedy. The course will cover his comeback to become President, Vietnam, Watergate, Impeachment Proceedings and his Resignation. The course will study the influences of his young life, his Cold War politics and the impact they had on his Presidency.