I. Introduction“The finest steel must pass through the hottest fire,” said Nixon (Quote by Brainy). Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, had won his presidential seat in 1960. Nixon was a worthy president and without his ability to pass laws, there would have been no Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), better relations with China and also stopped the Vietnam War. He also supported President Eisenhower's previous policies, including stopping the spread of communism and opposing the use of atomic bombs.II. BackgroundNixon ran for president against John Kennedy in the September 26, 1960 election and lost. He ran for president again and won, taking office on January 20, 1969. Nixon was subsequently re-elected twice. The second election was against Democrat George McGovern, who lost to Nixon by a landslide of 60 percent of the vote. He had planned to improve U.S. relations with China before becoming president, writing in Foreign Affairs a year before his election: “There is no place on this little planet where a billion of its potentially more people able to live in angry isolation. "(Office of the Historian), these were thoughts like those of President Lincoln, who did not want a war between the Union and the United States Confederacy. The Watergate scandal linked Nixon to activities similar to espionage. The scandal led to numerous exploitations of the his political power by the Nixon administration. As a result, Nixon later resigned in 1974 after being exposed and is the only US president to resign to date.III. TopicHeavy fogs near the Washington Bridge in New York , pollution from smoke from used car batteries in Texas, garbage dumps near John Kennedy ai...... middle of paper ......was not an Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) which would turn wastelands into green lands, better relations with China resulting in profits and a new market and would also stop the Vietnam War which in turn reduced the number of dead soldiers. Most presidents rarely get to run the government, Nixon was re-elected and kept it going strong for 8 years. Putting the Watergate scandal aside, Nixon can be studied in depth and discovered how much effort he actually put in. One hundred years after his birth, his years seemed solid and strong, and now his flaws are fading away. It is important to do thorough research so that the only president who resigned from the United States should not be known as a villain, because he did a superhero job. “Failure is not falling. Failure is falling and not getting back up to continue the race of life,” Nixon said. (British Telegraph)