Episode #392: Richard Nixon #5: "Tricky Dick" on the Rise (1950-1952)

Episode #392: Richard Nixon #5: "Tricky Dick" on the Rise (1950-1952)

Richard Nixon #5: "Tricky Dick" on the Rise (1950-1952); Topics covered include: California Senate campaign (1950), Nixon cruises to Republican nomination, after rough primary campaign Helen Gahagan Douglas emerges as Democratic nominee, Nixon links Douglas to Communism ("The Pink Sheet", Nixon wins senate seat, newcomers: close friend Charles "Bebe" Rebozo and new personal secretary Rose Mary Wood's, birth of Julie Nixon, Nixon attacks Harry Truman Administration, Dwight Eisenhower wins the Republican nomination for President (1952), and Nixon receives the Republican nomination for Vice President Key people include: Sheridan Downey, Earl Warren, William Knowland, Kyle Palmer, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Manchester Boddy, Vito Marcantonio, Murray Chotiner, Charles "Bebe" Rebozo, Rose Mary Woods, Pat Nixon, Tricia Nixon, Julie Nixon, Harry Truman, Thomas Dewey, Herbert Brownell, Dwight Eisenhower, and Robert Taft For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #391: Richard Nixon #4: Taking Down Alger Hiss (1948-1950)

Richard Nixon #4: Taking Down Alger Hiss (1948-1950); Topics covered include: House Un-American Committee (HUAC), hearing with Whitaker Chambers who accuses Alger Hiss of being a Communist, Hiss denies the accusation, Nixon leads a subcommittee to investigate, evidence revealed, follow-up hearings, Chambers reveals new evidence implicating Hiss as a Soviet spy, the "Pumpkin Papers," Hiss convicted of perjury, and the case puts Nixon the national political map but also draws the enmity of Eastern elites who supported Hiss Key people include: Whitaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley, Alger Hiss, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Franklin Roosevelt, John Foster Dulles, Robert Stripling, Pat Nixon, and James Forrestal For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #390: Richard Nixon #3: The Political Journey Begins (1945-1948)

Richard Nixon #3: The Political Journey Begins (1945-1948); Topics covered include: Campaigns for Congress, birth of Tricia Nixon, Attacks incumbent Congressman Jerry Voorhis as being aligned with Communists, wins congressional election, opposes Harry Truman administration on domestic policies but supports on foreign policy, serves on the Herter Commission, supports the Marshall Plan, and wins re-election Key people include: Herman Perry, Pat Nixon, Tricia Nixon, Lou Cannon, Murray Chotiner, Jerry Voorhis, John Kennedy, Harry Truman, George Marshall, and Christian Herter For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #389: Richard Nixon #2: Marriage and War (1937-1945)

Richard Nixon #2: Marriage and War (1937-1945); Topics covered include: Passes the Bar, attorney for Wingert & Bewley, meets Patricia Ryan, courts her, eventually marries her, start of World War II, gets a job in Washington, D.C. with the Office of Price Administration, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the U.S. enters World War II, Nixon resigns from the OPA to join the Navy, requests combat duty, assigned to the South Pacific Air Transport Command in the Solomon Islands, serves honorably, learns cursing and poker (good at both), rotates home in July 1944, and the end of World War II Key people include: Thomas Bewley, Patrician Ryan, Adolf Hitler, and Franklin Roosevelt For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #388: Richard Nixon #1: From the Farm to the Law (1913-1937)

Richard Nixon #1: From the Farm to the Law (1913-1937); Topics covered include: Parents meet in Whittier (CA), rough upbringing, work in father's store, education, first love (Ola Florence Welch), deaths of brothers (Arthur and Harold), attends Whittier College, attends Duke Law School, relationship with Ola Florence ends, and graduates third in his class Key people include: Frank Nixon, Hannah (Milhous) Nixon, Almira Milhous, Harold Nixon, Ola Florence Welch, Arthur Nixon, and Gail Jobe For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/