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President Richard M. Nixon was one of the most controversial Presidents in history. What you see is what you get with him. His tapes shown what type of man he was. On tapes, we know about his paranoia, his bigotry, and his involvement in the Bohemian Grove. He was completely honest in his pettiness, deviousness, sensitivity, and his calculated motivations for power. It is important to evaluate his life from the beginning to the end, so future generations can witness what not to do. President Richard Nixon was not only complicit in war crimes in the neocolonial wars in Vietnam (and in Cambodia). He funded the FBI's domestic illegal monitoring of progressive groups and any organizations who disagreed with the interests of the reactionary establishment. Nixon made no bones about his disdain of the anti-war movement and the progressive group of Black Panthers. Nixon lived a live in massive eras from the Great Depression to the end of the Cold War. He lived to witness Bill Clinton President and the conclusion of the Persian Gulf War back in the early 1990's. Richard Nixon was constantly claiming to be some moderate, but he allied with people like Ronald Reagan who definitely weren't moderate by any stretch of the imagination. To start, Richard M. Nixon was born to Quaker parents in Yorba Linda, California on January 9, 1913. His parents were Frank and Hannah Milhous Nixon being the 2nd born of five brothers.

Later, Frank Nixon sold the family home in 1922. The family lived in Whittier, California. By 1930, Nixon was 3rd in his high school class. He won many awards like the Harvard Club California award for outstanding all around student. He earned a scholarship to Harvard University. He went to Whittier College, because even back then, Harvard was very expensive. At Whittier College, Richard Nixon was elected student body president, founder, and President of the Orthogonian Society. He joined the debate team, acted in many plays, and was on the football team. Richard Nixon met his future wife, Pat Ryan, at a Whittier Community Players tryout for the play, "The Dark Tower" in 1938. The couple married on June 21, 1940, at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California. During World War II, life changed. By 1942, he worked as an attorney at the Office for Price Administration (OPA) in Washington, D.C. where he witnessed first-hand the problems of government bureaucracy. This would cause Nixon to be more conservative in his life. People know that he was a U.S. Navy officer during WWII too. Richard Nixon, when he was in the Navy, worked in the South Pacific at Bougainville and at Green Island. He opened a Nick's Hamburger Stand at Bougainville for flight crews on their way to battle missions. He knew how to play poker while on active duty. Back in Whittier, California, many Republicans wanted him to run for Congress for the U.S. House of Representatives. 

In January 1946, he was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy with the rank of Lieutenant commander. Richard and Pat Nixon's first daughter, Tricia, was on born on February 21, 1946. By November 1946, Richard Nixon defeated the five-term veteran Democratic Congressman Jerry Voorhis. He was part of California's 12th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. This was in November 1946. He was a rabid anticommunist. He also promoted the Marshall Plan. Nixon was so anti-communist that he was lead committee member in the investigation of accused Soviet spy Alger Hiss. Hiss was convicted on the charge of perjury as Nixon accused Hiss of being a Communist. By 1950, Nixon was elected to the U.S. Senate after defeating Democratic Congresswoman and Hollywood star Helen Gahagan Douglas. Richard Nixon soon was Dwight D. Eisenhower's running mate on July 11, 1952. Eisenhower won the Presidency. Before that, Nixon gave his famous Checker's Speech to confront charges of financial corruption. As Vice President of the United States, Richard Nixon supported Eisenhower's policies. Nixon traveled into Asia and the Middle East on a goodwill tour. Nixon toured with his wife, Pat Nixon, too. By September 1955, President Eisenhower had a heart attack. Nixon had to preside over Cabinet and National Security Council meetings temporarily. By the Spring of 1958, Richard Nixon and his wife traveled into South America in countries from Columbia, Brazil, and to Venezuela. In Caracas, Venezuela, the Vice President and Second Lady narrowly escaped death after a violent communist mob attacks this motorcade.

Richard Nixon loved to debate. So, on July 24, 1959, he had a debate about capitalism and communism with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. It was done at the American Exhibition in Moscow in an event called the "Kitchen Debate." By 1960, Vice President Richard Nixon ran for the President of the United States. He defeated many Republicans in the primary and faced the U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was witty, smart, and charismatic. Nixon was smart too, but he didn't have the charisma that Kennedy had. They had one major television debate. Nixon viewed Kennedy as too soft on Communism. Kennedy wanted to show that Nixon was too rash and even Eisenhower wasn't so keen on Nixon in Kennedy's eyes. Their televised debate was the first one of its kind in American history. On the TV, Nixon was sweating and had difficulty. John F. Kennedy spoke about the New Frontier of creating a new vision for American society. Kennedy's idealism appeared to the youth. Kennedy defeated Nixon being the smallest popular vote margin in American history. The growth of the black American vote, the growth of Kennedy's popularity, and Texas heavily influenced JFK's victory in 1960. Nixon lost the gubernatorial campaign against the progressive Governor Pat Brown. That was in 1962 after he wrote his book "Six Crises."  From 1963 to 1967, Nixon traveled the world and campaigned for the GOP candidates in 1964 and in 1966. By 1966, the right-wing movement (aka the white backlash) gained more power in Congress. Reagan was soon the new governor of California by the late 1960's. There were protests for civil rights, anti-war protests, rebellions in urban communities, and other issues going on. Richard Nixon ran for President again in 1968, and he won the Republican nomination. He used the Southern Strategy (which is about using policies to appear to certain people in the South to gain Republican votes) and words about "peace with honor" to promote his campaign. Nixon viewed himself as being in opposition to progressives, who he called the "shouters." His campaign focused on police deification, political polarization, and race baiting rhetoric. 1968 was the times of the assassinations of Dr. King and Robert Kennedy. It was the time of the bloody 1968 police riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in the city of Chicago, where even journalists were beaten up by crooked police officers. Richard Nixon condemned the Black Panthers and any progressive liberation movement. Nixon defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey on November 6, 1968. Hubert Humphrey almost won the 1968 election, but his call for a peaceful resolution for the Vietnam War was very late in his campaign. Humphrey was tied to LBJ and broke with him on Vietnam at the very end of the election. He also defeated the Alabama Governor in the Presidential election too. By January 20, 1969, Richard Nixon was inaugurated as the 37th President of the United States of America.

Richard Nixon wanted to be a transformative figure. He promoted Vietnamization. That plan is about funding South Vietnamese forces in the Vietnam War, so they could get enough resources to defeat North Vietnam by themselves over the course of a period of time. This policy obviously didn't work. 

Nixon visited France, Great Britain, and the Vatican in February 1969. He praised Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin going to the Moon in a delayed phone call on July 20, 1969. Nixon promoted federalism or a turn from New Deal progressive policies and sent more powers to the state including local governments. He supported the FBI's harassment and illegal monitoring of the Black Panthers, anti-war groups, etc. Nixon's policies on civil rights caused many people to resign from his office. Nixon signed the National Environmental Police Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean War Act, and the invention of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. This environmental policies are things that I have no issue with. He illegally invaded Cambodia which he claimed was giving sanctuary to North Vietnamese military forces. This was on April 30, 1970 causing massive protests nationwide. Then, the Kent State massacre happened when students were shot at by the police. President and Mrs. Nixon’s daughter Tricia married Edward Finch Cox in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 12, 1970. Nixon came into the Soviet Union and China. He wanted to go to China to reduce tensions among both countries. He met with Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai. China and America built a roadmap to a more peaceful political deal via the Shanghai Communique. By 1972, President Nixon came into the Soviet Union and signed the historic agreement on the limitation of strategic arms with Premier Leonid Brezhnev. He became the first American President to visit the Soviet Union. He won re-election on November 7, 1972, with a large victory against candidate George McGovern. Watergate happened when far right extremists illegally came into the Democratic headquarters. Nixon at first denied any involvement. Later, we know that he was involved in the cover up and he did other immoral acts that cost him the Presidency. By 1973, the United States, South Vietnam, Viet Cong, and North Vietnam formally sign “An Agreement Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam” in Paris.

American POWs came home from Vietnam. On June 22, 1973, Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev visited the United States for the Summitt II talks. A Prevention of Nuclear War Agreement is signed. In October 1973, Nixon gave military aid to Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Israel was preemptively attacked in that war. Nixon worked on Middle Eastern policy. Watergate was crashing down on Nixon. Nixon could have been thrown out of office by the Senate, but he resigned as President on August 8, 1974. Gerald Ford took over as United States President. After his Presidency, Richard Nixon worked with Ronald Reagan, Geroge H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton on especially foreign policy affairs. He was interviewed by Frost in the Summer of 1977 which 45 million people watching that show. He wrote his memoirs in 1978 to defend his actions of Watergate. Nixon continued to write book in the 1980's and moved into Saddle River, New Jersey. President Nixon attended the dedication of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace with four Presidents and their First Ladies, and 50,000 friends and supporters (on July 19, 1990). Richard Nixon finished his ninth book, Seize the Moment: America’s Challenge In A One-Superpower World. That was in 1992. First Lady Pat Nixon passed away at Park Ridge, New Jersey on June 22, 1993. She was 81 years old, and Nixon told her passing very hard. She was buried at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California. On January 1994, on the 25th Anniversary of his first inauguration, President Nixon opened the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, a Washington foreign policy think tank based on pragmatic and principled realism. Nixon created his final and 10th book called Beyond Peace in 1994. It was published posthumously. President Richard Nixon passed away on April 22, 1994 at New York City, and he was 81 years old. 

On April 27, 1994, President Nixon was laid to rest at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, next to First Lady Pat Nixon and just yards away from his birthplace and boyhood home. Presidents Bush, Reagan, Carter, and Ford attended the funeral, as did then-Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole. Rev. Billy Graham officiated the ceremonies which tens of millions observed on television. In his eulogy, Senator Dole said that the second half of the 20th century would be known as “The Age of Nixon.” Richard M. Nixon lived a long life, and he had a profound understanding of foreign policy affairs. He was at his core a center-right person, but he certainly followed far right policies on certain issues. Nixon also was more progressive on environmental issues than other Presidents like Trump or Reagan. Nixon's mixed legacy is representative of many Presidents who allowed egoism to overtake their better judgments. They myth of Nixon promoting peace with honor involving Vietnam is easy to refute. Nixon allowed carpet bombing of civilian population centers in North Vietnam, even harbors. He supported Operation Phoenix in South Vietnam, which was an assassination program against suspected "enemies." Nixon supported the secret and illegal bombings against Loas and Cambodia which are overt war crimes and abuses of power. After Watergate, Nixon issued some of the most intellectual commentaries on foreign policy. Therefore, we have to show the truth about President Nixon without whitewashing or compromising. 

 

Charleston White has crossed the line for years by saying F__ the Bible and mocking the deaths of black people (including the hip hop artist DMX). He once against crossed the line by saying that he doesn't care about the deaths of children in Texas done by a school shooter. He claims that since racists don't care about the lives lost in Buffalo, he doesn't care about kids being murdered in Texas. That is illogical and ignorant by him for many reasons. As a human being, we should empathy to our neighbors regardless of the color of their skin. I believe in black liberation, but I won't use my beliefs (in favor of black freedom) to be cruel to people who are not of my ethnic background. The Golden Rule still stands that we treat everyone of any background with dignity and with respect. Also, I believe in Black Love and black solidarity, but Charleston White has a tendency to demonize any black person who disagrees with him. Also, this coward Charleston White in an interview said that Africa stinks and F__ Africa. White is a stone-cold traitor to black people, and there is no other way around it. Anyone supporting Charleston White is a person that I don't follow at all. Africa is the birthplace of humanity with tons of modern amenities, technology, and modern developments. Africa has great, humble people too. We want black people and all people to live on this Earth without murder, and for this coward White to exploit the deaths of innocent black people in Buffalo to minimize the deaths of others in Texas shows his abhorrent character as a man. Charleston White (who loves to call himself a Texas n__a like a sellout that he is) has no character regardless of his charity work in Fort Worth, TX. He's a disgrace and an evil person. A self-hating person like Charleston White and Cynthia G are one and the same. Cynthia G (who lived in Seattle, has sisters, and talked on FOX Soul. Cynthia G is now promoting the sexist and racist debunked Moniyahn Report. Cree7 accused Cynthia G of plagiarizing her work too). We know how anti-black FOX News Channel is. Cynthia G has already admitted publicly that she is not pro-black, so she is not in favor of the interests of black people. She offers no solutions to black people. She doesn't even promote positive stories about black women doing the work, and Cynthia G wants black boys to be extinct, disrespects Stevie Wonder, disrespects the physical appearance of Fantasia (who is a mother, an outstanding singer, and a spiritual black woman), lied on Youtube persons who disagrees with her, loves to call people slurs, allies with Nylah Says plus Taz (Nylah and Taz both are profane and have lax character), and Cynthia G downplays colorism. The divesters and manosphere hypocrites hate black people. They claim to want to defend black men or black women, but they want to appease the views of white racists. They are some of the biggest haters of the African phenotype which is why they want it to be extinct. That is why it is always important for black people to reject the lies from the haters, promote Black Love, and live life righteousness. Real health information, real environmental facts, and growing institutions benefiting us make perfect sense. Only an insane soul hates every black person of the opposite sex. I will forever love black women who gave me my life literally. Anyone who hates black women collectively or hates black men collectively is a traitor to me period. Therefore, these traitors (who are Charleston White, Cynthia G, Tommy Sotomayor, Oshay Jackson, Jaye De Black, Candace Owens, Hershel Walker, Fresh and Fit, etc.) deserve to be left alone peacefully. Another extremist Wack 100 admitted to punching his own mother (who was grabbing someone) in the ribs at a DMV making him lower than low. Candace Owens rejects Juneteenth, but she doesn't condemn Hispanic History month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, or celebrations done about other ethnic groups, because Owens has internal self-hatred. Celebrating Juneteenth has nothing to do with repackaging segregation (that Owens lies about). Juneteenth is about celebrating the power, the strength, and the resiliency of black people against injustice. The views of traitors should be condemned and rejected. We need to build as black people. Black Love is a Revolutionary Act, and we should stand up for freedom and independence for black people globally without apology. 

 

Samuel Henry Giles Jr. was the husband of my 4th paternal cousin Lucinda Cornelia Broadnax. Samuel Giles lived from April 8, 1934 to March 24, 2017 being from Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was born in Axton, Virginia whose parents are the late Peter and Martha Penn Giles. Samuel Giles lived in Bridgeport for 64 years, and he lived to be 82 years old (as a supervisor in the Bridgeport Department of Sanitation with 34 years of service). His wife, Lucinda Cornelia Broadnax, was a great woman, who lived from October 24, 1933 in North Carolina to December 18, 2001 in Bridgeport Connecticut (she married Samuel Henry Giles on May 15, 1954 at Bridgeport, Connecticut). Lucinda and Samuel Giles had these children who are: Eric John Giles (1954-2012), Kimberly A. Giles (b. 1956), Michael S. Giles (b. 1958), Peter Giles (1959-1992), Valerie J. Giles (1961-1965), Desiree Giles (b. 1962), and Marcus Giles. Marcus Giles lives in Georgia, Michael Giles lives in Bridgeport, Kimberly and Desiree Giles live in Bridgeport. Samuel has a brother named Curtis W. Giles of NY and 2 sisters. His sisters are Sarah Valentine of Virginia and Mary E. Dennis of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Samuel and Lucinda Giles have 6 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. Luncinda Cornelia Broadnax is related to me, because we share the same ancestor of George Perkins (b. 1815), who was my 4th great grandfather. Luncinda's parents were Rev. Dennis Daniel Broadnax Jr. (1914-1978) and Jospehine Robertson (b. 1917-1979). My late 3rd cousin Rev. Dennis Daniel Broadnax Jr.'s parents were Dennis Broadnax (1881-1975) and Cynthia (Luncinda) Broadnax (1885-1931). Cynthia (Luncinda) Broadnax's parents were Dennis Harris (1860-1928) and Gundora (Geneva) Perkins (1868-1927). Gundora's parents were George Perkins II (1847-1932) and Fannie Lou Blackstock (1848-1949). George Perkins II's parents are George Perkins I (b. 1815) and Esther Perkins (b. 1816). 

Eva Broadnax was my 3rd paternal cousin who lived from May 21, 1914 at Eden, North Carolina to February 4, 2007 at Bridgeport, Connecticut at the age of 92 years old. Eva Broadnax's siblings are: Ollie May Broadnax (1910-1990), Reverend Dennis Daniel Broadnax Jr. (1914-1978), Jeneva Braodnax (1915-1974), Irene Broadnax (1920-2015), Willie Broadnax (b. 1923), Mammie Broadnax (1923-2004), David Daniel Broadnax (1925), Troy Lee Broadnax (b. 1928), Jessie Broadnax (1929-1997), and Gregory Broadnax. She married King William Turner on August 29, 1931 in Danville, Virginia. Their child was King Demarso Turner (b. 1955. He married Laverne in 1977. Later, he married Loretta Robinson on November 5, 1983 in Ansonia, Connecticut). King Turner is my 4th cousin, whose grandmother was Cynthia (Lucinda) Broadnax. We share the same ancestor of George Perkins I (b. 1815).  

The late Richard Edward Wilson (1942-1980) was my 5th cousin, and we share the same ancestor of Burwell Williams (or my 6th great grandfather). Burwell Williams was a free African American who married Winifred Woodson-Bozeman. Winifred (Winny) Woodson was a Nottoway Native American whose parents were Mike Bozeman and Nanny Woodson. Nanny Woodson was my 7th great grandmother, who was born during the days of the French and Indian War. Burwell Williams made productive farms on Nottoway Native land. My 6th great grandparents of Winny Woodson and Burwell Williams had many children whose names are: Patsy Woodson-Williams, John Burwell Williams, Mary Woodson-Williams (who was my 5th great grandmother. She lived from 1811 to 1870, and she was the mother of Milly Woodson-Bozeman or my 4th great grandmother. Milly is the mother of Susanna Field Hurst-Turner or my 3rd great grandmother. Susanna married Rev. James Thompson Claud and had a child named Arthur Boss Claud who was my 2nd great grandfather), and Sally Woodson-Williams. Now, my 5th great grandaunt married Robert Wiggins. They had many children who were: Mary J. Wiggins (b. 1843), Margaret Wiggins (b. 1847), Emma Wiggins (b. 1850), John Henry Wiggins (b. 1852), Robert T. Wiggins (1852-1929), Augustus Wiggins (b. 1857), and Richard Wiggins (b. 1859).

It is important to celebrate the life of my late 3rd cousin Hester Louise Wiggins. She was born on October 31, 1927, in Sussex, Virginia, and she married Jaylynn Morrison in February 1952 in Newark, New Jersey. She passed way on October 21, 2016 in New Jersey at the age of 88 years old. We share the same ancestor of Burwell Williams. Her parents were Charlie Lively Wiggins (1881-1961) and Nannie V. Lanier (b. 1895-1963. She was part of Plank Road Baptist Church). Charlie Wiggin's parents are Robert T. Wiggins (1852-1929) and Millie Smith (b. 1857). Robert T. Wiggins's parents are Robert Wiggins and the Nottoway descendant Sally Williams Woodson (b. 1825). Hester Louise Wiggins Morrison was a greatly distinguished Newark educator. She is the aunt of Theodosia, Shirley, Arvella, Jerold, and Kenneth (who are all my 4th cousins).  

I have a lot of memories involving the twentieth century. I was blessed enough to live in both the 20th century and the 21st century. Today, it is amazing to see young adults who never saw the 20th century before in their lives (as many 21 years old were born in the year of 2001). Now, it is the perfect time to reflect on the wide-ranging 20th century too. It was a century that lasted from January 1, 1901 to December 31, 2000. It was a time of massive cultural and social developments, world wars, and a sense of a change in humanity. Humanity gained massive technological access, growth of medical innovations, and a new sense of transportation. Although, the same problems of bigotry, poverty, sexism, xenophobia, and other injustices continued to plagued the human race like it always have been. During the 20th century, I was a child and teenager. I was in my adulthood by the 21st century. By the end of the 20th century, I was a teenager, but the 20th century defined my life in many ways. The 20th century is the most important century in human history, because it saw massive decolonization (which saw Nigeria, India, Ghana, and other nations see freedom from imperialism), the defeat of the Axis Powers by the Allied Powers during WWII, the end of legalized Jim Crow apartheid in America, space exploration, the growth of nuclear weapons, the end of South African apartheid, Middle Eastern conflicts, and the end of the Cold War. It made us aware of how wicked some human beings can be, and it showed the breadth of compassion and empathy that tons of human beings do possess. I lived in the last few decades of the 20th century, and my memories of that time then are as vivid as my memories of the 21st century now. When I was in the 20th century, I lived through Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Columbine, The Million Man March (when not a single person in that march stormed the U.S. Capitol back in 1995), Tupac, Biggie, Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston, Waco, the OKC Bombing, Michael Jordan, and so many other occurrences. After all of these years of me living on this Earth, I firmly realize that the 20th century was a one of a time era of the overall human journey.

By Timothy