Richard Nixon Quotes
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Asked to estimate his chances of winning his next reelection attempt:
The King was correct in what had happened but had poor intelligence as to the strategic significance of the two Forts in the Lake George, New York area. The forts controlled the northern end of Lake George and the southern end of Lake Champlain---the major waterway from Canada into the Hudson Valley. The British victory had no effect on the Americans because the British already controlled Canada and the Americans were no longer trading with Canada before Ticonderoga and Defiance were taken back by the British.
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, he became the only president to resign from the office, following the Watergate scandal.
