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Nixon ran for president against Senator John F. Kennedy, participated in the first televised debates, and lost by the smallest popular-vote margin in American history.
http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2015/1/10/the-dramatic-1960-us-election-jfk-vs-nixon#.WrxBuNPwaHo= -
American Navy blockades Cuba after the Soviet Union places missiles in Cuba. Kennedy pulls away from Cuba in exchange for the Soviet's removal of Cuban missiles.
Kennedy shows strength, strategy, safety for his people and international care to his and all involved nations with this move.
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After Lyndon B. Johnson became the president following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, President Johnson sent troops to Vietnam and the Dominican Republic to prevent "another Cuba." In 1972, Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev sign the Strategic arms Limitation Treaty which makes it illegal to manufacture nuclear weapons.
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When Nixon was announced president, he announced Vietnamization, ceased fire in Paris, discontinued the draft, and took the last few troops out of Vietnam. He then resigned in 1973, and was replaced by Ford.
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The last of the troops in Vietnam are ordered to evacuate 7,000 American and Vietnamese.
