Garfield’s Assassination
President James Garfield hadn’t even completed his 4th month of being president when he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau. The president actually survived the shooting, but later died of infection. Many doctors believe that had that occurred today, he would have been treated better and he would even recover completely.
Garfields Assassination
Richard M. Nixon
With a huge talent for negotiating foreign affairs, Richard M. Nixon was the 37th president of the United States. In his presidency from 1969 to 1974, Nixon ended the American involvement in Vietnam successfully, opened diplomatic relations with China, brought home POWs, and signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the USSR. Serving as vice president to President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, Nixon had completed a number of impressive feats. Enforcing desegregation in the South, he funded the Environmental Protection Agency, signed the anti-crime bill, and began the “War on Cancer”. In the 1960 elections Nixon ran as well, but he lost to Democrat John F. Kennedy. Had it not been for the Watergate scandal, Nixon would have ranked higher on the list.
Richard M. Nixon
