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Nixon's Congressional Voting Record

This segment of the research focuses on Nixon's congressional voting record and the manner in which the positions he took were influenced by the poverty of his family experience. The evidence of Nixon's campaign against Voorhis is that he was above all determined to be an effective legislator. He continually brought up the fact that Voorhis missed key votes. This helps explain his obtaining a seat on two key House committees, the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and the Education and Labor Committee (Ambrose, 1987, p. 143). Both committees were connected with prominent political and legislative action during Nixon's first term.

Opinion is divided about whether Nixon deliberately sought out HUAC membership. Wicker cites William Rogers, who was one of Nixon's secretaries of state, to the effect that the extremism and flamboyance of the leadership of HUAC did not help Nixon's reputation (Wicker, 1991, p. 49). Ambrose's view (1987, p. 152) is that, of all the people who served on HUAC, Nixon was the only member who was ever to "profit from his association with it." His early poverty had taught him that he needed to figure out an advantage in taking a political position. Wicker is inclined to the view that Nixon did not seek out but was offered HUAC membership, not only because of Nixon's assertion in his autobiography that the Speaker of the House urged him to get on it to "smarten it up" but also because Nixon limited his visibility in HUAC's high-profile and ultimately discredited targeting of Hollywood figures. This reflects Nixon's determination to be seen as a winner, which characterized his school career. It was a way out of the social trap of having no money.

On the other hand, Ambrose cites the belief of Nixon partisans that Nixon had "characteristic prescience" in obtaining assignments to both HUAC and Labor (1987, p. 143). That reflects Nixon's workhorse thoroughness. Nixon was also coauthor of a bill that w...

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Nixon's Congressional Voting Record. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 11:06, March 28, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1682528.html