{"id":60017,"date":"2017-10-17T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=60017"},"modified":"2024-04-30T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T17:45:04","slug":"richard-nixon","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/richard-nixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Richard Nixon<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"ddb4bc4605f33f1fe3af9f7be6bc5d7f\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRd2e707aa99734a37876066faf3f027eb\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRd2e707aa99734a37876066faf3f027eb\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTRd2e707aa99734a37876066faf3f027eb\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60017?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRd2e707aa99734a37876066faf3f027eb&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60017?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRd2e707aa99734a37876066faf3f027eb\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: March 20, 2018<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The Parrish Snead Franklin Simpson, PLC Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/262421273?app_id=122963\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Great Lives: Nixon\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/14-Nixon-copy-198x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/14-Nixon-copy-198x300.jpg 198w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/14-Nixon-copy-768x1167.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/14-Nixon-copy-674x1024.jpg 674w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/14-Nixon-copy-751x1140.jpg 751w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/14-Nixon-copy.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><p>With his jowls and ski-jump nose, divisive politics, and distinctive mode of speech, the only U.S. president to resign in disgrace needs little introduction: Richard Nixon is an American icon. But what lies beyond the caricature? How did a gifted young idealist evolve into a corrupt political gut-fighter? Why does he stir such passion, 50 years after his astonishing comeback clinched the White House amid the chaos of 1968? And what lessons does the story of Nixon\u2019s fall from grace teach us, as President Trump meets fierce opposition and investigative scrutiny today? In Richard Nixon: The Life, said National Public Radio, author John A. Farrell succeeds at \u201chumanizing\u201d Nixon without excusing his transgressions \u2013 and offers gripping new looks at Nixon\u2019s conduct of the Vietnam War, his undermining of the civil rights movement, the politics of polarization, and the behavior that led to Watergate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: John A. Farrell<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/Farrell-Photo-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/Farrell-Photo-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/Farrell-Photo-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/Farrell-Photo-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>John Aloysius Farrell is a graduate of the University of Virginia and a prize-winning biographer and newspaperman. He covered every presidential campaign from 1976 through 2012, two wars and the troubles in Northern Ireland, and worked on the vaunted Spotlight team at The Boston Globe. He has also driven an ice cream truck, dug ditches, shined shoes, cared for the animals in a medical laboratory, labored on an Israeli kibbutz and served as a gallery guard at the Masters golf tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001 he published Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century, a biography of the late Speaker of the House which won the Hardeman prize for the best book on Congress. Farrell's biography of the great American defense lawyer, Clarence Darrow: Attorney For The Damned, won the 2012 Los Angeles Times book award for the best biography of the year. His latest work is Richard Nixon: The Life, which The Washington Post called \u201cthe best one volume, cradle-to-grave biography\u201d of the elusive 37th president<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[443],"class_list":{"0":"post-60017","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-443","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Richard Nixon - 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