Despite His Political Skills and Foreign Policy Knowledge, Richard Nixon

question 26

Multiple Choice

Despite his political skills and foreign policy knowledge, Richard Nixon harbored deep and bitter resentments against

• A) the conservative, Goldwater wing of the Republican party.
• B) women whom he blamed for undermining traditional conservative values.
• C) the Communist great powers, China and the Soviet Union, which threatened America.
• D) the Catholic Church that be believed looked down on his own Quaker religion.
• E) the liberal establishment that had fought him throughout his career.

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