The dynamical changes of richard milhous nixon’s political perspective during his political career

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Novi Muharrami - C0398053 - Fak. Sastra dan Seni Rupa

ABSTRACT This research is focused on the discussion of Richard Nixon’s political perspective during his political roles, since he was a congressman in 1947 until he was the 37th United States President. The object of this research is the speeches of Nixon which contain his political thought and decisions public affairs. The political perspective appeared in deciding the public issue. The sources of data are mainly taken from the President’s speeches. The main data are purposively taken from the speeches such as words, phrases and interpreted statements that relate to Nixon’s political perspective. The secondary data are elected from books, articles, essays and journals about Nixon’s political role. The secondary data is analyzed to support main data to obtain the facts of Nixon’s presidency particularly on his perspective as a politician. As the research is carried out within the framework of American studies, therefore this research will employ the interdisciplinary studies. This research is to explore how Richard Nixon changed his political perspective during his political roles since he was a congressman until the President of the United States. To reach the goal, then, the theory of sociological politics and the characters of leadership are applied to find out the factors that led Nixon changed his political perspective dynamically during his presidency to make a new policy of the States. Besides these, the biographical and historical approach is employed too in order to find out how his new political perspective gave impact to the presidential policy. After conducting the analysis, it can be concluded that Nixon’s speeches during his political roles, from the Congressman to the President, can be interpreted that he changed his political perspective about communism from fighting the spread and aggression of communist to the negotiation and cooperation of peace talks with the communist countries such as the People of Republic China and the Soviet Union. The factors that made him change are the internal factor such as his political thought, Nixon’s ideology and pragmatic idealism and also the external factors such as formative influences, mass media and his national security advisor, Henry Kissinger. This study will encourage the body knowledge of American Studies discipline and it can serve as an introduction for further research on the other aspect of Richard Nixon’s ideology and policies of his presidency. This study is also providing some knowledge concerning one alternative of Richard Milhous Nixon.