January 20th, 1969 - Nixon Takes Oath of Office

            Republican Richard Nixon became the 37^th President of the United States of America after defeating Democrat Hubert Humphrey in the Presidential race back in November of 1968. During his inauguration speech, Nixon spoke of ushering in a new era of peace, prosperity, and negotiation as quoting Nixon himself from that speech “We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.” It was expected that Nixon would continue the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks seen in 1968 with the Soviet Union along with Johnson’s tactics of Detente, however further plans for conducting peace remained unknown at the time.