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This cache is part of a series of presidential caches.
These caches will come in a variety of sizes, difficulties and terrains. They will be placed all across the area. Hopefully everyone will enjoy finding them.
Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States. He was born on January 9, 1913 in California, and died on April 22, 1994. He became president on January 20, 1969, remained in office until August 9, 1974. He was a member of the Republican party. He originally ran for president in 1960, but lost in an extremely close race to John Kennedy. He decided to try again in 1968, winning in a landslide over Hubert Humphrey (301-191 votes in the electoral college). In 1972 he won over George McGovern in one of the largest landslide victories in presidential election history. He won with over 60% of the popular vote, and won every state except Massachusetts. He won in the electoral college by a remarkable 520-17.
Nixon’s greatest accomplishments were in the area of foreign policy. In 1972 Nixon traveled to China, ushering in a new era of Sino-American relations. This had perhaps an unexpected outcome. The Soviet Union became very worried about a possible new alliance between the U.S. and China, and yielded to pressure for a policy of détente with the United States.
The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ended during Nixon’s tenure. Officially it ended on August 15, 1973 as a result of the Case-Church Amendment passed by Congress. The draw-down of troops actually began as early as 1969 when Nixon pursued a policy of Vietnamization – the replacing of American troops with Vietnamese troops. An interesting by-product of this was that concurrent with the draw-down the U.S. began to reduce the number of those being drafted into the military. In 1973 the draft was eliminated and replaced with an all volunteer armed forces.
While many good things happened during his administration, unfortunately he will forever be associated with one great scandal – Watergate. Five men were arrested for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. Evidence in the case kept building against officials higher and higher in the administration. It was ultimately discovered that Nixon himself was involved in the affair. On August 9, 1974 he was forced to become the first U.S. president to resign from office.
I have grown a little tired of faceless park and grab micros. I’ve decided to get back to my caching roots a little by placing a regular size cache in the game lands. You are looking for a 50MM ammo can hidden in a normal fashion. The terrain rating reflects the fact that areas near the cache can be pretty wet during certain times of the year. When I placed the cache everything was pretty dry. Note that you could get close to the west edge of the game lands depending on where you park. There is posted private land on the west edge. THERE IS NO REASON TO WANDER ONTO THE POSTED LAND.
Also, it is pretty easy to get disoriented in these gamelands because there is not distinct path. Be sure to mark your parking spot. I walked around in circles a little after I hid the cache before I found my way out.
As always, since this is a gamelands cache... BE SURE TO WEAR ORANGE DURING HUNTING SEASON!
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