Vice President and had made political maneuvers against the Communist, had reversed himself to open the diplomatic co-operation with the Asian communist
nation, Republic of China. He also made SALT agreements with the Soviet Union, known as for Strategic Arms Limitation Talk. President was a new role for
Nixon, he had great power to decide whether domestic or foreign policy. Definitely, it also showed the change of Nixon’s perspective as real politician.
Therefore, it will be a challenge for a researcher to explore the dynamical change of Nixon’s perspective as a political figure. The researcher, so far, knew
that none of the students of American studies program of the English department, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts in Sebelas Maret University did the researches
related to Richard Milhous Nixon.
B. Problem Statements
As the analysis focused on the change political perspective of Richard Milhous Nixon, thus the researcher will try to find out three subjects as follow:
1. How did Nixon change his political perspective during his political
career? 2.
What were the impacts of the changes toward Nixon’s presidency? 3.
What were the factors which influence the behavior and thought of Richard Milhous Nixon during his presidency?
C. Scope of the Study
The speeches of Richard Nixon provide the source of evidences, which reveal the change of Nixon’s perspectives. This research will focus the analysis to
avoid the change of Nixon’s political perspective, and based on the background above, the researcher needs to give some limitation. The researcher limits the
analysis on some fundamental aspects such as attitudes, behaviors, ideas, the way of thinking of Richard Nixon as a President of United States.
To support the main focus, the researcher studies the sociological and historical of American society, and biographical of Richard Milhous Nixon.
D. Objectives of the Study
Based on the problem statements above, the objectives of the study in this research are:
1. To describe the change of Richard Nixon’s political perspective during his
political career. 2.
To find out the impact of Richard Nixon’s political perspective changes in playing his role as the United States President.
3. To know the factors which influenced Richard Nixon to change his
political perspective during his presidency.
E. Benefits of the Study
This study, hopefully, will contribute the Indonesian political experiences. It can provide a precious introduction for further research on the other aspect of
the World’s Leaders such as the President and the Prime Minister. This thesis also will serve as a study of presidential leadership for the American Studies and
Social Political Studies.
F. Methodology of Research
