1 May 14, 1948. Manages passage of Mundt-Nixon bill, the first piece of legislation passed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in ten years, providing for the annual registration of members of the Communist party.  July 5, 1948. Daughter Julie Nixon is born.
To destroy is defined as to damage, ruin or spoil something beyond repair. When you drive a truck into a house and totally demolish it, this is an example of a situation where you destroy the house. 1  to tear down; demolish. 2  to break up or spoil completely; ruin.
Because the prefix de- means, in this case, removal (dehumidify, defame, dehumanize), and the root -struct means to build or to assemble, we speak of destructive forces as being capable of destroying, or unbuilding.