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Take out your Nixon Homework.Opportunity for greater learning: Start the Review Packet- Major Documents, Amendments.

Learning Target: I can explain the domestic programs and foreign policy acts of President Nixon.

Richard M. Nixon 1969-1974

•Party: Republican •Vice President: Spiro Agnew-

Agnew was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $29,500of income received in 1967, with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President.

•Gerald Ford•Nixon

Foreign Policy

•Détente- Cold War policy on easing of the tensions between USA and USSR.• S.A.L.T.-Strategic Arms Limitation

Treaty. USA and USSR agreed to limit ICBM’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles- reduced nuclear weapons.

Foreign Policy

• Ping Pong Diplomacy- Opening China-Nixon sent U.S. Ping Pong Team to China to open relations. First Cold War President to visit China. Nixon met Mao Zedong.• Vietnamization- Withdrawal of American

troops from Vietnam- Vietnamese will now carry on fight against the North.

Foreign Policy

• OPEC and Gasoline Shortage- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries w/hold oil in the mid 70’s due to U.S. support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War. • Led to an Oil Crisis withlong lines at everygas station.

Domestic Policy- New Federalism

• Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)-1970 Coordinating Federal Programs to combat pollution & protect the environment. • Stagflation-Economic Hardship: Inflation

UP & Unemployment UP. • Revenue Sharing- Fed. And State Gov’t

share tax $, state have more freedom as to how to spend it. Ex. Block Grants

Foreign Policy

•Watergate- Watergate Hotel & site of Democratic Nat’l HQ was broken into and bugged by Nixon’s aids. •Resignation- Nixon taped every

conversation so they revealed he was involved and forced to resign- Only President ever! (All the Presidents Men).

Watergate – What Happened? What- June 17th 1972, burglars break

into Dem. headquarters in Watergate Hotel, they bug room, get caught, bailed out by CREEP (Committee to RE-Elect the President) attorneys.

Nixon’s Involvement

Nixon’s involvement- requested information on what Democrats knew about him!

He denied White House involvement He attacked Judicial Branch so tapes

of Oval Office conversations don’t come out.

Bernstein & Woodward- Washington Post

Impeachment?

Nixon not impeached, resigned before Senate can vote, tapes become public and made Nixon look bad.

Obstruct Justice

Obstruct Justice- interfere with legal process, Nixon obstructs justice by trying to keep tapes secret.

ACTION & RESULT

•American People lose trust in the US Government.