An Age of Limits Mr. Bermudez and Ms. Kypers

32:1 The Nixon Administration Summarize Nixon’s plans to lead the nation on a

more conservative course

Analyze Nixon’s efforts to win the support of Southern Democrats

Describe the steps Nixon took to battle stagflation

Examine the importance of Nixon’s visits to the Soviet Union and China

Nixon’s New Conservatism New Federalism: Nixon’s plan to distribute a

portion of federal power to the state and local governments.

Revenue Sharing: state and local governments could spend their federal dollars however they saw fit within certain limitations. AKA

State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act: 1972 law which enforced the revenue sharing.

Welfare Reform Nixon viewed welfare as cumbersome and

inefficient.

Family Assistance Plan: Every family of four with NO outside income would receive a basic federal check of $1,600 and could earn up to $4,000 Must take job training Must accept any reasonable work offered to them

Failed due to lack of support

New Federalism Wears Two Faces Needs to get support from Democrats in Congress

Supports increase in government spending for social programs Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid

Tried to get rid of Job Corps, defund Housing and Urban Development (HUD), used Impoundment to not fund 100 programs- $15 billion

Law and Order Politics Issues with Vietnam protests

Help the “silent majority”

Ordering wiretaps- Left wing/Democratic party members

“Personal enemies” list

Dissidents against government policies

Nixon’s Southern Strategy Won by slim margin in 1968

Needs to build a stronger coalition

Southern Strategy: Attract southern conservative Democrats. Playing off unhappiness of with federal desegregation and liberal Supreme Court

Nixon Slows Integration “There are those who want instant integration and

those who want segregation forever. I believe we need to have a middle course between the two extremes”

Slowed integration in Mississippi and South Carolina Violated Brown v. BOE II “with all deliberate speed”

NAACP filed suit and by 1972 90% of south desegregated was 20% in 1969

Nixon opposed extension of Voting Rights Act 1965

Controversy Over Busing Swan v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg: school

districts may bus students to other schools to end pattern of all black and all white schools

“I am not against any individual child. I am not a racist, no matter what those high-and-mighty suburban liberals with their picket signs say. I just wont have my children bussed to some… slum school, and I don’t want children from God knows where coming over here.”

Battle Over Supreme Court Warren Court is too liberal

Four Justices leave the bench for retirement

Need to change the face of Supreme Court by adding conservatives

Swings court in more conservative direction

26th Amendment Lowering voting age to 18 years old

Why?

America Walks on the Moon July 20th, 1969

Neil Armstrong

How would this event make Americans feel?

Walk on the Moon Project Due Monday

Create a personal story of someone living in 1969 Create or use someone's personal story of what they

were doing when the first man walked on the moon Must have details of their life where they are from,

what they do, why they do or do not feel it is significant

Must have a script written out Video record the interview You may work with ONE OTHER PERSON, or by

yourself Send all videos by Monday to

james.bermudez@pequannock.org

Confronting Stagnant Economy Stagflation: between 1967 and 1973 nation had

high inflation and high unemployment

Inflation caused by Vietnam War and social programs- deficit spending

Competition in international trade

Flood of new workers

Heavy dependence on foreign oil

Confronting Stagnant Economy US gets oil from middle east

Part of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

1960’s cartel raises oil prices

1973 Yom Kippur War breaks out- Israel vs. Egypt and Syria

US supports Israel with massive military aid

OPEC cuts off all oil sale to the U.S=quadrupling price

Nixon Battles Stagflation Raise taxes and cut spending- Congress did not

agree

Raise interest rates = mild recession

Froze all wages and prices (slowed inflation)

Nixon’s Foreign Policy Triumphs

Nixon likes foreign affairs

Desire to gain peace with honor

Made advances in American-Soviet and American-Chinese relations

Kissinger and Realpolitik Henry Kissinger: Nixon’s advisor for national

security affairs, later Secretary of State

Realpolitik: “political realism” based on consideration of power, not on ideals or moral principles

Ends confrontational containment policy-recognizing communist governments

Détente: policy aimed at easing Cold War tensions one example is visit to China 1972

Nixon Visits China USA never recognized China’s communist

government

Nixon wanted to “seek the normalization of relations between the two countries”

Visit was a success with American public

Opened diplomatic and economic relations

Both agree to never dominate pacific and cooperate in settling disputes, scientific and cultural exchanges, reunite Taiwan with Mainland

Nixon Travels to Moscow Nixon is the first American president in Soviet

Union

Also a success with American public

Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT): Nixon and Brezhnev meet and sign SALT I Treaty which would limit the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)

“peace is at hand”

Watergate: Nixon’s DownfallSection 2 Analyze how Nixon and his advisors sought to

increase the power of the presidency

Summarize the details of the Watergate burglary

Describe how the Watergate scandal was uncovered

Explain why the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Nixon and analyze the impact of Watergate on American politics

President Nixon and His White House