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Page 1: Presidential Politics: 1968-2008. Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 1968 election – VP: Agnew Diplomacy in China/Détente New federalism—transfer of power to state.

Presidential Politics: 1968-2008

Page 2: Presidential Politics: 1968-2008. Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 1968 election – VP: Agnew Diplomacy in China/Détente New federalism—transfer of power to state.

Richard Nixon, 1969-1974

• 1968 election– VP: Agnew

• Diplomacy in China/Détente

• New federalism—transfer of power to state

• EPA• 1972 election• VP scandal• Oil Crisis/stagflation• Watergate

scandal/Resignation

Page 3: Presidential Politics: 1968-2008. Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 1968 election – VP: Agnew Diplomacy in China/Détente New federalism—transfer of power to state.

Gerald Ford, 1974-1977

• Interim president, only one never elected– VP: Nelson Rockefeller

• Seen as ineffectual, bumbling, but trustworthy

• inherited a bad economy

• Pardoned Nixon

Page 4: Presidential Politics: 1968-2008. Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 1968 election – VP: Agnew Diplomacy in China/Détente New federalism—transfer of power to state.

Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981

• 1976 election– VP: Walter Mondale

• “man of the people” from Plains, Georgia

• Failing economy & Stagflation• Camp David Accords• Iran hostage crisis

Page 5: Presidential Politics: 1968-2008. Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 1968 election – VP: Agnew Diplomacy in China/Détente New federalism—transfer of power to state.

Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989

• 1980 election• VP: George Bush

• Rise of conservatism/moral majority (Barry Goldwater in 1964)

• Reaganomics—deregulation, cutting taxes

• Escalated arms race— “Star Wars”• 1984 election landslide

– “Morning in America”

• AIDS/GRID• Iran-Contra Scandal• End of Cold War

Page 6: Presidential Politics: 1968-2008. Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 1968 election – VP: Agnew Diplomacy in China/Détente New federalism—transfer of power to state.

George Bush, 1989-1993

• 1988 election– VP: Dan Quayle

• Fall of Berlin Wall & end of Cold War

• First Gulf War• 1992 election• The faltering economy

Page 7: Presidential Politics: 1968-2008. Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 1968 election – VP: Agnew Diplomacy in China/Détente New federalism—transfer of power to state.

Bill Clinton, 1993-2001

• 1992 election (vs. Perot, Bush)– VP: Al Gore

• Economic expansion, globalization, NAFTA

• 1994 Republican Revolution (Gingrich)

• 1996 election• Lewinsky

scandal/impeachment

Page 8: Presidential Politics: 1968-2008. Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 1968 election – VP: Agnew Diplomacy in China/Détente New federalism—transfer of power to state.

George W. Bush, 2001-2009

• 2000 election (vs. Al Gore)– VP: Dick Cheney– Bush v. Gore Supreme

Court Case

• 9/11• Patriot Act• Wars in Iraq &

Afghanistan

Page 9: Presidential Politics: 1968-2008. Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 1968 election – VP: Agnew Diplomacy in China/Détente New federalism—transfer of power to state.

Barack Obama, 2009-present

• 2008 election (vs. John McCain)

• 2012 election (vs. Mitt Romney)


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