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Title: Richard Nixon and the Rise of Conservatism


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Richard Nixon and the Rise of Conservatism
  • Kennedy -Nixon 1960
  • 1968- Richard Nixon back again!
  • Vietnamization of the War in SE Asia
  • Supressing the Left
  • Watergate and the end of the Imperial Presidency

2
Kennedy-Nixon debates1960 election
3
The Election of 1968
  • Republican Richard M. Nixon
  • Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey
  • Independent George Wallace

4
Secret Plan to End the War
5
Secret Plan to End the War
  • Paris Peace Talks

6
Secret Plan to End the War
  • Paris Peace Talks
  • Vietnamization of the War Reduce US troops and
    turn over responsibility for the fighting to the
    S. Vietnamese

7
Secret Plan to End the War
  • Paris Peace Talks
  • Vietnamization of the War Reduce US troops and
    turn over responsibility for the fighting to the
    S. Vietnamese
  • Escalation of the Air War

8
Kent State University
9
The Pentagon Papers
  • Daniel Ellsbergs book about the War in Vietnam
    that indicated Johnson administration had lied
    about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and other
    things.

10
Watergate-1972
11
Watergate-1972
  • 1970- Secret bombings in Cambodia

12
Watergate-1972
  • Plumbers- Dirty Tricks Squad under direction of
    Nixon plug leaks in White house.

13
Watergate-1972
  • Plumbers- Dirty Tricks Squad under direction of
    Nixon plug leaks in White house.
  • 1971-Pentagon Papers published and Plumbers break
    into Ellsbergs Psychiatrists office.

14
Watergate-1972
  • Plumbers- Dirty Tricks Squad under direction of
    Nixon plug leaks in White house.
  • 1971-Pentagon Papers published and Plumbers break
    into Ellsbergs Psychiatrists office.
  • 1972- CREEP- Committee to Re-elect the President
    formed under John Mitchell.

15
Watergate
  • 1972 Plumbers plant wiretaps in Democratic
    National Headquarters at Watergate Hotel.

16
Watergate
  • 1972 Plumbers plant wiretaps in Democratic
    National Headquarters at Watergate Hotel.
  • Washington Post investigates

17
Woodward and Bernstein
18
Watergate
  • 1972 Plumbers plant wiretaps in Democratic
    National Headquarters at Watergate Hotel.
  • Washington Post investigates
  • 1974 Special Prosecutor appointed and Senate
    Hearing begins

19
John Dean testifies
20
Watergate
  • 1972 Plumbers plant wiretaps in Democratic
    National Headquarters at Watergate Hotel.
  • 1973 Washington Post investigates
  • 1974 Special Prosecutor appointed and Senate
    Hearing begin
  • 9 August 1974 Nixon resigns under threat of
    Impeachment

21
Nixon after resignation
22
New President Gerald Ford
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