Richard M. Nixon

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Richard M. Nixon
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New Deal Coalition

• IN
• African-Americans
• Union members
• Urban North
• Immigrant/newer ethnic groups
• Farmers

• OUT
• Democratic South

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The South Defects

• Civil Rights Achievements and failures
• Expansion of Federal Power
• Viet Nam
• Southern Voting Patterns

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1968 Democratic Race

• Gene McCarthy

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RFK
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Hubert Humphrey
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1968 Democratic Convention
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George Wallace
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RNs Administrative Presidency

• White House
• Appointee
• Career

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John Ehrlichman Domestic Council
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Henry Kissinger NSC Staff
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H. R. Haldeman Chief of Staff
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Problem with Nixons Style

• Cabinet Government?
• Isolation
• Feeding Nixons Flaws

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Cabinet Government?

• William Rogers

• George Romney

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Isolation

• Line vs. Staff
• Nixons Enemies List
• Chuck Colson
• This memorandum addresses the matter of how we
  can maximize the fact of our incumbency in
  dealing with persons known to be active in their
  opposition to our Administration stated a bit
  more bluntlyhow we can use the available federal
  machinery to screw our political enemies.
• Master List of Nixons Political Opponents

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Feeding Nixons Flaws

• Checkers Speech

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Democrats 1972

• Ed Muskie

• George McGovern

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Watergate Scandal

• Comparison to other scandals
• Lessons
• Since Ike, no president has finished a second
  term without one
• Staff loyalty is double-edged sword

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US Bombing of Cambodia 1969
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Plumbers
CREEP
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Watergate Hotel
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Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
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Investigations

• Legislative Branch Senate Committee
• Sen. Howard Baker, Sen. Sam Ervin

• Judicial Branch Grand Jury
• Judge John Sirica

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Executive Branch Special Prosecutor

• Archibald Cox Leon Jaworski

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Saturday Night Massacre October 23, 1973

• Elliott Richardson William Robert Bork
• Atty. General Ruckelshaus Solicitor Gen
• Dep. AG

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The Fate of the Tapes

• Watergate Tapes (NARA)
• From Washington Post
• The Smoking Gun Tape
• US Supreme Court Ruling
• US v. Nixon

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Impeachment

• Articles of Impeachment
• House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings
• Gerald Ford Library Watergate Info

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Vice President Spiro Agnew
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The Fate of Nixon

• Video of Resignation

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President Gerald Ford