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Title: GERALD R. FORD


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GERALDR.FORD
  • Only unelected VP P
  • First appointed VP under 25th Amend.
  • Longest living P 93 / died 2006
  • Republican Michigan
  • Wife Betty supporter of equal rights for women
    abortion
  • Whip Inflation Now
  • Inflation, unemployment, oil crisis
  • Salt I Treaty, 1974
  • froze the number of strategic ballistic missile
    launchers of U.S. Soviets at existing levels
  • Political Suicide pardons Nixon
  • Fall of South Vietnam evacuation of Saigon,
    April 1975 fall of Laos Cambodia
  • Bicentennial Celebration July 76

Leslie Lynch King, Jr.
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Assassination Attempts
  • Lynette Squeaky Fromme Sacramento, CA, Sept.
    5, 1975
  • Follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles
    Manson
  • Pointing gun at his stomach, but stopped by
    Secret Service
  • Sarah Jane Moore 17 days later in San Francisco
  • Former Marine deflected her shot
  • Both sentenced to life imprisonment both now
    out on parole

4
Physical clumsiness .
5
  • Issues of the Day Watergate (Impeachment, pardon
    of Nixon), US confidence in Southeast Asia

6
JIMMY CARTER
  • Peanut farmer GA
  • Democrat with a down-home, plain folks style
  • Running mate is Walter Mondale
  • Capitalizes on being a Washington outsider
  • Focus on moral issues human rights promises
    never to lie to the American people
  • Panama Canal Treaty returns control back to
    Panama by 2000

A micro-manager
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  • Full Amnesty to all Vietnam draft dodgers very
    controversial
  • Advocates nuclear power to solve energy problems
  • But, THREE MILE ISLAND, PA meltdown
  • Most significant accident in the history of the
    American commercial nuclear power generating
    industry
  • Hell no, we wont glow!

8
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
  • SALT II never ratified by Senate but honored
    til 86 when Reagan withdrew based on Soviet
    violations
  • Camp David Accords
  • ended 30 yrs. of conflict
  • Begin Sadat brought to Camp David
  • Israel returned land in Sinai peninsula in
    exchange for recognition by Egypt
  • Carters greatest success
  • But, Sadat assassinated back home in Egypt

9
  • AFGHANISTAN
  • Soviet invasion in Dec. 79
  • To insure a pro-Soviet regime
  • Carter stops sale of grain boycotts 1980 Moscow
    Olympics

10
THE IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS
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  • Carters Greatest Failure
  • IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS
  • Religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini overthrows
    Shah takes control of Iran
  • - Iran a religious state - theocracy
  • - Shah fled to U.S. Iranian rebels then seized
    American Embassy in 11/79 held 60 embassy
    workers hostage held for 444 days
  • Demands return of Shah ( his wealth) in exchange
    for the hostages

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  • Blacks women freed but 52 others kept and held
    for 444 days in captivity (tied to chairs 24
    hours/day)
  • Carter halts Iranian oil imports freezes all
    Iranian assets in U.S. didnt work
  • Failed rescue attempt killed 8 Carter widely
    criticized his greatest failure
  • Hostages released on Reagans inauguration
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