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

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

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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!

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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

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

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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