Richard Nixon

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Richard Nixon
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New Federalism

• Nixons program to turn over part of the federal
  governments power to state and local governments

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Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg BOE

• Supreme Court Ruling that said school districts
  may bus students to other schools to end the
  pattern of all-black or all-white educational
  institutions

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Energy Crisis

• OPEC Members protest U.S. support of Israel in
  the Yom Kippur War
• OPEC cuts off oil supply to U.S. causing an oil
  shortage in the U.S.

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Detente

• Nixons flexible foreign policy to deal with
  communist nations
• Developed as a way to ease tensions by showing a
  willingness to negotiate with communist nations

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Realpolitik

• Considered a nations power rather than its ideals
  or moral principles when dealing in foreign
  matters

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Nixon Visits China and USSR 1972

• Nixon becomes the first President to visit China
  since the communist takeover in 1949
• Nixon becomes the first President to visit the
  Soviet Union since Teddy Roosevelt

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SALT I

• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
• Signed between the U.S. and Soviet Union
• Example of successful use of détente policy

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Committee to Reelect the President

• An organization formed to run Nixons 1972
  reelection campaign
• Linked to Watergate

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Woodward and Bernstein

• Washington Post reporters who uncovered numerous
  links to members of Nixons administration to the
  Watergate burglary

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Watergate Scandal

• Scandal arises from Nixons administrations
  attempt to cover up the burglary at Watergate
• The scandal showed that the knowledge of the
  burglary and the cover-up stretched all the way
  to Nixon himself

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Nixon Resigns

• August 9, 1974, amid scandal and impeachment
  hearings for his role in trying to cover-up the
  Watergate break-in, Nixon resigns as President
• Becomes the first President to resign from office

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