Nixon

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Nixon

• Key Terms
• Silent Spring
• Family Assistance Plan
• Détente
• Henry Kissinger
• SALT
• CREEP
• Dirty Tricks
• Woodward Bernstein
• Spiro Agnew
• Gerald Ford

• Intro
• Nixon (1969-74)
• The Man
• Domestic Policy
• Foreign Policy
• China
• USSR
• Watergate
• Background
• Break-in
• Cover-up
• Nixons Legacy

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Richard Nixon(The Man/Republican)

• Background
• From California modest family
• Nations 1 Anti-Communist

(1913-1994)
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Domestic Policy(Environment)

• Carson Outlined dangers of chemicals
  pesticides (DDT)
• Nixon was pro-environment
• Signed Clean Water Clean Air Acts
• Environmental Protection Agency was created

(Rachel Carson, 1962)
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Domestic Policy (Family Assistance Plan)

• Nixons proposal to overhaul welfare LBJs
  Great Society.
• Would guarantee a family of four an income of
  1,600/year (more than most states).
• All heads of household on welfare are required to
  register for job training (the cost was covered).

It failed to pass Congress, but demonstrated
Nixons Centrist approach.
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Foreign Policy

• Kissinger-Nixon Cabinet member

• Détente- Closer and more positive relations
  between US communist countries
• Seen with China USSR

Henry Kissinger (1923- )
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Separated At Birth?
Ben Stein (1944 - )
Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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Détente With China

• Since 1949 US had not recognized Chinas
  communist government.
• US normalized or recognized Chinas government.
• Nixon traveled to China.

Mao Zedong greets Nixon in China (1972)
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Détente With USSR

1. Summer, 1972 Nixon traveled to USSR.

• US sold 400 million tons of grain to USSR at
  bargain prices.
• SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)
• Set limits on offensive nuclear missiles

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Foreign Policy

• Overview/Analysis
• Tremendous success for Nixon.
• Who else could have accomplished this?

• Détente-
• Closer and more positive relations between US
  communist countries.
• Seen with China USSR

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Watergate Background

• CREEP
• Committee to Re-Elect President
• Involved with Dirty Tricks to help Nixons
  re-election campaign

John Mitchell Attorney General
Donald Segretti
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Watergate Break-In

• CREEP attempted to bug the Democratic
  Headquarters at the Watergate
• Nixon probably knew nothing about break-in, but
  later tried cover it up

Watergate Office Hotel Complex (WA DC)
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Watergate Cover-up

• Writers for the Washington Post
• Deep Throat was an important source

Bob Woodward Carl Bernstein
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Deep Throat(Former FBI Agent)
Felt in 2005 at age 91
W. Mark Felt (1957)
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Watergate Scandal Continues

• Agnew accepted bribes was forced to resign.

VP Spiro Agnew Richard Nixon
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Watergate

• Sworn in as new VP.

Gerald Ford (1913-2006)
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Watergate Scandal

• A taping system was discovered in the White House
• The tapes showed the President had obstructed
  justice
• Nixon resigned

Nixon Watergate (1974)
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Nixon Was Forced To Resign
Newspaper Headline
Nixons Farewell
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Watergate

• Sworn in as new VP.

• Sworn in as new President.

Gerald Ford (1913-2006)
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Watergate

• Ford granted Nixon a full pardon

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Richard Nixon(The Man)

• Nixons Legacy
• Tremendous foresight in foreign affairs
• Trust in politicians was shattered
• Is US a 2nd Rate World Power...?

(1913-1994)
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Nixon

• Key Terms
• Silent Spring
• Family Assistance Plan
• Détente
• Henry Kissinger
• SALT
• CREEP
• Dirty Tricks
• Woodward Bernstein
• Spiro Agnew
• Gerald Ford

• Intro
• Nixon (1969-74)
• The Man
• Domestic Policy
• Foreign Policy
• China
• USSR
• Watergate
• Background
• Break-in
• Cover-up
• Nixons Legacy