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Nixon

1968 Election

1968 Democratic Convention

“Law & Order” & “Silent Majority”

Republican “Southern Strategy” “State’s rights”… Split working- class whites away from blacks New “Solid South” is Republican

End of New Deal Coalition

1968 Election

Foreign Policy

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Realpolitik Pragmatism and power, rather than idealism Détente Easing of tensions between U.S. & communist world End of Vietnam War Exploitation of the Sino-Soviet Split

Vietnamization

Secret Bombing of Laos & Cambodia

Paris Peace Accords

Leaving Vietnam

War Powers Act

Détente

“Red Telephone”

Sino-Soviet Split

“Playing the China Card”

Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Chess Diplomacy

Visit to Moscow

SALT I & ABM Treaty

Domestic Policy

Nixon’s Domestic Policy “New Federalism” Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “War on Drugs” Apollo 11 Moon landing 1973 Yom Kippur War −OPEC Embargo −Energy Crisis −“Stagflation”

“New Federalism”

OSHA

EPA

War on Drugs

Apollo 11

1973 Yom Kippur War

1970s Energy Crisis: OPEC Embargo

1970s Energy Crisis: Rationing

1970s Energy Crisis: Oil Prices

1970s Energy Crisis: Stagflation

Watergate Scandal

Nixon’s Enemies List

Daniel Ellsberg & Pentagon Papers

Psychiatrist’s Office Break-In

COINTELPRO

The “Plumbers”

1972 Election

Watergate Hotel Burglary The Break-In

Patrick Grey Nixon-appointed director of the FBI Destroyed FBI documents into the burglary investigation

Woodward & Bernstein

John Dean White House counsel “Mastermind of the cover-up” Testifies against Nixon

Spiro Agnew Vice President Resigned for failure to pay income taxes

Watergate Tapes Click here for video

Sam Ervin & Senate Investigation

“Saturday Night Massacre” Archibald Cox, special prosecutor Elliot Richardson, Attorney General William Ruckleshaus, Deputy Attorney General Fired Resigned Resigned

All Alone…

U.S. v. Nixon, 1974 Supreme Court rejected Nixon’s claim of “executive privilege”

Resignation Nixon resigns

Ford’s Pardon Controversial decision Allowed the nation to “move on”

Distrust & Voter Apathy

Gil Scott-Heron “H2OGate Blues” + lyricslyrics