1. NIXON FORD CARTER REAGAN
US PRESIDENTS
NIXON
FORD
CARTER
REAGAN

3. NIXON PRESIDENCY
Wins Presidency after the assassination of RFK
New Federalism
OSHA – Occupation Safety and Health Admin.
EPA and the Clean Air Act
DEA – Drug Enforcement Agency
Energy Reorganization Act – Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Moon Shot
26th Amendment

4. NIXON’S PRESIDENCY FOREIGN POLICY
Nixon Doctrine, 1969
China – reopening of relations in 1972
USSR – détente, visit in 1972
SALT

5. WATERGATE
1972 – Democratic Party Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. was broken into on June 17, 1972
Committee to Re-elect the President
Wiretaps planted
Linked back to the White House
Nixon denied knowledge
1973 – Senate committee established to investigate

6. Watergate (cont’d)
VP Spiro Agnew resigned when charged with income tax evasion
Gerald Ford appointed new VP
1973 – White House tapes discovered
Nixon refused to hand over tapes
Supreme Court ordered tapes turned over (US v. Richard Nixon)
Nixon resigned before impeachment charges are brought against him (August 9, 1974)
Pardoned by Ford

8. Gerald Ford 1974-76 Assumes office after Nixon’s resignation
Nixon’s pardon
Amnesty Plan
Inflation due to OPEC embargo
Lost close election in 1976

9. Ford Foreign Policy
End of Viet Nam War in 1975

11. JIMMY CARTER 1976-1980 Appeal of “Down Home Values”
Faced a difficult Congress that questioned everything (hang-over from Nixon)
Inflation continued
Energy problems (OPEC)
Corporation bailouts: Chrysler and Lockheed
Acid Rain
3 Mile Island, 1979

12. Carter – Foreign Policy
Helsinki Accords, 1973
Would withhold aid from any nation in violation of human rights
Camp David Accords, 1977
Temporary agreement reached
USSR – Afghanistan
Olympic boycott
Iranian Hostage Crisis, 1979
Agreed to return canal to Panama in 1999

14. RONALD REAGAN 1980-1988 Return to the “Good Old Days”
Conservative approach to government
Supply Side Economics/Reagonomics
Reduce taxes for businesses and wealthy
Balanced Budget – reduced Gov. spending by cutting social welfare programs
Star Wars – Strategic defense initiative
Immigration
1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act
Forbid hiring of undocumented workers

15. Reagan – Foreign Policy
Tough against Communism
USSR – THE EVIL EMPIRE
Poland – sanctions when Solidarity banned
Central America: aid to present Communism from spreading
Middle East – Lebanon – US troops sent in as part of UN initiative (Christians v. Muslims)
Iran Contra Affair, 1986 – aides sold weapons to Iran in exchange for help in freeing US hostages in Lebanon. Money was then sent to contras in Nicaragua against Congressional orders. Reagan cleared, buy Col. Oliver North convicted.
End of the Cold War-”Tear down that wall”