1. Nixon 1969-1974

2. 1968 Election

3. 1968 Democratic Convention

4. “Law & Order” & “Silent Majority”

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

6. End of New Deal Coalition

7. 1968 Election

8. Foreign Policy

9. 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

10. Vietnamization

11. Secret Bombing of Laos & Cambodia

12. Paris Peace Accords

13. Leaving Vietnam

14. War Powers Act

15. Détente

16. “Red Telephone”

17. Sino-Soviet Split

18. “Playing the China Card”

19. Ping-Pong Diplomacy

20. Chess Diplomacy

21. Visit to Moscow

22. SALT I & ABM Treaty

23. Domestic Policy

24. 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”

25. “New Federalism”

26. OSHA

27. EPA

28. War on Drugs

29. Apollo 11

30. 1973 Yom Kippur War

31. 1970s Energy Crisis: OPEC Embargo

32. 1970s Energy Crisis: Rationing

33. 1970s Energy Crisis: Oil Prices

34. 1970s Energy Crisis: Stagflation

35. Watergate Scandal

36. Nixon’s Enemies List

37. Daniel Ellsberg & Pentagon Papers

38. Psychiatrist’s Office Break-In

39. COINTELPRO

40. The “Plumbers”

41. 1972 Election

42. Watergate Hotel Burglary The Break-In

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

44. Woodward & Bernstein

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

46. Spiro Agnew Vice President Resigned for failure to pay income taxes

47. Watergate Tapes Click here for video

48. Sam Ervin & Senate Investigation

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

50. All Alone…

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

52. Resignation Nixon resigns

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

54. Distrust & Voter Apathy

55. Gil Scott-Heron “H2OGate Blues” + lyricslyrics