Richard Nixon (1969-1974)(R)
Background:
- Vice President of Eisenhower
- Lost 1960 election to JFK
- the only person to be elected twice to both Presidency and Vice Presidency
- Only President to resign from office
Election
- 1968- against Humphrey (Johnson VP) and Wallus
- Nixon won
- issuse with civil rights
- Vietnam war would be ended
- Nixon had 43% - overall
- Nixon had 58.6%-Shelby County
- Wallus took some of Nixon states
- 1972- against McGovern
- blow-out (red country)
- staged election?
- Dirty Tricks- played dirty tricks on the Democratic candidates
- One time dirty tricks sent flower, pizza, and chicken delivery people to a motel where a Mustagey fundraiser, so he had to pay for them and run out of money.
Accomplishment
- Took control of the war in Vietnam, and took all the troops out
- He had "Vietnamization" the war, we are pulling out and letting the Vietnamze fight it.
- Expanded the war to Cambodia and Laos bombing Ho Chi Minh Trail, which caused hating on Nixon.
- He ending the war by extended the war
- Young people hated him because of this
- He was good with environment and helped it out a lot.
- He started the space shuttle program
- We landed on the moon! July 20th 1969.
- went to china and taught peace
- War on Drugs- (1971)
- helped alot of poor people
- last president to deal with segregation in school.
- he also helped women, women started to protest
- Title 9- required high school and college to show do gender favoritism
- Equal Employment Opportunity- enforces laws against workplace discrimination based on an individual's race, color, religion, sex, age, perceived intelligence and disability.
- Roe v. Wade- abortion was legalized during Nixon's presidency
- Nixon went to Soviet Union in Moscow, SALT was signed liminting nuclear weapons
- 70's was a era where things got better
Scandals-
- Water Gate- a office/hotel complex, Democratic National Committee
- On June 17, 1972, a group of guys broke into water gate, and tried to get photographs and install listening devices
- They were trying to find dirt or important information on the Democrats so they won the election
- They were caught the second time
- Bob Woodward and Bernstein would not let the story go, and keep it going and investing
- They got the information, from former employees
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