Today we continued going over presidential blogs
President Johnson
- the Vietnam Conflict dominated much of his presidency
- believed in Domino theory
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) - Congress gave him complete power to wage war in Vietnam
- decided not to run in the 1968 election
President Nixon
- president during moon landing
- opened our relations with China
- the only person to be elected twice as vice president and president
- only president to resign from office
- vietnam conflict dominated much of his presidency-war became very unpopular
- promised to end the war
- started pulling troops out of Vietnam
- the Nixon Doctrine - "Vietnamization" of the war
- Paris Peace Accords signed in 1973 - stopped the fighting and got us out of the war
- National Environmental Policy Act
- established government agencies
- Federal Water Pollution Control Act
- Clean Air Act of 1970
- saw large scale integration of schools in the south
- supported affimative action
- Signed the tite IX prohibiting gender discrimination in all dederally funded schools
- Equal Opportunity Act - enforces laws against workplace discriminatin based on an individual's race, color, nationality, sex, age, etc.
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