Blog discussion cont.
Richard Nixon
- Vice-Pres of Eisenhower.
- Lost 1960 election to JFK.
- The only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency.
- Only President to resign from office.
- 68 election.
- Against Humphrey and Wallace.
- Nixon had won. Because he pledged to get the troops out of Vietnam.
- 72 election
- Complete blowout.
- Nixon against McGovern.
- Nixon had got a group of people together called Dirty Tricks.
- The group did exactly what its name says, they played dirty tricks on the other candidates.
- Took control of the war in Vietnam and got us out.
- Expanded the war to Cambodia and Laos - bombing Ho Chi Minh Trail
- Started pulling troops out of Vietnam as promised
- The Nixon Doctrine-"Veitnamization" of the war.
- Paris Peace Accords signed in 1973 stopped the fighting and got the US out of the war.
- Environmental DecadeWar on Drugs-1971.
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Clean Air Act of 1970
- Federal Water Pollution Control Act
- Established many government agencies:
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Occupational Safety and Health Administrations
- Council on Environmental Quality
- Supplemental Security IncomeSaw large scale integration of schools in the south
- provides money to low-income people who are either aged, blind, or disabled.
- Supported affirmative action
- Signed Title IX(1972) prohibiting gender discrimination in all federally funded schools.
- Equal Employment Opportunity Act
- Enforces laws against workplace discrimination based on an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, perceived intelligence, and disability.
- Watergate
- Hotel office complex that held the democrat election committee.
- 1972 buglers broke into the Watergate to get pictures of the documents and instal bugs.
- They wanted to find any dirt or information on the committee that they could.
- They go in the first time and got everything put in there.
- Then when they tapped into one of the bugs it didn't work so they had to go in and fix it.
- When they went in there the security guard found them and took them in.
- Woodward and Bernstein were reporters that wouldn't let the story go.
- They thought the story was very strange. So for two years after Nixon resigned they finished their search.
- They found an informant who told them to follow the money to find out who paid them.
- He was extremely paranoid about everything.
Gerald Ford
- Real name Leslie Winch Cane.
- Changed his name to Gerald Ford when he was 14.
- Only President to never be elected vice-president or president.
- The first women to attempt assassination was a lady names Lynette. She wanted to get a second trial for her friend but Ford wouldn't give one.
- Sarah Jane Moore was the second.
- Election of 76
- Was running against Jimmy Carter.
- It was close but Carter beat him out by 2%.
- Pardoned Nixon-a "corrupt bargain"?
- Offered conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War draft dodgers who had fled to countries such as Canada.
- "Whip Inflation Now" called for Americans to reduce their spending and consumption in an attempt to stop inflation.
- Education for All Handicapped Children Act(1975) established special education in school throughout the US
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