Nixon:
Watergate:
- 5 men were caught breaking into the Democratic party headquarters at the watergate hotel in Washington DC on June 17, 1972 to find dirt on the Democratic party
- 2 Washington post reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward investigated the stroy
- Woodward and Bernstein relied on an FBI informant known as "Deep Throat" to link the men to Nixon White house "follow the money"
- This became one of a series of scandalous acts involving the Committee to Re elect the President
- Nixon downplayed the scandal and denounced the story as biased and misleading
- FBI eventually confirmed that Nixon aides had attempted to sabotage the Democrats many began resigning and faced prosecution
- Nixon was involved by trying to cover up the break in (obstruction of justice) and eventually resigned from presidency
- "People have got to know whether or not the president is a crook. Ive earned everything I got." Nixon
President Gerald Ford(R):
- 38th
- 1974-1977
- Nixon's VP
- Only VP and president to never be elected
- Had 2 assassination attempts within 3 weeks
Accomplishments:
- Pardoned Nixon-a "corrupt bargain"?
- Offered conditional amnesty for the 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 through out the US
- continued detente with the USSR
- Ford wanted to help South Vietnam when North Vietnam invaded on 1974 but congress refused
- By April 1975, all of Vietnam became communist
- Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act was passed to allow refugees to immigrate to the US
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