Today we finished LBJ and started Nixon.
Affirmative action laws made white people have to accept minorities.
Great Society
Medicare Medicaid
Richard Nixon (37th)
Won Senate seat in 1950
Lost 1960 election to JFK
Won the 1968 election
Won the 1972 election
Over all approval rating-49%
Accomploishments
Watergate Scandal
Visited China to encourage peace
Equal Rights Amendment- designed to guarantee equal rights for women
Apollo 11 moon landing
Environmental Protection Agency- protects the economy
Congress broadens U.S Civil Rights Commission mandate- included gender discrimination and signed all civil rights
Office of Management and Budget
Occupational Safety and Health Administartion
Nuclear arms control agreements with Soviet Union
Nixon Doctrine- stated that the US would expect allies to take care of their own military that the U.S would aid in defense as requested.
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