i got 911 and the new US foreign policy..
Richard Nixon-he prpomised to end the war in vietnam..but ended up ,aking it longer and more!..but eventually did end it.
first pres. to war with drugs..supplimental security income..saw segregation alot!!..support affirmatiove action..sighned title IX (1972)...equal employment opportunities act..roe vs. wade!!! us austronauts landed on the moon...Nixon pproved the development of NASA's space shuttle program..
Nixon went to the soviet union-
he went to moscow in 1972..SALT 1 was signed limitation..he made the peaceful era..he won the 1972 election COMPLETE blow out...49 states to 1.....
Watergate:
- 5 men were caught breaking into democratic party headquarters at the watergate hotel in washingtom DC on june 17, 1972 to find dirt on democtatic party
- 2 washington post reporters thought that things werent making sence and that there was more to the story
- woodward and bernstein in an FBI informant known as "deep throught" to like the men to the Nixon white house..
- it became one of a series of scandalous acts involving the commitee and to re-elect the president..
- nixon downplayed the scandal and said that he had nothing to do with it..
- FBI eventually confirmed that nixon tryed to cover it up..he resigned from office..so did a bunch of other people
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