Today we are going over our next blog assignment. Ugh.. I got Reagon Assassination thing. Now we're getting into a very long discussion of Osama bin Laden being owned by the US.
On to Richard Nixon...
- War on Drugs - 1971.
- Supplemental Security Income - provided $$ to low-income people who were aged, blind or disabled.
- Saw large scale integration of schools in the south
- 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.
- Abortion was legalized during Nixon's presidency (Roe v. Wade 1973)
- US astronauts landed on the moon 1969
- Nixon approved the developement of NASA's Space Shuttle program
- In 1972 Prez Nixon traveled to China where the president was to have direct talks with Mao Zedong and Chou En-lai.
- This eased relations with the US and China and China(not Taiwan) was recognized as the official China.
Nixon's Visit to the Soviet Union:
- Went to Moscow in 1972.
- SALT I was signed limiting nuclear weapons.
- Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed which banned the developement of systems designed to intercept incoming missiles.
- The led to a new era of "peaceful co-existence" and detente with the USSR.
- Supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War (1973) where Israelwas attacked by Egypt and Syria.
- Nixon took US completely off the gold standard set up by FDR.
Watergate -
- 5 men were caught breaking into Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC on June 17, 1972 to find dirt on the Democratic party.
- Nixon downplayed the scandal and denounced the story as biased and misleading.
- Nixon was involved by trying to cover up the break-in and eventually resigned from the presidency.
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