We got our last assigned blog! I'm doing Netscapegoes public-Internet Starts. We then talked about Osama Bin Laden being d-e-a-d! They threw his body into the ocean. Then we went back to talking about Richard Nixon.-War On Drugs-1971.-Supplemental Security Income- provides money to low income people who are old, blind, or disabled.-Saw large scale integration of schools in the south.-Supported affirmative action.-Title 9 started in 1972. Prohibited gender discrimination in all federally funded schools.-Equal Employment Opportunity Act-enforces laws against workplace discrimination based on an individuals race, color, national oriigin, religion, sex, age, perceived intelligence and disability.-Abortion was legalized during Nxon's presidency.-US Astronauts landed on the moon.-Started the Space Shuttle program.-1972 traveled to china where the president was to have direct talks with mao zedong and chou en lai.-Eased relations with the US and China.-Visited the Soviet Union in 1972- SALT 1 was signed, limiting nuclear weapons. Anti-Ballistic Missle Treaty was signed which banned the development of systems designed to intercept incoming missles. Led to a new era of "peaceful co-existence" and detente the USSR.*the 1972 election was rigged.-Supported Israel. Led to the 1973 oil crisis where OPEC countries didn't trade oil with the US as a result.-Lowered the maximum speed limit on highway to 55.Watergate:-Five men were caught breaking into Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC on June 17, 2972 to find dirt on the Democratic Party.-FBI eventually confirmed that people who worked for Nixon had attemted to sabotage the Democrats. Many began resgning.-Nixon Denied the scandle as biased and misleading. Nixon was involved by trying to cover up the break in, and eventually resigned from presidency.
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