Today, we continued blog discussions.
-Richard Nixon
- 37th president
- 1969-1974
- Vice- President of Eisenhower
- Lost 1960 election to JFK
- The only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency
-Elections
- Only president to resign from office
- 1968 election ran against Hubert Humphrey
- Closest election and won by 1% popular vote
- Talked about foreign policy and the Vietnam War
- Promised to end the Vietnam War
- Last deal with segregation
- Bring the country together
- 1972 election
- Against George McGovern
- Blowout election
- Played dirty tricks to get the presidency
- Dirty Tricks Campaign- called a bunch of delivery people and sent them to the hotel that a president was staying at.
- Rigged campaign
- Led to his resignation
-Accomplishments
- Thought everyone was out to get him
- Very paranoid which effected all his scandals
- Family assistance program
- Equal right amendment- for women’s rights in every aspect.
- never was passed
- revenue sharing- giving money to states and distribute it
- made sure that blacks weren’t discriminated in schools
- had soldiers around the schools to make sure discrimination didn’t happen
-Civil Rights
- did a lot about segregation
- equal rights amendment
- increased the number of females in government
- invented earth day
- environmental president
- Vietnam Conflict dominated much of his presidency- war became very unpopular
- Promised to end the war
- Expanded the war to Cambodia and Laos- bombing Ho Chis Minh Trail
- Started pulling troops out of Vietnam as promised
- Nixon Doctrine- “Vietnamization” of the war= pull out of the war and let the Vietnamese fight for themselves
- Paris Peace Accords signed in 1973 stopped the fighting and got the US out of the war
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Did a lot to help the environment
- War on Drugs- 1971
- Supplemental Security Income- provides money to low income people who are either aged, blind, or disabled
- Signed Title 9 prohibiting gender discrimination in all federally funded schools
- Women equality
- Equal Employment Opportunity Act- enforces laws against workplace discrimination based on an individual’s race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, perceived and disability
- Abortion was legalized during Nixon’s presidency (Roe vs. Wade-1973)
- US astronauts landed on the moon- 1969
- Nixon approved the development of NASA’s Space Shuttle program
- In 1972, 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 Was recognized as non-communists
- SALT was signed, limiting nuclear weapons
- Started getting along with the USSR
- Anti- Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed which banned the development of systems designed to intercept missiles
- Took us off the gold standard
-Watergate
- Watergate- office hotel complex
- Home of the democratic headquarters for their campaigns
- 5 people were arrested for breaking into the headquarters to find dirt on the democratic Party
- 2 Washington Post reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, investigated the story
- Bugged the phones so they could listen in on conversations
- The reporters relied on an FBI informant known as “Deep Throat” to link the men to the Nixon White House—“follow the money”
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