Today we talked about semester test day
I am taking the essay test
Richard Nixon
Dirty tricks organization- they would post on false things about other candidates|
Then democratic people dropped out –rigged the campaign
WaterGate break in
Nixon was the only president to resign. If he didn’t resign he would have gotten impeached
Accomplishments: He was open to helping all women!
He helped discrimination a ton
aid many children and elders
created environmental things such as earth day(very go green)
Vietnam Conflict dominated his presidency
Promised to end war
expanded the war to Cambodia
started pulling troops out of Vietnam as promised
the Nixon Doctrine-“vietnamization” of the war
Paris peace accords signed in 1973 stopped the fighting and got the US
WAR on drugs-1971
supported affirmative action
Signed title 9- prohibiting gender discrimination
Equal Employment Oppurtunity Act
Nixon lowered the maxium US speed limit to 55 miles per hour to conserve gas during crisis
>>Watergate<<
-5 men were caught breaking into democratic party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC on June 17, 1972 to find dirt in the Democratic Party
-Two Washington Post reporters, Carl Bernstein, and Bob Woodward, investigated the story.
-Woodward and berstein 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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