Nixon:
- blowout in the 72 election
- was almost a 50/50 split in the 68 election
- 72 election was thought to be staged
Dirty tricks:
Edward musky wrote a letter stating that a democratic candidate being gay and another one having an illegitimate child. Edward ran out of money and then dropped out. what this did what took a good candidate away from the people.
The brilliance of Nixon:
- took control of the war in Vietnam
- Nixon ended the war by expanding the war ironically
- he was a Pro-environment president
- started the EPA
- started the space shuttle program
- opened the relations with Communist China
- War on drugs 1971
- forced the de-segregation of schools
- supported affirmative action
- equal opportunity employment
- Roe vs. Wade happened during his presidency
Watergate:
- an office complex where the democratic national committee called home
- on June 17th of 1972, the burglars broke into Watergate to take photos of documents and install bug on the phone, trying to find anything on the democrats
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