Today we talked about our last blog assignment.
War in Afghanistan (2001)
Richard Nixon... Continued...
abortion was legalized during Nixon's presidency (Roe v. Wade 1973)
Us astronauts landed on the moon- 1969
Nison approved the development of NASA's Space Shuttle Program
In 1972, president 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 development of systems designed to intercept incoming missiles
This led to a new era of "peaceful co-existence" and detente with the USSR
United States Presidential Election of 1972- Richard Nixon vs. George McGovern
Nixon won easily
election was riged
Supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War (1973) where Israel was attacked by Egypt and Syria
This support of Israel led to the 1973 pil crisis where OPEC countries did not trade oil with the US as a result
Nixon lowered the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 miles per hour to conserve gasoline during the crisis
Nixon took US completely off the gold standard
Watergate
office business complex in DC
give men broke into the Democratic party headquarters to find dirt on the democratic party
some of these men were cuban
use this dirt to embaress them
at first not a page one story, minor break in
investigated the story, only two guys who thought it was bigger than most people thought it was
these burgalers had 100 dollar bills stashed in their pockets
had a hard time getting people to think the story was bigger
This became one of a series of scandalous acts involving the Commitee to Re elect the president
Nixon downplayed the scandal and denounced the story as biased and misleading
FBI eventually confrimed that Nixon aides had attempted to sabatage the Democrats-- many began resigning and faced prosecution
Nixon was involved by trying to cover up the break in (Obstruction of Justive) and eventually resigned from the presidency
Woodward and Bernstein- people who did the investigation of the watergate scandal.
Leaving Office..
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