today we were handed the new blog assignment and then chatted about osama bin ladin and stuff
On to Richard Nixon...
War on Drugs - 1971.
Supplemental Security Income - provided $$ to low-income people who were aged, blind or disabled.
Saw large scale integration of schools in the south
Supported affirmative action.
Signed Title IX(1972) prohibiting gender discrimination in all federally funded schools.
Equal Employment Opportunity Act - enforces laws against workplace discrimination based on an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, perceived intelligence and disability.
Abortion was legalized during Nixon's presidency (Roe v. Wade 1973)
US astronauts landed on the moon 1969
Nixon approved the developement of NASA's Space Shuttle program
In 1972 Prez 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 developement of systems designed to intercept incoming missiles.
The led to a new era of "peaceful co-existence" and detente with the USSR.
Supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War (1973) where Israelwas attacked by Egypt and Syria.
Nixon took US completely off the gold standard set up by FDR.
Watergate -
- 5 men were caught breaking into Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC on June 17, 1972 to find dirt on the Democratic party.
- Nixon downplayed the scandal and denounced the story as biased and misleading.
- Nixon was involved by trying to cover up the break-in and eventually resigned from the presidency.
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