Roe v Wade, during Nixon, abortion was legalized. She is now against abortion. US astronauts land on the moon in 69, and Nixon approved the development of Nasa's Space Shuttle program. In 1972 Nixon went to China, I'm covering that =) he went to Beijing and had many talks with Mao Zhedong Nixon also went down to Moscow in 72, signing SALT I. That limited nuclear weapons, ANti Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed, which banned the development of systems designed to intercept incoming missles. This led to a new era of "peaceful coexistence" and detente with the USSR. This was important, and it meant that either side could still use nukes so neither side would. Nixon was very paranoid. He was sure that the Black Panthers were out to get him, the Democrats were out to get him, and everyone hated him. He hated all of the press leaks, and so he came out with the Plumbers to stop leaks. Ha. ha. not. He helped rig his next election. They found the guy that would actually challenge him, and the guy that would suck. They got the guy who sucked to be the guy they ran against. One thing they did to a fundraiser was sending hundreds of delivery people like pizza and chicken guys and they had big orders so they made no money cause everyone was so annoyed. The next one, I guess Nixon blackmailed a lot of them kinda, pitting all the democrats against each other with misinformation and such. Nixon supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War where Israel was atatcked by Egypt and Syria. This support of Isreal led to the 1973 oil crisis where OPEC countries did not trade oil with the US as a result. Nixon lowered the maximum US speed limit to 55 miles per hour to conserve gas during the crisis. NIxon took US completely off the gold standard. WATERGATE! Five men were caught breaking into the Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC on JUne 17 1972 to find dirt on the Democrats.
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