next assigned blog- i have iran hostage crisis
Bruns talked a bit about Osama bin Laden being killed
Nixon:
- very "green" pres
- national environmental policy act
- clean air act
- federal water pollution control act
- govt agencies
- environmental protection agency
- occupational safety and health admin
- council on environmental quality
- 1st pres to declare war on drugs- 1971
- supplemental security income- helped low income people get money
- integration in southern schools
- affirmative action
- Title IX- equal sports opportunities for men and women in federally funded schools
- Equal Employment Opportunity Act
- Roe v Wade- legalized abortion
- US astronauts landed on the moon
- NASA space shuttle program
- eased relations with US and China by talking to Mao Zedong and Chou En-lai
- SALT was signed- limited nuclear weapons
- Anti Ballistic Missle Treaty- banned development of systems designed to intercept incoming missiles
- 1972 election
- kinda rigged
- played dirty tricks on democratic candidates so McGovern would be nominated
- MCGovern not well liked- didn't have a chance
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