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Nixon-only person to be elected twice to both presidency and vice presidency
only president to resign from office
lost 1960 election to JFK
68- beat Humphrey and Wallace
Nixon won by a small margin
72-Nixon v. McGovern
Nixon won 48 of 50 states
Nixon put together an organization called "dirty tricks" this organization pit all the democratic members against each other
basically, it was a rigged election
accomplishments- promised to get out of Vietnam and eventually did
we pulled out and let the Vietnamese people to fight their own war
North invaded the South, and Vietnam is communist
Clean Air Act
National Environment Policy Act
he was pro environment
EPA
approved the development of NASA; started the space shuttle program
we landed on the moon
opened up trade with China
war on drugs-1971
pushed for desegregation of schools
pushed for women equality
Title IX- prohibited gender discrimination in all federally funded school
Equal Employment Opportunity Act
supported affirmative action
eased tensions with China and USSR
watergate scandal- Watergate is a hotel complex where the democratic party was run from
a bunch of burglars broke in and planted bugs in the building
these burglars were traced back to CREEP- the committee for reelecting the president
the first time they went in, they plant a bug. when they tapped in, they realized the bug wasn't working so they went back in and got caught
Woodward and Berstein- two reporters that eventually got information to convict Nixon.
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