Richard Nixon Accomplishments:
- He was a good listner
- Family Assistant Plan- wanted less federal control (aid to familys)
- Equal rights amendment- he pushed for women rights in everything (this amendment has never passed)
- State committees- to get more equality between blacks and whites
- Anti Crime Laws- he put out laws and acts to go against crime
- He was the only president to make more money then he spent in presidency
- Nixon thought he could win Vietnam war- so he started bombing to neighbor countries (cambodia and laos). and he thought that would end the war. All this did was expand the war. But Nixon started taking troops out of Vietnam.
- The Nixon Doctrine- "Vietnamization" of the war.
- He signed Paris Peace Accords in 1973 to end the war.
- Nixon did a lot to help the enviroment.
- Supplemental Security Income
- He did a lot to help people in need.
- Title 9- (very important to women)- prohibiting gender discrimination in all federally funded schools. This title says that as many scholarships that are given out to men are given to women. This really helped get womens athletics in college.
- Equal Employment Opportunity Act- enforces laws against workspace discrimination based on an individuals race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, precieved intelligence and disability.
- Abortion was legalized during Nixons presidency.
- US astronauts landed on the moon- 1969
- In 1972, NIxon opened relations with communist China.
- Nixon visited the USSR. SALT 1-
- Nixon lowered the maximum US speed limit to 55mph to conserve gasoline during the crisis.
Civil Rights:
- He did a lot to De-segregate schools
- Many men didnt like that Nixon gave attention to womens rights.
- He started Earth Day- and created the clean air act.
Watergate:
- This is where the democrats held the campaining
- 5 men were caught breaking into Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washingtion, DC. They were trying to find dirt on the democratic party.]
- Two Washington Post Reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob woodward, investigated the story.
- The relied on an FBI informant known as "Deep Throat" to link the men to the Nixon White House- "follow the money"
- Nixon tried covering it up
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