Thursday May 2, 2013 Daily Notes

[3 Danielle]

• Nixon 37th 1969-1974
  • Background
  • Vice President of Eisenhower
  • lost 1960 Election of JFK
  • The only person to be be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidentcy
  • Only president to resign from office
  • Elections
  • 1968
  • Wallas
  • issues with Civil Rights
  • Vietnam War Planned to pull the troops out and end the war
  • 43% of the votes. 42% votes
  • 1972 Election
  • It was a blow out only 2 countries voted for McGovern
  • A staged election - people believed
  • Dirty Tricks
  • It took a good candidate and got him out of the election
  • Delivery people sent and not payed for to a place, caused him to drop out
  • Accomplishments
  • Vietnam conflict dominated much of his Presidency war-became very unpopular
  • Promised to end the war-"Peace with Honor"
  • Expanded the war to Cambodia and Laos-bombing Ho Chi Minh Trail
  • Started pulling troops out of Vietnam as promised
  • Nixon Doctrine-"Vietnamization" of the war
  • Paris Peace Accords signed in 1973 Stopped te fighting and got the US out of the war
  • National Environmental Policy Act
  • Clean Air Act 1970
  • Federal Water Pollution Control Act
  • Established Many government Agencies
    • Environmental Protection Agency
    • Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    • Council on Environmental Quality
  • Space Shuttle Program
  • July 20, 1969 we landed on the moon
  • Went to China to talk
  • War on Drugs-1971 (Rock and Roll, Hippies and Protest Vietnam war)
  • Educated about drug use and try to reduce the amount of the use.
  • Helped a lot of Poor People
  • 70% of the schools were separated, then went down to 40%
  • Women made a lot of games
  • Title 9 High schools and collages to not separated
  • Equal employment opportunity act-Race, color, origin, religion, sex, age, perceived intelligence and disability.
  • Abortion was legalized during Nixon's presidency
  • US astronauts landed on the moon 1969
  • Went to Moscow in 1972
  • SALT was signed limited nuclear weapons
  • Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty was signed which banned the development of systems designed
  • Watergate
  • complex hotel that housed offices
  • organization that helped get democrats get elected
  • trying to get Nixon reelected
  • they were caught