We do Richard Nixon now - 37th president - 1969-1974
- Vice-President of Eisenhower
- Lost 1960 election to JFK
- the only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency
- Only President to resign from office
- Set up Dirty Tricks campaign
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
- The Nixon Doctrine-"Vietnamization" of the war
- Paris Peace Accords signed in 1973 stopped the fighting and got the US out of the war
- Only president to have a balanced budget
- made trips to Beijing and Moscow to develop relations
- Environmental Decade
- Clean Air Act of 1970
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Federal Water Pollution Control Act
- Established many government agencies
- EPA
- OSHA
- War on drugs-1971
- Supplemental Security Income-provides money to low-income people who are either aged, blind, or disabled
- saw large scale integration of schools in the south
- supported affirmative action
- signed Title IX prohibiting gender discrimination in all federally funded schools
- Equal Employed Act
- Abortion was legalized during Nixon presidency
- US astronauts landed on the moon
- Nixon approved the development of NASA's Space Shuttle program
- 1972, Nixon traveled to China where he had direct talks with Mao Zedong and Chou En-lai
- This eased relations with the US and China
- visited Soviet union
Watergate
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