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1968 1968 ElectionElection

1968 Democratic Convention

“Law & Order” & “Silent Majority”

Republican “Southern Strategy”• “State’s

rights”…

• Split working-class whites away from blacks

• New “Solid South” is Republican

End of New Deal Coalition

1968 Election

Foreign Foreign PolicyPolicy

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger• Realpolitik

• Pragmatism and power, rather than idealism

• Détente

• Easing of tensions between U.S. & communist world

• End of Vietnam War

• Exploitation of the Sino-Soviet Split

Vietnamization

Secret Bombing of Laos & Cambodia

Paris Peace Accords

Leaving Vietnam

War Powers Act

Détente

“Red Telephone”

Sino-Soviet Split

“Playing the China Card”

Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Chess Diplomacy

Visit to Moscow

SALT I & ABM Treaty

Domestic Domestic PolicyPolicy

Nixon’s Domestic Policy• “New Federalism”

• Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• “War on Drugs”

• Apollo 11 Moon landing

• 1973 Yom Kippur War− OPEC Embargo− Energy Crisis− “Stagflation”

“New Federalism”

OSHA

EPA

War on Drugs

Apollo 11

1973 Yom Kippur War

1970s Energy Crisis: OPEC Embargo

1970s Energy Crisis: Rationing

1970s Energy Crisis: Oil Prices

1970s Energy Crisis: Stagflation

Watergate Watergate ScandalScandal

Nixon’s Enemies List

Daniel Ellsberg & Pentagon Papers

Psychiatrist’s Office Break-In

COINTELPRO

The “Plumbers”

1972 Election

Watergate Hotel Burglary

The Break-In

Patrick Grey• Nixon-appointed

director of the FBI

• Destroyed FBI documents into the burglary investigation

Woodward & Bernstein

John Dean• White House

counsel

• “Mastermind of the cover-up”

• Testifies against Nixon

Spiro Agnew• Vice President

• Resigned for failure to pay income taxes

Watergate TapesClick here for video

Sam Ervin & Senate Investigation

“Saturday Night Massacre”

Archibald Cox, special prosecutor

Elliot Richardson, Attorney General William

Ruckleshaus, Deputy Attorney General

FiredFired

ResignedResigned

ResignedResigned

All Alone…

U.S. v. Nixon, 1974

Supreme Court rejected Nixon’s claim of “executive

privilege”

Resignation

Nixon resigns

Ford’s Pardon• Controversial

decision

• Allowed the nation to “move on”

Distrust & Voter Apathy

Gil Scott-Heron

“H2OGate Blues” + lyrics