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Nixon

Brezhnev

• Brezhnev and Nixon talk while standing on the White House balcony during Brezhnev's 1973 visit to Washington-- a high-water mark in détente between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Kissinger

Detente

SALT I

Cambodia

Kent State• "Tin soldiers and Nixon's

coming,•    we're finally on our own• This summer I hear the

drumming,•    four dead in Ohio• Gotta get down to it,• soldiers are gunning us down• Should've been done long ago• What if you knew her and found• her dead on the ground,• how can you run when you

know?"•  

Silent Majority

George McGovern

Watergate

CREEP

Woodward & Bernstein

Ehrlichman

Haldeman

John Mitchell

Archibald Cox

Resignation

Ford Pardons Nixon

Gerald Ford

Oil Embargo

Jobs

Oil Prices

1975

• In April, 1975, helicopters evacuate the nearby US Embassy in the capital city of Saigon;  the city America defended for nearly two decades falls

Jimmy Carter

Three Mile Island

Iranian Revolution

Shah of Iran

Ayatollah Khomeini

Hostages

Failed Rescue

SALT II

Afghanistan

Camp David