nixon 1969-1974. 1968 election 1968 democratic convention
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NixonNixon1969-1974
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
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