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New Deal Coalition
IN• African-Americans• Union members• Urban North• Immigrant/newer
ethnic groups• Farmers
OUT• Democratic South
The South Defects• Civil Rights Achievements and
failures• Expansion of Federal Power• Viet Nam
• Southern Voting Patterns
1968 Democratic RaceGene McCarthy
RFK
Hubert Humphrey
1968 Democratic Convention
George Wallace
RN’s Administrative Presidency
White House
Appointee
Career
John Ehrlichman: Domestic Council
Henry Kissinger: NSC Staff
H. R. Haldeman: Chief of Staff
Problem with Nixon’s Style
• Cabinet Government?• Isolation• Feeding Nixon’s Flaws
Cabinet Government?
William Rogers George Romney
Isolation• Line vs. Staff• Nixon’s Enemies ListChuck Colson: “This memorandum addresses the matter of how we
can maximize the fact of our incumbency in dealing with persons known to be active in their opposition to our Administration; stated a bit more bluntly—how we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.”
• Master List of Nixon’s Political Opponents
Democrats 1972
Ed Muskie George McGovern
Watergate Scandal
• Comparison to other scandals
• Lessons1. Since Ike, no president has finished a
second term without one2. Staff loyalty is double-edged sword
US Bombing of Cambodia 1969
Watergate Hotel
Investigations
Legislative Branch: Senate Committee
Sen. Howard Baker, Sen. Sam Ervin
Judicial Branch: Grand Jury
Judge John Sirica
Executive Branch: Special Prosecutor
• Archibald Cox Leon Jaworski
Saturday Night Massacre October 23, 1973
Elliott Richardson William Robert BorkAtty. General Ruckelshaus Solicitor Gen
Dep. AG
The Fate of the Tapes
• Watergate Tapes (NARA) • From Washington Post• The “Smoking Gun” Tape• US Supreme Court Ruling – US v. Nixon
Impeachment
• Articles of Impeachment• House Judiciary Committee Impeachment
Hearings• Gerald Ford Library Watergate Info
Vice President Spiro Agnew
The Fate of Nixon
Video of Resignation
President Gerald Ford