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Title: Richard Nixon


1
Richard Nixon
  • Vietnam to Resignation

2
Foreign Policy
  • Vietnam
  • Feb 1972 gt Nixon visits China
  • - showed signs of the easing of tensions in the
    Cold War
  • - 1st President to visit a Communist country

3
Foreign Policy
  • Détente gt a relaxation of tension between US and
    USSR
  • Nixon visits the Soviet Union in May 1972
  • SALT Agreements
  • Strategic Arms Limitations Act
  • Restricted the types and numbers of nuclear
    weapons that each country could deploy

4
Domestic policy
  • July 1969 gt Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk
    on the moon
  • Walking on the Moon
  • One small step for man, one giant leap for
    mankind

5
The Warren Court
  • Chief Justice Earl Warren
  • Handed down several rulings protecting the rights
    of the accused
  • Gideon vs. Wainwright (rights to a lawyer)
  • Mapp vs. Ohio (illegal search and seizures)
  • Miranda vs. Arizona (Miranda Rights)
  • Very liberal court
  • Nixon nominated four justices to make the Supreme
    Court more conservative (checks and balances)
  • Upheld previous decisions

6
Domestic Policy
  • Nixon limits governments role in civil
    rights/desegragation
  • Economy
  • Stagflation stagnant economy
  • Inflation leads to less buying and rising
    unemployment
  • Nixon puts a hold on prices and wages (cant
    rise)
  • Gets the FED to lower interest rates to encourage
    spending
  • Increases government spending

7
Election of 1972
  • Nixon vs. George McGovern
  • Nixon won in a landslide
  • Watergate Scandal
  • The republicans were worried about the election
  • Planted listening devices in the Democratic Party
    National Headquarters located in the Watergate
    Towers Apartment Building

8
Watergate
  • 5 Men get caught and charged with the break-in
  • Nixon didnt know of the break-in
  • After the election when Nixon found out he
    ordered a cover-up

9
Watergate
  • During several meetings with key advisors and
    White House Staff, Nixon had conversations
    recorded
  • Many of the meetings involved the Watergate
    Scandal
  • At first Nixon denied, then refused to hand over
    recordings
  • Nixon vs. US gt Supreme Court ruled recorded
    conversations werent executive priviledge
  • Nixon had to hand over tapes
  • Smoking Gun Tape gt Nixon wanted to go to CIA and
    FBI and ask them to stop the investigation into
    the scandal (COVER-UP)
  • Congress was going to bring up impeachment
    charges but Nixon resigns
  • Nixon claimed that he did nothing wrong
  • Nixon's Resignation Speech
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