NIXON AND THE WATERGATE SCANDAL

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NIXON AND THE WATERGATE SCANDAL

• What events led to Richard Nixons resignation as
  President in 1974?

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NIXONS POLICIES TARGET MIDDLE AMERICA

• Political ups downs
• 1946 - House of Representatives
• 1950 - Senate
• 1952 - Vice President
• 1960 and 62 Lost presidential and
  gubernatorial
• President in 1968

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Nixon calls for a New Federalism

• Silent majority
• reverse the flow of power and resources from the
  States and communities to Washington and start
  power and resources flowing back from Washington
  to the States and communities
• Revenue sharing with states

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Nixon Expands the Governments Role

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  (OSHA)
• Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Clean Air Act
• for social welfare programs

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The Economy Struggles

• Recession and inflation STAGFLATION
• War
• Foreign competition
• Price of oil
• OPEC embargo
• Nixon freezes wages and prices for 90 days

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Nixon Follows a Southern Strategy

• Expand base
• Southern whites
• Blue collar workers
• Normally democrats
• Change to republicans

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Controversy Rages Over Busing

• Conservative judges
• Moratorium on court ordered busing

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Nixon Proposes New Civil Rights Initiatives

• Philadelphia Plan a type of affirmative action
• segregation didnt occur naturally it was
  imposedvisible, measurable goals to correct
  these imbalances are essential.

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Nixons Strategy Succeeds

• 1972 High approval ratings
• Trips to China and Soviet Union
• Moderate with VP Spiro Agnew
• 61 of popular vote and almost all electoral
  votes

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THE WATERGATE SCANDAL BRINGS NIXON DOWN

• Botched burglary of Dem Party HQ June 72
• Connected to White House
• Burglars tried in 73
• Connection revealed btwn burglars and top Nixon
  Administration
• Nixon tries to deny it

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Watergate Goes Pubic

• Deep Throat
• Connection to C.R.E.E.P.
• I am not a crook

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video

1. Who were Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein?
2. What was significant about the address book?
3. How did Deep Throat help solve the mystery?

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Revealing the White House Tapes

• Spiro Agnew resigns in unrelated scandal
• Ford is new VP
• Summer 73 discovers taping of Oval Office
  conversations includes break in cover-up
• Executive Privilege

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U.S. vs. NIXON

• The expectation of a President to the
  confidentiality of his conversations of
  correspondencehas all the values to which we
  accord deference for the privacy of
  citizensButThe very integrity of the judicial
  system depend on full disclosure of all the
  facts, within the framework of the rules of
  evidence

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• About what did the nation learn in the Summer of
  1973?
• What was missing from the secret tapes?
• What was it called? Why?
• What was the ruling in US vs. Nixon?
• What happened on August 9, 1974?
• Why did Nixon order the taping of himself?

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Nixon Resigns

• Charged with obstructing justice, misuse of power
  and refusal to comply with White House subpoenas
• Resigns before he could be impeached
• process of healing which is so desperately
  needed in America

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For what was Nixon guilty?

• Cover-up of break in
• dirty tricks for re-election
• enemies list
• Wiretapping of govt employees and reporters

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Watergate Has a Lasting Impact

• FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN ACT AMENDMENTS (1974)
• FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT AMENDMENTS (1974)
• GOVERNMENT IN THE SUNSHINE ACT (1976)
• ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT ACT (1978)

• The lies, the lies, the liesWhat a pity, what a
  pity! Here was a president who got us out of
  Vietnam, ended the draftand by his bold
  overtures to Red China opened new avenues toward
  world peace. Now the good vanishes in the
  wreckage of the bad. The swearing in of Gerald
  Ford cant come one hour too soon.
• August 30, 1974

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Looking at the Bright Side

• Strength of checks and balances
• extraordinary triumph in the American system
• -Time magazine
• Our great republic is a government of laws and
  not of men
• -Gerald Ford

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• What seemed to be Nixons attitude with the
  outcome of the Watergate Scandal?
• With what was Nixon obsessed?
• How did historians view Watergate?
• What prevailed in America?
• What was said to be Watergates most enduring
  legacy?