Nixon

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Nixon

• An Overview

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Presidential Domestic Policies

• New Policies Included
• Revenue Sharing
• Plan to share a portion of the federal tax
  revenues with states to spend as they saw fit
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration
• Created to protect workers rights, including
  safety standards

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Presidential Domestic Policies

• New Policies Included
• Environmental Protection Agency
• To protect human health and to safeguard the
  natural environment
• The Philadelphia Plan
• Required construction companies working on
  federally funded projects to hire specific
  numbers of minority workers (Affirmative Action)

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Presidential Foreign Policies

• Realpolitik the politics of reality
• In dealing with Communism after the Vietnam War,
  the US would continue to protect itself and its
  allies against Soviet or Chinese attacks, but the
  rest of the world would be expected to do more to
  protect themselves

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Presidential Foreign Policies

• Détente Relaxation of tension or hostility
• To open new economic and political opportunities
  with China, Nixon made an official visit in 1971.
  China took a seat in the United Nations, and
  each country opened information offices in each
  others capitals

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Presidential Foreign Policies

• Détente with Russia included the first
  presidential visit to Russia in 1972, the sale of
  750 million dollars of grains to Russia, and
  SALT I, a nuclear arms agreement that limited the
  building of missiles for the next five years

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Presidential Scandal

• On June 17, 1972, five men with ties to the Nixon
  administration broke into the offices of the
  Democratic National Committee at the Watergate
  Hotel in Washington DC with bugging/wiretapping
  equipment. Though Nixon won the election, the
  scandal would soon break and end his presidency.

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Presidential Scandal

• Nixon had a long history of having an enemies
  list and of using illegal and threatening
  methods to plug leaks, provide payoffs, tap
  phones, steal information, etc.
• In the 1973 trial of the Plumbers, they implied
  that Nixon had knowledge of the break-in and had
  attempted to cover-up his involvement.

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Presidential Scandal

• Facing impeachment, Nixon resigned his presidency
  on August 8, 1974.

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