The Presidents

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The Presidents

• Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and
  Bush

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Richard Nixon 1969-1974

• Elected on promise of Vietnamization and by
  courting the Silent Majority
• Republican who downplayed his involvement in
  House UnAmerican Committees hearings

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More Nixon

• Relations improved with China
• Troops deescalated and removed from Vietnam
• Runs for re-election
• Energy Crisis

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More Nixon

• Watergate CREEP broke into the Democratic Party
  Headquarters
• Nixon orders a cover up
• Everything is caught on tapes
• US v Nixon SC says that he cannot claim
  executive privilege

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The end of the Nixon Years

• Tapes are turned over to the Subcommittee
• Nixon resigns and Ford takes over
• Pardoned
• Left a bad taste in the political mouth

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Gerald Ford 1973-1977

• Became Nixons VP when Agnew resigned
• Pardoned Nixon (full)
• Conditional Pardon for draft dodgers
• 25th amendment

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James Carter 1977-1981

• Elected as an outsider to the corrupt
  Washington politics
• Democratic peanut farmer with strong family ties

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More Carter

• Camp David Accords forged peace between Sadat
  (Egypt) and Begin (Israel) in 1978

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Even More Carter

• USSR invaded Afghanistan we boycott Moscow
  Summer Olympics
• Iranian hostage crisis
• Seen as a weak leader

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Ronald Reagan 1981-1989

• Republican former movie star
• Conservative Nationalist
• Iranian Hostages returned

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Reagan

• Reaganomics New Federalism many federal
  programs cut/taxes to wealthy cut as well
• Implications more homeless/less programs for
  the unfortunate

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Reagan

• Trillion dollar debts
• Talks with Gorbachev
• Iran Contra Affair Ollie North takes the fall

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The end of the Cold War!
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George Bush 1989-1993

• Republican
• Desert Storm 1991 protect the Kuwaitis from
  Iraq
• Oil Politics
• Savings and Loan Scandal

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More Bush Sr.

• Panama removed Noriega from power and
  imprisoned him in the US

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Made MLK Jr. an official holiday in 1989.
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William J. Clinton (1993-2001)

• Democrat
• Defeated Bush and Perot
• NAFTA
• Impeachment and Acquittal
• Intervention in Kosovo to aid ethnic Albanians

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George W. Bush 2001-2009

• Conservative Republican
• 9/11
• War on Terrorism (Afghanistan and Iraq)
• Patriot Act
• Largest Deficit Ever

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Creation of Homeland Security Department