Nixon, Ford, and Carter

Chapter 24

Nixon’s Domestic Policy

What is his goal as president?New Federalism

More power to the state and cityRevenue Sharing

Family Assistance PlanIt has to wear two “Hats”Fighting with everyone

FBI and CIA

Domestic Policy

Southern StrategyNew South

IntegrationBusingThe Supreme CourtStagflation OPEC

Foreign Policy

Henry KissingerRealpolitikDétente

Nixon Visits ChinaChina and SU

Nixon visits SUSALT I Treaty

Why did he do this?

Watergate

Nixon’s belief about being president June 17, 1972

Committee to Re-elect the President

The cover-upWoodward and Bernstein Nixon’s White House

Senate gets involved

Watergate

The White House continues to deny everything

“The Tapes”Nixon’s responseNixon resignsWatergate’s effects

Nixon’s legacy

“I am a Ford, not a Lincoln”

New President Nixon

“WIN” inflationWhat is it?

Helsinki AccordsThere is still a place

called SE Asia

The Peanut Farmer

Election of 1976What is his first

problem?Why is he appealing?The EnergyNational Energy Act

What happpens

The Economy

Carter’s Foreign Policy

Civil Right Human RightsThe Panama Canal

12-31-1999

SALT IICamp David Accords Iran Hostage Crisis

A tough end to a term

The Environment

“The Silent Spring” (1962) R. CarsonEnvironmentalism

Earth Day (1970)Environmental Protection Agency

Environmentalist

AlaskaNuclear Energy

Three Mile Island