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Chapter 24: The Age of Limits. Section 1: The Nixon Administration. Pages: 794 - 801. PAGES 794-796 COVERED IN YOUR BELL RINGER FROM 1-10-2008. NEW FEDERALISM. Richard Nixon … Against LBJ’s Great Society Programs
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Chapter 24: The Age of Limits Section 1: The Nixon Administration Pages: 794 - 801
NEW FEDERALISM • Richard Nixon… • Against LBJ’s Great Society Programs • Instead, decrease size and influence of Federal government and give more powers to state and local governments • Revenue Sharing – state and local government spend federal dollars as they saw fit
1972 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NIXON'S SOUTHERN STRATEGY
SOUTHERN STRATEGY • Nixon tried to attract Southern conservative Democrats by appealing to their unhappiness with federal desegregation policies and a liberal Supreme Court
A NEW SOUTH • BY 1968 many white southern Democrats become Republican • Didn’t like Great Society and Civil Rights (liberals)
NIXON SLOWS INTERGRATION • Nixon reverses several civil rights policies • Department of (HEW) to delay desegregation • Opposed extension of Voting Rights Act of 1965 (page 104)
STAGFLATION • 1967-1973 had high inflation and high unemployment
OPEC • Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries • Oil producing countries of the Middle East • Jack-Up Oil Prices
NIXON VISITS CHINA • 1972 • THIS WAS A REVERSAL OF HOW WE FELT IN 1949 WHEN WE DID NOT RECOGNIZE THE CHINESE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT
NIXON TRAVELS TO MOSCOW • SOVIET UNION • SALT I TREATY -