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Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford. Nixon ’ s domestic record. Increased spending on social security Increased spending on Medicare and Medicaid Signed Clean Air Act in 1970 Created Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 1971 Created Environmental Protection Agency in 1972

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Gerald Ford

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  1. Gerald Ford

  2. Nixon’s domestic record • Increased spending on social security • Increased spending on Medicare and Medicaid • Signed Clean Air Act in 1970 • Created Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 1971 • Created Environmental Protection Agency in 1972 • Supported Affirmative Action Nixon as cool guy

  3. Presidential election of 1976: Jimmy Carter: 50.8% Gerald Ford: 48.2%

  4. Jimmy Carter

  5. Carter contributions • Department of Education in 1979 • Introduced merit pay into Civil Service and made it easier to fire incompetents • Environmental superfund • Set aside 100 million acres of land in Alaska • Appointed women and minorities to office in record numbers . . . • . . . Including one of Martin Luther King’s lieutenants, Andrew Young, as UN ambassador

  6. “Human rights” • 1948: United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights • Freedom of speech, religion, access to food, housing, and health care

  7. Carter’s “human rights” policies • Refused to save the government of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza • Suspended aid to Argentina’s and El Salvador’s murderous governments • Tried to resolve Israel/Palestine conflict via Camp David agreement Jimmy Carter, Egypt’s Anwar Sadat, and Israel’s Menachem Begin sign the Camp David Accords, 1978

  8. Carter’s energy policies • Tax gas consumption • Reward conservation and alternative energy with tax breaks • Program lacked Congressional and public support, as oil producing nations stepped up production

  9. Three mile island, March 1979

  10. “We’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning . . . Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.” Jimmy Carter, 1979

  11. A Buick and a Honda Civic, circa 1980

  12. above: Howard Jarvis, co-author of the 1978 California initiative “Proposition 13.” The bill reduced real estate taxes, but also required a two-thirds majority for increases in any state taxes.

  13. Backlash against Roe v. Wade

  14. Above: a 1970s anti-abortion rally; right: Phyllis Schlafly leading the troops following a speech by talk radio host Rush Limbaugh

  15. By the late 1970s, “busing” and affirmative action had become a politically explosive public issues; above: a race riot in Boston over school integration; left: magazine coverage of the Bakke decision of 1979.

  16. The ”Southern Strategy” • Republicans target white Democratic voters in the Southeast and suburban Southwest who are angry about civil rights laws

  17. Clockwise: Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam; Menachem Schneerson of the Lubovitchers; Pat Robertson; Jim and Tammy Baker; Jimm Swaggart

  18. Revolutions in Iran and Afghanistan, 1979 1979 - above: Soviet Union invades Afghanistan and meets stiff resistance; right: the Shah of Iran and his successor Ayatollah Khomeini

  19. Ronald Reagan won 50.1% of the vote in 1980 to Jimmy Carter’s 41.01%; Reagan captured 489 electoral votes to Carter’s 49.

  20. Above: Marilyn Mosby, Pennsylvania State Attorney

  21. “The government is us. We are the government. You and I.” Theodore Roosevelt

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