The Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon

1. The Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon

2. The Nixon White House

3. Nixon: The Last Liberal • EPA, 1970 • Clean Air Act • Clean Water Act Vetoed Cuyahoga River Pollution

4. Consumer Protection Agency Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed

5. Occupational Safety and Health Administration

6. Proposed Family Assistance Plan • Negative Income Tax • Replace AFDC with federal guarantee of minimum income • 1970 poverty threshold for family of 4 = $4000 • Program guarantees $1600 • Liberals reject it as insufficient

7. Proposed Comprehensive Health Insurance Act • Open enrollment Medicare • Mandatory Employer Paid Insurance • Killed by unions who thought they’d get a better deal from the next (Democratic) President

8. Nixon: The Polarizer

9. 1968: The End of Consensus

10. Vietnam

11. Flag Burners

12. or Hardhats

13. Black v. White

14. Race Riots

15. FBI Uniform Crime Report or Law & Order

17. Culture Wars

18. Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll

19. or Righteousness

20. The Regional Divide

21. City

22. or Suburb

23. Rust Belt

25. or Sun Belt

27. Conservative Ascendency through Polarization: Nixon’s Southern Strategy Kevin Phillips, The Emergence of a New Republican Majority

28. No. 1: Slow down school desegregation. “Two extreme groups…. We need a middle ground.” -- Nixon

29. No. 2: Move the Supreme Court to the Right Judge Clement Haynsworth "Even if he is mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance?” -- Senator Hruska, R-NE Judge HarroldCarswell “Rejected because they are Southerners…” -- Nixon

30. No. 3: Attack the Northeastern Liberal Elite

31. “A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.”

32. “The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.”

33. “Ultra-liberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.”

34. “A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

35. “Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.”

36. Nixon: The Realpolitiker The Diplomacy of Nixon & Kissinger

37. Issue No. 1: Vietnam, The Unmitigated Disaster

38. The Secret Plan Proves impractical….

39. Demonstrations

40. My Lai Massacre

41. Cambodian Incursion

42. Kent State

43. Army Revolt POW’s • Nixon the Fascist

44. POWs

45. Charges of Fascism

46. Solution: The Nixon Doctrine • We shall provide a shield if a nuclear power threatens the freedom of a nation allied with us or of a nation whose survival we consider vital to our security • We shall furnish military and economic assistance when requested in accordance with our treaty commitments. But we shall look to the nation directly threatened to assume the primary responsibility of providing the manpower for its defense.

47. Issue No. 2: USSR Deterrence to Detente

48. U.S. Issues: • Cuban Missile Crisis brings us to the brink of destruction • Vietnam draining our political, economic, and military capacity • Cost of Arms Race • MAD has achieved rough parity; good time to pause…. • Goal: Arms Control Deal

49. Soviet Issues….

50. Internal Dissent