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From “Age of Limits” to Age of Reagan

From “Age of Limits” to Age of Reagan. Mr. Ermer U.S. History Honors Miami Beach Senior High. The Ford Custodianship. Gerald Ford inherits troubled presidency Two domestic objectives: Restore confidence in government Fix economic problems

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From “Age of Limits” to Age of Reagan

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  1. From “Age of Limits” to Age of Reagan Mr. Ermer U.S. History Honors Miami Beach Senior High

  2. The Ford Custodianship • Gerald Ford inherits troubled presidency • Two domestic objectives: • Restore confidence in government • Fix economic problems • Pardoning of Nixon hurts Ford’s popularity, but still trusted • Economy continues to slide, oil crisis worsens • Retains Kissinger as Secretary of State • Negotiates w/ Soviet Premier Brezhnev for SALT II • Negotiates with Israel to return Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, peace treaty • Republicans attack Ford for being “soft” on Communists • Jimmy Carter=Democratic candidate in Election of 1976 • Jimmy Carter wins close race

  3. President Jimmy Carter(1976-1980) • Carter seen as Washington outsider • Carter’s economic policies do not end recession • Declining unemployment, rising inflation • Energy Crisis & Gas Shortage • “Morality In Foreign Policy”—focus on human rights • Panama Canal treaties • Signs SALT II, Opens China to more trade • Soviet Union invades Afghanistan in 1980 • Names Soviet Union a human rights violator • Boycott of 1980 Moscow Olympic Games • Camp David Accords • Iran Crisis • Ayatollah Khomeini overthrows the Shah in Islamic Revolution • November 1979: Iranian students storm U.S. embassy • Hostages released the day Carter left office

  4. The “New Right” • 1970s: Population shift to suburbs of Sunbelt • Sunbelt resents regulations and restrictions of liberal state • Religious revival of Evangelical “Born-Again” Christianity • Baptist Billy Graham and Pentecostal Oral Roberts • Evangelicals politicized, fight against many issues (feminism, Supreme Court decisions, general “immorality” in American society) • Jerry Falwell and the “Moral Majority”—rise of the “Christian Right” • The Christian Coalition • Catholics, Evangelicals, and Mormons join to fight certain issues (i.e. abortion) • Mid-1960s: Conservatives build new communication, fund raising network (think tanks, consulting firms, lobbyists, schools) • Opposition to taxes • Ronald Reagan rises as leader of New Right • Reagan easily defeats Carter in election of 1980

  5. The “Reagan Revolution” • The Reagan Coalition • Corporate Elites, Neo-Cons, Populist Conservatives • The Reagan White House • Not “hands on” with day to day governance, used trusted advisors • Carefully cultivated public image of fearless, telegenic, effective speaker • “Reaganomics” • Supply-side economic theory, “trickle down” economics • Lower taxes, cut domestic spending • Deregulation • Recession of 1982 • The Fiscal Crisis • Soaring National Debt • Welfare Benefits Cut

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