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Patrick Vaughan and Laura Hess

1969-1974. Richard Nixon. By. Patrick Vaughan and Laura Hess. Domestic Issues. revenue sharing end of the draft new anticrime laws broad environmental program. appointed conservative Justices to the Supreme Court American astronauts made the first moon landing

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Patrick Vaughan and Laura Hess

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  1. 1969-1974 Richard Nixon By Patrick Vaughan and Laura Hess

  2. Domestic Issues • revenue sharing • end of the draft • new anticrime laws • broad environmental program. • appointed conservative Justices to the Supreme Court • American astronauts made the first moon landing • Watergate scandal

  3. Their Implications • Revenue sharing = gave money to the states to utilize and help strengthen the economy • Less of a push towards militarism • To reduce trafficking and to create a noble means of income • Going Green; focus on maintaining the beauty of the country, and to reduce pollution and therefore global warming • Conservative Justices would help to eliminate new radical changes in the law • Signified the American push in technology (America was now capable of anything) • Signified corruption within the government, tarnished the reputation of the presidency, and forced Nixon to step down from office

  4. Foreign policy China • China – deterioration of relations between china and the USSR • Nixon saw this opportunity to attempt diplomatic relations • He recognized China as the Peoples Republic of China as opposed to a communist nation • Spring 1971, Mao invited American Table Tennis team to China • Nixon sent Kissinger to China (assistant for National Security affairs) to conduct negotiations to the effect of repairing former relations

  5. Foreign policy China • Nixon made an unprecedented visit to China Feb, 1972 (widely televised) called the Beijing Summit • Nixon received a personal invitation t o meet Brezhnev in Russia (also desired improved US relations due to new US-Chinese relations) USSR feared of US involvement in terms of its allies

  6. Foreign policy Vietnam • Vietnam – Nixon could only negotiate a flawed agreement that merely interrupted, rather than ended the war • Domestic opinion divided; a majority felt the war was a mistake, people saw little progress and believed the fighting would continue for 2 more years. Racial divisions also divided the country and the Democratic loyalists were set against Nixon • Nixon tried to settle war on favorable terms – sent Kissinger to North Vietnam, he threatened to “take measures of greatest consequences” = mining of Haiphong harbor, and bombing of North Vietnam

  7. Foreign policy Vietnam • Nixon ordered bombing of supply lines on Ho Chi Minh trail + launched worldwide nuclear alert = didn’t work to make NV yield • Publically trained an army of South Vietnamese so that Americans could withdraw • Nixon planning to withdraw troops within 18 months but Kissinger talked him out of it • 1969 Nixon mined Haiphong harbor + used B-52 to bomb North, = response to North Vietnamese army in the South • South Vietnamese withdrew from this land, North Vietnamese gained

  8. Foreign Policy Cuba • Blockade on Cuba continued • Increase in hostility, terrorist raids, and plots to assassinate Castro

  9. Watergate Scandal • Break in at office of the Democratic National Committee during 1972 campaign • Traced to officials of the committee to reelect the President (5 people) • Many administrative officials resigned • Nixon denied personal involvement, but he had to send forward tape recordings that proved he had tried to divert the investigation • Nixon announced on August 8, 1974 that he would resign the next day to begin “the process of healing that was so desperately needed in America” • He was the 1st president to resign from office • Summation of Watergate scandal video Nixon’s resignation speech • http://watergate.info/http://millercenter.org/president/nixon

  10. Implications for Ford • Watergate scandal led to his inauguration as President from Vice President and he had to deal with the scandal • Ford pardoned Nixon and the public disagreed with this action • Revive the economy from depression, he needed to master inflation, self-chronic energy shortage, and he attempted to ensure world peace • Wanted to curb the trend towards gov’t intervention and spending as a means of solving problems in American society

  11. Bibliography http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/geraldford http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/richardnixon http://millercenter.org/president/nixon/essays/biography/5 http://watergate.info/http://millercenter.org/president/nixon

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