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6/5 Take out your Nixon Homework. Opportunity for greater learning: Start the Review Packet - Major Documents, Amendments. Learning Target: I can explain the domestic programs and foreign policy acts of President Nixon.

Richard M. Nixon 1969 -1974 • Party: Republican • Vice President: Spiro Agnew was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $29, 500 of income received in 1967, with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President. • Gerald Ford • Nixon

Foreign Policy • Détente- Cold War policy on easing of the tensions between USA and USSR. • S. A. L. T. -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. USA and USSR agreed to limit ICBM’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles- reduced nuclear weapons.

Foreign Policy • Ping Pong Diplomacy- Opening China. Nixon sent U. S. Ping Pong Team to China to open relations. First Cold War President to visit China. Nixon met Mao Zedong. • Vietnamization- Withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam- Vietnamese will now carry on fight against the North.

Foreign Policy • OPEC and Gasoline Shortage- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries w/hold oil in the mid 70’s due to U. S. support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War. • Led to an Oil Crisis with long lines at every gas station.

Domestic Policy- New Federalism • Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)1970 Coordinating Federal Programs to combat pollution & protect the environment. • Stagflation-Economic Hardship: Inflation UP & Unemployment UP. • Revenue Sharing- Fed. And State Gov’t share tax $, state have more freedom as to how to spend it. Ex. Block Grants

Foreign Policy • Watergate- Watergate Hotel & site of Democratic Nat’l HQ was broken into and bugged by Nixon’s aids. • Resignation- Nixon taped every conversation so they revealed he was involved and forced to resign- Only President ever! (All the Presidents Men).

Watergate – What Happened? ¡ What- June 17 th 1972, burglars break into Dem. headquarters in Watergate Hotel, they bug room, get caught, bailed out by CREEP (Committee to RE-Elect the President) attorneys.

Nixon’s Involvement Nixon’s involvement- requested information on what Democrats knew about him! ¡ He denied White House involvement ¡ He attacked Judicial Branch so tapes of Oval Office conversations don’t come out. ¡ Bernstein & Woodward- Washington Post ¡

Impeachment? ¡ Nixon not impeached, resigned before Senate can vote, tapes become public and made Nixon look bad.

Obstruct Justice ¡ Obstruct Justice- interfere with legal process, Nixon obstructs justice by trying to keep tapes secret.

ACTION & RESULT • American People lose trust in the US Government.