Richard M Nixon New Deal Coalition IN OUT

Richard M. Nixon

New Deal Coalition IN OUT African-Americans Union members Urban North Immigrant/newer ethnic groups • Farmers • Democratic South • •

The South Defects • Civil Rights Achievements and failures • Expansion of Federal Power • Viet Nam • Southern Voting Patterns

1968 Democratic Race Gene Mc. Carthy

RFK

Hubert Humphrey

1968 Democratic Convention

George Wallace

RN’s Administrative Presidency White House Appointee Career

John Ehrlichman: Domestic Council

Henry Kissinger: NSC Staff

H. R. Haldeman: Chief of Staff

Problem with Nixon’s Style • Cabinet Government? • Isolation • Feeding Nixon’s Flaws

Cabinet Government? William Rogers George Romney

Isolation • Line vs. Staff • Nixon’s Enemies List Chuck Colson: “This memorandum addresses the matter of how we can maximize the fact of our incumbency in dealing with persons known to be active in their opposition to our Administration; stated a bit more bluntly— how we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies. ” • Master List of Nixon’s Political Opponents

Feeding Nixon’s Flaws • “Checker’s” Speech

Democrats 1972 Ed Muskie George Mc. Govern

Watergate Scandal • Comparison to other scandals • Lessons 1. Since Ike, no president has finished a second term without one 2. Staff loyalty is double-edged sword

US Bombing of Cambodia 1969

Plumbers CREEP

Watergate Hotel

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

Investigations Legislative Branch: Senate Committee Sen. Howard Baker, Sen. Sam Ervin Judicial Branch: Grand Jury Judge John Sirica

Executive Branch: Special Prosecutor • Archibald Cox Leon Jaworski

Saturday Night Massacre October 23, 1973 Elliott Richardson Atty. General William Ruckelshaus Dep. AG Robert Bork Solicitor Gen

The Fate of the Tapes • • Watergate Tapes (NARA) From Washington Post The “Smoking Gun” Tape US Supreme Court Ruling – US v. Nixon

Impeachment • Articles of Impeachment • House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings • Gerald Ford Library Watergate Info

Vice President Spiro Agnew

The Fate of Nixon Video of Resignation

President Gerald Ford