The Ford and Carter Years Gerald Ford Football

The Ford and Carter Years

Gerald Ford ● ● Football player from university of Michigan Fought in WWII with US Navy US Congressman for 25 Years Nixon’s 2 nd Vice President

(R) Ford Becomes president ● ● 38 th President- August of 1974 -1977 September 8, 1974 – Pardoned Nixon Whip Inflation Now (WIN) – personal saving and frugality Continued Nixon’s foreign policy

Ford’s Presidency ● 1974 -Helsinki Accords- in favor of human rights ● talks led to SALT II – w/ USSR – limit nuclear arms production ● South Vietnam fell to North Vietnam ● US stayed out of Communist countries ● One exception – US marines sent to Cambodia to free an American Merchant ship

(D) Jimmy Carter ● Peanut farmer from Georgia ● 1 time Governor of Georgia ● “Washington Outsider”

Carter’s Presidency ● Elected in 1976 ● Pardoned Draft Evaders ● Wanted to end political repression – torture, murder, unfair imprisonment ● signed SALT II – then withdrew ● US boycotts 1980 Olympics

Carter’s Presidency ● Carter focused on Human Rights ● Negotiated treaty to return Panama Canal Zone to Panama by 1999 ● 1977 - Camp David Accords – negotiated peace b/w Israel and Egypt ● 1979 - Iranian Hostage Crisis - radical Iranian students took 66 hostages – kept for 400 days

Changing Values under ford and Carter growth of suburbs continued Influx of Latin American and Asian Immigration Rise of the “me generation” Divorce rate doubled from 1965 -1979 – twice as many children born out of wedlock ● Personal fitness and bodybuilding took off ● Religious revival – televangelists ● ●