1. The seventies

2. Richard Nixon and George Wallace

3. Election of 1968

5. After winning the election by a very narrow margin, Nixon quickly moved toward the political center

6. New Federal agencies

7. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)

8. OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)

9. NTSB (National Transportation and Safety Board

10. Family assistance plan

11. Most startling part of his domestic agenda

12. Would have placed a guaranteed annual income for families, but didn’t make it past Congress

13. Nixon and Civil Rights

14. Wanted to consolidate support in the South

15. Nominated conservative southern jurists for the Supreme Court, “a Solid South”

16. Wanted to find people to help support segregation

17. Affirmative action

18. Actively pursued this to upgrade minority employment

21. Lessening of tensions with communist countries such as the Soviet Union and China

22. Conservatives saw this as dangerously soft to communism

23. Nixon visits China in 1972

24. Goes to Moscow to sign the SALT treaty

25. Strategic Arms Limitations Talks

26. The end of Vietnam

27. Nixon ratchets up the war before ending it

28. War Powers Act of 1973

29. President can send in troops for up to 60 days to protect the United States before a declaration of war is needed

30. President must notify Congress within 48 hours of deployment and must retract troops within 60 days (30 day extension) if war is not declared

31. Paris Peace Agreement made it possible the final withdrawal of troops in 1973

34. Nixon was obsessed with secrecy and was paranoid to the core

35. Could not accept an honest difference of opinion

36. Nixon sends in men to the Watergate Complex to break into the Democratic National Committee offices

37. Investigation

38. Nixon’s staff conspires to cover up the break-ins

39. Former staff members testify against them in a Senate investigation

40. Revealed that Nixon had numerous tape recordings in his office (infrastructure left by LBJ)

41. One between him and an associate that calls the case a “cancer on the Presidency”

42. Impeachment

43. The Watergate trial placed Nixon in a very bad spot

44. The House of Representatives begins articles of impeachment

45. The Senate would have convicted if he did not resign

46. Resignation

47. 8 August 1874

50. Within a month in office, Ford announces a full and absolute pardon for Richard Nixon

51. Ford’s approval ratings drop from 71 to 40 percent

52. Domestic Policy

53. Lacked direction and any significant accomplishment

54. WIN – “Whip Inflation Now”

55. Political campaign to make people to respond to inflation

56. Seemed more like a political gimmick than a serious measure

57. Foreign Policy

58. Helinski Accords of 1975

59. SALT treaty of Nixon’s administration still in place

60. Signs the Helinski Accords with the Soviet Union to ensure compliance of SALT

61. Assassination Attempts

62. 5 September 1975 – follower of Charles Mason pointed a Colt .45 at Ford

65. Ford’s presidency took a significant hit when North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam, captured the capital city, and unified the country under a communist government in March 1975

66. Jimmy Carter was viewed as a candidate with populist leanings and was perceived as an “outsider” to Washington politics

67. Seen as an individual who would restore morality and decency to the president’s role in government

69. Rising unemployment

71. Camp David Accords

72. Attempting to reconcile and organize peace between Egypt and Israel

73. Iran Hostage Crisis

74. Iran’s recently deposed Shah was allowed to come to the U.S. for medical treatment

75. Angered militants in Iran, they take numerous Americans hostage

76. Very publicized rescue attempted failed

77. Several Americans died

78. Really put an end to Carter’s reelection ambitions

79. After Vietnam, most Americans preferred an isolationist foreign policy, but Carter kept getting pulled into intervention abroad

80. Most idealistic aspect of Carter’s foreign policy was his emphasis on human rights

81. Stated it would be supported absolutely throughout the world

82. The Soviets used it as a bargaining chip to express the hypocrisy of the U.S.

83. As a result, the Soviets refuse to deal with Carter on disarmament