Nixon 1st Term 1968-1972
Nixon's 1st Term 1968-1972
Nixon did the most in his first term
The only negative things in hs 1st term are:
- FAP (however he new it would fail, but gave his votes)
- Inherited Deficit from Johnson
- Increase in terrosism of sorts
- Created by: Dracupine
- Created on: 12-05-13 17:13
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- Nixon
- Social
- Huston Plan
- CIA & FBI
- 43 page report on propsed security operations
- Created by Nixon's wife
- No-one could understand it
- 1968 Democratic convention sabotage(strikes)
- New Left
- Feminism
- anti-abortion
- wanted equal rights & valued nuclear family
- Child Development Act 1971
- Crime
- Bombings/ attempts
- 1969- 602
- 1970- 1,57677
- VP. Spiro Agnew hard on crime
- District Columbia Crime Control 1970
- 84% Americans believed students demonstrators were treated too leniently
- Bombings/ attempts
- Anti-war protests
- Ohio National Uni. may 4th. 4 students killed
- Next 4 days, 350 campus strikes 536 colleges shut & 73 reports of violence on campus
- Huston Plan
- Cultural
- Altamont Festival
- 'end of counter culture'
- 4 died from overdoses, fights & injuries
- Like Woodstock... BUT band refused to play due to violence
- Woodstock
- 400,000 people & lasted 3 days
- sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll
- 'liberation & freedom' adult though it 'anarchy'
- Hippies & San-Fransisco
- 'Summer of Love'
- 100,000 young people
- Altamont Festival
- Domestic
- FAP
- Family Amendment Plan
- Posed guarantee anual income for all Ameicans
- Unsuccessful, never passed
- Southenn Strategy
- all racial
- Desegregation
- Busing (racial integration)
- Middle America (White Middle America)
- Supreme Court
- Environment
- 80,000 acres Federal Land= 242 atate parks
- EPA ( Environmental PProtection Agency)
- Water Act 1970
- Ohio River caught fire
- Clean Coast Act 1972
- California oil spill. Animals & tourism harmed
- Clean Air Act 1970
- 1st Earth Day
- Little to do with Environment
- Supreme Court
- Not pass FAP
- Judges such as 'Burger' allowed other .
- Other conservatives followed
- Warren tough on crime
- The Moon
- Distraction from economy
- Increased morale
- FAP
- Foreign
- Vietnam
- Appealed to those against the US at war
- 50,000 troops withdrawn
- Dente
- Increased trade
- Relaxed tensions between rivals
- SALT
- Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
- Arms race continued (the cold war did not stop)
- Nuclear weaponry reduced
- Dente
- Increased trade
- Relaxed tensions between rivals
- China
- Visited
- Closer relationship
- Vietnam
- Economic
- Inherited Deficit
- Family savings & living standards dropped
- Wealthy invested in art not real-estate
- Plant-shut downs (unemployment increases)
- $25 billion deficit
- 5% rise in energy prices
- Temporary 10% tariff, spending cuts & stimulated tax cuts
- NEP
- 75% approval
- Revenue sharing with states
- Decreased red tape
- 75% approval
- Stagflation
- high unemployment & inflation
- Inherited Deficit
- Social
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