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Richard M. Nixon

Richard M. Nixon. New Deal Coalition. IN African-Americans Union members Urban North Immigrant/newer ethnic groups Farmers. OUT Democratic South. The South Defects. Civil Rights Achievements and failures Expansion of Federal Power Viet Nam Southern Voting Patterns.

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Richard M. Nixon

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  1. Richard M. Nixon

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

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

  4. 1968 Democratic Race Gene McCarthy

  5. RFK

  6. HubertHumphrey

  7. 1968 Democratic Convention

  8. George Wallace

  9. RN’s Administrative Presidency White House Appointee Career

  10. John Ehrlichman: Domestic Council

  11. Henry Kissinger: NSC Staff

  12. H. R. Haldeman: Chief of Staff

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

  14. Cabinet Government? William Rogers George Romney

  15. 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

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

  17. Democrats 1972 Ed Muskie George McGovern

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

  19. US Bombing of Cambodia 1969

  20. Plumbers CREEP

  21. Watergate Hotel

  22. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

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

  24. Executive Branch: Special Prosecutor • Archibald Cox Leon Jaworski

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

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

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

  28. Vice President Spiro Agnew

  29. The Fate of Nixon Video of Resignation

  30. President Gerald Ford

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