Richard Nixon: 1968-1974

1. Richard Nixon: 1968-1974 1968-1974

2. Vietnam • Vietnamization-slowly pull out troops but escalate the attack • Secretary of State-Henry Kissinger (chief negotiator in Vietnam) • President when war ended

3. Domestic plan • New Federalism • Revenue Sharing-state and local governments may spend their federal money any way they saw fit. (As opposed to government telling them how to spend it)

4. Family Assistance Plan • Unemployment compensation • Job training • Accept jobs if they are offered

5. Government programs • Increased Social Security • Medicare • Medicaid • Subsidized housing for low income families (Section 8)

6. Watergate • Scandal centered on the Nixon administration’s attempt to cover up a burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex in Washington D.C. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aZ8vNagvks

7. Impeach or Resign (In Congress or a state legislature) the presentation of formal charges against a public official by the lower house, trial to be before the upper house.

8. Gerald Ford signs in • Grants Nixon a full pardon in an attempt to move past Watergate • Troubled economy High oil prices, inflation and unemployment • Loses election in 1976 to Jimmy Carter

9. Jimmy Carter • Democratic peanut farmer from Ga. • Energy crisis, gas prices soared commotion everywhere • Foreign Policy- promotes human rights so that everyone can have freedom and liberty around the world

10. Camp David Accords • Carter helped forged peace between long time enemies, Anwar el Sadat, and Israeli prime minister, Menachem Begin. • Five year transition period during which Israel and Jordan would work out the issue of self rule for the Palestinians, Arabs living on the Gaza Strip, areas captured by Israel in earlier wars.

11. Iran Hostage Crisis • U.S. had provided military and political assistance to Shah of Iran • Ayatollah Khomeini and rebels overthrow the Shah’s government which is severely corrupt. Carter allows the Shah to come to U.S. for cancer treatment • This infuriates revolutionaries in Iran

13. Iran Hostage Crisis • On November 4, 1979, armed students seize the U.S. embassy in Iran’s capital Tehran taking 52 American hostages in exchange for the Shah • Year long standoff • All trade banned, diplomatic relations severed • Hostages are not released until Jan. 20, 1981

14. Ronald Reagan and the New Right • Very conservative • Oppose legal abortions • ERA • Busing • Gun control • Reverse discrimination

15. Slashes government programs • Food stamps • Welfare • Job training • Medicaid • School lunches • Student loans

16. Middle Class • Does not cut Social Security • Medicare • Veteran’s pension

17. Reaganomics • Supply side economics • Trickle down theory • Increased money for business investments will create more jobs, money, entrepreneurs, and the development of new products and services

18. SDI • Strategic Defense Initiative or Star Wars • A defense system that would keep the U.S. safe from enemy missile attack • Estimated cost one trillion dollars

19. Reagan plan: • A balanced federal budget • Voluntary prayer in public schools • Presidential line item veto on budget

20. The George H.W. Bush Administration

21. George H.W. Bush - Navy Pilot (1942 – 1945) George H.W. Bush rescued from the Pacific after being shot down by the Japanese during World War II

22. George H.W. Bush - Yale University (1945 – 1948) George H.W. Bush (left of clock) with the Skull and Bones group at Yale George H. W. Bush in his baseball uniform

23. George H.W. Bush - Oilman (1948 - 1966) Congressman Bush (1966 – 1970)w/his family (children left to right: Jeb, Marvin, Doro, Neil, George W.)

24. George H.W. Bush - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1971-1973) George H.W. Bush - Director of the CIA (1975 - 1977)

25. George H.W. Bush - Vice President (1981 - 1989)

26. 1988 Presidential Election 1988 Bush Ad #1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmwhdDv8VrM1988 Bush Ad #2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LToAmI4r6ms&feature=related

27. 1988 Election Results

36. “I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.” - George H. W. Bush (March 22, 1990) Barbara Bush with broccoli growers from California

37. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoBFL6iwid4 (1992-2000)

38. Bill Clinton meets President John F. Kennedy as a 16 year-old delegate of Boy’s Nation on June 6, 1963

39. Education – Georgetown University, Oxford University, Yale Law School Bill Clinton runs for Student Council President at Georgetown University Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham at Yale Law School, January 1972

40. Bill Clinton taking the Oath of Office as the Governor of Arkansas on January 9, 1979

41. 1992 Presidential Election

42. 1992 Election Results

45. Major Events and Policies as President • Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993 • Signed the Brady Bill in 1993 (waiting period & background check for handguns) • Won reelection against Bob Dole in 1996

46. Impeached in 1998 • Perjury and obstruction of justice

47. Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993 • Signed the Brady Bill in 1993 (waiting period & background check for handguns) • Wins re-election • President under one of our best economies ever. Low unemployment and inflation rates

48. Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993 • Signed the Brady Bill in 1993 (waiting period & background check for handguns) • Wins re-election • President under one of our best economies ever. Low unemployment and inflation rates • Balanced the budget, we actually had a surplus in 1999 and 2000

49. Essential Question • What were the major events of the George W. Bush presidency?

50. George W. Bush