尼克松与水门事件【英文】

Nixon calls for a “New Federalism”
• Silent majority • “reverse the flow of power and resources from the States and communities to Washington and start power and resources flowing back from Washington to the States and communities” • Revenue sharing with states
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The Economy Struggles
• Recession and inflation = STAGFLATION: • War • Foreign competition • Price of oil • OPEC embargo • Nixon freezes wages and prices for 90 days
Watergate Goes Pubic • “Deep Throat” • Connection to C.R.E.E.P. • “I am not a crook”
Copy the following Qs and answer as you watch the video:
①Who were Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein? ②What was significant about the address book? ③How did Deep Throat help solve the mystery?
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Nixon Expands the Government’s Role Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Air Act $ for social welfare programs
THE WATERGATE SCANDAL BRINGS NIXON DOWN
• Botched burglary of Dem Party HQ June ’72 • Connected to White House • Burglars tried in ’73 • Connection revealed btwn burglars and top Nixon Administration • Nixon tries to deny it
• Conservative judges • Moratorium on court ordered busing
Nixon Proposes New Civil Rights Initiatives
• Philadelphia Plan: a type of affirmative action • “…segregation didn’t occur naturally – it was imposed…visible, measurable goals to correct [these] imbalances are essential.”
• “The expectation of a President to the confidentiality of his conversations of correspondence…has all the values to which we accord deference for the privacy of citizens…But…The very integrity of the judicial system depend on full disclosure of all the facts, within the framework of the rules of evidence”
NIXON AND THE WATERGATE SCANDAL
What events led to Richard Nixon’s resignation as President in 1974?
NIXON’S POLICIES TARGET MIDDLE AMERICA
• Political ups & downs: • 1946 - House of Representatives • 1950 - Senate • 1952 - Vice President • 1960 and 62 – Lost presidential and gubernatorial • President in 1968
Nixon Follows a Southern Strategy
• • • • Expand base Southern whites Blue collar workers Normally democrats • Change to republicans
Controversy Rages Over Busing
Revealing the White House Tapes
• Spiro Agnew resigns in unrelated scandal • Ford is new VP • Summer ‘73 discovers taping of Oval Office conversations includes break in cover-up • Executive Privilege
Nixon’s Strategy Succeeds
1972 High approБайду номын сангаасal ratings • Trips to China and Soviet Union • Moderate with VP Spiro Agnew • 61% of popular vote and almost all electoral votes