President Nixon pursued détente with the Soviet Union and China, normalizing relations with the latter through his historic 1972 trip. He also oversaw the beginnings of arms limitation talks with the USSR and a ceasefire in Vietnam. However, the Watergate scandal emerged involving Nixon's cover-up of the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters, ultimately leading to his resignation in 1974.
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Richard Nixon rose through the political ranks as a staunch anti-communist; however, the policy of his predecessors brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and brought the U.S. into an expensive and increasingly unpopular war.
Nixon embraced the policy of détente, a relaxing of tensions with the communist world. He negotiated the SALT I Treaty, established relations with Communist China, and established the Nixon Doctrine of assisting allies with money and weapons, but not with U.S. troops.
The Nixon Doctrine was applied in Vietnam with the Vietnamization of the war. Nixon declared “Peace with Honor” when the last U.S. troops left Vietnam, but Saigon fell to the communists just two years later.
Nixon employed the Madman Theory so that his adversaries would believe he was unpredictable.
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Richard Nixon rose through the political ranks as a staunch anti-communist; however, the policy of his predecessors brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and brought the U.S. into an expensive and increasingly unpopular war.
Nixon embraced the policy of détente, a relaxing of tensions with the communist world. He negotiated the SALT I Treaty, established relations with Communist China, and established the Nixon Doctrine of assisting allies with money and weapons, but not with U.S. troops.
The Nixon Doctrine was applied in Vietnam with the Vietnamization of the war. Nixon declared “Peace with Honor” when the last U.S. troops left Vietnam, but Saigon fell to the communists just two years later.
Nixon employed the Madman Theory so that his adversaries would believe he was unpredictable.
US Foreign Policy: A Commemoration Through The YearsEling Price
This mini-project is a comprehensive presentation on US Foreign Policy first beginning in 1899 well unto the millennium era. The assignment is for Professor McFadden History 1023.52 ~ 15 SP. The due date deadline is Friday, May 1, 2015 11:59 pm. The following was prepared by Eling Price.
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The US presence in the Middle East can be explained to the fact that it always defends its interets in the region. For, that reason, the US uses divergent means and methods to achieve its ends.
Presentation slides for World Issues class in high school. I'm 12th grade in CheongShim International Academy. Designed these slides to elaborate about Bush Doctrine and its implications. Enjoy.
The US presence in the Middle East can be explained to the fact that it always defends its interets in the region. For, that reason, the US uses divergent means and methods to achieve its ends.
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13.1 Nixon’s America
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Nixon and Vietnam
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Good evening, my fellow Americans. Tonight I want to talk to you on a subject of deep concern to all Americans and to many people in all parts of the world—the war in Vietnam. I believe that one of the reasons for the deep division about Vietnam is that many Americans have lost confidence in what their Government has told them about our policy. (as cited in Vilade, 2012, p. 196)
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1.
2. Nixon: The International
Diplomat
In the White House, the contradictions in President Nixon were most obvious. He
could be bold, yet also cautious; effective, yet often inept. Working closely with his
national security advisor (later, Secretary of State), Henry Kissinger, he forsook the
anti-Communist policies that he had supported throughout most of his career in favor
of détente with the USSR and rapprochement with the Communist government of
China. In 1969, he began the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with the Soviet
Union. In Feb. 1972, he made a historic trip to Beijing (first by an American
president)—where he was received by Mao Tse-Tung—thus reversing the U.S. policy
of not recognizing the Communist government. In 1973, after 4 years of waging war in
Vietnam—including heavy bombing raids on North Vietnam (1972) and the invasion
(1970) of Cambodia—the administration managed to arrange a cease-fire that would
last long enough to permit U.S. withdrawal from the Indochinese war zone. After the
Arab-Israeli War in 1973, the efforts of Henry Kissinger led to a cease-fire and troop
disengagement in the Middle East. Domestically, under the banner of “A New
Federalism,” Nixon attempted to shift important elements of governmental power and
responsibility back to state and local governments. He cut back and opposed federal
welfare services, proposed anti-busing legislation, and used wage-and-price controls to
fight inflation. A combination of domestic and international developments, notable the
quintupling of oil prices by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
in 1973, led to the economic recession of 1974-75.
President Nixon and
Chairman Mao Tse-
Tung during the China
visit
3. Nixon’s “New Federalism”
At the time Nixon took office in 1969, inflation was at 4.7 percent—its
highest rate since the Korean War. The Great Society had been enacted
under Johnson, which, together with the Vietnam War costs, was causing
large budget deficits. There was little unemployment, but interest rates
were at their highest in a century. Nixon's major economic goal was to
reduce inflation; the most obvious means of doing so was to end the war.
This could not be accomplished overnight, and the U.S. economy
continued to struggle through 1970.
Nixon was far more interested in foreign affairs than domestic policies,
but believed that voters tend to focus on their own financial condition,
and that economic conditions were a threat to his reelection. As part of his
"New Federalism" views, he proposed grants to the states, but these
proposals were for the most part lost in the congressional budget process.
However, Nixon gained political credit for advocating them. In 1970,
Congress had granted the President the power to impose wage and price
freezes, though the Democratic majorities, knowing Nixon had opposed
such controls through his career, did not expect Nixon to actually use the
authority. With inflation unresolved by August 1971, and an election year
looming, Nixon convened a summit of his economic advisers at Camp
David. He then announced temporary wage and price controls, allowed
the dollar to float against other currencies, and ended the convertibility of
the dollar into gold.
4. Watergate
Re-nominated with Spiro Agnew in 1972, President Richard Nixon defeated his
Democratic challenger, the liberal Senator George S. McGovern, in one of the
largest landslide victories in the history of American presidential elections: 47.1
million to 29.1 million in the popular vote and 520 to 17 in the electoral vote.
Despite his resounding victory, Nixon would soon be forced to resign in disgrace
in one of the worst political scandals in United States history.
The Watergate Scandal stemmed from illegal activities by Nixon and his aides
related to the burglary and wiretapping of the national headquarters of the
Democratic Party at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C and its
cover-up; eventually it came to encompass allegations of other loosely related
crimes committed both before and after the break-in. The five men involved in
the burglary, who were hired by the Republican Party’s Committee to Re-elect the
President, were arrested and charged on 17 Jun 1972. In the days following the
arrests, Nixon secretly directed the White House counsel, John Dean, to oversee a
‘cover-up’ to conceal the administration’s involvement. Nixon also obstructed the
Federal Bureau of Investigation in its inquiry and authorized secret cash
payments to the Watergate burglars in an effort to prevent them from implicating
the administration.
6. President Nixon Quiz
1. Name a foreign policy and a domestic policy of President
Richard Nixon.
2. What trip did President Nixon make that was a first for an
American president?
3. What two economic factors did President Nixon attack with
his “New Federalism” policy?
4. What crimes were committed during the Watergate
Scandal?
5. What was the outcome of the Watergate Scandal for
President Nixon?
7. Regulatory Presidents
Nixon Administration
OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration
MSHA (Mine Safety and Health Administration
NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health)
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
Carter Administration
United States Department of Education
United States Department of Energy
8. The Egyptian-Israeli Peace
Initiative (Camp David Accords)
In 1974, the United States and Egypt resumed diplomatic relations, previously severed
by Egypt in 1967. By September 1975, through U.S. mediating efforts, Egypt and Israel
had reached several agreements on the disengagement of their forces. In March 1976,
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt abrogated a friendship treaty with the USSR signed in
1971.
Sadat took a dramatic and significant step toward peace with Israel by visiting Jerusalem
in November 1977. President Jimmy Carter sponsored a peace summit in September
1978 between Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Egypt and Israel
signed preliminary documents for a peace treaty. The actual treaty, signed on 26 Mar
1979, in Washington, D.C., called for the gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops from the
Sinai over a period of 3 years. The withdrawal proceeded smoothly, and in January
1980, Egypt and Israel established diplomatic relations. Little progress was made,
however, in the difficult negotiations on Palestinian autonomy, and the rest of the Arab
world rejected the rapprochement with Israel.
From 1974, Sadat had followed a policy entirely different from that of President Abdul
Nasser, who advocated war with Israel, Arab socialism, and Arab unity. Sadat
promoted peace with Israel, economic liberalism, and Egyptian nationalism. Although
Sadat increased political freedoms, he also periodically cracked down on dissidents. In
1981, he was killed by Muslim fundamentalists.
9. America Held Hostage
The Ayatollah (Arabic: “Reflection of Allah”) Ruhollah Khomeni (Ruhollah Hendi), b.
Khomein, Iran 1900, d. 3 Jun 1989, became leader of Iran in 1979 by forcing the
overthrow of the shah (Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi) and Prime Minister Shahpur
Baktiar. The son of an ayatollah of the Shi’ia sect, he studied theology and by 1962 was
one of the six grand ayatollahs of Iran’s Shi’ia Muslims. Exiled in 1963 for his part in
religious demonstrations against the shah, he was expelled from Iran in 1978 and
moved to France, where he emerged as the leader of the anti-shah movement. In
January 1979, after the shah left Iran, he returned to lead the country, becoming in
December faqih (supreme religious guide) of Iran’s Islamic republic for life.
In his efforts to transform Iran into an Islamic state, Khomeni was hostile to the West—
U.S., the Great Satan and Israel, the Little Satan. In November 1979, he supported
militant students who invaded the U.S. embassy and precipitated the Iranian Hostage
Crisis. Khomeni and other fundamentalist clerics faced opposition from Western-
educated moderates, from minorities within the country, and from various leftist
guerilla groups but gradually consolidated control, imposing rigid censorship,
executing members of the opposition, and banning Western customs. Khomeni used
the Iran-Iraq War initiated by Iraq in 1980 to help unify the country, although he was
less than successful in exporting his revolution and reluctantly accepted a cease-fire in
the costly conflict in 1988. After his death, which prompted an outpouring of religious
fervor, Iran remained a theocracy, although the constitution was revised to grant more
power to the president.
10. After months of negotiations, helped by Algerian intermediaries and
the Shah's death, US diplomacy bore fruit. On the day of President
Ronald Reagan's inauguration, 20 January 1981, the hostages were set
free. A day later they arrived at a US Air Force base in West Germany.
Here Air Force attaché David Roader shouts with joy as he arrives on
German soil. In return the US had agreed to unfreeze Iranian assets
worth $8 billion and give hostage takers immunity. From Germany,
the freed Americans were taken to Washington where they were given
a hero's welcome along Pennsylvania Avenue before a reception
hosted by Ronald Reagan at the White House. The crisis may have
helped bury the Carter administration's re-election hopes but it gave
Mr. Reagan a massive boost at the beginning of his presidency.
However, some skeptics remarked at the convenient timing of the
release. Newly inaugurated US President Ronald Reagan listens to
Bruce Laingen, top diplomatic hostage during the Iran hostage crisis
who was one of the three seized at the Iranian foreign ministry on 4
November 1979.
11. The Carter Economy
Despite calling for a reform of the tax system in his presidential campaign, once in office Carter did
very little to change it. President Carter reduced the minimum tax on capital gains to 28% from as high
as 98%. The government was in deficit every year of the Carter presidency. However, the debt as a
percentage of the GDP decreased slightly.
When the energy crisis set in, Carter was planning on delivering his fifth major speech on energy;
however, he felt that the American people were no longer listening. On July 15, 1979, Carter gave a
nationally-televised address in which he identified what he believed to be a "crisis of confidence"
among the American people. This came to be known as his "malaise" speech, although Carter himself
never uses the word in the speech:
“I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy. . . . I do not refer
to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with
unmatched economic power and military might. The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a
crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We
can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of
purpose for our nation. . . .
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God,
too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer
defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and
consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning....
I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use
carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey
the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel.... I have seen the strength of America in the
inexhaustible resources of our people. In the days to come, let us renew that strength in the struggle for
an energy-secure nation. . . .”
14. President Carter Quiz
1. What was the speech that President Carter made when he had a
“crisis of confidence” in the economy with the American
public?
2. What economic factor was consistently high during the Carter
administration?
3. What was the greatest accomplishment of the Carter
administration?
4. Who was responsible for taking 400 American hostages in Iran
posing President Carter’s greatest failure?
5. Who got the release of the American hostages just prior to his
inaugural address?