PPT-Nixon’s Domestic Policies--

Was he a Liberal or a Conservative Nixons agenda was to decrease the size and influence of the federal government Nixon believed that Lyndon Johnsons Great Society programs had given the federal government too much power amp responsibility. In practice victims from different cultures and life experiences victims with children affected by domestic violence victims with financial needs a living wage job housing income child care education hea lth care and victims experiencing chemical Nixon’s New Conservatism. Nixon was determined to turn the US into a more conservative direction with a sense of order. The US was intensely divided over Nam. Nixon felt LBJ’s Great Society programs gave the federal government too much responsibility. FOREIGN POLICY. Advance organizer. 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.. What earned Nixon the Right to be President?. Schooling and WWII. Whittier College then Duke University Law School before . Moved to Washington D.C.. Starting practicing law. World War II, Nixon served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific. By: Sky P., Noah S., Brittany V.A., Vanessa Z.. Questions:. What was the long-standing impact of Nixon’s economic policies?. What was Nixon’s general attitude towards Communist-allied countries during the Cold War? . Valeria Martinez. IB History of the Americas. Spring 2014. Richard Nixon. Born in California on January 9, 1913.. Became the nation’s 37. th. president on January 20. th. 1969 until he became the only President to date to resign from office on August 9. Modern American History. The Election of 1968. Richard M. Nixon [R]. Hubert Humphrey [D]. The Election of 1968. Nixon . [. R]. Humphrey [D]. Wallace [AI]. VP for Eisenhower. Aimed at “Middle America”. Nixon promises to bring Americans together but.... Vice President Spiro Agnew- attacks the media and the left. The Press:. “Nattering . naybobs. of negativism” . The Democrats:. “Sniveling hand-wringers”. The Nixon Administration. Nixon’s New Conservatism. 1968- Entered in the Presidency. Wanted to lead the nation in a conservative direction.. New Federalism. Distribute a portion of federal power to state and local governments.. SWBAT: Explain Nixon’s domestic and foreign policy initiatives. Do Now. Identify examples of . both. conflict/hostility and peaceful relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union during the Cold War. administrations from Richard M. Nixon to the present. .. Examples: Nixon’s policy of détente; Cambodia; Watergate scandal; pardon of Nixon; Iranian hostage situation; Reaganomics; Libyan crisis; end of the Cold War; Persian Gulf War; Impeachment trial of William “Bill” Clinton; terrorist attack of September 11, 2001; Operation Iraqi Freedom; war in Afghanistan; election of the first African-American president, Barack Obama; terrorism; global warming; immigration. a. . Analyze the international policies and actions taken as a response to the Cold War including the opening of and establishment of diplomatic relations with China, the end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the War Powers Act, the Camp David Accords, and Carter’s response to the 1979 Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis. . Richard Nixon only narrowly won the 1968 election, but the combined total of popular votes for Nixon and Wallace indicated a shift to the right in American politics. . Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers . March 28 2017. outline. Globalization and decarbonization. The challenge: political economy of renewable energy. Overview of free trade . rules. Trade disputes on clean energy. “Race to the bottom”.