Nixon and the Rise of Conservatism

The Southern Strategy The Rise of Conservatism with John Birch Society and Barry Goldwater

Nixon’s Domestic Policy Scale back of Great Society programs: Medicare and Head Start Creation of EPA, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and Endangered Species Act OSHA, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Welfare: Creation of earned income tax credit Expanded food stamps, Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children Created hiring quotas for government contractors $100,000,000 for Cancer research 26th Amendment

Nixon and Détente Opening of China China brings USSR to table “Normalization: after the “Fall of China” in 1949 Increase in trade China brings USSR to table SALT I ABM Treaty Oil Embargo and “Project Independence”