1. Crisis in Confidence
CH 22.1

2. Nixon Wins 2nd Term; Middle Class (Silent Majority); New Federalism –BUT- Expands role of government; Occupational Safety & Health Admin.; EPA Dismantled EEOC; Family Assistance Plan  didn’t pass

3. Economic Struggles: Stagflation; Vietnam, Foreign Competition, Price of Oil OPEC; Embargo ( ); Gas 400%; 90-Day Freeze; Wages & Prices; Doesn’t Work Getting the South’s Support; Supreme Court Judges; Busing Affirmative Action; Philadelphia Plan; Successful

4. The Watergate Scandal; Democratic Convention; Connections w/ Whitehouse –BUT- … Washington Post; Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein Saturday Night Massacre; Top Aides V.P Spiro Agnew; 25th Amendment; Gerald Ford White House Tapes; Executive Privilege; Nixon v. U.S; Subpoena; 18 & ½ Minutes Aug. 8, 1874 Nixon Resigns; Credibility Gap; Federal Election Campaign Act (1974)

5. Ford and Carter Years
CH. 22.2

6. Gerald Ford; public’s lack of faith, horrible economy; lost popularity (pardon) Stagflation; W.I.N; Failure; made economy worse factories closed, demands, unemployment

7. Jimmy Carter, The Washington Outsider; Election of 1976; peanut farmer Inexperienced hurt Carter; Congress; Amnesty for draft dodgers; dealing with energy crisis Economy; Competition; Japanese cars companies; Chrysler Paul Volcker; Head of Fed. Reserve Board; raises interests rates; long term help

8. Demography Affects Politics; Sunbelt; north industries suffer; oil fields Immigrants; growing power of Latino vote “Me” Generation; divorce rates; kids born out of wedlock; body building Conservatives; Moral Majority; fundamentals; televangelists (Jerry Falwell) Formed alliances; “New political” party  Ronald Reagan