1. Changing and Enduring Issues
The Present

2. #37: Richard Nixon,
What is the significance of this image?
Nixon visits China & USSR -->
Detente - easing of Cold War Tensions
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)

4. Watergate Scandal
When: June 17, 1972
Where: Watergate Towers, Washington DC
Who: Nixon re-election advisors
What: Break in to the Democratic Party Headquarters to install wiretaps
Why: To get information that would help Nixon get re-elected

5. Nixon recorded Oval Office conversations
Nixon believes that as President, he is above the law
US v. Nixon - Supreme Court orders him to turn over tapes but parts of the recordings had been destroyed --> limited executive privilege

6. Nixon resigns on
August 9, 1974

7. Also during the Nixon Administration
Foreign
Vietnamization
“Peace with Honor”
War Powers Act
Domestic
OSHA
EPA
DEA
moon
26th Amendment

8. #38: Gerald Ford,
Tries to rebuild US trust in government
Amnesty to draft dodgers
Pardon for Nixon

9. OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) places embargo on US due to our support of Israel --> Inflation and high oil prices

10. #39: Jimmy Carter,
Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel
1980 Olympics in Moscow Boycotted
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Stagflation
High Oil Prices

11. #40: Ronald Reagan,
Supply-Side Economics (Reaganomics, Trickle-Down Theory) --> Tax Cuts for businesses and the wealthy
Trade Deficits

12. Iran-Contra Affair Fall of the Berlin Wall

13. Operation Desert Storm
#41: George H.W. Bush,
Persian Gulf War
Operation Desert Storm
“No New Taxes”

14. Bosnia Healthcare Reform NAFTA Impeachment
#42: Bill Clinton,
Bosnia
NAFTA
Healthcare Reform
Impeachment

15. 2000 Election Dept. of Homeland Sec. Hurricane Katrina
#43: George W. Bush,
2000 Election
Dept. of Homeland Sec.
Hurricane Katrina

16. September 11, 2001
War in Afghanistan/Taliban
War in Iraq
Operation Iraqi Freedom

17. #44: Barack Obama, 2009-2015 Foreign Policy Challenges Iraq
Afghanistan
North Korea
Middle East

18. Domestic Policy/Events
Stimulus Plan
Fair Pay Act
Healthcare Reform - “Obamacare”
Acts of Mass Violence
Gay Rights
Immigration Reform
Superstorm Sandy