1. Watergate and Political Backlash

2. Domestic Affairs
1968 Campaign
“Southern Strategy”
Stagflation
We live in a deeply troubled and profoundly unsettled time…Drugs, crime, campus revolts, racial discord, draft resistance – on every hand we find old standards violated, old values discarded.” - Richard Nixon

3. Domestic Affairs Opposition to Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court and forced integration
The “Silent Majority”
Moon landing, July 1969

4. Welfare and Environment
New federalism
Welfare reform
Expansion of social services
Earth Day, April 1970
Environmental Protection Agency, 1970
Clean Air (1970) & Clean Water (1972) Acts
Endangered Species Act, 1973

5. Foreign Policy Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State “Vietnamization”
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China, 1972

6. Foreign Policy SALT I agreement with Soviets, 1969-1972
Oil crisis,
Shuttle diplomacy
Supplying & supporting oppressive governments

7. Watergate What is Watergate scandal? Oval Office tapes
Executive Privilege
Supreme Court judgment
Impeachment, 1974
Nixon resigned, August 1974
neither “the doctrine of the separation of powers nor the need for confidentiality of high-level communications can sustain an absolute, unqualified presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances.”

8. The Legacy The Imperial President The Last Liberal?
The New Republican Party
Distrust of Government

9. Watergate and Political Backlash
Key Terms: SALT I, Oil Crisis, Henry Kissinger,
“Southern Strategy”, “Silent Majority”, New Federalism,
Environmental Protection Agency, Watergate, Executive Privilege