1. Nixon

2. “Law & Order”

3. Republican “Southern Strategy”
“State’s rights”…
Split working-class whites away from blacks
New “Solid South” is Republican

4. End of New Deal Coalition

5. 1968 Election

6. Review of Nixon’s Foreign Policy…

7. Nixon’s Domestic Policy
“New Federalism”
Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
“War on Drugs” begins
1973 Yom Kippur War
OPEC Embargo
Energy Crisis
“Stagflation”
Apollo 11 Moon landing
Leak Scandals
Pentagon Papers
COINTELPRO
Watergate

8. EPA

9. OSHA

10. War on Drugs

11. Apollo 11

12. 1973 Yom Kippur War

13. 1970s Energy Crisis: OPEC Embargo

14. 1970s Energy Crisis: Rationing

15. 1970s Energy Crisis: Oil Prices

16. 1970s Energy Crisis: Stagflation

17. Pentagon Papers Leak

18. COINTELPRO

19. The “Plumbers”

20. 1972 Election

21. Watergate Hotel Burglary
The Break-In

22. Patrick Grey Nixon-appointed director of the FBI
Destroyed FBI documents into the burglary investigation

23. Woodward & Bernstein

24. John Dean White House counsel “Mastermind of the cover-up”
Testifies against Nixon

25. Spiro Agnew
Vice President
Resigned for failure to pay income taxes

26. Watergate Tapes
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27. Sam Ervin & Senate Investigation

28. “Saturday Night Massacre”
Archibald Cox, special prosecutor
Elliot Richardson, Attorney General
Fired
William Ruckleshaus, Deputy Attorney General
Resigned
Resigned

29. All Alone…

30. U.S. v. Nixon, 1974 Supreme Court rejected Nixon’s claim of “executive privilege”

31. Resignation
Nixon resigns

32. Ford’s Pardon
Controversial decision
Allowed the nation to “move on”

33. Distrust & Voter Apathy

34. “H2OGate Blues” + lyrics
Gil Scott-Heron
“H2OGate Blues” + lyrics