1. Political Fallout: A President and a Farmer
After Watergate…

2. After Nixon Pardon.. CONVICTED! Haldeman, Mitchell & Ehrlichman
Nixon’s Chief of Staff
White House Counsel
Attorney General

3. 1976 Election
What type of candidate did Americans want?

4. Deindustrialization
What led to a significant decline in US manufacturing?
How was the Carter presidency negatively affected?

5. Energy Crisis Continues
25,000 people within 5 miles
Of nuclear meltdown…
How did President Carter confront the energy crisis?

6. Unemployment and High Inflation
How did President Carter try
To address economic concerns?
How successful was he?

7. Appeal to the Public: Speech
The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence.
It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will.
We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.
How did President Carter’s “Malaise”
speech suggest he had given up?
Appeal to the Public: Speech

8. Human Rights and Foreign Policy
How did Carter prioritize human rights
in his foreign policy?
Was it effective?

9. Defend the following statement…
The 1970s were almost as tumultuous as the 1960s socially, but surpassed the 1960s with regard to political upheaval.
In what ways did distrust of the government
influence developments of the 1970s?