1. Aim: How does Nixon address the issues facing the United States at home and abroad?
Do Now:
a) Nixon Video – Write down three interesting facts about Nixon from the video
Homework:
Diagnostic Exam #1 – Friday (Quiz Grade)

2. Size and Power of the Federal Government
Problems
Policies
Size and Power of the Federal Government
Inefficiency of the welfare system
Vietnam War and domestic disorder
Nixon’s Reelection
Liberalism of Supreme Court Justices
Stagflation and recession
US-China Relations
US-Soviet Relations

3. Size and Power of the Federal Government
Problems
Policies
Size and Power of the Federal Government
Adopted the policy called New Federalism
Backed revenue sharing bill that overhauled federal spending
Used impoundment to block funding for laws he didn’t like
Abolished the Office of Economic Opportunity
Inefficiency of the welfare system
Backed the the Family Assistant Plan (FAP)
Vietnam War and domestic disorder
De-escalation of American Involvement
Conducted Peace Negotiations with Vietnam
Approved illegal FBI wiretaps on anti-war and civil rights leaders
Nixon’s Reelection
Adopted the Southern Strategy – attract voters who were unhappy with integration
Ordered HEW to delay desegregation plans
Opposed extension of the Civil Rights Act of 1965
Liberalism of Supreme Court Justices
Replaced three justices with more conservative justices.
Stagflation and recession
Raised Taxes and cut the budget
Raised interest rates
Instituted wage and price controls
US-China Relations
Adopted policy of détente and visited China
Signed agreement that they would not compete for dominance of the Pacific
US-Soviet Relations
Adopted the policy of détente and visited the USSR
Signed SALT I Treaty

4. Discussion Questions:
1. How was Nixon able to gain the support of the Republican base and Southern voters?
2. What is realpolitik and how did this philosophy impact Nixon’s foreign policy?
3. What was the significance of détente with the Soviet Union?
4. What were the effects of the Arab OPEC oil embargo on the United States?
Appealed to voter who opposed the civil rights movement and desegregation in the South.
• Political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
• Do not get involved in Proxy Wars (Such as Korea and Vietnam)
Relaxing of tensions between the two countries
• Led to gas shortage and rationing in the United States
• Prices skyrocketed

5. “DOMESTIC LIFE”
Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Paul Szep frequently used Nixon as the subject of his cartoons. Although President Nixon focused his domestic policy on dismantling a number of Great Society social programs, his chief interest was foreign policy.
1. What does the cartoonist suggest about Nixon by showing him leaving with his bags packed?
2. Whom do the children represent in this cartoon?
Nixon wanted to reduce the size of the Federal Government and felt that the federal government was not responsible for providing these programs.
Americans who relied upon these programs.

6. Watergate and Resignation:
The Watergate scandal was a political scandal in the United States in the 1970s, resulting from the break-in into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.
The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972.
The subsequent investigation by the FBI connected the men to the 1972 Committee to Re-elect the President.
As evidence mounted against the president's staff, which included former staff members testifying against them in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape recording system in his offices and that he had recorded many conversations.
Recordings from these tapes implicated the president, revealing that he had attempted to cover up the break-in.
After a series of court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes; he ultimately complied.
Facing near-certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and a strong possibility of a conviction in the Senate, Nixon resigned the office of the presidency on August 9, 1974.
His successor, Gerald Ford, issued a pardon to President Nixon after his resignation.

7. Apply your knowledge:
What impact would the Watergate Scandal have on the public’s view of the presidency? Explain with a specific example!!.
On September 8, 1974, President Ford granted Nixon a "free, full, and absolute pardon".
As a result of the Watergate scandal, Congress passed a series of laws sharply limiting a president's power, including amending the Freedom of Information Act, limiting the president's power to wage undeclared war, and laws surrounding financial disclosure, like the Ethics in Government Act.
The Watergate Scandal proved that the Constitution's system of checks and balances could function to force an abusive or tyrannical president out of power.
Republicans in particular were made victims of the post-Nixon fallout and governmental distrust, leading to the election of Democrat and Washington outsider Jimmy Carter in 1976.
The Watergate scandal made a lasting impression on the American public and Nixon's image, which was permanently tarnished.