1. Nixon

3. Brezhnev Brezhnev and Nixon talk while standing on the White House balcony during Brezhnev's 1973 visit to Washington-- a high-water mark in détente between the United States and the Soviet Union.

4. Kissinger

5. Detente

7. SALT I

8. Cambodia

9. Kent State "Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming, we're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming, four dead in Ohio Gotta get down to it, soldiers are gunning us down Should've been done long ago What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground, how can you run when you know?"

10. Silent Majority

12. George McGovern

13. Watergate

14. CREEP

15. Woodward & Bernstein

17. Ehrlichman

18. Haldeman

19. John Mitchell

20. Archibald Cox

21. Resignation

24. Ford Pardons Nixon

25. Gerald Ford

26. Oil Embargo

27. Jobs

28. Oil Prices

29. 1975 In April, 1975, helicopters evacuate the nearby US Embassy in the capital city of Saigon; the city America defended for nearly two decades falls

31. Jimmy Carter

33. Three Mile Island

34. Iranian Revolution

35. Shah of Iran

36. Ayatollah Khomeini

37. Hostages

38. Failed Rescue

39. SALT II

40. Afghanistan

42. Camp David