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Johnson – Domestic Policy Great Society Office of Economic Opportunity Operation Head Start Job Corps Neighborhood Youth Corps Upward Bound Model Cities Program
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Johnson – Domestic Policy Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of Transportation Medicare Medicaid Elementary and Secondary Education Act National Endowment for the Arts
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Johnson – Domestic Policy Water Quality Act Clean Air Act “Truth in Lending” “Truth in Advertising” Immigration Reform Civil Rights Voting Rights Act of 1965 Civil Rights Act of 1968
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Johnson – Foreign Policy Vietnam Growing involvement Parties to War USS Maddox Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Rolling Thunder Pacification Escalation Tet Offensive
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1968 MLKJ Assassination RFK Assassination Race Riots LBJ Quits DNC Convention & Riots in Chicago Nixon, Nixon, Nixon
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Nixon - Vietnam “Peace with Honor” Vietnamization My Lai Massacre Cambodia Bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail Protests Kent State Shootings Pentagon Papers Paris Peace Accords
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Nixon – Détente “Cooling off” “Opening” China Bipolar to Tripolar Soviet Union SALT (Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty)
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Nixon - Domestic Inflation 90 Day Wage & Price Freeze Created EPA Reelected in ’72 OPEC Embargo – Yom Kippur War 26 th Amendment
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Nixon – Watergate Break-in and DNC HDQ Members of Creep implicated Continued Investigation (>1 Year) Senate Washington Post Bob Woodward & Carl Berstein Nixon Advisors Implicated Revelation of Secret Taping System
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Nixon - Watergate Senate Investigation subpoenaed tapes Nixon Refused – released edited tapes Supreme Court (9-0) sided with Senate “Smoking Gun” – cover-up the crime House passes three articles of impeachment (7/30/74) Nixon Resigns (8/9/74)
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