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The Triumph of Conservatism1969-1988
Richard Nixon’s Foreign Policy
• Promises to bring Americans together– Begins to isolate himself
• First interest is realistic foreign policy, not domestic
• Reduces cold war tensions with help of Henry Kissinger
Vietnamization
• Finding a way to reduce U.S. involvement while avoiding defeat
• Looking for “Peace with Honor”
Opposition to Nixon’s War Policies
• Withdrawal of troops = less war protest• Move to Cambodia?• Protest at Kent State– Leaves 4 dead– 2 dead at Jackson State
• Senate will repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution• My Lai Massacre
Rolling Thunder
Vietnamization (hidden) & Peace Talk
• Nixon is escalating the war by sending b-52 bombers to Vietnam.
• There is an armistice, but the war does not end.
• US leaves war.
Détente with China and the Soviet Union
• détente = reduction in Cold War tensions
• Visit to China– Nixon astonished the world
with visit to China– Initiated diplomatic
exchanges• Arms control with the USSR
– Treaty limiting antiballistic missiles (ABMs)
– Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT I)
Détente with China
The New Federalism
Nixon’s Domestic/Economic Policy
• New Federalism– $30 Billion in block grants to states– Nixon attempts to bypass congress
• Stagflation– Rise in unemployment / economic slowdown– High inflation
• Increases balance of trade• Adopts Keynesian economics and deficit
spending
Nixon’s Southern Strategy• Only has 43% of vote in 1968• Wants to create a Republican majority by
appealing to those disaffected by:– Antiwar protest– Black militants– School busing to achieve racial balance– Youth counterculture
• Many of these people were Democrats:– Southern whites– Catholic ethnics– Blue-collar workers– Recent suburbanites
• To win over the South:– Delay integration plans– Nominated two southern conservatives to
Supreme Courts
1972 Election
• Success on many levels• Nixon indicated a major political realignment
Watergate
Gerald Ford and White House
• Pardoning of Nixon– “Corrupt Bargain” with Nixon– Appointed George H. Bush to CIA
• Failure of US Policy in Southeast Asia– Fall of Saigon (Video)– Genocide in Cambodia– Future of Southeast Asia
• Economy– Bicentennial celebration
Jimmy Carter
• Foreign Policy– Human Rights Diplomacy– Panama Canal– Camp David Accords– Iran Hostage Crisis– Cold War
• Domestic Policy– Dealing with inflation– Adjustment after WWII