Nixon (jan 1, 1969 – jan 1, 1974)

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Richard Nixon- republican
Kissinger:
-National Security adviser and secretary of state
Detente:
- took troops out of Vietnam-vietnamization
- Safer world if balance is renewed
- New relationship w/ Chinese communists to anger soviets
-1971: UN accepts comm. gov of China
-1972: Nixon visits China
-1972: Strategic Arms limitation treaty (Salt 1)
Nixon Doctrine: Basic responsibility of nation to defend themselves- cant rely on US aid
Silent majority- Southern strategy
- reduce federal interference in local affairs
- Tried to stop federally mandated busing (busing students to alternate districts against segregation)
- Allowed states to receive federal funding even with failure to desegregate
- Reduce great society programs
- in favor of family assistance plan- guaranteed income for poor
- Environmental protection agency
- Occupational safety and health
- Endangered species act
- Clean drinking water act
Stagflation:
- increased fed spending
- International competition
- Org. of petrolium exporting countries (OPEC), US not prepared to find own oil, dependent on OPEC
- Deindustrialization
- Workers lack skills
- Inequality of wealth and income
*Nixon failed to slow inflation, higher interest rates, freeze on wages, prices rise 12%

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