20: The Seventies: Under Control? Flashcards
Top Democratic and Republican leaders in the House had given secret assurance to Nixon that if he resigned they would not support what?
Criminal proceedings against him
One of Gerald Ford’s first acts as President was to Pardon this predeccessor
Nixon, obviously
Why was the Ford administration eager to attack Cambodia when they captured U.S. sailors (even after they had been quickly released)
They wanted to show the world that American, recently defeated in Vietnam, was still powerful and resolute
The Church Committee cooperated with these agencies in its investigations of them
FBI, CIA (gave them the report to see if there were things they wanted ommitted)
The Pike Committee, investigating the FBI and CIA and set up by the House, made its report what?
Secret
(Church Committee investigation) “The CIA is now using several hundred American _________ . . . [to] write books and other material to be used for propaganda purposes abroad. . . These repeat are located in over 100 American colleges, universities and related institutions”
Academics
The Census Bureau reported that from 1974 to 1975, this had risen 10%
the number of Americans legally classified as poor
William Simon, Secretary of Treasury for Nixon and Ford: “Americans have been taught to distrust the very word profit and the profit motive that makes our prosperity possible, to somehow feel this system. . . is somehow cynical, selfish, and amoral. We must get across the _____ ____ __ _________”
The human side of capitalism
Samuel Huntington, a political science professor at Harvard and frequent White House advisor, wrote a report on the “governability of democracies” for the Trilateral commission, his part focusing on the US. What did he write?
1) Huge growth of citizen participation in political demonstrations and higher self-consciousness of minorities + expansion of white-collar unionism added up to “a reassertion of equality as a goal in social, economic, and political life”. This was “a general challenge for systems of authority. . . People no longer felt the same obligation to obey those whom they had previously considered superior.” In all, this “produced problems for the governability of democracy in the 1970s”
2) About the President’s role in governing: “the size of his majority is almost - if not entirely - irrelevant to his ability to govern the country. What counts is his ability to mobilize support from . . . key people in Congress, the executive branch, and the private-sector establishment”
3) Huntington concluded that the US had “an excess of democracy” and suggested “desirable limits to the extension of political democracy”
Whose idea was the Trilateral Commission?
David Rockefeller
What was Jimmy Carter’s attitude on Vietnam?
Supporter until the end
Many of Jimmy Carter’s appointees were members of what?
The trilateral commission
The ACLU on Jimmy Carter: “In the face of opposition from the intelligence agencies, the President has not fulfilled his campaign promises to curb abuses of civil liberties in the name of _______ _______. Indeed, the administration has advocated more secrecy”
National security
True or False”: When Herman Badillo introduced a bill in Congress forcing World Bank appointees to vote against loans to oppressive regimes, Jimmy Carter contacted many congressmen asking them to vote it down
True
True or False: Once elected, Jimmy Carter accepted giving aid to reconstruct Vietnam
False, he declined
