8.14 Flashcards
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Age during the 1970s
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- The fastest growing age group is those above 65, people become aware that America is aging.
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Race during the 1970s
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- More cultural pluralism is noticed. By the 1990s, almost 25% of Americans were Hispanic, African Americans, etc. They want to take pride in their culture and fight for their rights.
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Region during the 1970s
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- Most Americans live in the fast growing South and West. African Americans left because of less job opportunities and racism in the North.
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Politics during the 1970s
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- There is a switch from Democrats to more conservative Republicans
5
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Richard Nixon’s Election Strategy
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- a minority president in 1968, he devised a plan to form a Republican majority that he called the silent majority.
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Silent Majority
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- voters who had become disaffected by civil rights, liberal court rulings, antiwar protests, black militants, school busing to achieve racial balance, and the excesses of the youth counterculture. Many of them are Democrats like southern Whites who disagree with the liberal drift of the Democratic Party.
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Nixon’s Election Strategy in the South
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- To win over the South, Nixon asked federal courts in that region to delay integration plans and busing orders. He also nominated two Southern conservatives (Clement Haynsworth and G. Harold Carswell) to the Supreme Court. This is a success.
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Watergate Scandal
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- 1972
- a group of men hired by Nixon’s reelection committee was caught breaking into the offices of the Democratic national headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. This break-in and attempted bugging were only part of a series of illegal activities and “dirty tricks” conducted by the Nixon administration and the Committee
to Re-Elect the President (CREEP). This led to other tricks Nixon was using to be exposed.
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“Plumbers”
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- A group created to stop leaks during Nixon’s presidency as well as discredit opponents
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Ellsberg Burglars
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- Before the scandal, “plumbers” had burglarized the office of psychiatrist Daniel Ellsberg, the person behind the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, in order to obtain information to discredit Ellsberg.
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White House “Enemies” List
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- White House had also created an “enemies list” of prominent Americans who opposed Nixon, the Vietnam War, or both. People on this list were investigated by government agencies, such as the IRS.
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John Sirica
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- Tough judge during the Watergate Scandal whose investigation led to information about the use of money and a promise of pardons by the White House staff to keep the burglars quiet.
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John Dean
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- A White House lawyer who linked the president to the cover-up during testimonies.
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H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman
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- Nixon’s top aides who resigned to protect him and were later arrested.
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Resignation of Vice President Agnew
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- 1973
- the Justice Department discovered evidence of his political corruption, including accepting bribes as governor of Maryland and as vice president. Replacing him was Michigan Representative Gerald Ford.
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Archibald Cox
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- The special prosecutor assigned to the Watergate Case. He was fired by Nixon which garnered him more criticism for interfering with the investigation.
