Nixon 1969-74. DOMESTIC POLICY

Question 1

OEO

Answer 1

Office of economic opportunity

Closed 59 job corps centres
Cut funding on housing & youth programmes

Question 2

Welfare and AFDC

Answer 2

AFDC- assistance for families with dependent children
Family assistance plan-
Recipients got $1600 per year
Work requirements
However, 13 million more Americans would be eligible (rejected)

Question 3

Roe V Wade

Answer 3

1973
Made abortion legal in the US
Nixon lost support and votes due to this

Question 4

Miranda ruling

Answer 4

1966

‘Right to remain silent’

Question 5

Law and order statistics

Answer 5

1969- 602 bombings or attempted
1970- 1577 bombings or attempted

Between these years there were 37,000 bomb threats and 41 deaths

Question 6

Chicago Eight

Answer 6

Prosecuted in 1970
Dealt harshly to set an example
Crossed state lines to ferment anti-war riots in 1968 democratic convention

Question 7

Protest at nixons inaugural speech

Answer 7

Anti war protestors chant- ‘ho ho Ho Chi Minh the NLF is going to win’
Burned flags, spat at police, thrown stones, bottles, cans at presidential limousine

Question 8

Ohio state students

Answer 8

Demanded more black students, abolition of officer training corps
6 hour protest- 7 students shot, 13 injured, 600 arrested

Question 9

Celebrity involvement in anti war protest

Answer 9

John Lennon: bed-in 1969
‘Give peace a chance’ sang at Vietnam moratorium march 1969
Jane Fonda- visited Vietcong 1972

Question 10

Kent state

Answer 10

Rioted and bombed
Peaceful protest 4th may 1970
National guard shot dead 4, injured 11

Nixons ‘bums’ remark

Question 11

White House tea

Answer 11

Trisha Nixon tried to host a White House tea guests grace slick and Abbie Hoffman (YIPPIE) were uninvited after saying they would spike the drinks with LSD

Question 12

Feminism

Answer 12

Stienem and others felt Nixon did very little for women so addressed the First Lady to help increase women’s positions and bring the abortion act in Roe V wade

Shirley Chisholm first black woman elected to congress in 1968

Question 13

Desegregation and bussing

Answer 13

1971 and 1973 supported busing of kids from neighbourhood schools to another north particularly opposed by 8 to 1
So Nixon attempted to slow it down

Question 14

Affirmative action

Answer 14

Positive discrimination

Pressure on federal contractors to employ minorities