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- 41: The Watergate Scandal
- ... information, it become increasingly evident that the burglars were closely related to the Central Intelligence Agency and the Committee for the Re- Election of the President. Shortly thereafter some of Nixon's aides began cooperating with federal prosecutors. (Watergate 1). Immediately following the initial Watergate crisis a defection of aides in the Committee for the Re-Election of the President became ... Committee that the President had known of the cover-up and deliberately denied any knowledge of the break-in. Later, a former White House staff member, Alexander Butterfield, claimed that Nixon had secretly tape-recorded all of the conversations that occurred in his executive offices. Once Special Prosecutor Cox discovered this, he and the Ervin Committee tried to relinquish these tapes from the control of President Nixon. Nixon cited Executive Privilege and refused to hand over the tapes. Nixon then ordered the Attorney General to fire Cox even though the President himself had appointed him. Attorney ...
- 42: United States v. Nixon, President of the United States
- United States v. Nixon, President of the United States Throughout American history, the fear that our leaders may sometimes think themselves above the law has always been evident. The fear is that power brings ... into the Constitution. No one branch of government stands above the law in this setup. This point was reasserted in the the Supreme Court case of 1974, United States v. Nixon. This case involved the President of the United States, at that time Richard Nixon, and the people of the United States. The case was based on the infamous Watergate scandal in which Nixon was said to be involved. The case came about when ...
- 43: The Watergate Affair
- ... will primarily concentrate on the negative impact that media coverage had to the publics eye. This media coverage, although justified and appropriate for the situation, ultimately destroyed the credibility of Nixon's administration and the ability to run an effective government which forced the first resignation of an American president. The history of the events at hand is as follows. The Nixon Administration financed a White House Special Investigative Unit called the plumbers. This unit was initially established under John Erlichmann a top White House aide, to “plug” leaks from the White ... in Spain.” (4 Hunted in Inquiry on Democratic Raid, New York Times, June 21, 1972, page 44, column 1) On June 20, it came to the attention of President Richard Nixon that there were connections made between the burglars and CRP and various White House personnel. The president, on June 23, recommended that the CIA should prevent a FBI inquiry ...
- 44: Nixon
- Nixon I. Civil Rights A. Some people, mostly blacks, did not get equal rights. B. Nixon believed fundamentaly in responsible civil rights policy on the part of the federal government. II. Health Care Issues A. People believed in having health care for everyone, and being taken care of from the goverments money. B. Nixon believed that there should be health care for everyone, employer mandates, pharmancy care, and preventive care. III. Law Enforcement A. Crime increased and drud use began to bloom. B. ...
- 45: Imperial Presidency: Overview
- ... to gain a leg up on Congress. Schlesinger also discusses the actions taken within the inner sanctum of the White House. His focus is on the presidents from FDR through Nixon. Many of these men made many controversial decisions while in the oval office. Schlesinger goes over these actions with a microscope. For instance, he discusses the extreme secrecy and deception that Nixon practiced while in office. He analyzes the specific actions of the administration, the reasons for the actions, and the result of the actions. According to Schlesinger, the result of Nixon's extreme secrecy led him to be withdrawn from the rest of the country. He eventually created his own reality within the White House. It was a self- perceived ...
- 46: The Effectiveness of Eisenhower's First Term: 1953-1956
- ... the Bricker Amendment, proved to be some of the greatest problems of the Eisenhower administration. On September 18, the first scandal of the administration took place even before the Eisenhower/Nixon ticket was elected. The New York Post revealed that Nixon had received $18,000 as the governor of California from several millionaires. This finding opened him up to enormous criticism especially because his campaign was supposed to be against government immorality. Eisenhower immediately began to consider dropping Nixon from the ticket. The only chance that Nixon had was to show that he was "as clean as a hound's tooth"1 as it was put by Eisenhower. ...
- 47: A Modern Macbeth
- ... like figure in mainstream American culture. In this it is meant that these individuals experience a downfall in an attempt to gain power. One such figure was former President Richard Nixon. Nixon was long associated with American politics before his fall from grace. He was along time senator before finally being elected president in 1968. During his first term, his United States ... a period of economic inflation. In 1972 he was easily re-elected over Democrat nominee George McGovern. Almost unnoticed during his campaign was the arrest of five men connected with Nixon’s re-election committee. They had broken into the Democrats national head quarters in the Watergate apartment complex, in Washington D.C. They attempted to steal documents and place ...
- 48: Us Presidents 30-42
- ... food stamp program, and enlarging opportunities for youth employment. No session of Congress since 1935 had matched this one in attacks upon social and economic problems. 37. President - Richard Milhous Nixon Term - January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974 As the United States shifted toward a peacetime economy, inflation and unemployment beset it. In 1971 Nixon temporarily froze wages and prices, cut federal spending, and announced that the United States would no longer convert foreign-held dollars into gold. The subsequent decline in the value of ... loosened controls in a series of "phases," the price of food, notably beef, rose sharply. The battle against inflation was complicated by shortages of some products, including gasoline, and foods. Nixon blamed inflation on Congress, and he vetoed bills that exceeded his budgetary recommendations. Policies adopted by Arab countries in 1973 and 1974 jeopardized the U.S. economy. To dramatize ...
- 49: The Presidency of Gerald Rudolph Ford
- ... of Vice President Spiro T AGNEW after he pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of income tax evasion, and Watergate affair, which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Ford’s rise to become the 38th president followed a long career in the U.S House Of Representatives, where he was liked and respected by his colleagues. When he ... of Indiana. The House Republicans elected Ford by a vote of 73 to 67. He remained in the leadership position until he was appointed to the vice presidency by President Nixon in 1973. Gerald Ford’s voting record during his 25 years in the House was conservative and generally internationalist, and it reflected almost unswerving loyalty to the Republican Party and to Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon. Ford fought against expansion of the role of the national government. He consistently opposed federal aid to education, including funds for school construction, emergency school aid, and increased appropriations ...
- 50: Time For Reform? Considering The Failures of The Electoral College
- ... tie nearly brought to head the same undemocratic modes of presidential selections that emerged 200 years earlier with the Jefferson-Burr incident. The 1968 elections race was extremely close. Richard Nixon barley received a majority of the electoral votes to win the presidency. Had Nixon failed to get a majority a number of bizarre scenarios might have emerged. The candidates in the race were Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace respectively. Had Nixon failed to win a majority Wallace would have been in a position to control who the next President would be (Bailey & ...
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