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Chapter 31: The Age of Limits

Chapter 31: The Age of Limits.

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Chapter 31: The Age of Limits

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  1. Chapter 31: The Age of Limits Preview:“Americans in the 1970s discovered painful limits to many aspects of their society: limits to economics growth sparked by a shortage of oil, limits on the environment due to pollution and overdevelopment. Richard Nixon, too, met political limits, as he was forced from office by his role in campaign scandals. With the nation mired in an economic downturn, Presidents Ford and Carter steered a course that acknowledged the decline of American power.” The Highlights: The Limits of Reform Watergate and the Politics of Resentment A Ford, Not a Lincoln Jimmy Carter: Restoring the Faith

  2. 31-2 The Limits of Reform • Consumerism • Ralph Nader attacks GM • Consumer organizations • Environmentalism • Conservation versus preservation • Barry Commoner and ecology • EPA established (1970) • Earth Day McGraw-Hill

  3. 31-3 Watergate and the Politics of Resentment • Nixon’s New Federalism • Revenue sharing • Family Assistance Plan • Nixon reforms • Stagflation • A stagnant economy combined with rising prices • Nixon advocated federal wage and price controls McGraw-Hill

  4. 31-4 • Social Policies and the Court • School busing • Nixon and the Court • Us versus Them • Nixon administration blurred the lines between honest dissent and radical criminals • “Nattering nabobs of negativism” McGraw-Hill

  5. 31-5 • Triumph • George McGovern • Nixon received almost 61 percent of the popular vote • The President’s Enemies • The plumbers • Impoundment: refusal to spend the appropriated money for a program McGraw-Hill

  6. 31-6 • Break-In • June 1972: Democratic National Committee headquarters in Watergate apartment complex burglarized • Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein • To the Oval Office • Senate hearings • Agnew resigns • Saturday Night Massacre McGraw-Hill

  7. 31-7 • Resignation • The smoking gun • Fair Campaign Practices Act (1974) “Gerald Ford inherited a presidential office almost crippled by the Watergate scandals. As the first unelected president, he had no popular mandate….By all instincts a conservative, he was determined to continue Nixon’s foreign policy of cautious détente and a domestic program of social and fiscal conservatism”(1054-55). McGraw-Hill

  8. 31-8 A Ford, Not a Lincoln • Kissinger and Foreign Policy • War Powers Act (1973) • Coup in Chile • Global Competition and the Limits of American Influence • Yom Kippur War and the energy crisis • Oil boycott from October 1973 until March 1974 staggered the economies of western Europe and Japan McGraw-Hill

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  10. 31-10 • Shuttle Diplomacy • Between Sadat’s government in Cairo and the Israeli government of Golda Meir in Jerusalem • South Vietnam falls • Detente • Helsinki Summit (1975) • The erosion of American power dismayed Republican conservatives McGraw-Hill

  11. 31-11 • The Limits of a Post-Watergate President • In trying to put Watergate in the past, Ford reopened the wounds • CIA and FBI abuses • Fighting Inflation • By his first State of the Union address, Ford faced the twin scourges of inflation and recession • Energy Policy and Conservation Act (1975) McGraw-Hill

  12. 31-12 “In the 1976 presidential campaign the greatest debates occurred within rather than between the major parties”(1060). • The Election of 1976 • Jimmy Carter • Most voters backed their party’s candidate, giving Carter 50.1 percent of the vote McGraw-Hill

  13. 31-13 McGraw-Hill

  14. 31-14 Jimmy Carter: Restoring the Faith • The Search for Direction • Carter’s large goals remained obscure • Department of Energy • Three Mile Island (1979) • A Sick Economy • The Chrysler bailout • Recession seemed to doom Carter’s political future McGraw-Hill

  15. 31-15 • Leadership, Not Hegemony • Human rights • Brzezinski and Central America • The Wavering Spirit of Détente • Reviving the China card • SALT II (1979) • The Middle East: Hope and Hostages • Camp David Accords (1978) • The Iranian revolution • The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan McGraw-Hill

  16. 31-16 • A President Held Hostage • Carter’s approval rating sank to record lows-77 percent negative • Crisis of confidence “The uneasiness of the late 1970s reflected a widespread disillusionment with liberal social programs and even with pragmatic engineers like Carter….Tom Wolfe’s Me Generation seemed to be rejecting Carter’s appeal to sacrifice. It turned instead to promoters of self-help therapy, Fundamentalist defenders of the faith, and staunch conservatives who promised both spiritual and material renewal for the 1980s”(1066). McGraw-Hill

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