Chapter 39 The Stalemated Seventies Sources of Stagnation 1. Sudden slump in productivity was attributed to the increasing presence in the work force of women and teenagers who had fewer skills than adult males and were less likely to take full time‚ long-term jobs-some blamed it on new machinery but no one knows for sure. 2. During Nixon’s presidency‚ Americans experienced the first serious inflation since the immediate post World War II years. Nixon “Vietnamese” the War 1. He could be brittle
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Watergate: The affair began on June 17‚ 1972‚ when the local police arrested five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex. The police found on the burglars a slush fund used by the committee for the re-election of the President Richard Nixon and listening devices. They look secrets agents more than burglars. As Washington is a federal district‚ the affair was charged to the F.B.I. Within hours after that‚ the F.B.I discovered a
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Mk Ultra was the name given to a terrible illegal program. Human subjects were experimented on by the CIA. It used people not aware of the full facts for test subjects. This included American citizens and Canadian citizens. This experiment used LSD on mental patients‚ some prisoners‚ prostitutes‚ and drug addicts. Not only that their own CIA employees were victims of LSD being admistered to them. LSD is a potent chemical that can change the mood of a person. It has lysergic acid which can be obtained
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advances. He helped her out of pity with no other intention‚ but she became his mistress because he became the most important person in her life’. In a way‚ Gerald is let off of some of the guilt‚ since even the inspector says that he made her happy for a time‚ and she had the experience of living in her own home and falling in love. Gerald did have affection for her‚ even if he didn’t love her like she loved him‚ he was the only one out of them all to actually have a personal relationship with her
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need to not only drink every day‚ but will also need to drink in increasingly larger amounts in order to feel good. One of the most notable and famous cases of substance abuse and alcoholism is that of Betty Ford. Betty Ford was the wife of President Gerald R. Ford and was considered as one of the most influential First Ladies in American History. Some of Betty Ford’s greatest accomplishments included her advocacies in breast cancer awareness as well as women’s rights (Meyer‚ Chapman‚ & Weaver‚ 2009)
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Watergate Paper Hist/145 Jessica Lee 5/21/11 Brooklyn Sawyers Watergate was a foiled burglary attempted by five men‚ nicknamed the “plumbers”‚ who were hired by President Richard Nixon. The Nixon campaign denied any involvement and the administration just dismissed the break-in as “a two bit burglary” (Wall Street Journal‚ May 1973). The Vice President Agnew and Senator Proxmire thought that the charges were careless and misdirected and felt that the press should be criticized for printing
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Why does the number of presidential vetoes change from year to year? [10] The number of presidential vetoes varies from year to year partly because there are different times of presidency when there are partisan or bi-partisan governing. So president may get a partisan control in the congress when his party dominates in both chambers‚ bi-partisan control is the time when president has support dominance of opposition party in both House of Representatives and Senate and bi-partisan control when
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Scandal - The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17‚ 1972‚ break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington‚ D.C. Gerald Ford - was the 38th President of the United States‚ serving from 1974 to 1977‚ and prior to this‚ was the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. Kent State Massacre - occurred at Kent State University in the U.S. city
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The Lasting Effect of the Watergate Scandal When one thinks of what has been termed as the Watergate scandal many different issues can come to mind. Watergate is arguably‚ the largest‚ most widely known political scandal in American history. Watergate brought about a shift in the American public’s view of the presidency‚ causing many at that time to lose faith‚ and view the office in a way it had never been viewed before. What has become known as Watergate is an all-encompassing term for a mixture
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racial discrimination of the Construction Department so President Nixon decided to incorporate a system of "goals and timetables" that provided guidelines for companies to follow and comply with affirmative action regulations. During the presidency of Gerald Ford‚ he extended affirmative action to people with disabilities and Vietnam veterans but there were no goals or timetables for these two groups. This type of affirmative action required recruitment efforts‚ accessibility‚ accommodation and reviews
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