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54 Cards in this Set
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In all my years of public life I have never obstructed justice. People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well I'm not a crook I earned everything I've got.
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Nixon
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true or false. Lyndon Johnson increased taxes to finance Vietnam and his great Society programs
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false
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who promised to bear any burden
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Kennedy
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America cannot and will not conceive all the plans designed all the programs execute all decisions and undertake all defense of the free nations of the world
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Nixon
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what was Nixon's policy to withdraw us troops from Vietnam
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Vietnamization
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what was Vietnamization also known as?
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nixon doctrine
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who did Nixon call bums
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antiwar protesters
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who was Nixon's vice president
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agnew
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what was the terrible slaughter of natives in Vietnam called
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My lai massacre
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where the National Guard troops fire upon a noisy crowd
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Kent State University
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in 1964 America decrease the age one could be drafted in from eight years to
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one year
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what was the blank check bill for the president
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gulf of Tonkin
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was a series of reports that was released on the Miss doings of the Kennedy and Nixon administrations
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Pentagon papers
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who was Nixon's national security advisor
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kissinger
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what startled the nation in 1971
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Nixon held a meeting with communist China
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what foreign-policy Nixon embrace
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detente
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what was the first treaty with Russia that was aimed at decreasing missiles
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salt strategic arms limitation talks
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what was Nixon's main bargaining chip at the talks with China and Russia
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wheat
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whose new Supreme Court justice in 1951
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warren
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where did the court approved a right of privacy by striking down a state law that prohibited the use of contraceptives
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griswold v Connecticut
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or the two cases that led to the right of the accused to remain silent and enjoy other protections
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Randa and escobedo cases
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what court case prohibited prayer during school
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engel v vitale
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who was Nixon's appointment to the court as supreme justice
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Burger
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what required all federal contracts to reach certain quotas of hiring minorities
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Philadelphia plan
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what famous book and author inspired millions of environmentalist around the world
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Rachel Carson's silent Spring
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who is the mother of the modern conservation movement
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Rachel Carson
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what moves effectively ended the Bretton Woods system of international currency
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taking the US off the gold standard
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who went up against Nixon in 1972
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McGovern
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what amendment lowered the voting age to 18
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26
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what amendment gave the district of Columbia electoral votes
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23rd
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will came to be known as the new isolationism
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war Powers act
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what two things the US do to try and solve the energy crisis
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started building Alaskan pipeline and set the national speed limit at 55 mph
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what amendments set up a procedure for reappointing a vice president
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25th
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it was the former White House lawyer to accuse top White House officials of scandal
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John Dean
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what happened on the Saturday night massacre
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Nixon fired his special prosecutor his attorney general his deputy attorney general
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what did Nixon use to prove that he didn't have to give up the Watergate tapes
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executive privilege
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what Taper gave up Nixon
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smoking gun tape
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was the first president to enter the presidency with out being voted in
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ford
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what foreign-policy agreement finally ended World War II with Russia and guaranteed more liberal exchanges of people and information
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Helsinki
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what prohibited sex discrimination in any federally assisted education program or activity
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title IX
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what declared “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex”
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equal rights amendment
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who is the leading antifeminist
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Phyllis Schlafly
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how many states was the ERA short of passing
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three states
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who was the court's only black justice
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Thurgood Marshall
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is what case is a athletic triumphs possessed limited sovereignty
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United States v Wheeler
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what was Carter's most effective slogan
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I will never lie to you
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how do historians define the feminist movement
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two waves of change
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who was the leader of the second wave of the feminist movement
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Betty Frieden
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what was Carter's most successful foreign-policy achievement
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agreement at Camp David
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we bought it we paid for it we built it and we intend to keep it, who said and what talking about
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Panama Canal
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what had the prime rate risen to in early 1980
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over 20%
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where did Carter chide his fellow citizens for falling into a moral and spirit will crisis and for being too concerned with material goods
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malaise speech
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what turned into Russia's Vietnam
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Afghanistan
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what was one of the worst occurrences in the late 1970s
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Iranian hostage crisis
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