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42 Cards in this Set

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Spiro Agnew
Vice Prsident under Nixon forced to resign.
Henry Kissinger
Sec of State under Nixon & Ford; used real politik to to open relationship with China to end the Vietnam War & moderate the Middle East conflict.
H.R. Haldeman
Chief of Staff under President Richard Nixon; deeply involved in Watergate.
Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
First 2 people to set foot on the moon under Appollo 13
William Rennquist
Supreme Court Judge
John Erlichman
Advisor on Domestic policy to Pres Richard Nixon, deeply involved in Watergate.
John Mitchell
Attorney General under Nixon; involved in Watergate.
Warren Burger
Chief Justice of Supreme Court (moderate)
Carl Bernstein
Bob Woodward
Washington Post reporters who exposed Watergate.
Gerald Ford
38th Pres. Pardoned Nixon, former VP
E. Howard Hunt
G. Gordon Liddy
Ties to the CIA. White house paid them much money to stay quiet.
Daniel Ellsberg
Wrote the Pentagon papers & leaked them to the New York Times.
Judge John Sirica
Washinton Judge who presided over the Watergate investigation in the 1970s; gave long sentences so they would speak.
Edmund Muskie
Presidential candidate that Nixon made drop out of the race.
Mao Zedong
Communist leader of North Vietnam.
Strom Thurmond
Senator
Archibald Cox
Special Watergate prosecuter & is later fired (Saturday Night Massacre)
Hubert Humphrey
Democratic pres candidate in 1968; lost narrowly to Nixon in an election but hurt by support for the Vietnam War and by 3rd-party candidate George Wallace
Eugene McCarthy
Candidate in the 1968 Democratic pres race who opposed the Vietnam War. Conviced Johnson no to run again.
George McGovern
Member of the House
George Wallace
3rd party government for president in 1968; focused his campaign on issues of blue-collar anger in the North & racial tension.
John Dean
Lawyer for the Supreme Court; outed the President.
Berlin Wall
Barrier built by the East German government to separate Commmunist & non-Communist Berlin.
Realpolitik
A german term meaning "practical politics" or foreign policy based on interests rather than moral principles.
New Federalism
Pres Nixon's call for a new partnership between the federal government and state goverments; Reagan's plan to cut back the role of the federal gov't while giving more responsibility to state & local govt.
Revenue Sharing
Income sharing
OPEC
Organization of petroleum exporting counties-group of nations that work together to regulate the price & supply of oil.
Embargo
A ban or restriction on trade.
Deficit spending
Paying out more money from the annual federal budget than the government receives in revenue.
Detente
A relaxation in political tensions between nations.
SALT 1
Strategic arms limitation treaty-1972 agreement between the United State & the Soviet Union on limiting nucleau weapons.
Impeach
To charge a public official
Saturday Night massacre
The situation where Archibald Cox was fired and people resinged & refused to fire him.
Special prosecuter
An attorney appointed by the Justice Dept to investigate wrongdoing by government officials.
Law and Order
Nixon's domestic policy.
Hard hats
When union members get made at protesters & they world beat them to leave.
Silent majority
Term used by Nixon to describe Americans who opposed the counter culture.
Vietnamization
Pres Nixon's policy of replacing American Military forces with those of South Vietnam
Washington Post
Kept the Watergate scandal alive.
Executive priviledge
The President thinks he has priviledge over everyone about turning in the tapes.
Plumbers
Fixed the leaks that came from the White House.
Shuttle Diplomacy
Traveling back & forth between Middle Eastern capitals to arrange peace(Kissinger).