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42 Cards in this Set
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Spiro Agnew
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Vice Prsident under Nixon forced to resign.
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Henry Kissinger
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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.
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H.R. Haldeman
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Chief of Staff under President Richard Nixon; deeply involved in Watergate.
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Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
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First 2 people to set foot on the moon under Appollo 13
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William Rennquist
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Supreme Court Judge
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John Erlichman
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Advisor on Domestic policy to Pres Richard Nixon, deeply involved in Watergate.
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John Mitchell
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Attorney General under Nixon; involved in Watergate.
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Warren Burger
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Chief Justice of Supreme Court (moderate)
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Carl Bernstein
Bob Woodward |
Washington Post reporters who exposed Watergate.
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Gerald Ford
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38th Pres. Pardoned Nixon, former VP
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E. Howard Hunt
G. Gordon Liddy |
Ties to the CIA. White house paid them much money to stay quiet.
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Daniel Ellsberg
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Wrote the Pentagon papers & leaked them to the New York Times.
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Judge John Sirica
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Washinton Judge who presided over the Watergate investigation in the 1970s; gave long sentences so they would speak.
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Edmund Muskie
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Presidential candidate that Nixon made drop out of the race.
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Mao Zedong
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Communist leader of North Vietnam.
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Strom Thurmond
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Senator
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Archibald Cox
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Special Watergate prosecuter & is later fired (Saturday Night Massacre)
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Hubert Humphrey
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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
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Eugene McCarthy
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Candidate in the 1968 Democratic pres race who opposed the Vietnam War. Conviced Johnson no to run again.
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George McGovern
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Member of the House
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George Wallace
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3rd party government for president in 1968; focused his campaign on issues of blue-collar anger in the North & racial tension.
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John Dean
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Lawyer for the Supreme Court; outed the President.
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Berlin Wall
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Barrier built by the East German government to separate Commmunist & non-Communist Berlin.
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Realpolitik
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A german term meaning "practical politics" or foreign policy based on interests rather than moral principles.
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New Federalism
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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.
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Revenue Sharing
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Income sharing
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OPEC
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Organization of petroleum exporting counties-group of nations that work together to regulate the price & supply of oil.
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Embargo
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A ban or restriction on trade.
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Deficit spending
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Paying out more money from the annual federal budget than the government receives in revenue.
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Detente
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A relaxation in political tensions between nations.
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SALT 1
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Strategic arms limitation treaty-1972 agreement between the United State & the Soviet Union on limiting nucleau weapons.
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Impeach
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To charge a public official
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Saturday Night massacre
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The situation where Archibald Cox was fired and people resinged & refused to fire him.
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Special prosecuter
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An attorney appointed by the Justice Dept to investigate wrongdoing by government officials.
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Law and Order
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Nixon's domestic policy.
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Hard hats
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When union members get made at protesters & they world beat them to leave.
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Silent majority
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Term used by Nixon to describe Americans who opposed the counter culture.
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Vietnamization
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Pres Nixon's policy of replacing American Military forces with those of South Vietnam
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Washington Post
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Kept the Watergate scandal alive.
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Executive priviledge
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The President thinks he has priviledge over everyone about turning in the tapes.
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Plumbers
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Fixed the leaks that came from the White House.
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Shuttle Diplomacy
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Traveling back & forth between Middle Eastern capitals to arrange peace(Kissinger).
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