Gerald Ford

helped show the shift in rhetoric in America. An important issue that helped change the rhetoric was the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC for short, embargo in the years 1973-1974. This issue arose during the Presidency of Gerald Ford and was an issue that outraged the nation. The nation had become reliant on transport with motorized vehicles and they were not able to because the government was not able to secure the gasoline they needed to ride around town. This idea was…

This week’s reading discussed the aftermath of Watergate, President Ford’s decisions, particularly in relation to Nixon, and the beginning of Reagan’s political career. Ronald Reagan started off as a sportscaster on the radio. After the Watergate scandal, Reagan continued to Nixon, who was claiming some of the reports were taken out of context. Reagan’s love for being a news caster helped prepare him for his political career by allowing him to be a socialite and using his love for public…

later found to be connected to President Nixon’s reelection campaign. Nixon claimed that he never knew anything about the scandal, but later he was found guilty lying to the public about what had happened. He resigned from office and vice president Gerald Ford took Nixon’s place as the new president. Since this scandal in 1972, many people wonder about everything that happens behind the scenes of the government that the common public does not know about. Citizens often wonder…

All through history, people have been overly ambitious in the pursuit of power. However I think that Richard Nixon takes this to a whole new level with his attempts to control the results of the 1972 presidential election, and it eventually led to his downfall both in politics, and the eyes of his fellow Americans. People may say that Watergate wasn’t as it was made out to be, and that the entire thing was overblown, but they are wrong, not only was it as bad as the public originally thought,…

to the public on August 5. Many of Nixon’s supporters were astonished, the tapes proved that Nixon had ordered a cover-up. On August 8 1974 Nixon resigned from the presidency. The new president was Vice-president Gerald R. Ford, who had gotten the position after Agnew resigned. Once Ford was president he pardoned Nixon for the federal crimes he may or may not have committed while in…

The Watergate Scandal forever ruined the nation’s trust in the Presidency. Although the United States was doing well and had just made it out of the unpopular Vietnam War, the nation almost impeached Richard Nixon for his unacceptable actions. After the Watergate Scandal, there have been many more outrages from other well-known politicians. The Nation has reached a point where it can no longer trust the past and present presidents because of their actions. During a warm, early morning on June…

June 17, 1972 is a date that changed America for years to come. For on that day Richard Nixon signed his death sentence on his presidency. That was the day of the break-in at the watergate hotel, the home of the 1972 democratic national convention headquarters. Watergate prolifically changed the way that we as americans think and how we as americans act through politics. Without Watergate who knows what our current political system would be like? Most think what we currently have is a very…

that Nixon had issued this order and may have been involved in many other scandals. Numerous noticeable individuals from the President's organization surrendered. VP Spiro Agnew was likewise compelled to leave for taking rewards. Congress then had Gerald Ford take the place of Spiro Agnew. A select Senate panel, headed by Senator Sam Erving, drove an examination concerning the debasement. Nixon asserted no learning of the illicit exercises, yet John Dean III, a previous White House legal…

naissance of the government’s anti-drug program began under the presidency of Richard Nixon. He set the ball in motion by classifying marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug and by directing his government agencies to target black social activists. President Gerald Ford stoked the flames by pushing for and achieving mandatory minimum sentences for drug related crimes in many states. President Ronald Reagan’s administration sullied Nancy Reagan’s…

almost deported again. She divorced her husband, a Japanese-Filipino man by the name of Felippe d’Aquino in 1980 due to her being in prison and the relationship falling apart. On January 19, 1977, she was given an official pardon from President Gerald Ford. She lived out the rest of her life in Chicago, where she died on September 26, 2006. Her impact on American history was that she was one of a few people in the U.S that were ever tried for treason. She was a good demonstration of how…