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The American Nation A History of the United States Fourteenth Edition Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961-1975 The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  From Camelot to Watergate: 1961-1975 Kennedy in Camelot The Cuban Crises JFK’s Vietnam War “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society New Racial Turmoil The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  From Camelot to Watergate: 1961-1975 From the “Beat Movement” to Student Radicalism Johnson Escalates the War The Election of 1968 Nixon as President: “Vietnamizing” the War The Cambodian “Incursion” Détente with Communism Nixon in Triumph Domestic Policy Under Nixon The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  From Camelot to Watergate: 1961-1975 The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up The Judgment on Watergate: “Expletive Deleted” Nixon Resigns, Ford Becomes President The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Robert McCall’s depiction of an American attack on Moscow The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Kennedy in Camelot The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Kennedy in Camelot Kennedy had a youthful and scholarly senior staff  McGeorge Bundy, national security advisor and former dean of faculty at Harvard  Robert McNamara, secretary of defense and former head of Ford Motor Company Believed in physical activity and vigor The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Kennedy in Camelot (cont'd) Yet Kennedy was no intellectual nor was he in very good physical shape, suffering from Addison’s disease and chronic back problems Kennedy nonetheless engaged in many extramarital affairs The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cuban Crises The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cuban Crises Kennedy proposed to challenge communist aggression wherever it occurred  Called on young men and women to serve in the Peace Corps, an organization created to mobilize American idealism and technical skills to help developing nations The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner), Kennedy declared from a balcony The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cuban Crises (cont'd) Under Eisenhower, the CIA had begun training some 2000 Cuban exiles in Nicaragua to retake Cuba  Kennedy inherited the invasion plan and his closest advisors urged him to go forward with it The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cuban Crises (cont'd) April 1961: some 1400 invaders landed at the Bay of Pigs on Cuba’s southern coast  Cuban people failed to flock to their support  Castro’s army pinned down the invaders and forced them to surrender  American involvement was apparent  Kennedy looked impulsive and unprincipled  Castro tightened his connections with the U.S.S.R. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cuban Crises (cont'd) June 1961: Kennedy met with Khrushchev in Vienna  Khrushchev threatened to seize West Berlin Kennedy ordered military leaders to plan for a full-scale invasion of Cuba  CIA undertook “Operation Mongoose”—a plan to slip spies, saboteurs and assassins into Cuba The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cuban Crises (cont'd) 1962: To forestall the American invasion, Khrushchev moved tanks, bombers and 42,000 Soviet troops and technicians to Cuba  Also sought to sneak in several dozen nuclear missiles The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cuban Crises (cont'd) October 14: U.S. spy planes discovered the launching pads and missiles  Fearful that if U.S. invaded Cuba or bombed Soviet bases and missile site, Khrushchev would seize West Berlin or bomb U.S. missiles in Turkey The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  This photograph shows the installation of liquid- fueled Soviet missiles The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cuban Crises (cont'd) October 22: Kennedy addressed the American people on TV  Ordered the American navy to stop and search all vessels headed for Cuba and to turn back any containing offensive weapons  Called on Khrushchev to dismantle missile bases and remove all offensive weapons from Cuba The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cuban Crises (cont'd) After several days, Khrushchev backed down  Recalled the ships, withdrew the missiles and reduced his military presence in Cuba  Kennedy lifted the blockade and promised not to invade Cuba  Kennedy also removed, several months later, the U.S. missiles in Turkey The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cuban Crises (cont'd) Berlin wall  Erected by East Germany in 1961 and torn down by a Dutch company in 1989, the wall isolated West Berlin from the surrounding areas in communist controlled East Berlin and East Germany. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cuban Crises (cont'd) Bay of Pigs fiasco  A military debacle in April 1961, during an American-organized effort to invade Cuba and drive Fidel Castro, the communist ruler, from power. The invasion force of some 1,500 Cuban exiles was routed at the Bay of Pigs, a major embarrassment for President John F. Kennedy. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cuban Crises (cont'd) Cuban missile crisis  The showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union during October 1962, after the Soviet Union had sneaked medium- range nuclear missiles into communist Cuba. After President John F. Kennedy publicly demanded their removal and ordered the blockade of Cuba, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed to do so, averting a nuclear war. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  JFK’s Vietnam War The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  JFK’s Vietnam War Ngo Dinh Diem cancelled the nationwide election scheduled for 1956 and sought to establish an independent nation in the south  Under Eisenhower, U.S. sent weapons and “advisors” to help train and equip a South Vietnamese army  Ho worked on consolidating his rule in the North The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  JFK’s Vietnam War (cont'd) Ngo Dinh Diem cancelled the nationwide election scheduled for 1956 and sought to establish an independent nation in the south  Viet Minh (later called Viet Cong by Diem) units that remained in the south were instructed to bide their time The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  JFK’s Vietnam War (cont'd) By May 1959, Vietcong guerillas had infiltrated thousands of villages, ambushed South Vietnamese convoys, and assassinated government officials  Soon controlled large sections of the countryside The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  JFK’s Vietnam War (cont'd) As a senator, Kennedy had endorsed Diem and his efforts to build an noncommunist South Vietnam As president, Kennedy sharply increased the American military and economic commitment to South Vietnam  1961: 3200 American military personnel in country  1963: More than 16,000 and 120 American soldiers had been killed The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  JFK’s Vietnam War (cont'd) By summer 1963, Diem’s regime was tottering  Not helped by his crackdown on Buddhists (Diem was Catholic) that led to several of them setting themselves on fire in front of major media coverage  Kennedy agreed to support Diem’s overthrow The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  JFK’s Vietnam War (cont'd) November 1, 1963: several Vietnamese generals overthrew and killed Diem The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Buddhist monks protested by setting themselves on fire. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement Kennedy approached civil rights gingerly since his election had depended on the votes of both northern blacks and southern whites  Congress for Racial Equality (CORE), founded in 1942, also joined the fray The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement (cont'd) Black college students founded Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960 to provide a focus for the sit-in movement and to conduct voter registration drives in the South The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement (cont'd) May 1961: Black and white foes of segregation organized a “freedom ride” to test the effectiveness of federal regulations prohibiting discrimination in interstate transport  An integrated group of 13 boarded two buses in Washington and headed for New Orleans  Anniston, Alabama: Racists set one of the buses on fire The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement (cont'd) May 1961: Black and white foes of segregation organized a “freedom ride” to test the effectiveness of federal regulations prohibiting discrimination in interstate transport  Were assaulted by a mob in Birmingham  Nonetheless, other groups followed and court cases that resulted helped break down local segregation laws The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement (cont'd) In the North, black nationalism became a potent force  Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Black Muslim movement, demanded that a part of the United States be set aside exclusively for blacks  Urged his followers to be industrious, thrifty and abstemious and to view all whites with suspicion and hatred The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement (cont'd) In the North, black nationalism became a potent force  Malcolm X was another important black Muslim leader who urged separatism The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement (cont'd) Ordinary southern blacks became increasingly impatient and in the face of violent repression began to question King’s nonviolent approach The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement (cont'd) When King was thrown in jail after leading a series of protests in Birmingham, Alabama, he wrote his moving Letters from a Birmingham Jail explaining why he and his followers were no longer willing to wait as sympathetic whites urged them to do The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement (cont'd) Brutal repression of Birmingham demonstrations was captured by the media and generated a flood of recruits and money President Kennedy reluctantly began to change his policy  Gave support to modest civil rights bill The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement (cont'd) Blacks organized demonstration in Washington when bill ran into Congressional opposition  Over 200,000 attended  King delivered his famous “I Have Dream” speech The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement (cont'd) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)  A civil rights organization, founded in 1960, that drew heavily on younger activists and college students. After 1965, under the leadership of Stokely Carmichael and then H. Rap Brown, the group advocated “Black Power.” The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Whites pour mustard and ketchup over black students The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated November 22, 1963: while visiting Dallas, Kennedy was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald  Before being brought to trial, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, owner of a Dallas nightclub The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated November 22, 1963: while visiting Dallas, Kennedy was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald  Many people believed a conspiracy was behind the Kennedy assassination and a special commission under Chief Justice Earl Warren was established to investigate - Concluded Oswald had acted alone The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated (cont'd) However, instead of dampening charges of conspiracy, Warren Commission report provoked new doubts:  Failure of Warren Commission to report Operation Mongoose  Decision of Allen Dulles, former secretary of CIA, to protect CIA secrets The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy ride in a motorcade The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society Lyndon Baines Johnson became president when Kennedy died  Considered social welfare legislation his specialty  Kennedy’s plans for federal aid for education, medical care for the aged, higher minimum wage, and urban renewal had been blocked by Congress and Kennedy had reacted mildly, believing government to be cumbersome and ineffective The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Johnson knew how to make government work and pushed hard for Kennedy’s programs when he became president  Early in 1964, Kennedy’s tax cut was passed  An expanded version of Kennedy’s proposal was passed as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination by employers against blacks and also against women  Broke down legal barriers to black voting in southern states  Outlawed racial segregation of all sorts in places of public accommodation  Johnson made sure the act was enforced The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  African Americans attending schools with whites in the South and border states, 1954 and 1964 The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  School segregation and residential patterns in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1964 and 1980 The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Johnson declared war on poverty and set out to create a Great Society  In 1960, between 20 and 25 percent of American families—about 40 million people— lived below the poverty line  Prosperity and advancing technology had changed the definition of poverty; yet, as living standards rose so did the educational requirements of many jobs The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Economic Opportunity Act of 1964  Created a mixture of programs that combined the progressive concept of government with the conservative concept of individual responsibility The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Job Corps  Community action program to finance local antipoverty efforts  System for training the unskilled unemployed and for lending money to small businesses in poor areas The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Johnson sought election as president in his own right in 1964  Championship of civil rights garnered him almost unanimous support of blacks  His tax policy attracted the well-to-do and business interests The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Johnson sought election as president in his own right in 1964  War on poverty held the allegiance of labor and other traditionally Democratic groups  Down-home southern antecedents counterbalanced his liberalism on race in the eyes of many white Southerners The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Republicans nominated conservative Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona Johnson won with over 61 percent of the popular vote and carried the entire country except for Arizona and 5 southern states in the Deep South The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) January 1965: Johnson proposed a compulsory hospital insurance system, Medicare, for all persons over 65  Part A: Hospital insurance for retired (funded by increase in Social Security)  Part B: Voluntary plan covering doctors’ bills (paid for in part by the government)  Also provided for grants to the states to help pay medical expenses of poor people regardless of age—Medicaid The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965  Supplied federal funds to school districts  Head Start program was designed to help prepare poor preschoolers for elementary school  Also provided medical examinations and nutritious meals The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Voting Rights Act of 1965: Provided for federal intervention to protect black registration and voting in 6 southern states and applied to state and local as well as federal elections The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Other laws passed at Johnson’s urging included:  National Endowment for the Arts  National Endowment for the Humanities  Measures supporting scientific research, highway safety, crime control, slum clearance, clean air, and the preservation of historic sites The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Other laws passed at Johnson’s urging included:  Immigration Act of 1965 did away with most of the provisions of the national-origin system of admitting newcomers - 290,000 were to be admitted each year on the basis of job skills and need for political asylum for instance - Also placed a limit of 120,000 on immigrants from Western hemisphere countries which had previous been unrestricted The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) The Education Act was considered disappointing Medicare and Medicaid provided medical treatment for millions of people but gave doctors, hospitals and drug companies the ability to raise fees without fear of losing customers The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Job Corps, which was supposed to provide vocational training to help people get better jobs, was almost a complete failure The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Civil Rights Act of 1964  Legislation outlawing discrimination in public accommodations and employment on the basis of race, skin color, sex, religion, or national origin. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Great Society  The sweeping legislative agenda of President Lyndon Johnson; it sought to end poverty, promote civil rights, and improve housing, health care, and education. The program was criticized as costly and ineffective. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Medicare  A social welfare measure, enacted in 1965, providing hospitalization insurance for people over sixty-five and a voluntary plan to cover doctor bills paid in part by the federal government. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society (cont'd) Voting Rights Act of 1965  Federal legislation that empowered federal registrars to intervene when southern states and municipalities refused to let African Americans register to vote. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Table 29.1 Making a “Great Society” The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  LBJ cultivated the masculine image of a Texas cowboy The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  New Racial Turmoil The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  New Racial Turmoil Black militancy burst forth powerfully in the mid-1960s  Illustrated by Black Muslims’ response to Malcolm X’s 1964 decision to abandon the organization  In 1965, while making a speech in favor of racial harmony, he was assassinated by Black Muslim fanatics The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Malcolm X, featured on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  New Racial Turmoil (cont'd) Even Martin Luther King, Jr., the herald of nonviolent resistance, became more aggressive  King led a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to force state to allow blacks to register to vote  Marchers assaulted by state policemen with clubs and tear gas The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  New Racial Turmoil (cont'd) Many African Americans lost patience with nonviolence and Black Power caught on swiftly among militants  Troubled white liberals, who feared that Black Power would antagonize white conservatives  Liberals argued that since blacks made up only about 11% of U.S. population, attempting to obtain racial justice through force was sure to fail The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  New Racial Turmoil (cont'd) Meanwhile, black anger erupted in a series of destructive urban riots  Most important occurred in Watts, a ghetto of Los Angeles, in August 1965; the following two summers saw similar outbursts in scores of cities The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Violence and Segregation in Watts, Los Angeles, August 11, 1965 The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Police watch as the Watts section of Los Angeles burns during riots in August, 1965. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  New Racial Turmoil (cont'd) In April 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, by a white man, James Earl Ray  Blacks in 100+ cities unleashed their anger in outbursts of burning and looting  King’s death appeared to destroy hopes that a peaceful approach could solve the problems of racism The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  New Racial Turmoil (cont'd) Riots concentrated in the ghettos, attacking the source of degradation even when it meant self-destruction Riots polarized society on racial lines; whites fled to the suburbs in droves Black Power advocates became more determined to separate from whites Extremists formed the Black Panthers and collected weapons to resist the police The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  From the “Beat Movement” to Student Radicalism The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  From the “Beat Movement” to Student Radicalism The roots of 1960s’ dissent began in the 1950s:  J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (1951)  Allen Ginsberg: Howl (1955)  Jack Kerouac: On the Road (1957)  Joseph Heller: Catch-22 (1955) The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  From the “Beat Movement” to Student Radicalism (cont'd) “Beats” in the 1950s  Were a fringe group of poets and musicians, but their successors in the 1960s —“hippies”—were found in large groups in every big city in the U.S. and Europe  “Turned off” by modern world and retreated from it, finding refuge in communes, drugs, and mystical religions The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  From the “Beat Movement” to Student Radicalism (cont'd) “Beats” in the 1950s  Disgusted by politicians, horrified by Vietnam, appalled by racism, and contemptuous of smugness in colleges and universities  Rejected activism The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  From the “Beat Movement” to Student Radicalism (cont'd) “Beats” in the 1950s  Their world was folk songs and acid rock music, “be-ins,” “love-ins,” casual sex, and drugs  Slogan: “Make love, not war” The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Timothy Leary, “The Johnny Appleseed of LSD The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  From the “Beat Movement” to Student Radicalism (cont'd) Many students regarded racism and bigotry as symptoms of right-wing “power elite” of corporate executives and military and political leaders The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  From the “Beat Movement” to Student Radicalism (cont'd) In 1962, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) put together a manifesto for action  Sought to wrest power from the “military- industrial” complex and institute a radical socialist government  Proposed to radicalize college students  SDS grew, powered by rising college enrollments and local campus issues The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  From the “Beat Movement” to Student Radicalism (cont'd) 1964: First major student outburst at University of California at Berkeley  Sit-down strikes disrupted campus for weeks  Hundreds arrested, state legislature threatened reprisals, faculty became involved; crisis led to resignation of UC president Kerr Decision by Lyndon Johnson to escalate war in Vietnam transformed student activism into mass political movement The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  A young man perches in a tree with a guitar The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. From the “Beat Movement” to Student Radicalism (cont'd) Beat school  Also known as “beats,” “beatniks,” or the “beat generation”—nonconformists in the late 1950s who rejected conventional dress and sexual standards and cultivated avant-garde literature and music. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. From the “Beat Movement” to Student Radicalism (cont'd) Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)  An organization created by leftist college students in the early 1960s; it organized protests against racial bigotry, corporate exploitation of workers, and, especially after 1965, the Vietnam war. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Johnson Escalates the War The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Johnson Escalates the War The situation in South Vietnam continued to deteriorate after Diem was assassinated  One military coup followed another  Johnson felt had to support South Vietnam The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Vietnam War, 1961–1975 The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Johnson Escalates the War (cont'd) Decided to punish the North for the war  Early 1964 secretly ordered U.S. naval ships to escort the South Vietnamese navy on missions far into the Gulf of Tonkin where they attacked ships and port facilities and landed commando teams  After one such mission, an American destroyer reported it was fired on by North Vietnamese gunboats The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Johnson Escalates the War (cont'd) Decided to punish the North for the war  A second report of an additional attack came in several days later, though it was extremely bad weather and the enemy was never spotted The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Johnson Escalates the War (cont'd) Johnson used the Gulf of Tonkin incident to demand Congress authorize him to “repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression” [Tonkin Gulf Resolution]  Essentially a blank check The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Johnson Escalates the War (cont'd) Johnson authorized air attacks on North Vietnam  By the summer of 1965, U.S. bombers were conducting 5000 raids each month  American intelligence officers concluded that the bombing campaign actually strengthened people’s will to resist  Vietcong expanded the areas under their control The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Johnson Escalates the War (cont'd) July 1965: Johnson suggested that lots of American troops would be needed in Vietnam By the end of 1965, 184,000 Americans were in the field  1966: 385,000  1967: 485,000 The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Johnson Escalates the War (cont'd) Increases of American troops were met by increases from the other side and increased aid from China and the Soviet Union to North Vietnam  North Vietnamese soldiers crossed the 17th parallel to help the Vietcong  American soldiers engaged in “search and destroy” operations  Middle of 1968: 538,000 The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  A soldier watches as a village is burned. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Johnson Escalates the War (cont'd) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution  Congressional action, undertaken at President Johnson’s request, giving the President the authority to deploy U.S. troops to repel aggression in Southeast Asia. This provided congressional sanction for the escalation of the Vietnam war. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 Opponents of war began to gather strength and numbers, even among the President’s advisors  By 1967 even Robert McNamara believed the war could not be won and resigned The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) Opposition was especially vehement on college campuses  Some felt U.S. had no business intervening in Vietnam  Some did not want to be drafted  Some objected because so many received educational deferments while young men who could not attend college were drafted  Opposition to the war was his issue The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) November 1967: Eugene McCarthy announced he would seek the Democratic nomination Johnson ordered General Westmoreland to reassure the American people on the course of the war  Late 1967, said could “see the light at the end of the tunnel” The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) Early 1968, North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces launched a general offensive to correspond with Tet (lunar new year)  Struck 39 of 44 provincial capitals in Southern Vietnam  Held the old capital city of Hué for weeks The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) Tet offensive was a series of raids  Communists did not expect to hold cities and they did not  Suffered huge casualties  Psychological impact in South Vietnam and the U.S. made Tet a victory for the North - American pollsters reported huge shift of public opinion against further escalation The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) When Westmoreland asked for 206,000 additional troops, Eugene McCarthy suddenly became a major figure and in the New Hampshire primary he polled 42 percent of the Democratic vote  Robert Kennedy announced his candidacy  President Johnson withdrew from the race - Vice President Hubert Humphrey announced his candidacy and Johnson supported him The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) Kennedy carried the primaries in Indiana and Nebraska McCarthy won in Wisconsin and Oregon Kennedy won in a close race in California but was assassinated during his victory speech by Sirhan Sirhan, an Arab nationalist opposed to Kennedy’s support of Israel The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) Humphrey was assured of the nomination The Republicans nominated Richard M. Nixon  Chose Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew as his running mate The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) Alabama Governor George Wallace tried to get enough electoral votes for his American Independent party to prevent any candidate from obtaining a majority  Anti-black and anti-intellectual The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) The Democratic convention met in Chicago in late August  Humphrey delegates controlled the convention  Humphrey had a liberal domestic reputation but had supported Johnson’s Vietnam policy The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) The Democratic convention met in Chicago in late August  Several thousand activists, representing a dozen groups and advocating tactics ranging from orderly demonstrations to civil disobedience to indiscriminate violence, came to Chicago to put pressure on the delegates The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) Mayor Daley of Chicago ringed the convention with police  Inside the delegates nominated Humphrey and adopted a war plank satisfactory to Johnson  Outside, provoked by abusive language and violent behavior, police tore into the demonstrators while millions watched on TV The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) Nixon campaigned at a deliberate dignified pace while the Democratic campaign was badly organized  Johnson helped Humphrey shortly before election day by suspending air attacks on North Vietnam  Black voters and urban poor had no real choice but to vote Democratic The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) Nixon won a close race with 31.8 million to 31.3 million popular votes but 301 to 191 electoral votes  Remaining 46 electoral votes went to Wallace whose 99 million votes were 13.5 percent of the total  Democrats retained control of both houses of Congress The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Election of 1968 (cont'd) Tet offensive  A wide-ranging offensive, launched by North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops throughout South Vietnam in February 1968. It failed to cause the South Vietnamese government to collapse, but persuaded many Americans that the war was not winnable. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his decision not to run for reelection several months later. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Table 29.2 Major Events in the Vietnam War, 1961–1968 The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Nixon as President: “Vietnamizing” the War The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Nixon as President: “Vietnamizing” the War Nixon considered solving the Vietnam War to be his chief concern when he took office in 1969  Proposed a phased withdrawal of all non- South Vietnamese troops, to be followed by an internationally supervised election in South Vietnam  North Vietnamese insisted that U.S. withdraw its forces unconditionally The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Nixon as President: “Vietnamizing” the War (cont'd) Nixon responded by trying to build up South Vietnamese troops so U.S. could pull out without South Vietnam falling  For awhile, events appeared to vindicate Nixon’s policies, but the war continued The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Nixon as President: “Vietnamizing” the War (cont'd) In 1970, reports that Americans had massacred civilians, predominantly women and children in a Vietnamese hamlet known as My Lai  My Lai revived the controversy over the purposes of the war and the effects on those fighting it; the American people were being torn apart by the war The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Women and children were among some 300 apparently unarmed civilians killed The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Nixon as President: “Vietnamizing” the War (cont'd) Nixon wanted to end the war but did not want to lose it, and as a result, ended up heightening the tensions he sought to relax The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the moon The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cambodian “Incursion” The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Cambodian “Incursion” Late in April 1970 Nixon announced that within a year 150,000 American troops would be withdrawn The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. The Cambodian “Incursion” (cont'd) A week later announced that the enemy was consolidating its sanctuaries in neutral Cambodia and he was dispatching thousands of American troops to destroy these bases  U.S. had been secretly bombing Cambodia for years but this was not revealed until 1973 The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. The Cambodian “Incursion” (cont'd) Announcement of Cambodian invasion triggered numerous campus demonstrations  Kent State, Ohio: students clashed with local police for several days and damaged property until the governor called in the National Guard who opened fire, killing four students on May 4  Two students were also killed at Jackson State University in Mississippi The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. The Cambodian “Incursion” (cont'd) Announcement of Cambodian invasion triggered numerous campus demonstrations  A wave of student strikes led to the closing of hundreds of colleges across the nation Nixon pulled U.S. troops out of Cambodia and stepped up air attacks The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. The Cambodian “Incursion” (cont'd) March 1972: North Vietnamese mounted a series of attacks  Nixon responded with heavier bombing and ordered the mining of Haiphong Harbor in North Vietnam The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  National Guardsmen firing into a crowd of antiwar protesters at Kent State University killed four students The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Détente with Communism The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Détente with Communism Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, were meanwhile engaged in a secret diplomatic strategy that decided to treat the Soviets and the Chinese as separate powers that one could live and work with—détente  Nixon sent Kissinger secretly to China and the Soviet Union to pave the way for summit meetings The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Détente with Communism (cont'd) February 1972: Nixon and Kissinger flew to Beijing  Nixon agreed to promote economic and cultural exchanges and supported the admission of communist China into the UN  Exports to China increased, reaching $4 billion in 1980 The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Détente with Communism (cont'd) May 1972: Nixon and Kissinger flew to Moscow  Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT): two powers agreed to stop making nuclear ballistic missiles and to reduce the number of antiballistic missiles in their arsenals to 200  Nixon also agreed to ship grain to Soviet Union The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Détente with Communism (cont'd) By October 1972, Kissinger had hammered out a deal with the North Vietnamese calling for a cease fire, the return of American prisoners of war and the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Détente with Communism (cont'd) Détente  A French term, meaning the relaxation of tensions, applied to an easing of Cold War antagonisms during the 1970s. Under President Richard Nixon and foreign affairs adviser Henry Kissinger, détente was a strategy to allow the United States to weaken the bonds between the Soviet Union and communist China. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Détente with Communism (cont'd) Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)  A treaty, signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1972, restricting the testing and deployment of nuclear ballistic missiles, the first of several such treaties. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Nixon in Triumph The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Nixon in Triumph Nixon was re-elected in 1972, defeating Senator George McGovern by 521 electoral votes to 17  Nixon interpreted triumph as an indication that people were behind him  South voted Republican The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Nixon in Triumph (cont'd) Kissinger’s agreement with North Vietnam was undermined when South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu refused to sign it because it said nothing about removing communist troops from South Vietnam  Nixon resumed bombing of North Vietnam in December 1972, losing large numbers of planes The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Nixon in Triumph (cont'd) January 1973: Agreement was reached that looked similar to the one in October  North Vietnamese retained large sections of the south  Agreed to release all U.S. prisoners within 60 days The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Nixon in Triumph (cont'd) January 1973: Agreement was reached that looked similar to the one in October  Thieu agreed and Nixon secretly pledged to “respond with full force” if North Vietnam resumed its offensive  American prisoners were released and most U.S. troops pulled out of Vietnam The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Nixon in Triumph (cont'd) More than 57,000 Americans died in Vietnam, over 300,000 had been wounded  Nearly a million communist soldiers and 185,000 South Vietnamese soldiers were reported killed 1973: Kissinger was named Secretary of State  Shared the Nobel Peace Prize with a North Vietnamese diplomat The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  President and Mrs. Nixon dine with Chinese communist officials The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Domestic Policy Under Nixon The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Domestic Policy Under Nixon Major economic problem Nixon faced in 1969 was inflation  Cut federal spending and balanced the 1969 budget while the Federal Reserve Board forced up interest rates  When prices continued to rise, unions demanded wage increases The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Domestic Policy Under Nixon (cont'd) 1970: Congress gave president the power to regulate prices and wages  1971: Nixon announced 90-day wage and price freezes  Set up pay board and price commission with authority to limit wage and price increases when the freeze ended The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Domestic Policy Under Nixon (cont'd) Signed the bill creating the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Clean Air Act of 1970 Hoping to increase the standing of the Republican party in the South, Nixon checked further federal efforts to force school desegregation on reluctant local districts and sent “strict constructionists” to the Supreme Court The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Clean Air Act of 1970 mandated reductions in air pollution The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Domestic Policy Under Nixon (cont'd) Nixon wanted to increase the power of the presidency vis-à-vis Congress, but also decentralize the administration by encouraging state and local management of government programs  No person or group should be coddled by the state  Criminals should be punished “without pity” The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Domestic Policy Under Nixon (cont'd) After second inauguration, ended wage and price controls and called for voluntary “restraints”  Prices soared in most rapid inflation since Korean War  Nixon set rigid limit on federal spending which he achieved by cutting or abolishing a large number of social welfare programs and reducing federal grants to support science and education The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Domestic Policy Under Nixon (cont'd) After second inauguration, ended wage and price controls and called for voluntary “restraints”  Refused to spend (impounded) funds Congress had appropriated when they were not for programs he approved of - Created furor but Congress was unable to override his vetoes of bills that challenged impoundment The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved. Domestic Policy Under Nixon (cont'd) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  A federal agency created in 1970 to oversee environmental monitoring and cleanup programs. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up March 19,1973: James McCord, former FBI agent accused of burglary, wrote a letter to the judge in his trial that would ultimately bring down the Nixon administration  McCord had been employed during the 1972 presidential campaign as a security officer for the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) James McCord  1 AM on June 17, 1972, he and four others (members of the unofficial CREEP surveillance group known as the “plumbers”) had broken into the Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate, a complex of apartments and offices in Washington - Plumbers had been formed after the Pentagon Papers, a confidential report on government policy in Vietnam, had been leaked to the press The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) James McCord  They were caught rifling files and installing bugging devices The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Two other Republican campaign officials were soon implicated and their arrest aroused suspicions that the Republican party was behind the break-in  June 22: Nixon denied any connection  When the case went to trial in early 1973, most of the burglars pleaded guilty  McCord did not and was convicted by the jury The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Two other Republican campaign officials were soon implicated and their arrest aroused suspicions that the Republican party was behind the break-in  Before Judge Sirica could impose sentence, McCord sent the letter claiming that high Republican officials had known about the burglary in advance and had paid the defendants “hush money” to keep their connection secret The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) The head of CREEP, Jeb Stuart Magruder, and Nixon’s lawyer, John Dean III, soon admitted their involvement The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Other disclosures followed:  Large sums of money had been paid to the burglars at the instigation of the White House to ensure their silence  Agents of the Nixon administration had burglarized the office of a psychiatrist, seeking evidence against one of his patients, Daniel Ellsberg, who had been charged with leaking the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Other disclosures followed:  CREEP officials had attempted to disrupt the campaigns of leading Democratic candidates during the 1972 primaries in a number of illegal ways  A number of corporations had made large contributions to the Nixon reelection campaign in violation of federal law The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Other disclosures followed:  The Nixon administration had placed wiretaps on the telephones of some of its own officials as well as on those of journalists critical of its policies without first obtaining authorization from the courts The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) These revelations led to the dismissal of John Dean and the resignations of most of Nixon’s closest advisors:  H.R. Haldeman, Chief of Staff  John Ehrlichman, top domestic affairs advisor  John Mitchell, Attorney General  Richard Kleindienst, Attorney General The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Nixon continued to deny any personal involvement, promised a thorough investigation but refused access to White House documents, claiming executive privilege  Dean testified that the president had been involved  Other testimony disclosed Nixon had a secret taping system in the Oval Office  Nixon refused access to the tapes The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Nixon’s status declined in public opinion polls The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Nixon agree to the appointment of an “independent” special prosecutor to investigate the Watergate affair  Appointed Archibald Cox and promised to cooperate  Cox asked for access to White House records, including the tapes and obtained a subpoena from Judge Sirica The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Nixon agree to the appointment of an “independent” special prosecutor to investigate the Watergate affair  The administration lost their appeal of the subpoena and the case headed for the Supreme Court The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Saturday, October 20, 1973: Saturday Night Massacre  Nixon ordered the new Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, to fire Cox  Both Richardson and his chief assistant resigned rather than do so  The third ranking officer in the Justice Department complied The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Congress was bombarded by letters and telegrams demanding Nixon’s impeachment  The House Judiciary Committee began investigating to see if enough evidence existed for impeachment The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Congress was bombarded by letters and telegrams demanding Nixon’s impeachment  Nixon agreed to turn over the tapes to Judge Sirica with the understanding that the material would be presented to the grand jury investigating Watergate but that nothing would be made public The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Congress was bombarded by letters and telegrams demanding Nixon’s impeachment  Named a new special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, and promised him access to whatever he needed  Soon apparent that several tapes were missing and a large section of another had been erased The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Vice President Agnew was accused of income tax fraud and accepting bribes; admitted guilt and resigned as vice president Nixon nominated Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michigan as vice president, and he was confirmed by Congress The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up (cont'd) Watergate scandal  A complex scandal involving attempts to cover up illegal actions taken by administration officials and leading to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  Rosemary Woods attempted to demonstrate how she had accidentally erased the pivotal sections. The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Judgment on Watergate: “Expletive Deleted” The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Judgment on Watergate: “Expletive Deleted” March 1974: grand jury indicted Haldeman, Ehrlichman and former attorney general John Mitchell  Mitchell had been head of CREEP at the time of the break-in, and four other White House officials for conspiring to block the investigation  Jurors named Nixon an “unindicted co- conspirator” The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Judgment on Watergate: “Expletive Deleted” (cont'd) March 1974: grand jury indicted Haldeman, Ehrlichman and former attorney general John Mitchell  Sirica turned over the jury’s evidence against Nixon to the House Judiciary Committee The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Judgment on Watergate: “Expletive Deleted” (cont'd) Late in April, Nixon released heavily edited transcripts of the tapes he had turned over to the court the previous November  In addition to much incriminating evidence, tapes provided public with shocking view of how the president conducted himself in private - Seemed confused, indecisive and lacking any concern for public interest - Heavy use of profanity, indicated by the term “expletive deleted,” offended many The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fourteenth Edition Copyright ©2012, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. Mark C. Carnes John A. Garraty All rights reserved.  The Judgment on Watergate: “Expletiv