Richard Nixon’s Domestic and Foreign

Policies

Southern Strategy 1968 –

70% of black studentsin south

1972 – 18% of black students in South

Food Stamps

Social Security

A Bit of Liberalism

Social Security – increase by 10%

OSHA – Decreases workplace fatalities by 60% over the first 30 years

OccupationalSafety andHealthAdministration

Philadelphia Plan – government contractors

Responsive to women’s rights -Brought sexual discrimination issues under

the Civil Rights Act -Increased hiring goals for women

Affirmative Action

1970 – Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970

1973 – Drug Enforcement Administration

Supreme Court Justices – Nixon filled 4 openings with conservative judges – Rehnquist

Conservatives and Miranda

Conservative Moves

REALPOLITIK

KISSINGER

FOREIGN

Basing foreign policy on national interest

No longer based on broad principles like containment

Each foreign policy issue by itself, What is in the best interest of the U.S.

Realpolitik

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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Effort to curb recent arms developments

ABM Defense systems

1969 - 1972

SALT I

Yom Kippur War - 1973 Shuttle Diplomacy

Egypt and Syria attack Israel

1973 OPEC Meeting

By 1973 – U.S. dependedOn foreign sources for 1/3 of its oil

Ping Pong Team in China

Visit to China

Letter from China to Nixon

Letter from Nixon to China

Primary Sources