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Objective 9.1- Nixon's New Federalism

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on July 20th 1969 mankind First Step foot on the moon when Apollo 11 lands commission fulfill the goal that John F Kennedy get set for for the United States in 1962 it was a unifying achievement for all Americans the Soviets may have beat us into space but we were the first to land on the moon and that was seen as a bigger achievement American Neil Armstrong the first man to walk on the moon and his co-pilot Buzz Aldrin is the second Neil Armstrong famously said it was the end of a liberal 1960s in the beginning of a new conservative era President Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 Richard Nixon wanted to move the United States towards a more conservative direction away from the liberalism of the 1960s next the federal government was too big and held too much responsibility his policy start to redistribute some powers of the federal government to State and local governments in Nixon's eyes lbj's Great Society programs were two ways and when the federal government and in his opinion state and local government could better care for the for the unemployed and the homeless but to a great extent just reduce the recent could be achieved the revenue sharing until then the Fed government provided federal funds to pay but the restrictions on how they could spend those funds in 1972 the local fiscal assistance Act was passed loosening the rules and allowing states spend federal funds however they saw fit giving States more responsibilities and how to solve problem a Cornerstone of Nixon's overhaul centered around revising the welfare program a program that he felt with the biggest culprit of federal overreach and burn efficient shotover how to make recipients more accountable for the family assistance plan which guaranteed welfare recipients a yearly payment from the federal government of $1,600 but it required to take any reasonable job offer today and earn $4,000 on their own listen at top resistance from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress Republicans oppose the guaranteed income payment and they slammed it is a hand out and Democrats requirement was way too strict when the bill reach Congress shut it down and Dixon suffered a political defeat of his welfare reform plan Nixon had to change his approach and work to please both parties of the democratically-controlled Congress because of it is going to shrink the responsibilities of the federal government or never I realized and its policy of the cheap conflicting results unable to directly abolish Federal social programs and please Republicans Nixon thought to start out those programs by denying them fun making it hard for them to function this really you presidential practice is known as impoundment by 1973 Nixon withheld approximately 15 billion from programs that provided low income Urban housing health services and education bringing them to a standstill and effectively dismantling many liberal social Pro what are serbians to the courts ordered Nixon to release the funding the Nixon had proven his resolve to shrink the federal government to his conservative allies however without the consent of conservatives in his own party mix and peas Congressional Democrats by secretly running to Social Security Medicare and Medicaid easier for the poor to qualify for food stamps these actions were a complete reversal of his plan to lessen the role of federal government President Nixon tapped into a surging movement conservative Americans who were fed up with the liberalism of the 1960s and fought fiercely to return the United States to moral order this group was known as the silent majority Champion the cause of those middle-class Americans who wanted Law and Order America by stopping out the violence caused by liberal groups who opposed the Vietnam War and other social problems in order to accomplish this list which was filled with liberal activist outspoken in the post Nixon policies journalists when Nixon fight and civil rights activist these individuals were harassed relentlessly by the Nixon Administration Dixon also unethically use the full resources of the federal government to go after his enemies including using the FBI wiretap were secretly record phone calls you're the CIA to investigate the private lives of liberal leaders and he had the IRS audit the taxes of groups and activists without probable cause Nixon's Vice President Spiro Agnew vocally attack young liberals filmmakers in Hollywood and the news media for being snobby if you're having what he perceived as a bias against the Republican Party National masochism prevails in Courage by core of impudent snobs characterized themselves as intellectuals 2 towards the film in news industry persist today among conservatives in America Nixon also sought to forever changed the Electoral game in the favor of Republican Party by implementing what was called the southern strategy that's reconstruction the topic consistently voted for the Deaf search party because of the promoted states rights of the federal government and favored resistance to integration Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal had helped to recertify the Democratic called in the South but the liberal policies of Kennedy and Johnson as well as Democratic support for civil rights the 1960s had made many Southerners angry at the Democrat and Nixon hope to tap into their anger and turn them Republican makes an openly announced his intention to oppose new civil rights legislation and slow down the process of integration in southern state 1969 what are the federal government to delay the desegregation of schools in South Carolina and Mississippi to the most segregated states in the country the NAACP and the supreme court order Nixon to uphold the Brown versus Board of Education ruled by 1972 90 schools in those states were integrated Nixon also opposed extending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which was extended by Congress anyway when the city of Boston begin to integrate public school buses in 1972 Nixon run on television declared his opposition but the city can't to run the buses with white and black students anyway Dixon may have lost three 5 but he had proved it resolved to Southern voters the South would vote Republican ever since even to this day has mostly because of civil rights Henry Hawks mixing with Delta domestic crisis when the country's economy plunged into stagflation early in his administration shrinks prices rise and the unemployment rate Rises with it exactly she can be devastating because there are more people without worker income and goods become more make it hard to live day-to-day this. Of stagflation was caused by many factors including spending to fund Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs and a sharp increase in oil prices when war broke out between Israel Egypt and Syria 1973 us quickly back Israel with arms and funds in response the oil-producing countries in the Middle East cut off oil to the United States Nixon proposed to raise taxes and cut government spending to deal with the crisis but Congress refused to pass his proposals so Nixon was left with little Choice than the place price controls on goods and wages freezing them temporarily initially the price controls work but when removed the economy continue to decline Nixon was unsuccessful in the economy Nixon's greatest achievement as president was in foreign policy Nixon revolutionized America stance on how to deal with foreign Nations through his policy of realpolitik co-design by Nixon Secretary of State Henry Kissinger realpolitik which in German means realism alter the criteria by which America dealt with other Nation per decade the United States Bates our foreign policy on moral beliefs and political philosophy we only dealt with the Nations that were Democratic and supported America's role in the world under realpolitik United States Ford dealer Nations based on their power and influence around the globe to signify our world power status we would only interact with world powers for the first time ever the United States would recognize the legitimacy of powerful communist Nations like China under realpolitik in a dish to avoid minor complex and distraction United States with ignore weaker more insignificant nation of the United States recognize the legitimacy of the government of the Soviet Union and China Nixon and Kissinger became devoted to making the United States approach to Timothy's Nation more flexible and less warlike through the policy called daytime decision to travel to China 1971 as the first sitting president ever to visit the Communist Nation what's in China Nixon formally recognize the Chinese guy and it go she ate it with them to open up diplomatic and economic relations the countries agreed to Scientific and cultural exchanges to establish embassies in each other's countries and a peacefully negotiate conflicts in the future without resorting to war the president's visit to China hugely successful and Incredibly popular with Americans Chinese and citizens around the world and was seen as a peacemaker it was also significant because it's between China and United States which week in the Soviet Exposition with America allies with China the Soviet Union was alone in Asia in 1972 with a new strengthen position in the cold war after his visit to China Nixon decided to visit the Soviet Union and meet with the Soviet Premier Leonid again if Sunday comes the first sitting president to visit the Soviet Union and the goal of the visit was discussed nuclear Armament production successfully use the strategy if they taunt with rash methimazole and they reached an agreement they signed this arms limitation talks tree also known as salt won the SALT Treaty froze the number of submarine-launched missile and intercontinental ballistic missiles between the two superpowers maybe no more will be built over the next five years three hole in the nuclear arms buildup between the Nations Richard Nixon's presidency ushered in a new era of conservative politics in American government it signaled an end to the era of liberalism that had dominated the 60s and effectively begin a new where the American people would come to question the size and power of their government the conservative tide was here and Nixon was leading it but Nixon's biggest challenge was still to come. He was passed to end the war in Vietnam that was increasingly unwinnable and unpopular

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