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America in the late 1970s by its own standards a couple mission it's hard for us now to put ourselves back in the mood of the mid-1970s those were bad times Gerald Ford became president that our long National nightmare is over that was a wish here was a man never really didn't run for president he was thrust into the presidency had an extraordinary difficult time Ford like Johnson was a very accomplished legislature that the difference was Johnson was Majority Leader Ford was are you later after Rob Ford's presidency the Democrats control Congress and his last two years of presidency 1975 1970s the Democratic majority in Congress Congress was trying to reassert itself and forward as the president needed to protect the presidency in the Martin Henry's never going to accomplish a lot legislatively is known as The veto president is able to curb federal spending by use of the veto he has two steps in solving the nation's economic  before of hairs Ford grew when he took office he said to Henry Kissinger Henry I need you  my 1975 Ford was putting lot of distance between himself and Henry Kissinger it began in April when Ford announced the war in Vietnam is over Cotton States just concerned and reached its peak in October 1975 when Ford shook up his cabinet fortunate Nixon's policy of Daytona which was getting increasingly unpopular with the conservatives in the Republican party and so forward face tough primary Challenge and I Chinese tanks delegate Hunter against a really severe challenge remember Reagan for the nomination he would like could very well be the last truly contested National Convention that we've ever had and we won them play Kansas City by maybe only 30 35 delegate votes out of over 2,000 beginning to build a broad-based coalition of people who believe in the United States again governor of Georgia and Washington Outsider has an overwhelmingly the campaign begin but as election day nears the polls detect little difference in popular horse contenders what tips the scale many speculate was Ford pardon of Nixon in the early days of his presidency are Ford do cramps an absolute pardon under Richard Nixon for all offences against the united we saw on pole after Pole tall is that really costing that very close election is Governor cart people raise this problem with present for and they said you know if you do this it's going to next or nearly hard to be liked and present porch that I know but he said but we can't afford to be a Banana Republic and whatever the cost this is what I'm going to do like Ford Carter assumed the presidency at a moment when the nation is facing problems of stagnant complexity may I ask for when I go to for Jimmy Carter and then they got somebody who was very honest and had a great deal of Integrity but had no experience whatsoever in Washington women seeking you could treat Congress like he treated the Georgia legislature and it took them awhile to get disabused of that notion example Carter proposed cutting back on spending are water projects who led the fight against him Jim right who was the Democratic majority leader in the house at the time will you should never yourself into that kind of a box it was a democratic Congress and a Democratic president they had a great deal of difficulty getting along and as a result party really had very few accomplishments as president what is relations with Congress burden of wage and price increases that are spiraling beyond control hydropoint Alfred Kahn is inflation example wearing Columbia University Professor within the guru of Airline deregulation of the love as a straight shooter someone would just tell the truth call the for congress explain how the Carter Administration to continue to support subsidies for sugar grower which was clearly inflationary and going against attempt to restrain the wage-price spiral how could the administration do that  con didn't move didn't speak congestion long long dramatic pause came and then he cocked his head looked at the cameras like that the center isn't said let the record show and embarrassed silence tell me my new what time clean say was that the Carter Administration didn't have the guts to take on big some reason some excuse some pot cutting pressure the country's dependence on foreign sources of oil also reaches crisis levels in the summer of 79 green stability in the Middle East as a second major of humor of gasoline would be available at any price inflation was running at 1214 per cent a year and in July of that year Carter I can't David's for close to two weeks can't David was the site of his greatest Triumph the previous September he had brought and awesome making of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt together but this was a much happier Retreat Camp David and when Connor came back to gave the speech we said he had been reading the country just been managing the time he shook up his his cabinet to the same way that it done in 1975 and just as have been the case with Ford cabinet shake-up this one didn't do credit man November 4th 1979 Milton Cinerama seized the American embassy search crisis results in a surge of support for the embattled president but as the months go by without resolution of the sympathy thing finally April of 1980 Jimmy Carter ordered military Rescue of the remaining hostages in Terror combat played yesterday I cancel any carefully plan operation which is underway in ear and supposition I'll Rescue Team for a later withdrawal American hostages were killed and several other Americans were hurt in the accident it's hard to imagine thanks how badly people felt when that rescue mission failed also was an opening for Ronald Reagan it's more for the Republican nomination so the last year of the Carter Administration he was under very serious challenge very end of 1979 Soviet forces entered Afghanistan to prevent the rise of Islamic government Social Security  is dangerously an angry Carter imposes the series of economic sanctions on the Russians pencil open participation in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and withdraws sold to from Senate consideration of action do nothing slow Zimmerman chicken chicken  Jimmy Carter was caught in the midst of an ideological shift to the right on the corner people we often tend to play harder for being too caught up details not being a shrewd enough politician and I think add a relative of liberal Democratic president changing a nation that was rapidly heading to the right and we can see in hindsight Jimmy Carter did I did a pretty good job  social and cultural changes in the country also contribute to the growth of the decade of the seventies what was a major shift in population that that somebody had lifted up the United States in the northeast corner and kind of look it up and that everything sort of started to drain away for the Southwest people and population migrated from the old industrial belt Into the Blue make fun of economic power government spending political influence the United States is also experience in the beginnings of a major religious revival and it runs the entire Spectrum from a Revival of Evangelical Protestant Christianity two diamonds with yoga Zen Buddhism Eastern religions and new form of new age spiritual Money Mayweather commend upsurge of religious enthusiasm among the evengelical question denomination the heart of what becomes known as you write its diverse powerful movement that by Ronald Reagan  although Carter securities next domination in 1980 he cannot counter this conservative serve government is not the solution to our problem government is the problem on Election Day I wanna see one year to the day injury Reagan like to didn't speak for him assume the office at a time when the country is in economic crisis he comes in with a clear plan for his first 180 days in office present what states has to come in with a certain sense of who I want to accomplish in the very brief twinkle of time in which I hold this office and hear my single I have two or three maybe four but no more than that critical volt 1981 the economy was in really bad shape we had inflation play up and double digits we have interest rates in double-digits be at the low growth and high unemployment and those things persisted for quite some time after we came into office with a pretty revolutionary economic program this bull you experiment as Reagan turns it during the campaign come to be known as the side economics believe that the free market is the best system from equitably Distributing the benefits of the time start with the market system and obviously things there that interfere with the market system that regulation or other things of that mess up the workings of the market system offered backfire the Reagan Administration coming in in 1981 makes decision that unemployment is fine at a certain level and that we're going to try to cut taxes and do everything in the Reagan Administration became famous for but these all prices hopefully will come down and I will get the economy going again and the Reagan Administration indoor and permitted play Virtual recession Wellington 1982 on the premise that major recession would promote a major Readjustment of the American by relieving the tax burden on individuals and businesses reducing federal spending and removing the burden of over-regulation Reagan and his advisors convince turn the company around his face off against the air traffic controllers early in his administration also sends a message to Corporate America air traffic controllers aren't your typical worker and when Reagan took them on they went on strike and he said his federal employees on his right to strike and you fired them all really need it critically important with the message in this Franklin Roosevelt in the most basic way for you to be atmosphere for you Ronald Reagan created the atmosphere with that action for anti unionization because the message that employers got across the country was when workers go on strike you don't have to bark it  and if you don't have the right to bargain you don't have the right to strike on the books you do but just scan the 1980s in Industry after industry do frogs do not seem to be improving after you've been there about 6 months it's pretty hard to blame whatever is happening on your predecessor even though they may muscles a large part so there we were in the situation was not getting particularly at much better article phones began saying our economic is a very dark time President Reagan's job approval rating went down to 38% which is really very low or present combination factors eventually turn the economy around but it does nothing to reduce the growing febrile there were significant social are programs that were enacted but if you look over the Reagan Administration of the whole you really don't see a decline in federal spending zygo spending when partly because of the buildup of the family continuance teitelman programs Medicare Medicaid Social Security and counters are similar combination of priam's and difficulties determined effort to his Port Americans best beach in the world Cold War tensions mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall with a classical Warrior he believes that the United Satan eat as a Triumph in the arms race  he picked up on format expenditures of money about one and a half Korean dollars gorgeous that included both nuclear as well as conventional Weaponry to protect the United States militarily from Soviet Union and any other threats that occur some people in the Soviet Union come to believe that they could actually extract advantages from us because of their military El Rincon Grupo to combination of his willingness to pay and his rhetoric was I think effective in May incredible the proposition that this was not going to happen in March play higher announces that research and development will go forward on what we now call missile defense Reagan wins the decisive victory in the presidential election of 1984 against Senator Walter Mondale and congresswoman holding frogs some supporters consider this a validation of the new conservative here but almost no one dissipates the Revolutionary events can you change the world and America's place and his place in history he had begun to meet with Nick or Patrol who was the Soviet leader of the time they developed for reasonably close working relationship the first meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev so didn't go very well in November 1985 at Geneva what's a couple of things worked on Reagan his wife thought it was very important for Reagan to shed this image of someone who was prepared some cases even eager for war with the Soviet Union the Prime Minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher said I'm like mr. Gorbachev please a man we can do business with them from that time off the relationship warmer had the sense to realize that the Soviet economy could not withstand competitive arms race that had been going on 1945 Gorbachev called for a kind of open dialogue he called for a kind of restructuring the Soviet Society and basically it was an effort to try to allow the Soviet Union's continue to play a major role in the world with healthy ones expenditures of change it when December 1987 the two men sign in Washington and intermediate nuclear forces treaty in which they agree pull up is called the zero zero option  they would eliminate a whole class of nuclear weapons from Europe really for the first time in years came to believe that there wasn't going to be a war in Europe the beginning during those here's a swell to get the kind of roll back their influence in other parts of the world being cold in the movie Ace agreement in 1988 Margaret address to fall over but the shouting recognizing that the polls were in those years is going to end kid moving in that direction Barbershop basically Unleashed forces within the Soviet Union time he could not attain and before we knew it basically unable to compete with enormous amounts of money to United States was spending on its military development the Soviet Union simply fragmented into variety of component parts Nations began to demand their own independent the Eastern European satellite nations began to to do the same and in the end the confederation show me union split apart into a series of autonomous republics as well detention from a series of Scandal that might have destroyed another Administration the most politically damaging has its beginning in the Middle East Lana Rose for the Israelis to sell weapons to Iran of the United States who would replenish the Israeli Supply weapons and the Ron would force his friends in Lebanon to release the American hostage has this arms for hostages deal as it obviously was my forward a youngest Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North was to play weapons for the contras the counter-revolutionaries against the government of Nicaragua why was this kind of complex arrangement because Congress had forbidden any official or agency of the US government from funding the war of the country the government of Nicaragua well the whole scheme became public in 1986 at the time of the American during menstruation really was not back on his Heels by then  after Ronald Reagan was elected and after the economy during the round was Lotto talk about some things were on the upswing the fact that Ronald Reagan said that personal involved in the arms purchases for Ron is in the way that was totally misleading and deceptive I reminded set the alarm you skeptical in Congress led to more conflict of 1987 persuaded that this was at least as Grave a scandal as Watergate that Reagan would be impeached the same way that next had been in 1976 and involved things that were very easy to know you're not quest to raise money illegally and then spend it to sabotage your opponent's campaign everyone understands where is Reagan Scandal involved pause song American were much more willing to say well it wasn't right but the president in charge of foreign policy and so who was able to survive the Scandal for that reason where the Nixon was not  I am a candidate for president of the lights X President George Bush in the 1988 presidential election events the interesting events happened after Reagan Lease Office Berlin Wall comes down countries become independent of the Soviet Union breaks up powerful set of events during the presidency of George Bush and incredible diplomacy to make all of these things happen on all sides Cold War ended in the late summer and fall of 1990 why do I say that one political settlement of the German question 2 broad range and tree is signed regulating the future military balance of power in Europe one of the other traditional issues of the Cold War 3 is so family finds a charter Paris in which they agree to Western values for the elections free enterprise that were the part of the thing that hit the did Europe all along  for the Soviet Union abandon their most important political Ally in the Middle East Rock in size with United States can using Force against that country the United States in the closing decade of the twentieth century find yourself alone the world's only real superpower does that mean that the country should reduce its military strength concentrate on pressing domestic problems or should America continue to use its power percentage lease  the answer becomes evident when 1990 W wrecked their small oil-rich neighbor never forget walking in his office after he had basically said we're going to kick a rack out of Kuwait and Claridge Nursery to do I'm going to do it president formally that he is talking about airstrikes on the Rock in Kuwait change saying you know George this thing has all of the ingredients that have brought down other presidents hostage crisis Scott body bags Scott economic recession brought on by $40 oil and I said are you sure President Bush's molarity which is the record high in the immediate aftermath of the glow of that Victory fade quickly as the recession of 1991 the administration does not develop policies for combating skillful campaign in which the economy becomes the principal issue Bill Clinton 5 term governor of Arkansas wins the presidency in 1992 and the world most challenging public office The Unfinished nation is it two-part American history series for more information about this program in a company materials call +1-800-576-2988 or visit us online at w.org

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