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9.5- The Carter Years

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has president the 1976 election Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter versus the incumbent Gerald Ford Gerald Ford have been sworn into office following Richard Nixon's resignation from the presidency of the United States in 1974 what is best known show me pardoning or forgiving potential crimes of Richard Nixon do to this pardon Nixon never face charges due to his involvement in Watergate this was incredibly unpopular with the majority of the American people cuz they wanted an investigation into the Watergate scandal as they believed once again political Elites were getting away with crimes that everyday Americans wouldn't do to this forehead little to no chance of winning the election It is believed that the Democrats could have put up anyone against Ford and that Democratic candidate would have won essentially the Democratic party did just that play serial activity unknown peanut farmer and ask governor of Georgia named Jimmy Carter up against Tim Carter easily won the election and the Carter years in America had begun Roosevelt star Fireside Chats on rate television although he had a great sense of charm and likeability he was never able to reach out to Congress even his own party making it impossible to get his agenda passed both parties in Congress joined together to sink his budget proposals as well as his tax and wealth reform programs what's an AUX core Focus most of his time on the worldwide energy crisis his fireside chat as a platform to encourage the American people to conserve oil and gas in addition to 3% of Congress has over 100 proposals on Georgia conservation out of this battle Congress approve the national energy act which place the higher tax on gas guzzling automobiles as well as removing price controls on oil and natural gas produced in the United States the national energy act didn't do much but it did American dependence on foreign oil By 1979 unfortunately in the summer of 1979 renewed violence in the Middle East combined with the decision of the organization of petroleum exporting countries also known as OPEC to announce another price hike cause the price of oil to Skyrocket during these oil shortages it was common for cars to wait in lines around the block to get gas and for gas stations to run out of gas cars were given stickers and gas ration so that drivers would get gas on certain days of the week this energy crisis crippled many Americans could afford these high gas prices combined with other factors caused the United States to fall into an economic crisis inflation in the United States Rose from 7.6% to 11.3% great Hubbard above 6% Americans have less disposable income creating a stagnated economy in different methods to spark the economy none of which worked in an act of desperation Carter gave a fireside chat speech. known as his malaise speech Carter complained that Americans had a crisis of spirit and lectured Americans and conservation in a way in which they should be their lives out of touch and felt like he was talking down to them all of this caused Americans lose confidence Carter's policies and leadership as president when people back at the Nixon presidency they saw a paranoid man Tangled in Scandal well that is true Nixon did have great success in foreign policy negotiations with communist Nations this cooling of tensions was called de taunt Place less of an emphasis on daytime and focus more on the human rights violations being committed by the communist superpowers to a breakdown in relations between the United States and the nations of China and the Soviet Union additionally Carter took issue way in which the Soviet Union treated as political dissidents negotiations on salt of salt negotiated by Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev eventually Carter back and sign the treaty however due to its failure to dismembered of armament that you station would love to have salt to is heavily criticized by the Senate then in December of 1979 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan causing Carter to end his fight for the treaty in the Senate called me and never to be ratified reading energy cost Americans became very aware of the Middle East due to all of the conflict in the region Carter with a chief one of his greatest accomplishment 1977 Carter was able to seize an opportunity to help negotiate a peace between Egypt and Israel Tunisia extremely different belief systems Carter invited Anwar El Sadat of Egypt and mannequin Beggin of Israel to his retreat at Camp David over 12 days Carter was able to mediate in agreement between the two in a negotiation Israel agreed to remove themselves from the Sinai pain which entities from Egypt in 1967 in Egypt agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist as a nation the Camp David Accords would be one of the positive notes of Carter's presidency one of the biggest Carter's record comes with the events that occurred in Iran in the late 1970s the Shah of Iran or the leader of Iran that was placed in the power by the CIA during the Eisenhower Administration in political Scandal and the ring and people were sick of the corruption and authoritarian tactics of the regime led by the Ayatollah the Shah was deposed and Iran set up a religious state that follow the teachings of the Koran or the sacred book of Islam despite this the United States still supported the shop and when he fell ill allowed him to come to United States for cancer treatment as a method of and in order to remove itself from the corrupt influence of the West Iranian students storm the US Embassy in Tehran taking 52 American hostages the students demanded that the United States send the shop back to Iran to face criminal prosecution change for the US hostages Carter refused to send the shop back and there was an intense standoff that lasted over a year the hostages would finally be released on January 20th 1981 shortly after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president the Iranians intentionally . just told Carter had laptop to embarrass him and his punishment for refusing to return the Shah to Iran Jimmy Carter was never truly able to get a grip on the politics of being president he wasn't able to get Congress to help him get his agenda past due to this he lost the confidence of the mirror people are also caused the United States to take a step back on the world stage due to the collapse of the tan in China and the Soviet Union with Carter's lack of leadership for the Democratic party he left the door open for the next great conservative leaders take control the United States

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