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Daily Quote &Question (DQ )
“Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this
wall!" –Ronald Reagan
“
SONG FOR THE DAY: 1.
Winds of Change
How did the Civil Rights movement change in the
late sixties?
Daily Comment & Card
JUNE 17, 1972
WATERGATE
SCANDAL
“Mr.
Gorbachev,
open this
gate! Mr.
Gorbachev,
tear down
this wall!"
-CREEP
(Committee for the Re-election of
the President attempted to spy on
Democrats at the Watergate Hotel (their
headquarters)
-Men connected to CREEP were arrested
-Nixon stated they had no connection to the
Whitehouse
-The investigation uncovered tapes and
evidence of espionage
-reporters Woodward and Bernstein helped
reveal the details
-Nixon resigns, administration members go
to jail, many Americans distrust government
SONG FOR THE DAY: WINDS OF CHANGE
–Ronald
Reagan
Daily Comment & Card
1972 & 1979
SALT I & II
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
-SALT I: Agreement signed by the US and
Soviets to stop building nuclear ballistic
missiles for 5 years.
-SALT II: Signed by Carter and Brezhnev;
it reduced and limited number of missile
launchers and bombers
-These treaties helped to reduce tensions
between the US and U.S.S.R
“Mr.
Gorbachev,
open this
gate! Mr.
Gorbachev,
tear down
this wall!"
–Ronald
Reagan
SONG FOR THE DAY: WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE
Daily Comment & Card
JUNE 17, 1972
1972 & 1979
WATERGATE
SCANDAL
-CREEP
(Committee for the Re-election of
the President) attempted to spy on
Democrats at the Watergate Hotel (their
headquarters)
-Men connected to CREEP were arrested
-Nixon stated they had no connection to the
Whitehouse
-The investigation uncovered tapes and
evidence of espionage
-reporters Woodward and Bernstein helped
reveal the details
-Nixon resigns, administration members go
to jail, many Americans distrust government
SALT I & II
“Mr.
Gorbachev,
open this
gate! Mr.
Gorbachev,
tear down
this wall!"
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
-SALT I: Agreement signed by the US and
Soviets to stop building nuclear ballistic
missiles for 5 years.
-SALT II: Signed by Carter and Brezhnev;
it reduced and limited number of missile
launchers and bombers
-These treaties helped to reduce tensions
between the US and U.S.S.R
SONG FOR THE DAY: WINDS OF CHANGE
–Ronald
Reagan
JOHN F. KENNEDY
“ASK NOT WHAT
YOUR COUNTRY CAN
DO FOR YOU, ASK
WHAT YOU CAN DO
FOR YOUR
COUNTRY…”
-“New Frontier”
-PEACE CORPS
-BAY OF PIGS
-BERLIN WALL
(JUNE/AUG 1961)
-CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
(OCT 22-26, 1963)
-SPACE RACE
ASSASSINATED BY LEE HARVEY OSWALD
NOVEMBER 22, 1963, WHO WAS LATER
KILLED BY JACK RUBY.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
WANTED TO HELP AMERICANS.
DECLARED “WAR ON POVERTY.”
HIS PROGRAM WAS KNOWN AS
THE GREAT SOCIETY. HIS
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT
(64) CREATED THE JOB CORPS
TO HELP STUDENTS. THE
MEDICARE ACT PASSED IN 1965.
THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 AND THE
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 WERE PASSED TO
HELP ENSURE THE RIGHTS OF AFRICANAMERICANS.
THE IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1965 FOCUSED
ON BEING LESS BIASED THAN THE
MCCAREN-WALTER ACT OF 1952 WHICH
HAD KEPT QUOTAS AT THE LEVELS FOR
THE 1920s. PREFERENCE WAS ALSO GIVEN
TO IMMIGRANTS WITH RELATIVES
ALREADY IN THE U.S. AND TO THOSE WITH
VALUABLE SKILLS. IT RESTRICTED
IMMIGRATION FROM LATIN AMERICA FOR
THE FIRST TIME.
JOHNSON WON ELECTION IN 1964 OVER
REPUBLICAN BARRY GOLDWATER (MANY
FEARED GOLDWATER WOULD INVOLVE US
IN WAR WITH THE SOVIETS…)
-25TH AMENDMENT PASSED TO MAKE
IT POSSIBLE FOR THE VP TO TAKE
OVER IF THE PRESIDENT WERE
INCAPACITATED, BUT NOT DEAD.
ALLOWED THE PRESIDENT TO
APPOINT A VICE PRESIDENT IF THE
JOB WERE VACANT.
-26TH AMENDMENT-- 18 YEAR OLDS VOTE
JFK & RFK
TURMOIL!!! JOHNSON FACED
PROTESTERS, HIPPIES AND THE
COUNTER CULTURE, HE HAD TO
DEAL WITH VIETNAM, THE DEATH
OF ROBERT KENNEDY IN 1968
(SIRHAN SIRHAN), AND VIOLENCE
AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL
CONVENTION…
While President, Lyndon Johnson had gall bladder
surgery. Afterwards, he displayed his scar for the
press. In this David Levine cartoon, the scar takes
on the shape of a country whose conflict had caused
lots of trouble for the Johnson administration…
RICHARD M. NIXON
IS KNOWN FOR OPENING UP RELATIONS WITH
COMMUNIST CHINA AND FOR BEGINNING A
POLICY OF DÉTENTE WITH THE SOVIET UNION.
HE WITHDREW TROOPS FROM VIETNAM IN
1973.
HE SIGNED A LAW CREATING THE EPA
(ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY)
AND THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT.
THE GREATEST SCANDAL IN
PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY
DESTROYED HIS
ADMINISTRATION. BEFORE IT
WAS OVER, HE RESIGNED AND
25 MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF
WOUND UP IN PRISON!
WATERGATE
BEGAN WHEN MEN WERE DISCOVERED TRYING TO
BREAK INTO DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL
HEADQUATERS WITH BUGGING DEVICES AND
NIXON SAID NO ONE AT THE WHITE HOUSE WAS
INVOLVED.
NIXON TOLD HIS CHIEF OF STAFF (HALDEMAN)
TO TELL THE CIA TO TELL THE FBI NOT TO
INVESTIGATE. THIS WAS OBSTRUCTION OF
JUSTICE…
FIRED WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL JOHN DEAN
SAID NIXON KNEW AND COVERED IT UP.
NIXON WAS ORDERED
(IN UNITED STATES V. NIXON)
TO HAND OVER SECRET
TAPE RECORDINGS, BUT
WHEN HE DID, 18
MINUTES WERE MISSING
AND THERE WAS LOTS OF
PROFANITY!!
NIXON RESIGNED
IN AUGUST OF 1974
AND WAS
REPLACED WITH
THE MAN HE HAD
APPOINTED TO
THE VICE
PRESIDENCIAL
POSITION…
GERALD FORD
FORD GRANTED NIXON A “FREE AND FULL”
PARDON.
AMERICA SUFFERED FROM “STAGFLATION” AND HIGH OIL PRICES
FROM OPEC…
JIMMY CARTER
WON THE ELECTION OF 1976
BECAUSE HE WAS SEEN AS A
WASHINGTON OUTSIDER AND WAS
NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE
SCANDAL.
HE HAD BEEN THE GOVERNOR OF
GEORGIA
HE CREATED THE DEPARTMENT OF
ENERGY TO DEAL WITH THE
ENERGY CRISIS.
HE PUSHED THE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT
(1977) THROUGH CONGRESS TO REQUIRE BANKS TO
MAKE CREDIT AVAILABLE IN POOR COMMUNITIES,
PREVENTING THE DECAY OF LOW-INCOME
NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE INNER CITIES.
IN FOREIGN POLICY HE PUSHED FOR THE U.S. TO
SET A MORAL EXAMPLE.
HE SIGNED THE PANAMA CANAL TREATY (1977)
RETURNING CONTROL OF ALL OF THE CANAL
ZONE EXCEPT THE CANAL ITSELF TO PANAMA.
THE CANAL WAS LATER RETURNED TO PANAMA.
HE IS CREDITED WITH WORKING OUT A PEACE
AGREEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL IN
THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS…
INITIALLY HE CONTINUED THE POLICY OF
DENTENTE, HOWEVER, WHEN THE SOVIETS
INVADED AFGHANISTAN, THIS ENDED. HE
STOPPED THE GRAIN SALES AND BOYCOTTED
THE 1980 OLYMPICS.
DURING CARTER’S PRESIDENCY, THE AYATOLLAH
KHOMEINI TOOK OVER IRAN AND THE SHAH FLED
TO AMERICA WHERE HE RECEIVED CANCER
TREATMENTS. IN RETALIATION, IRANIANS TOOK
OVER THE AMERICAN EMBASSY AND HELD 52
AMERICANS PRISONER FOR 444 DAYS. WE TRIED
TO RESCUE THEM, BUT WE FAILED…
THEY WERE NOT
RELEASED UNTIL RONALD
REAGAN WAS SWORN IN
AS PRESIDENT.
RONALD REAGAN
-FORMER ACTOR AND GOVERNOR OF
CALIFORNIA WAS KNOWN AS THE
“TEFLON PRESIDENT”
-HE WON THE ELECTION OF 1980 WITH
THE SUPPORT OF THE NRA AND JERRY
FALLWELL’S MORAL MAJORITY
-SURVIVED AN ASSASSINATION
ATTEMPT.
-HE USED “REAGANOMICS” OR “SUPPLYSIDE SPENDING” TO SOLVED THE
ECONOMIC ISSUES—INCREASED
SPENDING.
HE APPOINTED SANDRA DAY
O’CONNOR, THE FIRST FEMALE ON THE
SUPREME COURT
-HE INTRODUCED CHANGES TO IMMIGRATION LAWS TO
DEAL WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGATION. THE MAZZOLISIMPSON ACT OF 1986 “LEGALIZED” ILLEGAL ALIENS
WHO HAD LIVED CONTINUOUSLY IN THE UNITED
STATES SINCE 1981.
LAUNCHED THE INVASION OF GRENADA TO PROTECT
AMERICANS AFTER A COMMUNIST TAKE OVER ON THE
ISLAND.
-HE ANNOUNCED THE REAGAN DOCTRINE THAT SAID
THE U.S. WOULD NOT ONLY CONTAIN COMMUNISM,
BUT ATTEMPT TO “ROLL-BACK” COMMUNISM BY
HELPING FEEDOM FIGHTERS.
-TESTIFIED THAT HE “COULD NOT RECALL” AT THE
IRAN-CONTRA HEARINGS WHERE OLIVER NORTH
BECAME WELL KNOWN (INVOLVED USING PROFITS
FROM SALES OF ARMS TO IRAN TO HELP REBELS
FIGHTING COMMUNISM IN NICARAGUA…
HE BELIEVED IN “PEACE THROUGH
STRENGTH” AND PROPOSED RESEARCH
FOR AN ANTI-BALLISTIC DEFENSE
SYSTEM—THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE
INTITIATIVE KNOWN AS “STAR WARS”
THAT WOULD SHOOT DOWN MISSILES
TO PREVENT NUCLEAR ATTACKS.
REAGAN IS CREDITED WITH THE END OF
THE COLD WAR.
IT ENDED WHEN MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
(SOVIET UNION) INTRODUCED NEW
REFORMS:
GLASNOST (ALLOWED SOME
FREEDOM OF SPEECH—
CRITICISM OF THE
GOVERNMENT, FREEDOM OF
PRESS) ”OPENESS”
PERISTOIKA (RESTRUCTURING THE
ECONOMY TO ALLOW MORE
TRADE AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
THE IRON CURTAIN WAS LIFTED IN 1989 AND THE
BERLIN WALL WAS TAKEN DOWN. EASTERN
EUROPEAN NATIONS ELECTED DEMOCRATIC
GOVERNMENTS. THE COMMUNIST PARTY LOST ITS
MONOPOLY ON SOVIET POWER AND SPLIT INTO
SEPARATE STATES IN 1991. GEORGE H.W. BUSH
AND NEW RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN
ANNOUNCED THE COLD WAR’S END IN 1992.