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Presidential Politics: 1968-2008
Richard Nixon, 1969-1974
• 1968 election– VP: Agnew
• Diplomacy in China/Détente
• New federalism—transfer of power to state
• EPA• 1972 election• VP scandal• Oil Crisis/stagflation• Watergate
scandal/Resignation
Gerald Ford, 1974-1977
• Interim president, only one never elected– VP: Nelson Rockefeller
• Seen as ineffectual, bumbling, but trustworthy
• inherited a bad economy
• Pardoned Nixon
Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981
• 1976 election– VP: Walter Mondale
• “man of the people” from Plains, Georgia
• Failing economy & Stagflation• Camp David Accords• Iran hostage crisis
Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989
• 1980 election• VP: George Bush
• Rise of conservatism/moral majority (Barry Goldwater in 1964)
• Reaganomics—deregulation, cutting taxes
• Escalated arms race— “Star Wars”• 1984 election landslide
– “Morning in America”
• AIDS/GRID• Iran-Contra Scandal• End of Cold War
George Bush, 1989-1993
• 1988 election– VP: Dan Quayle
• Fall of Berlin Wall & end of Cold War
• First Gulf War• 1992 election• The faltering economy
Bill Clinton, 1993-2001
• 1992 election (vs. Perot, Bush)– VP: Al Gore
• Economic expansion, globalization, NAFTA
• 1994 Republican Revolution (Gingrich)
• 1996 election• Lewinsky
scandal/impeachment
George W. Bush, 2001-2009
• 2000 election (vs. Al Gore)– VP: Dick Cheney– Bush v. Gore Supreme
Court Case
• 9/11• Patriot Act• Wars in Iraq &
Afghanistan
Barack Obama, 2009-present
• 2008 election (vs. John McCain)
• 2012 election (vs. Mitt Romney)
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