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Nixons Presidency

NIXON 'S PRESIDENCY

There are three major issues emphasized during the 1969-1974 term of President Richard Nixon : Vietnam , domestic policies , and the infamous Watergate affair

Nixon inherited the Vietnam War from Lyndon Johnson . The war had caused years of turmoil among Americans who believed that America should not even participate in the war in the first place . In an aim to bring peace , he initiated the Vietnamization of the war , centering of the withdrawal of the US troops . For a while , the plan seemed to be working but the damage had

already been done . Back home , America found herself with a dissenting generation . The war had already drained the country 's economy , inflation was high , crimes and civil rights movement were rapidly swelling . Nixon tried to solve this by injecting domestic policies that involved increasing interest rates to curb borrowing and introducing what the president called affirmative action programs initiatives that hired minorities and women . Some African Americans who were able to finish college benefited from this but majority were still poor and stayed in slums . Furthermore , people blamed the Supreme Court for the rising incidents of crime so Nixon filled the court with conservative justices . However , while this alleviated the bevy of civil rights movement , it did not entirely solve the crimes . What it did was that it ushered an us vs . them ' sentiment , a battle between Nixon and those who opposed him , people who Nixon thought were countering the American values . During Nixon 's term , the activism was...

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