Chapter 31

• (1962)
• - meet for convention in Port Huron and put together the Port Huron Statement
• = Talks about participatory democracy <- protest for

- University of CA was in turmoil because students protested to organize talks on campus.

• - Young people dressed anti-established and didn't look impressed
• = LSD and drugs increase
• - anti-war messages, music festivals, free love

= big riots broke out in Detroit and Newark with the national guard called in

- Dr King tried to organize Poor People's March but assassinated by James Earl Ray

- Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique : the role women play in society is determined by their gender

• = change in laws for women
• - organize N.O.W. (national org of women) for women's rights
• - congress passes and repasses equal rights amendment - never ratifies

• = Commander in charge of Vietnam
• - accused of painting a good picture of vietnam giving Johnson and America the wrong idea

• = North Vietnam tried to capture South Vietnam
• - We end up pushing back North but it came to out attention what Vietnam is really like
• - shocked Americans and made them ask what are we really doing there

• = Republican Anti-war/peace candidate
• - no one knew him

(1968 Elections)

= Shot Robert Kennedy in hotel kitchen in his years of running for '68 president

Made protesting illegal in the Democratic Convention

• - was encouraged to run for president as democrat
• - runs to bring back segregation

- selected VP: General Curtis Lemay "nuke em back to the stone age"

- political comeback representing the good old days in 1950's

--> wins 1968 election

• Nixon's Secretary of State
• - not liked

= goverment takes tax dollars to use for state's projects

• = establishes wage and price controls; can't go up
• - stabilizes economy

• = Secretary of Treasury for Nixon and devalues currency
• - short term effect, bad in long term

• = Attorney general for Nixon and chief of law maker is U.S.
• - tried to change Supreme Court to conservative

= replaced Earl Warren as Chief of Justice in Supreme Court (b/c of JohnMitchell)

• - William Rehnquist = Associate Justice
• - promoted to Chief Justice in Raegan years

• = Nixon's new VP
• - had to resign VP for his bribery acts

• = plan to deal with Soviets
• "relaxation of tensions"

• = Leader of Soviets
• - invites Nixon to visit (after he visits Red China)

• = symbolic Treaty that U.S. and Soviets can come to agreement and cooperation
• - not a solution to nuclear weapons
• - proved detente did not work

• (1970)
• - Bombing of Vietnam extends West to Cambodia
• -Part of renued bombings in Nixon's plan to end Vietnam War

• - Anger emerged among students and state troops.
• - Nixon called the students bums with intention of blowing up campuses

• = Nixon's aids and first agents wanted to come up with secret groups to do things
• - J. Edgar Hoover: director of FBI, very powerful man - didn't agree

• - weak and unstable candidate
• - wanted to just pull out of Vietnam

• = former FBI and CIA agents
• - try to find out who leaked documents to NY Times = create Numbers Unit

• = to re elect president Nixon
• - organized by John Mitchell after resignation and becomes Nixon's campaign manager

• (Security Chief of CREEP)
• = hired by Hunt and Liddy to break into Watergate and bug Democratic National Headquarters

- first break in: bugs don't work , second: get caught

• = 'law and order' judge on Hunt and Liddy case
• -Orders John McCord 25 years where he reveals scandal that Nixon wanted to cover up

= investigate who is involved with scandal and how high up it goes

= Nixon calls in John Dean and Charles Colson to comprise this list for the president

= asked by Nixon to cover up for Watergate

- John Dean reveals truth but no proof

= Nixon's aid who tells Special Watergate Committee that Nixon tapes convos in Oval Office.

= Special Watergate Committee prosecutor calls in Nixon

Asked to fire Cox by Nixon

• - Nixon fired Richardson
• and brings in Solicitor General Robert Bork to fire Cox

• Recieves some of Nixon's tapes
• - they are all of nothing important

• = New president after Nixon (Orphan, Real name Leslie King)
• - announces Nixon receives pardon