Nixon and Watergate
Chapter 29 pages 718-722 and 724-732

1. Describe Richard Nixon's personality and administrative style. How do H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman fit into the administration?

2. What were the major economic issues facing the Nixon administration? How did President Nixon address those issues? What happened in the Middle East in the late 1960's and early 1970's? What happens with welfare reform?

3. Why is so strange that Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon claimed to be speaking for law and order? How did Nixon try and change the Supreme Court? Considering all of the Nixon's appointments on the court, did they vote the way Nixon would have like them to vote in cases that affected Nixon?

4. What is happening in with Vietnam and the anti war movement in Nixon's first term? What are the Pentagon papers? How does the United States get out of the war in Vietnam? Who are Bob Dylan and Joan Baez?

5. How did U.S. foreign policy change toward China? What does Henry Kissinger do in the Nixon administration?

6. How did Richard Nixon's personality cause him to misuse the Office of President? What do Judge John Sirica, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein do that causes problems for Richard Nixon and CREEP? What illegal activities does John Dean tell of going on in the White House? Why does Nixon finally resign? What is the whole Watergate scandal all about? How does Watergate coming so soon after Vietnam effect the America people as a whole?

7. How did Gerald Ford become President? Why or why not was Ford's pardon of Nixon and his amnesty for draft evaders good for the country?

8. How does Jimmy Carter get elected in 1976?