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Republican reaction: the Nixon Presidency, 1968–1974 & The USA after Nixon, 1974–1980- A Level Summary Notes (A*) American Dream Illusion and Reality

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Notes compiled from several resources that helped me to gain an A* in A Level History Included on Nixon: The Presidential election of 1968 and the reasons for Nixon’s victory: divisions within the Democratic Party; the personalities and policies of the Nixon administration The restoration of c...

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Nixon:

Tricky Dicky:

Background:

• Had gotten a scholarship to Harvard but he could not afford it

• Mother ignored him as a child and had an affair

• Grew up in California- no president had ever been from California before-

ambitious

• Bad with the media

• Poorer background- distrust amongst the wealthy elite

Politics:

• Part of HUAC

• Prosecute Alger Hiss (spy scandals)- makes his name

• Vice President for Eisenhower

• Good will ambassador- experience in foreign policy

• Had originally wanted to continue fighting in the Korean War

• Seen as a white-collar McCarthy

• Checkers speech and the slushy funds

• Attacked political opponents

• Accused political opponent of communism

• Due to Eisenhower's illnesses had sometimes had to act/ stand in as the

president so was experienced

• Accused of fraud in 1956

• Kitchen debate in 1959

,• Had not allowed Eisenhower to campaign for him

• Too ill for the TV debate- attempted to got to all 50 states rather than just the

swing states

• Lost to Kennedy in the 1960 election

• Had not contested to Kennedys win despite electoral fraud of 100,000 votes +

in Illinois, Chicago, Texas

• Nixon was republican

,Did Nixon win or the democrats lose the 1968 election?

• Middle America- average person (worried of violence, riots, Vietnam)

George Wallace:

• - Governor of Alabama

• Segregationist

• University of Alabama

• Denying access to African Americans in the doorway

Democrats

Left Right

• Liberal • Selma- refused protection

• Gains strength • Southern democrats

• Antiwar • Drift towards the republican

• Doves party

• Johnson less inclined towards • Continue with war

the Vietnam war • Harks

• Bobby Kennedy- refused to be • Problem for Johnson- tainted

senator as does not want to split by Vietnam

the party

• Go to Eugene McCarthy

(obscure) and ask him to win the

nomination for democrats. Ran

Johnson close

Key Issues:

• Divisions within the Democratic party

• 1968 Democratic party convention in Chicago

, • Dissatisfaction over Vietnam

• The battle for ‘middle America’

• George Wallace running as an independent

Divisions within the Democratic Party:

• McCarthy Vs Johnson:

• Late 1967- Democrat Liberals within the party wanted a democrat candidate to

challenge Johnson for the presidency in 1968

• New York Senator Bobby Kennedy turned them down for fear of dividing the

party. Bobby Kennedy had turned publicly against the Vietnam war in May 1965

• The liberals within the democratic party persuade Minnesota Senator Eugene

McCarthy to stand against Johnson

• He was an intellectual who appealed to college students

• He ran Johnson close in the New Hampshire Primary in 1968

• This persuaded Johnson not to seek re-election and tempted Bobby Kennedy

to seek nomination

McCarthy vs Kennedy:

McCarthy Kennedy

-January 1968, liberals -Kennedys friend Arthur Schlesinger Jr told him if he ran, he would

persuaded anti-war be criticized. Declared his candidacy on 16th March 1968

Minnesota Senator -Many of the less privileged thought he developed a unique

Eugene McCarthy to run empathy with them and their suffering. African American Kenneth

against Johnson Clark saying that he had grown. Kennedys support of the striking

-Appealed to college Mexican American farmworkers in California impressed their

student who campaigned leader Cesar Chavez and his assistant Dolores Huerta said that

for McCarthy in the

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