...This chapter focuses on Richard Nixon's campaign to “snuff out” the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). He demanded the resignation of then director Phillip V. Sanchez and other senior staff, impounded millions of dollars of congressionally appropriated funds for antipoverty work, and zeroed out...

...Federal interests planned the Bicentennial of the American Revolution for ten years. In the late 60s and early 1970s, planners envisioned a new World’s Fair, to be held in Philadelphia. But as consensus fractured and distrust of the government, and particularly Richard Nixon, mounted, Americans...

...This chapter talks about the 1972 campaign shenanigans and how they first entered the public consciousness after operatives from President Richard Nixon's campaign conducted a “thirdrate burglary” on the Democratic offices in Washington's Watergate complex. After Nixon sailed on to victory...

...The fifth chapter focuses on the effort by President Richard Nixon to fulfil the “Southern Strategy” and disrupt the pace of school desegregation. In the summer of 1969, Nixon attempted to delay school desegregation. The NAACP LDF urged the Supreme Court to insist on immediate school desegregation...

... government officials and the population at large. Citing the need to halt the trend toward federal intervention in the economy and other areas of American life, President Richard Nixon proclaimed an era of “New Federalism” that reduced funding for antipoverty programs and restored control over economic...

... Richard Nixon Spiro Agnew Silent Majority 74 RONALD REAGAN sat down for lunch and asked if he should run for president. On August 5, 1968, just hours before the opening of the Republican National Convention, the governor of California had been hustling around Miami Beach, charming delegates...

... methods in the name of fighting terrorism. Additionally, this introduction explains how domestic guerrilla insurgency incited a bureaucratic conflict between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President Richard Nixon that helped bring about the Watergate scandal. counterterrorism vs BLA Dyson William E...

...When President Richard Nixon came into office in January 1969, he prioritized a politics of “law and order” that put at its center the repression of leftist radicals. Nixon expected cooperation from his friend, J. Edgar Hoover, but the FBI Director feared leaks exposing bureau involvement...

... Ann break ins Brown H Rap Cox Don informants Odinga Sekou Shakur Lumumba St Louis MO Pentagon Papers Torres Gabriel and Francisco Black Liberation Army Waverly Jones Joseph Piagentini Richard Nixon J. Edgar Hoover FBI NEWKILL Police violence George Jackson Attica State Prison...

... Helms Richard Lano Angelo Smith Sandy Time magazine Walters Vernon Munich Olympics attack 1972 W. Mark Felt Deep Throat Plumbers Break-ins Daniel Ellsberg J. Edgar Hoover L. Patrick Gray Richard Nixon Watergate Weather Underground As the FBI’s war with the Weather Underground and the BLA...

... 1972 Olympics Munich West Germany FBI W. Mark Felt Edward Miller Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism Richard Nixon Arab scare Suspect community In the predawn hours of September 5, 1972, eight commandos from the Palestinian nationalist Black September Organization stormed an apartment unit...

...This chapter explains Richard Nixon's message to the U.S. Congress on Indian affairs that led to the passing of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975, which assures maximum Indian participation in education and other Federal services. Sitcoms airing during this era...

...No president used law-and-order measures to curb Washingtonians’ autonomy as vigorously as Richard Nixon did. As his administration embarked on its anticrime crusade, it introduced a massive, overly punitive crime bill that Washingtonians themselves had limited ways to protest. As chapter 4...

...The Lyndon Johnson administration set in motion plans to commemorate the nation’s two hundredth anniversary with extensive urban renewal efforts. Chapter Five shows that as the Bicentennial Celebration neared, the Richard Nixon White House withdrew funds, decentralized programming, and minimized...

... that the contest involved “character”—that the always crucial moderates who had voted for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and then switched to Richard Nixon in 1968 were looking for a president who knew the difference between right and wrong, and whose administration would be based on simple honesty. Democratic challenger...

..., economics, and foreign affairs was great enough that the American government could accept the consequences of association with the Colonels. Richard Nixon, who took control of America's foreign policy in January 1969, apparently shared the strategic outlook offered by the INR. Constantine II king of Greece...

...This chapter analyzes student participation in campaigns for law-and-order and segregationist Republican Party presidential nominees, including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George Wallace, in the 1968 Republican primary and in the 1968 presidential election. It explores how resistance...

... to the post-civil rights backlash that propelled Richard Nixon to the presidency in 1968 and transformed U.S. politics. At the same time, these musicians continued using black-identified sounds and (occasionally) black personnel to craft their increasingly white-associated music. The chapter describes...

... Wallace Cleaver Eldridge New York Twenty One Pratt Geronimo J. Edgar Hoover Richard Nixon Jonathan Jackson University of Wisconsin bombing Weather Underground New Left Black Power FBI Fall Offensive Surveillance Jonathan Jackson was only seventeen years old when he smuggled a small arsenal...

...The conclusion discusses key trends in the shift to black political power after the 1974 election of Walter Washington, assesses the 1978 mayoral election of Marion Barry, and explains the outcomes of the programs implemented and projects undertaken during the Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon...