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President Ford
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- 1Problems facing Ford- Sworn in aug 1974 after Nixon resignation
- Lack of election EVER as not on ticket as VP = opportunity for Demo congress control
- aftermath of Watergate = lack of public confidence in US government
- Inflation and unemployment rising
- Emerging divisive social issues = abortion, women's rights, busing
- Wider spectrum of civil rights = hispanics and native Americans also - 2Public reputation of Ford- reputation for decency and integrity
- Effectively risen through Republican ranks
- 'man of the people'
- BUT aftermath of Watergate :(((
- Criticised in media = stupid and clumsy
- fell down stairs of Air Force One
- any other time = successful image - 3Pardoning Nixon- 1974
- approval rating fell from 71% to 49%
- End trial and prolonged media attention and public discussion
- Criminal court = degrade the authority of president office
- Resignation = admission of guilt?
- 'Jerry the jerk'
- 1974 mid-terms bad for Republicans = reflect public disapproval - 4Position of African-americans by 1974- 35/40% considered as middle class
- Growing political representation - Black Mayors in LA, Detroit, Cleveland, Atlanta
- 1971 = 31% earning +$10,000 a year
- Southern segregation fallen to 8%
- BUT teenage unemployment = 50%
- White flight and de-facto social and school segregation remained !!
- 1/2 of Blacks dropped out of school in NYC
- 4x more likely to be murdered - 5Busing- Move students to other neighbourhoods to encourage greater integration
- 1974, NAACP challenge racist language = ruling against unlawful segregation
- Ordered busing against de-facto segregation - 6Response to busing- City authorities = refuse
- ROAR = anti-busing campaigners
- largely encouraged by Fords personal dislike of busing
- Black parents = welcomed white students
- White parents = threw things at black students = 9 injured
- Continued all year with racist remarks
- Many white students took opportunity to boycott school
- Ford forced to send troops in 1974 after white student stabbed - 7Social unrest- very little unrest after success of ending the Vietnam War 1973
- 1974, Clemency = pardon for VW draft dodgers
- :( conservatives AND liberals - too much v not enough - 8Positives of women's rights- more female fill positions of medicine/law
- 2/3rds of female college students disagree with idea of role at home
- Equal Rights Amendment supported in Congress, 1972
- 1973, Roe v Wade = landmark :)))
- 1975, Taylor v Louisiana = ruled unconstitutional to exclude women from Jury pool
- Betty Ford = open discussion of pre-marital sex and drug addiction = role model - 9Problems with women's rights- still only 73% of male salary
- remained in low-paying jobs
- Phyllis Schlafly = 'Stop ERA' movement in 1972 with southern state support
- ERA failure to gain 75% of state support
- Ford did little to support :( - 10Fords approach to foreign policy- Only in office for 2 years = no time for new polices
- Continuity from Nixon = :(((
- Kissinger still Secretary of State BUT power weakened
- William Colby - CIA director = fired after too open during investigation of CIA
- Intro Rumsfeld and G.H.W. Bush into foreign team = shape policy in following decade - 11Vietnam- Ford responsible for humiliating final retreat of US from Vietnam
- 1975 = Communist invasion of Saigon despite US $700m aid to South
- Helicopters leave US embassy in Saigon with desperate south vietnamese attempt to join evacuation
- Big embarrassment - 12Cambodia- 1975 = Ford ordered marines to retake US cargo ship = SUCCESS
- Ship in possession of new Communist leader of Cambodia
- Approval rating up
- Deaths of 40 soldiers but look strong - 13Vladivostok SummitNov 1974 = meeting between Ford and Brezhnev
- discuss arms control with USSR = basis of SALT II and less bombers/missiles - 14Helsinki Accords- 1975
- Meeting between Ford, Brezhnev and EU leader
- Closest Europe came to a peace settlement
- Western recognise Soviet domination of Eastern Europe
- Soviets agreed to human rights provisions
- Dismissed by Ford and Kissinger as already outline of current US foreign approach - 15Attitude towards detente- Conservative call for a tougher approach
- associated with disgraced Nixon
- Viewed Helsinki as appeasement of USSR
- Some thought communists use as opportunity to build nuclear arms and shift influence to Africa
- SALT no longer followed by USSR - 16Result of the 1978 election- Carter won both popular vote = 49.9% and electoral college
- Lowest turnout since 1948 = 54%
- neither candidate excite the electorate
- Still lasting impact of Watergate - 17Republicans during 1976 election- damaged by watergate
- Emergence of conservative outsider - Reagan = brutal campaign
- Further destroyed the reputation of the republican party
- Ford = humiliated/weak
- VP Dole rumors of illegal corporate sponsors in 1973
- Economic problems = remaining oil shortages and double figure inflation - 18Successes of Carters 1976 campaign- Emphasized weaknesses of republican party after Watergate
- Criticised Nixon/republican failed economic policy = double figure inflation
- A devout southern Christian = combat previous dixiecrat division
- North East focus campaigning
- Visited 37 states and made 200 speeches
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- A level (AMERICA) History Fichas sobre President Ford, creado por Emily Bevis el 22/05/2018.
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