Nixon - Domestic Policy
Nixon’s Domestic
“E-Challenges”
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Economy
Energy
Environment
Equality
Economic Problem
The Recession Monster
Causes for the 1970s Recession
• Vietnam spending
• Great Society spending
What President’s policies
caused the recession of
the 1970s?
• Tax cuts
• Oil prices increased
New Economic Policy
• 90 day freeze on prices and wages
Energy Crisis
• worried about the dependency of foreign oil
and rising American consumption
Discovered
Alaskan Oil
1969
Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Authorization Act (1973)
Construction
Started: March 27, 1975
Completed: May 31, 1977
Length: 800 miles
– Crosses 3 mountain ranges and over
800 rivers and streams
Cost: $8 billion
Speed: 5.4 mph
Time: 6.2 days
Barrels of oil per day:
1 million
Alaskan Pipeline
Energy Crisis Solutions
Emergency
Highway Energy
Conservation Act
(1974)
Environmental Concerns
Environmental
Protection
Agency
Equality and Civil Rights:
Women
Title IX
Girls in High School Sports
1972: 1 out of 27
2012: 2 out of 5
Women’s Sports Foundation
Drug Enforcement Agency
“Federal DEA Agent”
Ended Military Draft (1973)
Thumbs Up, President Nixon
Other Non Presidential Actions
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26
Amendment (1971)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Legalized abortion in the first trimester of a pregnancy
Richard Can Do No Wrong!