Thursday, March 19, 2009

Research Topic

Was Richard Nixon a good president despite the Watergate Scandal?

-reduced tension between the U.S and U.S.S.R.
-opened dialogue with China
-ended the draft and brought U.S troops home from the Vietnam War
-reduced the number of nuclear weapons between U.S and U.S.S.R
-environmentalist
-cutback funding on health care, education, and social programs for the poor
-clandestinely bombed communists in Cambodia
-high inflation, unemployment rate, and oil prices
-supported a coup in Chile which brought General Augusto Pinochet, a ruthless dicatator, to power

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