Name Date

AP US History II period Mrs. Hornstein

The Imperial Presidency

Election of 1968

Presidential Vice Presidential Political Popular Vote Electoral Vote Candidate Candidate Party Richard Nixon Spiro Agnew Republican 31,783,783 43.42% 301 55.9% Hubert Humphrey Edmund Muskie Democratic 31,271,839 42.72% 191 35.5% George Wallace Curtis LeMay American Ind. 9,901,118 13.53% 46 8.6% Other (+) - - 243,258 0.33% 0 0.0% Map Key Turnout > 30% > 40% > 50% > 60%

> 80%

1. What was the goal of détente?

2. What were the effects of détente on the U. S. dealings with communist countries? on the American public?

3. Identify President Nixon's most important foreign policy achievements.

4. Why could only Nixon "go to China?"

5. What was the thrust of the Nixon Doctrine? What were its implications on Chile?

6. What dilemma of American Middle East policy did the Yom Kippur War make clear? What other lessons did the war teach?

7. To what constituency was Nixon trying to appeal with his attacks on liberal programs?

8. Why did President Nixon appoint Warren Burger to the Supreme Court?

9. What advantages did Nixon have going into the 1972 election? What were George McGovern's liabilities?

Presidential Vice Presidential Political Popular Vote Electoral Vote Candidate Candidate Party Richard Nixon Spiro Agnew Republican 47,168,710 60.67% 520 96.7% George McGovern R. Sargent Shriver Democratic 29,173,222 37.52% 17 3.2% John Hospers Theodora Nathan Libertarian 3,674 0.00% 1 0.2% John Schmitz Thomas Anderson American 1,100,868 1.42% 0 0.0% Other (+) - - 297,553 0.38% 0 0.0% Map Key Turnout > 40% > 50% > 60% > 70%

10. What were the proximate and fundamental causes of the creeping inflation of the late 1960s and 1970s?

11. Describe the general outlines of Nixon's economic policy. How effective was it?

12. How did Nixon change the federal-state relations?

13. Why did President Nixon's own personality contribute to his downfall?

14. Why did Vice President Agnew resign? How did his removal and the appointment of Gerald Ford as Vice President actually increase the pressure on Nixon?