... of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA); elect Ronal Reagan Governor of California and President of the United States, and take control of the Republican Party. These men included, Paul Weyrich, Richard Viguerie, Howard Phillips, Paul Laxalt, Taft Schreiber, Jules Stein, Henry Salvatori and Ronald Reagan. Paul Weyrich started out as an aide to Colorado Senator Gordon Allott and is generally credited ... government had been placed in the highest office of the biggest state in the nation. In 1968, Governor Ronald Wilson Reagan, the conservative heir apparent challenged Richard Nixon for the Rep...

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... Order 11246 is one of the most far-reaching federal programs for expanding equal opportunity. Affirmative Action in the Nixon Administration In 1969, when Richard Nixon took office, affirmative action was still poorly defined and not widely supported. It was under Nixon that the first official affirmative action program (the Philadelphia Plan) was put forward. The unemployment rate of young blacks ... was high, and Nixon believed that affirmative action could be part of the solution. The Philadelphia Plan was a forceful plan ... action plans. It required proportionate representation of...

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... to increase the number of minorities they employed. 1969: Department of Labor hearings exposed continued widespread racial discrimination in the construction agency. In response, President Richard Nixon developed the concept of using "goals and timetables" to measure the progress federal construction companies were making in increasing the number of minorities on their payrolls. 1970: ... President Nixon extended the use of goals and timetables to all federal contractors. 1974: President Nixon declared that affirmative action programs should also include women. 1978: The U.S. Supreme Cou...

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Following President Richard M. Nixon's resignation in August 1974, President Gerald Ford began his inaugural address with the observation that the "nation's long nightmare was finally over." Many observers might have felt the same way ... ...

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