... 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 with moving the right's agenda away from communism to domestic ... Governor Pat Brown who was seeking a third term in office. Brown was forced to face Democratic primary opposition from Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, a close friend of Conservative Republican Henry Salvatori....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the administration managed to arrange a cease-fire that would last long enough to permit U.S. withdrawal from the Indochinese war zone. After the Arab-Israel War in 1973, the efforts of Henry Kissinger led to a cease-fire and troop disengagement in the Middle East. Domestically, under the banner of "A New Federalism," Nixon attempted to shift important elements of governmental power and responsibility ... full House of three articles of impeachment against the president. On Aug. 9, 1974, Nixon resigned his office and was succeeded by Vice-President Gerald R. FORD, whom he had selected to ...

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... rely almost exclusively on three people: H. R. Haldeman, his former campaign manager; John Ehrlichman, Haldeman's best friend, who handled domestic policy; and Henry Kissinger, his national security adviser. As it was said Nixon was a very secluded president at times, a total opposite of Lyndon Johnson. Johnson stated ... electoral process, the Nixon administration was determined to disrupt the Allende government. On a more positive front, Nixon had secretly dispatched Henry Kissinger to the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, and in February 1972 those missions yielded prod...

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... Vietnam. Nixon's promise of "peace with honor- was not fulfilled and the United States continued to invade Asian countries well into the second half of 1972. Secret peace meetings between Henry A. Kissinger, and the North Vietnamese delegate Le Duc Tho, began in the second half of 1972. The peace talks started looking promising when a breakthrough was achieved when the Communist side ... up with him. Everyone felt betrayed the American people and even Nixon's government. Nixon resigned from office on August 9, the first U.S. president to do so. A month later his successor, Gerald Ford, ...

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• Grade Level: High School