HIST 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 59: Clement Haynsworth, Spiro Agnew, Burger Court
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Recession in the 1970s = economic slowdown and high inflation) More unemployment in 1971 there was a 90-day wage and price freeze. 10% surtax on all imports increases for social security. End sex discrimination in schools provided girls with equal athletic opportunities. Nixon received 43% of popular vote minority president. Political strategy to form republican majority by appealing to the millions of voters who had been disaffected by antiwar protests, black militants, school busing for racial balance, and excesses of youth culture. Democratic: southern born, whites, northern catholic blue-collar workers, and recent suburbanites who disagreed with liberal drift of their party. Must win south asked federal courts in region to delay integration plans and busing orders. Nominated 2 southern conservatives (clement haynsworth and g. harold. Plans rejected by senate but still appealed to southern white voters. Nixon permitted vp spiro agnew to make verbal assaults on war protesters and to attack the press as liberal.
