(HISTORY) Nixon Watergate and southern strategy
(HISTORY) Nixon Watergate and southern strategy
Homework: Nixon, Watergate, and the Southern Strategy
Directions: Complete the reading listed below. Then type out your answers to the questions. You should submit your answers to Canvass and be prepared to discuss your answers to these questions in class on the day they are due. In the questions below that have more than one simple question to them, just select one to answer.
Reading:
- Moss, Nixon & Watergate, selected pages
- Kutler, “The Inescapability of Watergate”
- Brinkley, “The Watergate Crisis” & “Where Historians Disagree: Watergate”
- Carter, “George Wallace, Richard Nixon, and the Triumph of the Right”
- Identifications: Identify the following terms. If you have trouble understanding and identifying a term, like “hegemony,” then use another source such as a dictionary, to augment your definition. If multiple definitions of a concept are given, make sure to capture each separate definition associated with the concept.
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Watergate |
The Saturday Night Massacre |
Southern Strategy |
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Strom Thurmond |
George Wallace |
Answer the following questions for homework:
- What was Nixon’s southern strategy? What role did people like Strom Thurmond and George Wallace have on helping along Nixon’s approach to winning the South?
- Why did Nixon resign the presidency?
Food for thought questions – DO NOT answer:
- How would you compare Nixon’s scandals and illegalities to our current political situation?
- What degree of latitude do political leaders have to engage in illegal acts. Not every scandalous act is necessarily illegal. What kinds of events or actions define the boundaries of scandal for our political system?
- What relationship is there (or should there be) between the private life of a politician/president and their public trust? Must the private/public life match up? If you conclude that they don’t have to match up, then how much variance would you allow?
