USH Chapter 24

President elected in 1968 and was involved in the Watergate Scandal

• Ronald Reagan
• Lyndon Johnson 
• Richard Nixon
• Jimmy Carter 

President Nixon's and Ford's foreign policy advisor  

• John Sirica 
• Carl Bernstein 
• Richard Kleindienst 
• Henry Kissinger 

President Nixon's plan to distribute a portion of federal power to state and local government. 

• New Federalism 
• Old Federalism 
• New Deal 
• The Great Society 

This would allow state and local governments to spend federal dollars however they saw fit within certain limits.

• Medicaid 
• Family Assistance Plan 
• Southern Strategy 
• Revenue Sharing 

Nixon's plan in 1969 in which every family of four with no outside income would receive federal payments of $1600/year with a provision to earn up to $4000/year. 

• Family Assistance Plan 
• New Federalism 
• Welfare 
• Revenue Sharing 

President Nixon enhanced programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps. However, he used impoundment to halt several other programs. 

• True 
• False 

Withholding necessary funds for programs thus halting their implementation. 

• Revenue Sharing 
• Impoundment 
• New Federalism 
• Family Assistance Plan 

Nixon's plan to attract Southern conservative democrats by appealing to their unhappiness with federal desegregation policies and the liberal supreme court. 

• Southern Salvation 
• Family Assistance Plan 
• New Federalism 
• Southern Strategy 

President Nixon opposed integration through busing and tried to reverse several civil rights policies. 

• True 
• False 

Which Supreme Court justice did President Nixon appoint? 

• John Roberts 
• John Jay 
• Warren Burger 
• Earl Warren