Nixon's Domestic Accomplishments by https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo Habiba Abdelhalim en-us 2018-04-09 22:36:51 UTC 2025-03-13 02:50:30 UTC hello@padlet.com Nixon founded the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 as a response to the rising concern over conservation and pollution. The agency oversaw the passage of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and the Mammal Marine Protection Act. abdelhalimh https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250061279 President Nixon signing the Clean Air and Water Act. ]]> 2018-04-09 22:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250061279 Nixon initiated and oversaw the peaceful desegregation of southern schools. abdelhalimh https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250062073 African American students had to be bused to schools for their safety.]]> 2018-04-09 22:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250062073 Nixon opened the doors for women in collegiate sports when he signed Title IX in 1972, a civil rights law preventing gender bias at colleges and universities receiving Federal aid. abdelhalimh https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250063583 2018-04-09 23:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250063583 A great proponent of the 26th Amendment, Nixon lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen, extending the right to vote to America’s youth. abdelhalimh https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250064859 These notes were written by President Nixon expressing his thoughts on the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The speech was given by the President on July 5, 1971, in the East Room of the White House during the Young Americans in Concert program.]]> 2018-04-09 23:15:54 UTC https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250064859 Nixon became the first President to give Native Americans the right to tribal self-determination by ending the policy of forced assimilation and returning their sacred lands. abdelhalimh https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250067039 President Richard M. Nixon signs a bill to return the sacred Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, on December 15, 1970. Tribal leaders stand next to him at the White House.]]> 2018-04-09 23:32:20 UTC https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250067039 Nixon’s administration instituted so-called “set aside” policies to reserve a certain percentage of jobs for minorities on federally funded construction projects—the first “affirmative action” program. abdelhalimh https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250068699 This is what Richard Nixon wanted to achieve with affirmative action in the Federal government. ]]> 2018-04-09 23:43:57 UTC https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250068699 President Nixon's Inaugural addressed his vision for the US and how important it was for the Americans to unite rather than fight one another. abdelhalimh https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250074510 U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, delivering his First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1969.]]> 2018-04-10 00:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250074510 Although programs like the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) failed, other legislation with similar ideas was passed like the Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which provided a guaranteed income to the elderly, the blind, and the disabled; and automatic cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for Social Security recipients. abdelhalimh https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250076113 Richard M. Nixon, 1970.]]> 2018-04-10 00:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250076113 "No American will miss basic medical care by inability to pay." (Jan 1971) abdelhalimh https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250091331 From Pres. Richard M. Nixon State of the Union speech.]]> 2018-04-10 02:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/abdelhalimh/l6tmn4ce30fo/wish/250091331