Kategóriák: Minden - salt - refugees - stagflation

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Fords Presidency

The administration focused on several key areas to address economic challenges and heal national wounds. Domestically, efforts included attempting to combat economic stagnation through measures like the WIN initiative and creating a significant federal deficit to stimulate job growth.

Fords Presidency

Fords Presidency

Domestic policy

when WIN didn't work, grew a $60 billion federal deficit to create jobs, and the Federal Reverse dropped interest rates to 8%
attempted to combat stagflation with WIN, -don't spend a lot and grow a vegetable garden
brought some attention to CIA misdoings
Pardoned Nixon to shift focus away from that -wanted to heal the countries wounds

Foreign Policy

Helsinki
Had his own SALT talks (SALT II)
wanted to end the "Vietnam Era" peacefully, or as gracefully as possible
Allowed many Vietnamese refugees into the US
came to more agreements with the Soviets
very limited US military involvement overseas
Pursued detente with the Soviet Union
Continued with Nixon's foreign policy