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by Eric Barr 5 years ago

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Ford Presidency

Ascending to the presidency without election, the individual faced immense challenges from the outset, primarily due to the fallout of a major political scandal that led to their predecessor'

Ford Presidency

Ford Presidency

Domestic Policy

LGBT movement
Women's movement
Economic Problems
Whip Inflation Now

Ford's motto when it came to the economy

Stagflation

High Unemployment

High Inflation

Pardons Nixon
Further increases lack of trust
Hurts presidency

Foreign Policy

Cambodia
Genocide of Capitalist-like people
Communist government installed
Khmer Rouge wins Cambodian civil war against Mayaguez

On April 17th, 1975, the Khmer Rouge marched into the capitol of Cambodia and told the city that it woud be bombed by the Americans, forcing them into the countryside in order to turn them all into peasants.

Detente
SALT Talks continuing
China
Normalized Relations
Question of recognition

People's Repuclic of China would not allow the Us to recognise both them and Taiwan as China, and to cut all ties with taiwas, so the Us has no ties with Taiwas even to today.

Taiwan

Peoples' Republic of China

Chile
Military Dictatorship Installed
Middle East
Shuttle Diplomacy
OPEC Oil Embargo
Israel vs Egypt/Syria

Afraid that he would give the USSR a foothold in oil-rich countries in the middle east, Ford decided to act in the issue without bias in the way of Israel.

Vietnam
Vietnamese refugees called "Boat People" to Hong Kong
Humiliation for Carters office
South Vietnam Loses
Operation Babylift
Fall of Saigon

All America could do was watch

Personal Background

Nice "normal guy"
Not afraid of his presidential image
Picks up his dog's poop
College D1 athlete
"Boy Scout in the White House

Path to Presidency

Only appointed president
Watergate Scandal
Nixon needed a non-contriversial president
large portion of Nixon's casbinet is taken out
Nixon resigns