Chapter 39

What legal claim did President Nixon unsuccessfully make to the US Supreme Court to resist the efforts of the Watergate special prosecutor and Congress to obtain his taped conversations with aides in the White House?

(A) Executive privilege (presidential confidentiality) allowed him to withhold the tapes

Which was the most controversial action of Gerald Ford's presidency?

(A) Pardoning Richard Nixon for any known or unknown crimes that Nixon had committed during his presidency

Which of the following events prompted congressional passage of the War Powers Act in 1973 over President Nixon's veto?

(A) The revelation of the secret bombing of Cambodia

Why did the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) arouse such bitter opposition among many businesspeople?

(B) The work of these two agencies directly involved the federal government in many aspects of business decision making.

All of the following contributed to Richard Nixon's landslide victory over George McGovern in 1972 EXCEPT

(C) an unusually strong level of political support among feminists and racial minorities for President Nixon and the Republicans

Which of the following best characterizes President Nixon's policy of detente?

(D) It ushered in an era of relaxed bilateral tensions between the United States and the two leading communist powers, China and the Soviet Union.

The list of illegal activities perpetrated by the law and order Nixon administration that were uncovered in the Watergate scandal included all of the following EXCEPT

(D) bribing US Supreme Court justices to write favorable judicial opinions

Which of the following was NOT a decision issued by the U.S. Supreme Court during the Warren Court era?

(E) The Court upheld the right of state legislatures to disregard the one-man-one-vote principle in apportioning legislative districts.

President Richard Nixon's Vietnam policy included all of the following EXCEPT

(E) steadily increasing American troop commitments in Vietnam.

All of the following were sources of the economic stagnation that plagued America in the 1970s EXCEPT

(E) steep tax increases in the 1960s and early 1970s to fund increased domestic and military spending