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| Richard M. Nixon | A conservative President who tried to bring America in a conservative direction before he resigned to escape impeachment over the Watergate Scandal. |
| New Federalism | President Richard Nixon's program to turn over part of the fedearl government's power to state and local governments. |
| Revenue Sharing | The distribution of federal money to state and local governments with few or no restrictions on how it is spent. |
| Family Assistance Plan | A welfare-reform proposal, approved by the House of Representatives in 1970 but defeated in the Senate, that would have guaranteed an income to welfare recipients who agreed to undergo job training and accept work. |
| Southern strategy | President Nixon's attempt to attract the support of Southern conservative Democrats who were unhappy with federal desegregation policies and the liberal Supreme Court. |
| Stagflation | An economic condition marked by both inflation and high unemployment. |
| OPEC | The organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries--an economic association of oil producing nations that is able to set oil prices. |
| Realpolitik | A political philosophy, advocated by Henry Kissinger in the Nixon administration, that invloves dealing with other nations in a practical and flexible way rather than according to a rigid policy. |
| Detente | The flexible policy, involving a willingness to negotiate and an easing of tensions, that was adopted by President Richard Nixon and his adviser Henry Kissinger in their dealings with Communist nations. |
| SALT I Treaty | A five-year agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, signed in 1972, that limited the nations' numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles. |
