{"id":3883,"date":"2020-11-02T18:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T23:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2020-11-02T18:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T23:37:58","slug":"post-11-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/02\/post-11-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Post 11\/4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today\u2019s Zinn chapter focused on the Nixon administration and how trust between the people and the government began to diminish even more.\u00a0 The American people were already on edge with the government due to the involvement in the Vietnam War, which proved time and time again that America should not have gotten involved.\u00a0 The watergate scandal furthered distrust in the government and President Nixon.\u00a0 Nixon could no longer lead the country due to the lack of trust, so he was removed from office.\u00a0 I did not know Nixon executed an illegal bombing in Cambodia, and this news did not sit well with me.\u00a0 This type of misuse of power makes me question the democracy within America.\u00a0 Zinn continually exposes how America has failed to represent the people through its form of democracy, and as the examples pile up it makes me feel less and less confident in the American government.\u00a0 I want to look deeper into how much power the president of the United States of America actually has.\u00a0 I was under the assumptions that the checks and balances formed in the American government would prevent the president from doing things like bombing Cambodia without full support of congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States of America\u2019s constant need to be seen as a world superpower causes problems.\u00a0 Zinn states that Ford wanted America to be seen as a superpower once again, so he made some rash military decisions such as sending the American military to Cambodia quickly over a relatively calm issue.\u00a0 The questions of trust in the government came into full swing when news of the CIA and FBI instituting a variety of things that ultimately kept American citizens in the dark.\u00a0 Zinn describes a variety of things the CIA and FBI did without consent from American citizens and this once again questions the legitimacy of American democracy.\u00a0 Zinn concludes the chapter by analyzing international business and corporate power.\u00a0 It is interesting how Zinn brings the chapter full circle with this segment.\u00a0 The themes of distrust and abuse of power filtered throughout this chapter, and Zinn, once again, brings to light so many of the stains on American history.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Zinn chapter focused on the Nixon administration and how trust between the people and the government began to diminish even more.\u00a0 The American people&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/02\/post-11-4\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Post 11\/4<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}