{"id":3905,"date":"2020-11-03T11:01:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T16:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2020-11-03T11:01:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T16:01:35","slug":"blog-post-11-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/03\/blog-post-11-4-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 11\/4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the 1970\u2019s Americans increasingly had a distrust in government.\u00a0 A multitude of events like the anti-war movement, and the Watergate scandal caused trust in government to crater.\u00a0 The, \u201cNational mood of hostility to government and business came out of the Vietnam war\u2026 political disgrace of the Nixon administration in the scandals that came to be known by the one-word label &#8220;Watergate,&#8221; and which led to the historic resignation&#8230; from Richard Nixon.\u201d\u00a0 By the end of Nixon\u2019s Presidency people were fed up and just wanted to go back to normalcy.\u00a0 When Nixon finally resigned people were very happy and thought Ford was the right answer to the problems we faced, \u201cWhen Nixon resigned and Ford became President, the New York Times said: \u2018Out of the despair of Watergate has come an inspiring new demonstration of the uniqueness and strength of the American democracy.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under Ford the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mayaguez Affair happened where a US cargo ship was taken by Cambodia.\u00a0 Ford then acted to solve the problem without Congressional approval.\u00a0 And, there were American casualties Zinn writes, \u201cWhy the rush to bomb, strafe, attack? Why, even after the ship and crew were recovered, did Ford order American planes to bomb the Cambodian mainland, with untold Cambodian casualties? What could justify such a combination of moral blindness and military bungling?\u201d\u00a0 If Ford would\u2019ve waited for Congressional Approval they could\u2019ve made a solid plan instead of being blindsided.\u00a0 Or, the Cambodian\u2019s may have actually returned the ship.\u00a0 This along with Vietnam caused trust in military to drop as well as government, \u201cConfidence in the military during that period had dropped from 62 percent to 29 percent, in business from 55 percent to 18 percent, in both President and Congress from 42 percent to 13 percent.\u201d\u00a0 Overall, people just wanted to be back to normalcy, yet Ford failed to do so and the public\u2019s trust faded.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 1970\u2019s Americans increasingly had a distrust in government.\u00a0 A multitude of events like the anti-war movement, and the Watergate scandal caused trust in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/03\/blog-post-11-4-3\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog Post 11\/4<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4923,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3905","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\/3905","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\/4923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3906,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}