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Limitations and Growth from 1974 to the Present Matrix

Student Name: Johnny Dixon

Section 1—Limitations in the 1970s. Create a matrix overview of the limits on American power in the seventies. Select five of the following topics to shape a response, and explain their significance to American history:

Post-Watergate Public Opinion, Ford Pardons Nixon, The Arab Oil Embargo, Stagflation, High Interest Rates, The Crisis of Confidence, The Iranian Hostage Crisis, The Sagebrush Rebellion, OPEC, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Ted Kennedy

|Topic |Significance for American History |

| |Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do |

|Ford Pardons Nixon |grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in |

| |during the period from July (January) 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.He had promise Nixon that soon as he became President he would pardon him. No President have ever been to court|

| |over charges they received why has President, including President Clinton. |

|Ted Kennedy |Newly released FBI documents reveal that threats against the late Sen. Edward Kennedy continued long after the assassinations of his brothers, at one point prompting the future |

| |owner of the New York Yankees to hire personal security guards for the Massachusetts Democrat....