1st influence

Elected in 1968 Richard Milhous Nixon became president. As president he had many goals and ideas such as reducing racial divisions in the U.S and decreasing the nations’ high inflation rate. He placed controls on wages and prices to slow down the process but according to the student resource gold that didn’t help that much and barely stopped anything. But one thing he did stop was the military draft. Richard created an all volunteer system for U.S armed services (world book online). He promised a quick end to the Vietnam War, which was the source of much unrest at home according to student resource gold. When he got in office he expanded the war making it bigger than before. But soon the American involvement in the region was decreased. Richard may not have ended the war like he promised but he did achieve an arms treaty with the Soviet Union in 1972