FRIDAY---THREE DAY WEEKEND!!!

Adv. US History
Focus:
President Richard Nixon
1969--74

CW:
notes: The Nixon Presidency
handout: major domestic achievements of the Nixon administration
video clips from AE DVD:

1. 1968 campaign against Humphrey--campaign commercial
2. enemies list and break in of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in June 1971
3. Nixon visits China--1972

video clips: Watergate (beginning--26:00); White House tapes--39:04---41:05; aftermath--43:25--45:00
Nixon farewell address to the White House staff (addresses his parents at 11:06)

HW:
Text pp. 899-904
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Honors US History
Focus:
Vietnam War

CW:
notes/video clips: growing resistance to the war
the draft and draft resistance: clips from The Trials of Muhammed Ali
January--March 1968
video clips from LBJ DVD:
Jan 1968: Tet Offensive in Saigon
Cronkite report on Vietnam
LBJ refuses to seek a second term
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dangers facing American soldiers in Vietnam (begin at 3:54)
discussion: A System of Suffering and video clips from Dear America: Search and Destroy mission

HW:
Text pp. 868-73; 876
Begin reading at The Siege of Chicago
DUE ON WEDNESDAY