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**Main Ideas:**
 * 1) The liberation movements of youths, ethnic minorities, and women in the late sixties and early seventies, and their challenge to prevailing social norms.
 * 2) The change in Vietnam strategy under Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, to achieve "peace with honor" rather than outright victory.
 * 3) The foreign policy emphasis on a "multipolar" world in the diplomacy of Nixon and Kissinger, in forging a bold new relationship with China and seeking a détente with the Soviet Union through grain sales and arms reductions.
 * 4) The political and practical effects of Nixon's efforts to build a policy of less federal dominance of the states and more respect for traditional values, and his continued advocacy of welfare state programs.
 * 5) The growing economic problem of "stagflation" under Nixon and Ford, an economic malaise as much international as domestic in origin.
 * 6) The origins and evolution of the Watergate scandals, culminating in the resignation of Richard Nixon.