2a. Issues of the Ford Presidency
•  Foreign Affairs
– Defeat in Vietnam
– Dιtente and Human Rights Policy
– Middle East Crisis
– Arab Oil Power
– First International Economic Summits
•  Domestic Affairs
– Legacies of Watergate
– Legislative v. Executive Branch of Congress
– High Inflation & High Unemployment
– Fiscal Restraint and the Veto
– The Bicentennial of American Independence
•  Political Affairs
– 1976 Presidential Campaign
– Campaign Reform & Federal Election Commission
– White House Relations with the Republican Party