Vice President under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States.

Changed the legal voting age from 21 to 18 (1971).

A resolution of Congress that stated the President can only send troops into action in another country by authorization of Congress or if America is already under attack or serious threat.

A form of political participation designed to achieve policy change through dramatic and unconventional tactics.

Not conforming to accepted standards of behavior.

A 7,000-page top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process concerning the Vietnam War.

A system by which men ages 18 through 25 register with the U.S. government for military service.

An official statement.

An action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage.

Secretary of state during Nixon's presidency (1970s) and the main negotiator of the peace treaty with the North Vietnamese.

The distribution of a portion of federal tax to state and local governments.

A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon.

Negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons. (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)

Native to a country, not foreign.

A general and progressive increase in prices.

Situation in which a government uses more money than it takes in.