The problems from the 1960s were not settled by 1973. The United States did leave Vietnam in January. But the Middle East was a powder keg and would erupt again with the Yom Kippur War. Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew were elected as President and Vice President in 1968 and each had a problem. Nixon was be bogged down by Watergate and Agnew was facing charges of bribery that dated back to his term of Maryland Governor in the1960s. In addition America faced a gas crisis that threatened to cripple the United States economy.
Evan Weiner is a speaker, author, with a radio and TV background.
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