The First Year of the Clinton Presidency

Every president is faced with the need for an agenda on the domestic front and one on the foreign policy front. When Nixon entered the White House, the most important element on the foreign policy front was the Vietnam War, and domestically this war was having a major role as well, contributing to the general unrest in the country and to a public perception of growing lawlessness and anarchy. Nixon was forced to approach foreign policy from a position he would have opposed had he had any real choice: "It was R

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e: "He wanted a moderate, middle-of-the-road Cabinet, and even talked about a national-unity government to meet the crisis the country faced" (Ambrose, p. 236). However, he was rebuffed by all the Democrats he asked except Daniel Patrick Moynihan, named as head of the newly created Urban Affairs Council. Nixon created a domestic policy establishment with different centers of power, often in conflict in a way he believed would be beneficial. Moynihan was the liberal wing. He made John Ehrlichman the White House counsel with primarily domestic responsibilities. He created a new Cabinet-level position of Counsellor to the President and named Arthur Burns, an economist, to fill it, reasoning that Burns's conservatism would be a counterweight to the liberalism of Moynihan. Bob Finch was also intimately involved in domestic policy with the post of Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. George Shultz became Secretary of Labor; Maurice Stans, Secretary of Commerce; David Kennedy, Secretary of the Treasury (he had been head of the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, and Nixon wanted someone form outside the New York banking community); George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Win
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