| 1968 | - Richard Nixon elected president.
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| 1969 | - Warren E. Burger appointed chief justice of Supreme Court.
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| 1971 | - Nixon vetoes child care bill.
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| 1972 | - Watergate arrests.
- Nixon reelected president.
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| 1974 | - Nixon resigns; Gerald Ford becomes president.
- Ford pardons Nixon.
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| 1976 | - Jimmy Carter elected president.
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| 1977 | |
| 1978 | - Regents of University of California v. Bakke.
- Congress deregulates airlines.
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| 1979 | - Camp David accords.
- Carter establishes formal diplomatic relations with China.
- Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
- Iranian hostage crisis begins.
- Moral Majority founded.
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| 1980 | - Congress deregulates banking, trucking, and railroad industries.
- Congress passes Superfund legislation.
- Ronald Reagan elected president.
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| 1981 | - AIDS virus discovered.
- Economic Recovery Tax Act.
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| 1983 | - Terrorist bomb kills 241 U.S. Marines in Beirut, Lebanon.
- Reagan announces Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”).
- Family Research Council founded.
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| 1984 | - Reagan reelected president.
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| 1988 | - Civil Rights Restoration Act.
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