Congress and the Nation is the most authoritative reference on congressional trends, actions, and political and policy controversies. This award-winning series documents the most fiercely debated issues in recent American politics, providing a unique retrospective analysis of the policies the U.
Organized by policy area, each chapter contains summaries of legislative activity, including bills passed, defeated, or postponed. No other authoritative source guides readers seamlessly through the policy output of the national legislature with the breadth, depth, and authority of Congress and the Nation. The Nixon administration's war on crime came abruptly to an ironic conclusion in mid Faced with impeachment and ordered by a unanimous Supreme Court to surrender incriminating evidence to the special Watergate prosecutor, Richard Nixon resigned as President Aug.
He was immediately succeeded by Gerald R. At the time of his resignation, Agnew was under investigation on charges that he had accepted bribes while holding the nation's second highest office. But five years and billions of dollars later, with stringent new federal anti-crime laws in place, the crime rate was still climbing.
Late in , plain-spoken Attorney General William B. But even before Nixon left office, national opinion polls showed that the public's attention had shifted away from the problem of street crime. Economic problems, the energy crisis, and Watergate displaced crime from the top of the ladder of popular concern.
Citizens appeared to be more concerned about the insidious thievery of inflation and wrongdoing in high places than they were about being mugged. Activity in Congress on law enforcement matters reflected this change in attitude.
