Professor Nicole Hemmer
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Es ist eine tolle Frage. Ich bin nicht sicher, wie viel er mit einer neuen ökonomischen Ordnung im Kopf hat. Er hat sicherlich verstanden, dass die USA in einige herausfordernde ökonomische Zeiten entstanden sind, weil so viel der Post-Kriegs-Prosperität aus zwei Dingen gebaut wurde.
China hatte sich kinderlich gekleustert und geschlossen und war also nicht eine zentrale Teil der globalen Ökonomie, aber auch... Japan and Europe and all these places have been destroyed in World War II. And so they weren't challenging the U.S. in terms of manufacturing. And Richard Nixon is becoming president at a moment in which that is shifting. Right. Europe is powering back up.
Japan is powering back up. They haven't yet reached critical mass. I'm just not sure how much he understood that China was part of that equation. It's entirely possible that he did.
Those conversations are happening under Nixon. And again, Nixon understands how power works. He knows these people who are running the countries in the Middle East and the Sultanates and all of these different governments. And again, is looking for a way to stabilize power. Right.
To stabilize power in these different places like the Middle East, instead of having them be simply pawns in US-Soviet conflict, to empower them and to bring them sort of into this new political order that he is helping to shape in this moment.
The very idea of the American century, the idea that Henry Luce puts forward in 1941, that the U.S. would be an active leader on the international stage. The founding generation would not have even really conceptually understood that. Not only because the U.S. didn't have that kind of power back in the late 18th century. But because they just had a very different vision of how the U.S.
would operate in the international space. And a lot of that was like, we're going to stay over here. Europe and its problems can be over there. We're not going to worry about those so much, except on the rare occasions when it interferes with our economic interests.
So yes, this was just an entirely new vision for the US's place in the world that had been building, I think, since the late 19th century as the US is becoming more of an empire. And then with World War II and the Cold War, but Nixon really brings it to its apotheosis.
New Federalism is this idea that the federal government is going to begin to devolve power back to the states. That you're still going to have federal programs that are interested in funding things like early childhood education or that is interested in the desegregation of workspaces and those kinds of things. But it's going to be done at the state level.
So instead of having these big federal programs, you'll instead give block grants to the states and the states will figure out how best to spend that money.
It's a conservative idea, but that again is this idea of sort of slowly transitioning away from New Deal, Great Society, big government that is located in the federal government and taking that federal money and devolving it back to the state level. And so that's the big driving idea.
Yeah, it really depends on where you sat, how much you saw it as a problem to be resisted or something to be embraced. In the U.S. South, there was quite a lot of interest in having...
Aber für Menschen, die ihre Karriere investiert haben, in die Bildung dieser föderalen Agenzen, die Verständnis, dass es auf dem föderalen Niveau gerecht werden musste, um es zu machen, dass es konsistent und fair ist, aber auch, um sicherzustellen, dass es die neuen Regeln der Zivilrechts-Ära folgt. Making sure that money was getting to Black residents and to women and to Latino residents.
This was part of the understanding that federal control meant fairness and that state control meant something else. And for Richard Nixon, who had run on the Southern Strategy, he was more interested in having that state control than federal control.
I think that especially first term Richard Nixon is someone who understands he has to compromise. Republicans do not control the Senate and the House. They're still in the Great Society era. And when he moves, he has to move strategically. And so he doesn't say, let's dismantle the welfare state. He says, what about this idea of having a guaranteed annual income?
Oder der föderale Regierung gibt Menschen einfach Geld und sie finden heraus, wie sie es so sparen. Oder sogar für etwas wie eine affirmative action, eine liberale Politikidee. Nixon verabschiedet es, aber er verabschiedet es bis zum Ende, um die Unionen zu verringern. Und so eine der Dinge, die Nixon in seinem ersten Termin macht, ist, dass er versucht, herauszufinden, wie man
liberal means to reach conservative ends so he does oversee things like the development of the environmental protection agency but his ultimate goal is to have a more conservative federal government he just doesn't have a lot of space to do that in his first term where he's barely eked out of victory and is working in what is clearly just like a more liberal america
I think the important starting point has to be that the Watergate affair, the scandal, starts during the 1968 election before that big landslide happened. Nixon had, of course, in 1968, as we've mentioned... Ich glaube, das ist ein sehr, sehr wichtiger Punkt. Be careful reading your own tea leaves, I suppose.
The Darker Side peaks out now and then in public. So he has a kind of viciousness toward the press that you later learn is actually being actualized into a war on certain journalists. They're being investigated by the IRS and the FBI and he's keeping an enemies list. That is the real Richard Nixon. You know, he cuts loose Vice President Spiro Agnew. Und dann...
Honestly, it speaks to what white elite life looked like in the United States in the mid-century. It had become unpalatable to use racial slurs in public, to talk about the Jews in negative ways in public. And yet behind the scenes, you know, in those places that were out of the spotlight and off camera, there was a lot of this. And Nixon embodied it. He had terrible things to say about racism.
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