Read the primary source document “President Nixon Addresses the Nation on Energy Shortages, 1973” on pages 336-339 (PDF attached) and write brief answers to the four questions below.
1.Who wrote it? What is this person or group’s significance (don’t just give biographical/demographic details, but a sense of why he, she, or it is an important historical figure or source for historical information
2.Why is the document’s agenda? What is it trying to persuade its readers? What evidence can you cite from the document to show this intended agenda?
3.What is the significance of this document for understanding the politics and culture of the 1960s and 1970s?
4.What is the significance of this document for understanding 21st century politics and culture, as you see it at this point?
Please use page numbers with intext citation. The reference for this book is:
Zaretsky, Natasha, Mark Atwood Lawrence, Robert Griffith and Paula Baker (2014). Major Problems in American History Since 1945. (4th ed.). Boston,
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