President Gerald ford Anti – Drug policy 1967-1974.

Abstract

Ford directed the policy of the United States of America according to the principle of limiting communist activity and confronting domestic opposition to foreign policy, And the opponents of the Vietnam War, therefore, were in a very difficult test, and he had to preserve, at the very least, the gains of President Nixon, who made tangible progress towards Turkey, Iran, and East Asia. Providing economic aid in return for providing aid to the United States, and the Ford administration represented a political extension of the Republican Party's ideology, despite some differences in visions.                                                                                                    

 Therefore, Ford's first step in drug policy was to limit the federal demand for drugs within American territory, and thus provided an appropriate opportunity that perfectly matched the wing in favor of linking countries hostile to the United States with the drug trade. Thus, the countries of East Asia represented Ford's first political stations to contain them for fear of communist expansion. The theory of modernization had a method identical to American policy and had a major impact in bartering with developing countries and third world countries, limiting the drug trade in exchange for American aid, especially since those countries were suffering from economic and political problems that made them submit to the American will. For example, Thailand and Burma had achieved progress. It was tangible in his favoritism for the rebellious tribes in the mountains, and on the internal level, Ford inherited from his predecessor Nixon a conflict between the American administration and Congress, as the latter sought to abide by the American president and continue his work in foreign policy, specifically on the issue of drugs, which disturbed Ford and stood in the way. In front of the establishment of the Special Action Office for the Prevention of Drug Abuse, which would monitor the implementation of the provisions of any agreement or law related to drugs, and it carried out its work by following flexible diplomacy towards the allies of the United States of America, both France and Turkey and even with Mexico.