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Decade of the 1970s

The decade of the 1970s started with the last years of the War in Vietnam, the end of the first presidential administration of Richard M. Nixon and the beginning of the 1972 election season, and other events that were featured in news stories in newspapers, magazines, and television newscasts. The coming months would include a number of major events--an oil embargo, news about Watergate, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, and eventually the only resignation of a sitting U.S. president and the ascension of the vice president to the office. The decade of the 1970s would bring even more wonders, and it would end with the hostage crisis in Iran, another slap in the face to American power and further evidence of a national decline for those who were looking for such evidence. The decade seemed to end with a sense of despair just as it began with a sense of frustration because of the continuing war in Vietnam, campus unrest from the 1960s, and a bad taste in the political realm because of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. An examination of the magazines and newspapers from around my date of birth and from that year as a whole will show what the major stories were, what forces were operating in the country, and what problems faced the world at that time.

A listing of the events of that year in The Time Tables of History shows how a number of issues came to a head in that year and what sorts of issues were being faced. It was in 1972 when President Richard M. Nixon visited China and Russia, a trip that was the high point of his administration and an accomplishment that would live on past his most shameful moment when he resigned his office. It was in 1972 when Nixon was reelected in a near-record landslide, defeating Democratic candidates Senator George S, McGovern and Senator R. Sargent Shriver. Shriver himself ran for office under unusual circumstances when he replaced the first nominee, Senator Thomas Eagleton, who w...

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