Decade of the 1970s
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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
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72 it was still a secret as the war continued. There was still considerable anger on the Left about the reelection of Nixon in November 1972, as seen in this statement from Michael Harrington in The Nation:
Richard Nixon based his Presidential strategy on a reactionary, utterly erroneous myth about the United States. . . There were myths as well on the side of the good guys this year--only, unlike Nixon's, they were not shared by 60 per cent of the electorate. One must be as candid about the illusions of the Left as about those of the Right (Harrington 518).
Among the myths of the Nixon Right as cited by Harrington was the idea that the United States had spent too much on social programs and had done little but throw money at problems; that such profligate programs corrupted people's self-reliance and resulted in permissiveness, increased drug abuse, and high welfare rolls; and that there had been a breakdown in the leadership class of the country so that the average American lacked the necessary direction from above that had made this country strong. Harrington answers these charges when he writes,
These charges are partly mythic. . . One of the most important reasons for the President's landslide was that the truth was pl
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Approximate Pages = 18 (250 words per page)
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