Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reese, who was a top adviser to John F. Kennedy '40--the candidate many consider to have been the first TV president--says the importance of television has not increased since the 1960s but that campaigns have become increasingly skillful in manipulating the medium...
...Republicans are too adept at playing racial politics. The Democrats ceded their hold on the George Wallace crowd when they declared war on Jim Crow back in the 1960s, and the Republicans have accepted them into the fold without protest. House Republican leader Robert Michel (III.) made that clear when he noted that Reagan Democrats would defect to Bush when they "look at the Democratic convention out there and see the one-third Blacks in that composition of delegates...
...director cites studies of cigarette smoking among undergraduates in the 1960s and 1970s as evidence of how the community reacts to health issues tied to public education...
...they take effect, the Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco deals may prove to be textbook cases of smart corporate strategies. They could also turn out to be flops -- or so U.S. business history would suggest. In the 1960s some of America's most celebrated executives, including Harold Geneen at ITT and Charles Thornton at Litton Industries, acquired scores of companies and built huge conglomerates. Like many empires, they eventually declined. A similar fate may await some of today's dealmakers...
...Lyndon Johnson crazy? This is the question that transforms Richard Goodwin's account of the 1960s, Remembering America, from an eloquent narrative into a bizarre romp around the psychoanalyst's couch. After beginning with a fascinating account of the Charles Van Doren quiz show scandals, Goodwin winds up with elaborate discussions of LBJ's bowel movements. The result is both controversial and trivial, leaving Goodwin to contemplate rising book sales and a sinking reputation...