Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said the book does not entirely succeed inrecreating the atmosphere of the 1960s in whichkey decisions were made. But he said that it wasan "extraordinarily useful and wise book...
...especially rare to see a church that is racially mixed with such equanimity. The neighborhood where Oakhurst is located used to be all white, but once a few black families moved in, most of the whites moved out. Oakhurst's congregation was 900 members strong in the 1960s, but after the white flight of the '70s, membership dwindled to only...
...lessons of Korea, where the U.S. had last fought a limited war to keep a country divided, were also very topical in Washington during the 1960s. "We had tried this approach before," wrote Dean Rusk, who was Secretary of State for most of the Vietnam years, "and it had worked; indeed we had to make it work to avoid slipping into general war." Recalls McGeorge Bundy, who served as National Security Adviser to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson: "The image of our success in Korea was much in our minds. I used to say to myself, 'We haven...
...instrument of U.S. foreign policy and interests. That means you use it sometimes when you don't have popular support or when you have very limited goals." Says Seth Tillman, who was a staff member of Senator J. William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee during the 1960s: "The lesson of Vietnam is to forget about Vietnam. Be very discriminating about your interests and the feasibility of protecting them...
...journalists and as young people, we have the potential to make the 1990s just as exciting and as historical as the 1960s, not because of O.J. Simpson or Gina Grant, but because we recognize that these two cases are manifestations of concerns and issues much deeper than we are presently willing to concede or explore. With this knowledge, we too can become excited about our society and recover what has been lost by journalism over the past 25 years--passion...