Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...annus mirabilis drew to an end, President-elect Richard Nixon and his aides, John Erlichman and Bob Haldeman, were busy in a suite on the 39th floor of the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan, assembling the new Administration, a new cast of characters, Henry Kissinger, John Mitchell and the rest. The nation soon would be off on a different road, or so one imagined. It would be another four years before the U.S. withdrew from Viet Nam, and another seven years before the North Vietnamese armies would sweep south and accomplish the result that American power had sought so long...
...thousands to become "Clean for Gene" workers in his crusade. The New York Senator's decision to enter the race split the peace movement. It also brought back to American politics an almost mystical icon of concern for the poor, the disenfranchised and the disaffected. "I think we can end the divisions within the United States, the violence," Kennedy declared from the rostrum at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, after winning the June 4 California primary. Moments later, he was dead...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff called the labor troubles in Memphis a distraction and advised against his going there. They argued that King had a mass of details to work out for the Poor People's Campaign, a nationwide series of marches and speeches that would end with a giant rally in Washington. But the civil rights leader insisted on marching in Memphis, where black sanitation workers employed by the city were demonstrating to form a union. These men, he said, were abused and overworked, yet unwilling to remain silent -- exactly the qualities he was looking for. Said King...
...life to clothe the naked . . . that I did try in my life to visit those who were in prison . . . that I tried to love and serve humanity." On April 8 in Memphis, 42,000 people walked silently in the march Martin Luther King Jr. had planned. By the end of the month, Ralph Abernathy, his friend and successor, kicked off the Poor People's Campaign. In May, the campaign arrived in Washington. There, two months after King's death, a makeshift village arose. It was called Resurrection City U.S.A...
...paradise envisioned in 1968 was not for everyone and would not last, refusing be found. The journey toward utopia would end up, like all others before it, a bad trip...