Word: race
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incredible year ended, to be sure, with a growing view that the worst is over, the raw angers of race and generations spent and replaced by a national readiness to begin anew. As if symbolizing its potential for great cooperative projects, the U.S. sent three articulate and sensitive men on a faultless trip around the moon. Yet Richard Nixon, unfortunately, cannot rely on what may be only a passing moment of domestic peace and pride. Dark forces endure in U.S. life; stubborn problems remain to be resolved. Clearly, the daunting task of the American President in 1969 is nothing less...
...this special Inauguration report, TIME thus focuses primarily on those ills: race, poverty, decaying cities, crime and all the other current burdens on the U.S. mind and spirit. Above all, it seeks to penetrate the biggest mystery in U.S. life today: why has the can-do country become a country that can't? Why can't a nation that commands one-third of the world's wealth wipe out its social problems overnight? Are Americans so angry that they simply fail to see and seize the remarkable opportunities before them...
...race dilemma will be the President's toughest problem. Aside from various economic measures that may improve the lot of blacks, he could begin by using the Government's powers to further desegregation in deliberately segregated schools and employment. He could bring highly qualified Negroes into the highest ranks of his Administration. And he could, through word and deed, put the prestige of the presidency behind the Negro's cause...
...conferences and meetings, or surveys and graphs and study commissions. We've been analyzed and graphed and surveyed for too long. We need action now. We want to give white America the chance to show that there is such a thing as equality of opportunity, regardless of race, creed, or color...
...American psyche-and one of its strengths-is its single-minded concentration on one Big Problem at a time. In the past four decades, the nation's energies and imagination have been largely absorbed by the specter of economic instability, war, cold war and the nuclear arms race. At the same time, the rural American was becoming the urban American. The Negro became even more restive for social and economic equity. And the great engine of American success, industry, was practically given carte blanche to pollute the air and the water, with no implicit social responsibility to the cities...