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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doris H. Kearns, associate professor of Government and a former aide to President Johnson, said "Watergate represents the White House staff running rampant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Aides Say Watergate Had Roots in White House Politics | 3/7/1974 | See Source »

Manhattan Psychiatrist James Baxter argues that such roundabout reasoning is contradictory. Nevertheless, he says, the book is appealing because "a bedrock of respect for oneself is essential, and today we are rampant with self-recrimination. The U.S. is having a crisis of conscience unparalleled since the Civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Such Good Friends | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...coin would bear the motto "All Are Part of the Web of Life," and would be circled about by a chain of earth, water, sky, microbe and man. The verso of the coin would carry the motto "There Is No Free Lunch," over a design of crossed bicycles rampant upon a field of Franklin stoves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1973 | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...historian, Richard Maxwell Brown, writes that the Tea Party stemmed from a century-long heritage of mob violence in Boston. Discontent was rampant up and down the colonial seaboard after the British government granted the East India Company a monopoly on all tea exported to the American colonies; only in Boston did discontent manifest itself in violence. Boston's merchant class feared that the monopoly would, according to one patriot, "destroy every branch of our commerce, drain us all of our property, and wantonly leave us to perish by the thousands...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Celebrating the Revolutionary Party | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

THURSDAY: Thanksgiving Day Parades. Gimbels, Hudson's, Macy's, Eaton's, et al. The traditional Captain Kangaroo and Miss America look at American commercialism rampant. CH. 4. 7. 9 a.m. Color. 3 hrs. Live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 11/21/1973 | See Source »

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