Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THESE MEN, coming mostly from Texas and California, and farming the backbone of the Rim economy in oil, real estate, leisure, and defense, contributed 75 per cent of Nixon's reelection campaign funds. He had served them well, continuing the Vietnam War for four years, increasing defense spending from $80 billion to $95 billion, developing Project Independence which injected $10 billion in energy programs, and halting efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency to control private land development...
...yankee counterattack began in 1968, when many important Wall Street brokers began worrying about the effects of the Vietnam War on the nation's economy. Sale makes the generalization that cowboys are more concerned about inflation, which threatens to reduce the level of government funding, than yankees, whose manufactured products depend on the purchasing power of the general public, making them more fearful of a recession...
...impact of the Kennedy assassination on American politics in the 1960s and '70s is difficult to assess. Canfield and Weberman claim that things would have been very different had Kennedy lived: he would have kept us out of Vietnam, secured detente earlier, and inaugurated massive social welfare measures. This is difficult to swallow; the legislation of the Kennedy administration does not suggest real social reform, and while JFK might not have defended the American empire in Vietnam, there is no reason to suppose he had given up his Cold War policies and would not have defended it elsewhere...
...extravagance, summons several hundred of his men when ten would have done just as well. These greedy gambits for recognition are cutely or comically presented and then quickly filed away. Any social comment they could have made is overshadowed by bell-ringer lines like Sonny's bleated "We're Vietnam veterans, so killing means nothing to us, ya understand...
...underpinning of grave pathos, and a focus on local color and American style. As in Serpico, he was trying to capture New York. He was also trying, with the groovy relevance of a mid-60's liberal, to make a trendy statement about bad cops, good robbers, Watergate and Vietnam. But he couldn't control his techniques. He cut so flippantly from one to the other--a laugh here, a sob there--that he destroyed the thoughtful consistency that would have elicited emotional response. Dog Day Afternoon ends up being as realistic and immediate as Dragnet, and no more...