Word: vietnames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inequality in the face of tremendous prosperity results in a less than great society an assumption that will, no doubt, irritate many conservatives. But he goes far beyond the widespread and simple view that the Great Society faltered and eventually disintegrated because of the increasing economic drain of the Vietnam war. The war's effects, both economic and social, cannot be discounted, but Matusow emerges from the partisan fog to reveal the contradictions and tensions within the Great Society programs...
Matusow recounts the decline of the Great Society through poor management and escalation of the Vietnam ment and the escalation of the Vietnam count of the counterculture which grew in the late '60s. He sees fundamental flaws there as well. Students for a Democratic Socity, the Yippies, the Black Panthers--all went through periods of romance with Third World revolutionism, and then turned to guerilla tactics, reinforcing their isolation from the American mainstream...
...been asked that question a thousand times by pop analysts and chic social journalists trying to observe or confirm a trend. My honest answer is that I don't know. I was in a kindergarten classroom the day of the University Hall takeover, and got glimpses of the anti-Vietnam protests only in the newsbreaks that interrupted the cartoons...
...Vietnam: A History, Karnow...
...break from the past, both in policy and in conventional wisdom. In this portion of the museum, scholars will for the first time get a glimpse at valuable documentation showing that the United States actually owned the Panama Canal (contrary to the 1903 treaty) and that North and South Vietnam had been two separate countries for centuries (despite volumes of history books and years when both were ruled by the same government, excepting periods of Chinese and French colonization). Bolstering the United States strategic forces is one of the major accomplishments of the Reagan Administration, and while the President...