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I was there. It was crazy af.
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How did it compare to now?
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We had Walter Cronkite, and even better, Eric Sevareid. If you wanted crazy though, there was a John Birch Society "bookstore" next to the sporting goods store near my house in LA. But they weren't on network TV.
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I think the key here is “they weren’t on network tv.” Foxnews, twitter, FB MOST certainly amplifies this stuff. I’m not old enough to remember Nixon but I’m old enough to remember when my mother wasn’t posting Russian memes on FB.
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Fox News is like sending 20% of the population to Afghanistan to be radicalized.
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I think the reason we should be worried now is that there is so much division despite a good economy. I hate to imagine what could happen when the economy goes south.
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Correct me if I'm wrong
@Noahpinion, but the economy in 65-68 looks a lot like the economy now -- low unemployment, high growth, creeping inflation (impending recession?) -
It was, but goosed by war and space spending and the tail-end of the building of the interstate highway system. And about to get pounded by oil shocks and Nixon's price control experiment....it was the wild western hemisphere.....
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This decade would have been way more tolerable if we'd gotten a few new highways or another flag in space. Instead we just got the wars and maybe an oil shock or something soon
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Yes, explaining to my son about riots in the streets, students shot dead on campus, and the sickening violence during civil rights marches. It can get worse.
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This was an interesting book I regards to partisanship and history of the House.pic.twitter.com/rpN58dMkYJ
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just had the same feeling watching The Seventies on Netflix
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Just finished nixonland.. now going backward to “before the storm” incredible books..
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In my cart, friend. I rarely get a good and surprising
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Blew me away in exactly that context. I did prefer The Invisible Bridge though
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But don’t neglect Perlstein’s other 2 times on the rise of modern conservatism in USA
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"The glory and the dream : a narrative history of America, 1932-1972" by William Manchester is also a good reference.
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Probably you won't like this, but Pat Buchanan's memoirs "The Greatest Comeback" and "Nixon's White House wars" are quite good and interesting, from the point of view of the "insiders" of this administration. Highly recommended too.
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such an awesome series. also read Dark Money, and note that Koch senior founded the Birch society. then go out and vote for whatever hurts the oil companies the most.
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