Housing Act, 6/30/1961
Peace Corps, 3/1/1961
1. Sargent Shriver
NASA
1. Yuri Gagarin
Alan B. Shepard
Virgil Grisson
John H. Glenn
Civil Rights
1. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Economic Growth
1. Deficit
Assassination, 11/22/1963
1. Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
V. “Flexible Response”
Dean Rusk
Alliance for Progress
Bay of Pigs, 4/17/1961
1. CIA & Eisenhower
Failure
Khrushchev & Castro
Khrushchev, 6/4/1961
Berlin Wall, 8/13/1961
South Vietnam
Cuban Missile Crisis, 10/14-27/1962
1. “Naval Quarantine”
Khrushchev
Test – Ban Treaty, 8/5/1963
“Hot Line” 8/30/1963
Ngo Dinh Diem
1. Large Buddhist…
2. JFK (Sept & Nov, 1963)
VI. Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908-93
Stonewall, Texas
1. School.
2. Richard M. Kleberg
3. Claudia Alta Taylor
Georgetown University Law School, 1935
NYA Administrator, 1935-37
House of Representatives, 1937-49
US Navy, 1941-45
US Senate, 1948 & 1953
Vice President, 7/11/1960
VII. “The Great Society” 1963 - 69
VISTA, 1964
24th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1. Equal Opportunity Commission
Tax Cuts, 1964
Economic Opportunity Act, 1964
1. Operation Headstart
Election of 1964
1. Barry Goldwater
VIII. LBJ’s Foreign Policy
Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
Gulf of Tonkin 8/2/1964
1. Waiting for an Excuse
USS Maddox
Tonkin Resolution, 8/7/1962
Leonard Brezhnev
China’s “Cultural Revolution”
William Westmoreland
Vietnam War
1. Operation Rolling Thunder 6/1965
Vietnam & Thailand
LBJ, (Dec. 1967)
“Tet Offensive”
Vo Nguyen Giap
Turning Point
Different Kind of War
“Tour of Duty”
“Million Dollar Wound”
“In-country” & “the World”
New Weapons & Tactics
“Grunts”
“Search & Destroy”
Antiwar Movement
US News Media
Election of 1968
IX. Martin Luther King Jr.
CORE
James Meredith, 10/30/1962
George Wallace, 9/1963
“I have a dreem” 8/28/1963
Freedom Summer, 6/22/1964
Malcom X, 2/21/1965
Thurgood Marshall, 10/1967
“Black Power”
1. Stokely Carmichael & H. Rap Brown
“Black Panthers” 10/1966
MLK Assassination, 4/4/1968
Watts Riot, 8/11/1965
John Carlos
X. Mexican Americans
Cesar Chavez
Mexican American Political Association
La Raza Unida, 1970
“Corky” Gonzalez
“Brown Berets”
Los Angeles “Blow-Out” 5/1968
XI. Consumers and Environmentalists
Ralph Nader: Unsafe at Any Speed
1. National Taffic & Motor Vehicle Safety Act, 1966
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring
1. Water Quality Act, 1965
Environmental Protection Agency
XII. The Counterculture
Peter Max
“Question Authority”
“Hippies”
Haight-Ashbury District
Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll
1. NOW
Betty Friedan, 1963
The Pill
Woodstock, 8/15-17/1969
“Acid Rock”
The Beatles & The Rolling Stones
XIII. Political Turmoil
Eugene McCarthy, 1968
Robert F. Kennedy
Sirhan B. Sirhan, 6/5/1968
Herbert H. Humphrey
Chicago Democratic National Convention
1. Abbie Hoffman
2. Richard Daley
XIV. Sports
Cassius Clay
Green Bay Packers
Hank Aaron
Jack Nicklaus & Arnold Palmer
A.J. Foyt
XV. Warren Court, 1963-66
Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963
Escobedo vs. Illinois, 1964
Miranda vs. Arizona, 1966
The Nixon Years / The 1970s #30
I. Richard Milhous Nixon, 1913 - 94
Yorba Linda
Whittier College
Duke University
Nixon, 1937-42
WWII
II. House of Representatives, 1946-50
HUAAC
Alger Hiss
III. Anti-Communist Credentials, 1950
IV. Eisenhower, 1952
“McCarthyism”
V. Republican Party, 1960
Henry Cabot Lodge
“Television Debates”
Nixon, 1962
New York,
“Chicago 7”
VI. Republican Party, 1968
Spiro T. Agnew
Nixon-Agnew ticket
VII. Nixon’s Foreign Policy
Henry Kissinger
VIII. “Vietnamization”
U.S. Withdrawal…
Only 24,200 US troops
Nixon, 1969
Anti-Vietnam Demonstration, 11/15/1969
My Lai Massacre
Kent State University
Nixon, 2/8/1971
Lt. William L. Calley, 5/29/1971
“Pentagon Papers” 6/13/1971
Daniel Ellsburg
Bombing, 1972
“Vietcong, 3/30/1972
Cease-Fire, Jan. 1973
Paris Peace Treaty, 1/27/1973
Le Duc Tho
Last US Troops…
US losses
Costs:
“Vietcong” & ARVN
IX. Nixon’s China Trip, Feb. 1972
Nixon…
X. Nixon’s Moscow Trip, May, 1972
XI. Leonid Brezhnev
XII. Nixon’s Domestic Policy
“New Federalism”
Neil Armstrong, 7/20/1969
Edwin E. Aldrin & Mike Collins
Clean Air Act, 1970
Environmental Protection Agency, 1970
Clean Water Act, 1972
H.R. Haldeman & John Ehrlichman
“Blacklist”
Jane Fonda…
Nixon’s Paranoia
XIII. “Watergate Break-In” 6/17/1972
C.R.E.P.
John Mitchell
Ehrlichman & Haldeman
“Plumbers”
Daniel Ellsburg’s office
Donald Segretti,
Watergate Apartment Complex
Larry O’Brien
Howard Hunt
James McCord
Frank Sturgis
Hunt & Liddy
Washington, DC
Haldeman & Ehrlichman
Nixon…
CIA & FBI
Public Opinion?
Nixon’s Paranoia
Charles Colson & John Dean III
Carl bernstien & Bob Woodward
Woodward
“Deep Throat”
George McGovern, 1972
Thomas Eagleton
R. Sargent Shiver
George C. Wallace
Election of 1972
Nixon’s plan…
“Watergate 5”
Haldeman, Ehrlichman, & Dean
Whitehouse Tapes
Justice Department…
Nixon…
Archibald Cox
Spiro T. Agnew, 10/10/1973
Gerald R. Ford
XIV. Yom Kippur War, 10/6/1973
Egyptian & Syrian…
Arab Nations…
Nixon…
XV. O.P.E.C.
OPEC…
Oil Rationing & 55 mph
US Oil Prices…
XVI. “Saturday Night Massacre” 10/20/1973
Archibald Cox
Judge John Sirica…
Leon Jaworski
XVII. Impeachment Hearings
Supreme Court, 7/24/1974
“64 Nixon Tapes”
Watergate Congressional Hearings
Committee
Nixon Tapes
Nixon, 8/9/1974
Post-Watergate…
a. Yorba Linda
Gerald Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
Unconditional Pardon, 9/8/1974
“Lame Duck” President
Vietnam, 4/29/1975
Vietnam Refugees
Roe v. Wade, 1/22/1973
XIX. Gerald R. Ford, 1976
Jimmy Carter
Fritz Mondale
Carter…
XX. Jimmy Carter
President Carter, 1/20/1977
“Draft Dodgers”
Deregulation, 4/1977
Panama Canal
China, 1/1/1979
SALT II treaties
Afghanistan, late 1979
1980 Olympic Games
Human Rights…
Camp David Accords, 9/1978
Iranian Hostage Crisis, Oct. 1979-Jan. 1981
Shah of Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini
Shah…
Militant Moslems
52 US Hostages
Inflation…
Election of 1980
1. Ronald Reagan
Reagan – Bush – Clinton Years #31
I. Ronald Wilson Reagan
Dixon, Illinois
Eureka College, 1928-32
W.H.O.
Warner Brothers, 1937
Reagan…
Jane Wyman
WWII
Nancy Davis, 1948
Screen Actors Guild
Television
Reagan…
Conservative Republicans, 1966
Reagan…
1976 Election
Republican Party, 7/16/1980
George Bush
II. Reagan - Bush
Iranian Hostage Crisis
John Hinckley Jr., 3/30/1981
Sandra Day O’Connor
Recession, 1981 – 83
“Reaganonmics”
Reagan…
“Evil Empire”
“Star Wars”
241 US Servicemen, 10/23/1983
Marxist Grenada, 10/25-30/1983
Los Angeles Summer Olympics, 1984
AT & T, 1/8/1982
Sally Ride, 6/18/1983
Walter Mondale
Democrats…
III. Reagan – Bush Ticket, Election of 1984
Daniel Ortega, 1/10/1985
“Domino Theory”
“Freedom Fighters”
US House…
“Arms for Hostages” Deal
Oliver North
Space Shuttle Challenger, 1/28/1986
Libyan Targets, 4/14-15/1986
Unemployment, 1/6/1989
Wall Street, 10/19/1987
IV. George Herbert Walker Bush, 1924
Prescott Bush
George Bush, 1942
Yale University, 1945-48
Oil Business, 1948
Zapata Corporation
US House of Rep, 1966
President Nixon, 1971-73
China, 1974-76
CIA, 1976-77
“Voodoo Economics”
Michael S. Dukakis, 7/20/1988
Lloyd Bensten
New Orleans, 8/17-18/1988
J. Danforth Quayle
Bush promise…
V. Bush-Quayle, 11/8/1988
Exxon Valdez, 3/24/1989
Colin Powell
Berlin Wall, 12/23/1989
Bush, 12/20/1989
Economic Recession…
Deficit
Operation “Desert Shield” 8/2/1990
Bush, 11/8/1990
US Senate, 1/12/1991
Norm Schwarzkof
Operation “Desert Storm” 2/23/1991
“Cold War” 12/25/1991
Boris Yeltsin
Rodney King, 4/29/1992
VI. William Jefferson Blythe, 8/19/1946
Roger Clinton, 1950
William Clinton, 1961
Rhodes Scholarship
Yale Law School, 1970-73
Clinton, 1974
Arkansas Governorship, 1978
“Comeback Kid”
Democratic Party, 1992
Republican Party, 8/20-21/1992
Republicans…
Ross Perot, 10/1/1992
VII. Clinton – Gore Ticket, 11/3/1992
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
“Whitewater” Development
A.T.F. Agents / Waco, Texas 4/19/1993
“Trial of the Century”
Timothy McVeigh, 4/19/1995
NAFTA, 1/1/1994
VIII. Clinton – Gore, 1996
Internet Revolution
Newt Gingrich
Paula Jones, 1/1997
Monica Lewinsky
Kenneth Starr
Impeachment Charges, 12/1998
US Senate, 2/12/1999
Ted Kaczynski, 1/22/1998
Kosovo
Terrorist Bombs
Columbine High School, 4/20/1999
Computer Stocks
Hollywood
Titanic, 3/23/1998
Music
Video Games
Mark McGuire, 9/28/1998
Michael Jordan
Wayne Gretzky
“Tiger” Woods
Joe Montana
IX. Republican Party, Election 2000
George W. Bush & Dick Cheney
Democratic Party
Joseph Lieberman
X. 2000 Election
Florida’s 25 electoral votes
Communist Chinese, 4/1/2001
Computer Stocks…
USS Cole, 4/25/2001
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