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re: 1960s history question
Posted on 6/3/17 at 6:11 pm to baybeefeetz
Posted on 6/3/17 at 6:11 pm to baybeefeetz
LBJ's Great Society 
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Posted on 6/3/17 at 6:15 pm to baybeefeetz
The 60s was the beginning of looking for non-war options to solve world problems
Posted on 6/3/17 at 6:16 pm to theunknownknight
You just reminded us of the 0-21 game.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 6:17 pm to White Roach
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We already had advisors in Vietnam when JFK became president and over his 2 years and ~10 months in office, he increased our military presence there. Robert McNamara was JFK's boy, not LBJ's.
It's amazing how many people ignore that.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 6:33 pm to DeafJam73
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Watergate Scandal
That was in the 1970s. The actual break in to the Democratic offices at Watergate happened in 1972.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 6:41 pm to OchoDedos
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Lyndon Johnson's Great Society...Welfare became a right, and the value of work became an anathema to a certain segment of the population.
Was gonna post this. Everyone thinks of the Civil Rights Movement, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK, when thinking about the 60s, but not LBJ's Great Society. The Great Society (name reminds of some sort of communist industrialization plan or something that leads to a famine) is what took us from having government assistance programs as a safety net, to people becoming dependent upon them. The Great Society should take more blame for the welfare state than the New Deal does.
Another thing is the increase in college educated people, which led to a shift to modern liberalism of that generation.
This post was edited on 6/3/17 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 6/3/17 at 6:44 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Also, the Space Program/NASA was kind of a huge turning point in the US.
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