The Sassy Sixties
Reality in the Age of Innocence
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The Upheavals of a Generation
The 1960 Election
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JFK: A short biography
Campaign
Nomination and The New Frontier
Kennedy-Nixon Debates
Civil Rights and Missle Gap
Victory by a slim margin
Inauguration Speech
The Cold War
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Castro: U.S. Cuban Relations
Covert Operations
Bay of Pigs Debacle
Vienna Conference with Khrushchev
The Berlin Wall
Vietnam and Escalation
Cuban Missle Crisis
The Civil Rights Movement
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60 Campaign Promises
CORE and Freedom Rides
Meredith and Ole Miss
Birmingham
Civil Rights Bill
March on Washington
Death in Dallas
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Shoring up the Democrats
Lee Harvey Oswald
Conspiracy?
Warren Report
Loss of Innocence
1964
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Civil Rights Legislation
Atlantic Convention
All the way or Half Way
Goldwater: Extremism in defense of liberty
Victory and its cost
Civil Rights
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Freedom Summer in Mississippi
Atlantic City Fraud
CORE Activities
SNCC
San Francisco Bay Area
Selma March for Voting rights
Black Power rising
Foreign Affairs
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The Cold War
Tonkin Resolution
Vietnam
Rolling Thunder
Search and destroy, body count, etc.
Winning Hearts and Minds
Black Power
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Legacy of Marcus Garvey
The Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
Self-determination
By whatever means necessary: Cointelpro
The Black Panthers for Self Defense
Watts Riots & Kerner Commission
The Great Society
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Progressive Origins
Big government war v. poverty
Medicare, wages, jobs
Education
Air and water quality
Transportation and Safety
The Record: skirmish
1968
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Tet Offensive and Questions
Peace Initiatives & LBJ’s bombshell
RFK’s campaign
King’s assassination and RFK
Democrats in Disarray
Nixon: Law & Order with Peace in Nam
The Election
Nixon and Vietnam
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Vietnamization
Secret bombings of Cambodia
Protest in U.S.
Kent State and Unrest
The Pentagon Papers
American Public Opinion
The Cold War
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Search for Détente
Surprise visits to Beijing and Moscow
SALT Treaty and the arms race
Peace is at Hand
Chile and The CIA
The Middle East
Nixon Domestic Agenda
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Stagflation
Civil Rights
Affirmative Action
The Environment
Other Initiatives
Watergate debacle
Watergate
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Nixon’s personality
CREEP and Plumbers
Watergate and 1972
The Cover-up
The Tapes
Investigation
Resignation