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| co-founded national farm workers associates with dolores huerta. Best known Latino American civil rights activist, promoted by American labor movement, used MLK and nonviolent methods. ex. hunger strike |
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| Johnson's wife, beautifying nation's cities and highways and known as Lady Bird's Bill |
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| Investigate assassination of JFK developed by LBJ, Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy, chairman was Earl Warren |
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| Driving force behind creation of Peace Cirps, "architect" of Johnson's war on poverty because he founded Job Corps and Head Start, George McGoverns running mate in 1972. |
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| Administered by US Department of Labor offers free of charge education and vocational training to youth ages 16 to 24, modeled program on CCC |
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| Nation can either buy guns (invest in defense/military) or butter (invest in production of goods) Nixon thought he could have both without increasing taxes to pay for both projects |
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| US ship was blown up in North Vietnam, also known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, said that US ship was attacked but it was conducting illegal operations |
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| commanded US military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak including the TET offensive, believed that they would win because they had more resources |
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| Baby and Child Care, studied psychoanalysis to understand children's needs, activist in Vietnam War and was a dove. |
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| Vietcong launched a series of attacks on South Vietnam, largest military campaign of the Vietnam War, caught South Vietnamese and US off guard, took over cities but US took back cities after a few days ==FAILURE |
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| Convicted of the assassination of Robert Kennedy, opponent of Israel, didn't like Kennedy because he supported Israel. |
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| co-founder of Yippes-initiated the poop riot |
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| Denounced gestapo tactics. "You Jew son of a bitch" |
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| Nixon promised to restore it, large majority of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly, referred to older generation WW@ veterans, many young people in the Midwest, West and South who served in Vietnam, blue collar white people. |
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| College where Nixon attneded and got law degree from Duke after |
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| campaign manager for Nixon. Master of "dirty tricks" midnight calls to Voorhis' small business supports, link Jerry Voorhis to communist dominated campaign, described Watergate break-in as stupid he sued for libel because he was accused of starting scandal |
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| Nixon's nickname-a trickster |
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| Attorney general of the United States, sentenced to prison for involvement in Watergate, advocated use of wiretaps in national security cases without court order, planned breakin met with president to cover up White House involvement |
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| National security advisor and secretary of state, pioneered idea of detente with the Soviet Union, negotiated Paris Peace Accords, manages foreign affairs believes in absolute secrecy and intrigue. |
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| Mass murder of over 300 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam by US soldiers, most shocking episode of war, increased domestic opposition to the US involvement in the Vietnam War. |
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| end the US involvement in the war and expand equip and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role and reduce number of US combat troops, under Nixon's peace with honor campaign, US |
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| Releases and publishes the Oentagon papers in the NYT |
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| Ellsberg's psychiatrist, plumbers went to his office to look for his files but Fielding was carrying them in person. |
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| coordinated plumbers unit, Berlin wall, resigned from office, counsel and assistant tot eh president for domestic affairs, seek and destroy any of Nixon's enemies. |
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| Known for giving the maximum sentence, order Nixon to turn over recordings |
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| Head of Washington Post during Watergate. Gonna get her tit caught in the big fat wringer if that's published what mitchell said about her about the Pentagon Papers |
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| Reporter for the Post on Watergate |
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| Lawyer, prosecutor during water gate scandal, kept pressing for the tapes and Nixon tried to have him fired which he eventually did. |
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| director of the federal bureau of investigation, then deputy attorney general, resigned instead of firing coz |
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| Nixon's long time secretary. Claimed to have erased the 18 1/2 minutes |
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| Democratic lawmaker, close with LBJ and his father, responsible for his rise to power |
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| Vietnamese communist leader of North Vietnam |
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| US general secretary of state for Regan, Chief of Staff for Nixon, kept the government running while Nixon was occupied with Watergate |
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| "A cancer of the Presidency" |
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| Dean told Nixon there is a cancer on the presidency, come clean to the public and distance himself from the spreading disease. |
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| Preaching and work on tv and radio, hosted the Catholic Hour. Life is worth Living, the Fulton Sheen Program |
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| started levitowns and is credited as the father of the modern America suburbia, mass production techniques |
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| Political satire about the development of suburbia and associated conformist middle-class attitudes refers to the levitowns, tic-tac houses |
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| American Indian Movement, began in Minnesota, Trail of Broken Treaties, seized Bureau of Indian Affairs and gave them list of demands. |
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| Wrote the Feminine Mystique and started NOW |
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| Head of the STOPERA, was against Roe v. Wade |
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| Modern presidency of the US, relies on powers beyond those allowed by the constitution, book written by Schlesinger |
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| Mission is to coordinate the policies of the oil-producing countries, stead income to the member states and secure supply of oil |
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| Robert Taft is unelectable, ideologically conservative, wants to undo New deal |
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| urged lesbians and gays to come out |
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| draw supported from discontednded white southerners, blue collar workers, traditional republican base, extends republican base to the traditionally democratic south, assures permanent republican majority. |
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| White house chief of staff to Ikke, in charge of domestic affairs, fur coat scandal |
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| Alcatraz island occupatoin |
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| Indians of all tribes occupy alcatraz but are forced out by the government. |
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| Spies on citizens at home, opens domestic mail, infiltrates domestic protest organizations, experimented with LSD, assassinations in Cuba, Child S. Vietnam, Dominical Republic, Congo |
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| "I have committed adultery in my heart" |
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| Jimmy carter, talking about how if you look at another woman you are committing adultery according to the Bible. |
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| American legal scholar who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism. Attorney general |
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| deleted portion of nixon's tapes mad suspicious. Rose Mary Woods said she made a mistake during transcription due to phone call. |
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| "Your president is not a crook!" |
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| Nixon argues that he is not a crook. He says he has gained nothing financially from serving the public, he earned every cent. |
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| "Let me make one thing perfectly clear" |
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| another Nixon catchphrase |
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| "No matter what I do, There'll be more killin!" |
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| American Jewish writer, intellectual and scholar. He was known as a social philosopher and sociologiest of religion, as well as a Jewish theologian. Opposed civil rights movement. "Civil rights" and violenve. Who are the guilty ones? Believed civil rights campaign moved too fast and broke up the fabric of American society in an overly socially disruptive manner. |
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| Minister and author who advocated positive thinking. Personally close with Nixon's family. Officiated the Wedding of Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower. |
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| A german born American sociologist. Trained in sociology at university of Chicago with David Riesman |
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| American novelist and poet. Literary iconoclast. Became underground celeb and progenitor of the hippie movement |
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| Activist for the rights of native American people and libertarian political activist. Prominent member of the American Indian movement. Helped organze events and draw international media coverage. |
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| National organization for women. founders included Betty Friedan, author of the feminine mysitque, |
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| "The problem that has no name" |
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| Described by bett friedan in the feminine mystique as the widespread unhappiness of women in the 1950s and 1960s. Housewives, subrubs, etc. Rallied women who were like you know what? yeah! Totesss |
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| Jimmy Carter's brother. Was a hopeless drunk who endorsed a beer called billy beer. |
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| Energy policy and conservation act, 1975 |
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| responded to the 1973 oil cirsis. Primary goals were to increase energy production and supply, reudce energy demand, provide nergy efficiency and gie the executive branch additional powers to respond to disruptions in energy supply |
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| Cofounder of the black panther party. Political and urban activist. PHD in social science. Prison for manslaughter and was involved in the shootout that killed a police officer. |
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| 1974 American Psychiatric Association decision |
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| The decision to stop classifying homosexuatlity as a psychiatric disorder. Changes definition of homosexuality. Maybe helps spark gay liberation movements. |
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| Illegal surveillance on domestics dissidents. Attemps to drive MLK to suicide. Senate creates an oversight committee for security organizations. |
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| Set of domestics programs announced by LBJ. Supposed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice |
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| JFK - LBJ could never live up to standard |
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| LBJ legislation. Critics worried about creating a welfare state |
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| Volunteers in service to America - domestic version fo the Peace Corps - Great Society |
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| National Endownment of the Arts |
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| created by LBJ to get people to like him |
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| Tank used in the Korean War |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| Gave LBJ authority to use use war tactics in SE Asia without a declaration of war by congress |
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Southern Dem who oppossed Vietnam war - supported the creation of the UN |
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| Hippies - social change brought on by the Vietnam War, racial injustice, sexism... |
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| Group of officials who developed the containment theory, NATO, the World Bank, and the Marshall Plan |
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Youth International Party
Shoot off of the free speech and anti-war movement
LSD in Chicago |
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Advocate of psychedelic drugs
Turn on, tune in, drop out |
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| Site of ounter-culture protests during the 1968 Dem Convention |
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| Nixon - honorable end to the Vietnam War |
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Nixon's wife
One of the most travelled first ladies |
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Congress woman from California
Nixon used dirty tricks to beat her |
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| Exchanges between Nixon and Khrushchev debating capitalism and communism |
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| "Relaxation" of tensions between Russia and US in 1969 |
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| Throwing grenades to kill military members - esp higher ups |
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| Found guilty of murdering hundreds in the My Lai massacre |
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Student protesting against the Vietnam war
2 killed - 12 injured |
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| Nixon's crew to fix leaks in the gov |
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Cheif of staff under Nixon
imprisoned for Watergate cover-up |
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| US Intelligence officer - engineered the first Watergate burglary |
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| Brought down McCarthy and led the investigation that led to NIxon's resignation |
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| Investigative journalist for the Post during Watergate |
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Involved in Watergate burglaries and cover-up
Master Manipulator of the cover-up |
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US Attorney General
Resigned over firing Cox
Part of the Saturday Night Massacre |
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| Special Prosecutor for Watergate after Cox |
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Helped Lady Bird run campaigns
one of 6 southern congressmen to vote for the Civil rights act of 1964 |
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Secretary of Defense under LBJ and JFK
Escalated the Vietnam War |
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| 1973 ended the US involvement in Vietnam as well as temporarily stopping the fighting between N and S Vietnam |
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African American Civil Rights leader
Assistant attorney general to LBJ
Highest ranking black to serve in the executive branch |
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Committee to re-elect the President
Money laundry and slush funds for Watergate |
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Brown V Board of Education
Made it unconstitutional to have segregated schools |
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| Wrote a book about 1950's conformity |
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New suburban growth with mass-development techniques
White only neighboorhoods
Ticky tacky boxes |
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Urbanist and Organizational analysis
Books on corporate culture and human behavior in Urban settings |
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Native Americans are better assimilated into American mainstream culture. 40's - 60's |
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Birthright of the modern Gay Rights movement
Greenwich Village |
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One of the world's worst oil spills
1967 UK |
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Major oil spill - oil spurted at high pressure through faults and cracks after being drilled
Created public outrage that spurred on the env movement |
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| 1973 - Arab oil producers cut off American conumers as a protest to the US support of Israel |
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Opponent of the New Deal - non interventionist
Presidential Hopefull |
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Minorities excluded from concensus
an old myth that 1950's was all jolly and what not |
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| Large influx of Cubans that remained loyal to thier culture to Miami |
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| Fear that the government was becoming socialist with the New Deal, Great Society, the Surveillance state... |
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Indians of All Tribes
banded together for rights |
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Represented the women workforce in the factories during WWII
Women could still remian feminine |
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| Senate Oversight Committee |
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| Senator Sam Ervin put on for Watergate, discussing Watergate scandal, put into place to look over FBI |
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| Labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers |
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How many kids have you killed today?
LBJ recieved small love from his people - criticized for the Vietnam war instead of praised for domestic efforts |
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Republican nominee for president in the 1934 election
LBJ won by one of the largest landslides in hisotry |
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| Economic Oppurtunity Act (EOA) |
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Authorized the formation of local community action agencies as part of the war on poverty
Eliminate poverty, expand edu opps, increase safety net for the poor and educational opportunities |
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National social insurance program in 1966
guarantees access to health insurance for American 65 and up |
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| Where is Lee Harvey Oswald |
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title of the aerial bombardment campaign against the dem republic of Vietnam by the US
Bombings sounded like rolling thunder |
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| American Friends Service Committee |
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Works for peace and justice in the US and around the world
Quaker affiliated |
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Chicago as descriped by mayor Richard Daley
Convention seen as wild due to hippies and yippies and actions of the Chicago Police |
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Founding member of the Yippies
counterculture icon dirong the 60's and 70's |
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Mayor of Chicago
"City that works" |
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| "The policeman isn't there to create disorder.." |
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"they're here to preserve disorder"
Quote from Daley
Police confrontation created by the people who charged the police |
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| "Schools are for education, not integration" |
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| Nixon quote - didn't want to deal with integration |
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Ohio University
4 students killed at anti-war protest
Sparked massive student protests across the nation |
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a written history of US political-military involvement in Vietnam
Released by Daniel Ellsberg and published in the NYT
Demonstrated that LBJ's administration systematically lied to public and congress |
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leading electoral strategist for dem party for more than 2 decades
Served as postmaster general in LBJ's cabinet |
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Cheig oerative in the plumber's unit
organized and conducted the Watergate burglaries |
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| duputy assistant to the president - revealed the taping system |
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executive editor of the Post
Challenged federal gov over righte to publish the pentagon papers |
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secret informant about Watergate
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