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- 541: Affirmative Action: Public OPinion vs. Policy
- ... attempting to create a public policy that would appeal all. Some commentators content that the move to affirmative action came because the nation, faced with the financial demands of the Vietnam War buildup, was unable to afford the vast sums necessary on social programs to help the poor compete their way to economic parity (Aptheker 14). In this view, affirmative action ...
- 542: Mitchell v. Wisconsin: Why Mitchell v. Wisconsin Sucked
- ... as a precedent to support rulings such as Wisconsin v. Mitchell, is U.S. v. O'Brien. O'Brien had burnt his draft card to protest the draft and the Vietnam War, despite a law specifically forbidding the burning of draft cards. The Supreme Court ruled that the statute did not differentiate between public and private draft card burnings, and was ...
- 543: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... visits in Beijing and Moscow in 1972. He created a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons during his summit meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev. He announced an accord with North Vietnam to end American involvement in Indochina in 1973. Unfortunately his reign as president took some rather bad turns as the presidency was waterlogged with rumors of the “Watergate scandal.” Records ...
- 544: The Mass Media and Politics
- ... sameness obscures understanding and limits the range of possible responses for the receiver." A clever choice of words can make things seem different than they are. For instance, during the Vietnam War, the Defense Department of the United States used many misleading phrases in news reports. Instead of "forced transfer of civilians" they said "relocation", and instead of "lies" they said ...
- 545: The First Amendment
- ... old Mary Beth Tinker went to school in Des Moines, Iowa. She and her fifteen year old brother, John, had decided to wear black armbands as a protest to the Vietnam War. In advance to their arrival, the principal had decided that any student wearing an arm- band would be told to remove it, stating that, "The schools are no place ...
- 546: The US Government
- ... ran against Republican incumbent George Herbert Walker Bush and independent Ross H. Perot. During the campaign, Bill met with some difficulty when the media discovered that he had dodged the Vietnam draft, been unfaithful to his spouse, and smoked marijuana while attending Oxford. Bill placated the liberal-biased media by saying that he didn't believe in the war, and he ...
- 547: International Relations Of Asia
- ... much of their dynamic to the course of events in this main triangle." Through the 1960s, there were 4 main triangles in the Asian political arena: Soviet Union-China- North Vietnam, Soviet Union-Japan-US, Sino-Soviet-Indian- and Soviet Union- China-North Korea. In the 1970s, however this changed not only because more triangles were added, but because they included ...
- 548: Personal Freedom In the United States of America
- ... old Mary Beth Tinker went to school in Des Moines, Iowa. She and her fifteen year old brother, John, had decided to wear black armbands as a protest to the Vietnam War. In advance to their arrival, the principal had decided that any student wearing an arm- band would be told to remove it, stating that, "The schools are no place ...
- 549: Development of Major Political Parties in America
- ... of the parties have occurred about every 30 years. The first four were in 1828, 1860, 1896 and 1932 due to democratization of parties, slavery and the Great Depression. The Vietnam War and urban unrest caused what may have been the most recent realignment of the parties but the Republicans have not been altogether successful in this attempt, partly due to ...
- 550: Andy Warhol and Pop Art
- ... Campbell's Soup Cans and his famous Brillo Boxes (Bourdon, 1989, 34) During the 1960's, the nation began to see rapid changes. The space program was under way, the Vietnam war was in action, Kennedy was killed, racial equity became and issue and the "hippie" movement was at its peak; spreading its trademark ideals of free love, drugs and music ...
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