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Date Posted: 09:52:59 08/22/13 Thu
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Subject: Chapter 19: 1968-1975 History of the United States of America

*�Tin soldiers and Nixon�s coming. �4 Dead in Ohio. 4 Dead in Ohio.� Song Ohio. By Crosby, Steels, Nash, and Young concerning US soldiers who shot 4 students at Kent State University, in Ohio.

*In beauty pageants, they are always for world peace and the end of poverty. If the rest of us are for this, it will occur.

*The poor are the meek. I.Q. differentials, ignored; all are told to be an entrepreneur. --- Everyone has a fundamental right to a job, and to be allowed to keep that job, without fear bad people will put them out.

*[She is angry she doesn�t have rights to health care. She is angry she is poor. Her solution: don�t give any health care to prisoners. Blame the prisoners for your poverty, no healthcare, instead of rich people rule, who are the guilty ones actually. --1999. If she had been wealthy enough not to worry daily, because poverty demands this worry be fact: She�d have been for the poverty of others. Why? She has personal regrets that she won�t get are. So spite the prisoners, -- as if they don�t have enough problems.]

Chapter 19: 1968 - 1975 History of the United States of America

What happened in 1890, at Wounded Knee, was only one extreme injustice against Native American people. First degree murder, of old people, women, children. �.Later, the U.S. government attempted to turn reservations into little farm plots. This fortunately, did not succeed. Yet, poverty is the only thing offered to the Red race. The New Deal era, with Roosevelt, brought an attempt to bring back tribal life in some good way, but came to naught. Have to leave the reservation, if being middle class is going to be you. �.Turn of the century, 300,000 Native U.S. Americans existed only; but the population by 1960 grew to 800,000. As treaty after treaty with the Indians throughout U.S. history were broken. Take their land, but you can fish here; but Tribe members say this is their land, and their land only. 1964, no Indians can fish on their own land. There was, in Washington State, �fish ins�, by the protesting Tribal members. It is 1968, and the U.S. police dared to destroy fishing boats, nets, Tribal member�s property. The Supreme Court said the state can regulate fishing. It is still Not Washington States land to regulate. .Native American protests, violent and non violent, [protest magazines] came about across the nation.

1969, �78 Red people landed on Alcatraz Island, where the ruins of an old closed down prison still exists. [This was the second time, as it is said they did this in 1964, and received zero media attention.] They announced that the ruins of Alcatraz is just like Indian reservations, -- no sanitation, no modern facilities, no transportation, no fresh running water, no oil or mineral rights of any kind at all, no employment. They announced they will make Alcatraz a Native American Studies for Ecology, -- bringing health back to the land and sea. Six months later, Federal Forces came in and physically removed them. �In New Mexico the government came in to strip mine on Navajo land. Protest all you want. ..On and on with stories like this. �.1970, several hundred Sioux came back to Wounded Knee. They came back because a white gas station attendant had murdered an Indian man named Wesley Bad Heart Bull. Indians gathered in protest, and Wesley Bad Heart Bull�s mother was arrested, threatened with 30 years in jail. �1973, three hundred Oglala Sioux, many members of the new militant organization called the American Indian Movement entered the village of Wounded Knee and declared it liberated territory. Hours later, 200 FBI agents, federal marshals, police, in their armored vehicles, attacked them with guns. Food supplies became short; an Indian tribe from Michigan had a food airlift of their own, to help, -- a mini Berlin Airlift type situation. The FBI arrested the pilot and a doctor who were on the plane. Indians in Nevada were arrested for taking supplies for the people at Wounded Knee in south Dakota. Mid April, a plane dropped food supplies upon the ground there. When people went to fetch the food, the U.S. police forces, in helicopters, shot at them. There were many gun battles, a few deaths. But the Tribes held on for 71 days. The United States finally agreed to re examine the old 1868 treaty concerning Wounded Knee. 120 occupiers were arrested. �.All over the world, came messages of support for the Tribes who occupied Wounded Knee. From Australia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, England. A few American Indians in Attica prison wrote: �You fight for our Earth Mother and Her Children. Our spirits fight with you!�

Cesar Chavez was the Martin Luther King Jr. for Hispanic migrant workers. Many would stay in the U.S. once their jobs were over for the season, leaving them in hopeless situations, where getting ahead, having schooling at all, became very difficult, if not impossible [Chavez grew up as a migrant worker. He had attended 38 different schools before the 8th grade.] Chavez at first, had been given a job helping poor people, through the Community Service Organization, -- helping the poor find housing, medical care, legal aid. And then he started a labor union for farm workers. �La Causa�. Cesar Chavez had to quit his job to make this Union happen, which is the rejection of a dependable paycheck. But he had to create better working conditions for all, and moral pay. He led strikes. Union members were attacked, and beaten. Chavez led a 300 mile march, to show the world how hard it is to travel such distance, on foot, as migrant workers will have to do. Highly televised, much attention put light on the migrant workers plight. He led boycotts against produce picked by those exploited terribly. {I remember the grape boycott.} Chavez went on a fast, refusing to eat, until produce growers signed contracts with the Union. 28 growers signed contracts, and Chavez ate again. His Farm Workers Association was renamed the United Farm Workers and became a part of the AFL-CIO.

40% of women worked outside of the home 1968. Doesn�t sound much different from today. Women have always worked outside of the home. Why? Their husbands don�t make enough money to support the household, or, they are not married or remarried. Economic slavery, even if you have a degree to be a school teacher or nurse, -- the only jobs allowed women. As the few women who were in a man�s job position, -- any job that is not a secretary, cook, housekeeper, teacher or nurse,-- were paid less for that same position then men. �As women stood up against the idea that they are too weak to be in the workplace in any of those jobs that will actually support your household also. [They used to be in sweatshops, back in the day�] �.Women�s rights groups marched for women�s right, and are calling for an equal rights amendment for women. They also were marching against the war at the same time.

In McComb, Mississippi, at a freedom house, in 1964, all are there for civil rights, justice, access to the American Dream for everyone. [There would have been no American Dream if beginning around 1937, Roosevelt hadn�t gone on a wage increase rampage; as Truman and Eisenhower did keep this trend up through out the 1950�s.] Regardless this American Dream was mostly for white men only. So go marry a white man? ..The modern hip men at this freedom house expected the women to do the cooking and cleaning, while the men went off in cars to do their organizing.

1967, women from differing organizations, civil rights, anti war protesters got together at the Arlington National Cemetery and held the �Burial of Traditional Women�.
1968, the Radical Women group protested the Miss America beauty contest. They threw bras, girdles, curlers, fake eye lashes, and wigs out, calling these things women�s garbage. .....1967, President Johnson signed an executive order banning sex discrimination in federal jobs. But it wasn�t being enforced. [By 1972, 14 years old I was, in high school now; and massive make up is the style: dark nail polish is the style. My generation is the first to be taught that you are supposed to have sex on the first date.]

Folsom Prison, 1970, and the longest prison strike in U.S. history occurred. ..2,400 prisoners refused to leave their cells, refused to eat, 19 days. They were intimidated, threatened.

A society who doesn�t want to cure poverty if oneself is not personally poor. �If you don�t pay a person a living wage, you are stealing from this person. If you go to heaven, is, you are honest about this fact. Those who are allowed to make a living run the show.
And this show does not include poor people.

One odd moment, due to taking a social justice tone, prisoners in San Quentin, were not minding, but getting along in the yard, organized. They were not minding is why governor Nelson Rockefeller sent in National Guardsmen with rifles, submachine guns, and attacked prisoners who had no firearms. 31 prisoners were killed. ��..Then in a prison in Massachusetts, �.. [As shoot to kill anyone, isn�t even in self defense, is this: first degree murder. I am governor, or president, or head of the FBI does not alter this.]

Meanwhile, those of lower economic status who were supposed to be gun hoe about the Vietnam War, weren�t. The poor fight these wars; the poor are on the front lines. And here you are seeing that the intellectuals are the ones against the war. By the mid 1960�s, the Gulf of Tonkin, and its wandering Maddox, which was not where it was supposed to be, but the American people are told otherwise, and then the bombing, �the war was already unpopular; except the intellectuals didn�t fully catch on, until 1970. �The gung hoe, were the people with money. ...It was the civil rights movement which also began the demonstrations against the war.. . ��No Mississippi Negroes should be fighting in Viet Nam for the White man�s freedom, until all the Negro People are free in Mississippi.� , said a leaflet written by students from Mc comb, Mississippi, who had a classmate of theirs killed in Vietnam.

Anti poverty protests went violent. . �As poor whites are clearly to be blamed for the low wages they receive; because by gosh, the percentage of poor unemployed blacks is at depression levels, -- caused by slavery; and white rich people can understand this. And it is true. Such high numbers of poverty for one race was caused by racism. But poverty for some is aye okay, it seemed, this was the view. Yet, there are more poor whites, overall, because the majority of people in this country are white. And the races were pitted against each other in the job markets. Blame the negro new comers for your poverty, were some white people, who were made to feel by government policy, as well as their low characters, that the black people need work are why they can�t find work? A Hispanic family had to flee their apartment in Boston, because white youths threw stones at their place of residence, breaking windows.

The racial quota system, had fairness to it; but when you are in poverty, you must live in fear of homelessness, everyday, 24/7. You don�t get to be without fear in your heart until you go to heaven, because you have no money, is callous, at best. The Philadelphia Plan, 1970, Affirmative Action, to make certain people of color are hired for federal jobs.

Some civil rights leaders are given jobs from the government now. People who are not poor are the ones who are not too busy to protest. It is claimed that President Nixon gave these jobs in hopes of creating a go along to get along response from these Civil Rights leaders, -- who could hardly lead violent rioters. Maybe so; but this does not change the fact that rich people do believe poor people can exist. The era of caring to poverty is over replete. And this is Only why we still have poverty. The �liberals� are equally responsible along with Mr. Reagan and his followers.

Anti poverty protests are over. �.The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the SNCC, had six members arrested for invading an army induction center in Atlanta. They were sent to prison. Julian Bond, a SNCC activist who had just been elected as representative to the Georgia House of Representatives, spoke out against the war. They would not allow Mr. Bond to take his seat, until the Supreme Court made them.
......1964. �We Won�t Go�, was the slogan, already. Regarding the war. David O�Brian burned his draft card, in Boston. The Supreme Court allowed he can�t do that. 1965, there were 380 prosecutions against those evading the draft for moral reasons. By 1969, there were 33,960 draft dodgers. �.Muhammad Ali, famous boxer, refused to serve in a �white man�s war�. Boxing authorities took away his boxing title.

The war protests revved up to unprecedented levels; colleges all over this nation had the �hippies� protesting. A minority took a violent attitude towards the war, -- threatening largely, businesses and individuals who led these businesses that created war materials.

While the entire culture now has an abnormally huge gulf of understanding between the generations. Parents are scared of the drug upsurge, sex is something you do only if you are married, vs. the new thinking now, that sex is on the first date, and drugs are okay. The �generation gap�, they called it.

By 1958, in South Vietnam, the NLF weren�t merely fighters, nor underground fighters, in foremost action. Instead, the NLF leaders went to all these different villages, and promised them a good decent living, and land; while, they helped organize each village as if its own little country/tribe running itself. A U.S. government analyst, Douglas Pike, wrote a book, �Viet Cong�. He explained that there had never been a successful political party in Viet Nam, until the NLF. And to make matters worse, when President Diem was murdered, a few weeks before Kennedy�s assassination, the U.S. did not learn that treating the �peasants� of South Vietnam with respect and economic gain, isn�t what was learned. Thus, general after general will rule South Vietnam with zero respect for the concerns poor people have. The NLF, the Viet Cong, are one in the same, gave out land.
....The NLF were the only real government contact; while the South Vietnamese Government was doing nothing for the poor. The Rural people didn�t tell on the NLF, which is why the Tet Offensive �had� to begin. As NLF soldiers were, to the poor, the good people. With such extreme organization, the reaction by the United States was extreme bombing campaigns, using gasses that destroy all plant life, and caused birth defects. Napalm, or other bad bombs, -- Agent Orange spray. �.�Free Fire Zones�, says, bomb all in the way, civilians, everyone. Attack and murder entire villages, dislocate civilians, separate them, send them off to jails. As the South Vietnamese government jailed people, and then jailed them some more. �..And President Johnson doesn�t understand why the morale of the Viet Cong was so high? It was only because they are the good guys, a great many South Vietnamese thought.
�.Of course the United States is logical to prop up a dictatorship that has zero interest in doing right by the people. The My Lai incidents were outrageous; but outrageous was the order of the day. All the bombing, by themselves: good enough reason to pull out of this war. The NLF had an infinite degree of soldiers. �As the will of the South Vietnamese people was not the point. In fact, the U.S. would not allow elections, because the Communists would win. �And, the POW camps on the American side, were accused of extreme abuse. Americans beat and tortured the NLF held in these camps. [Can bomb or go after civilians?: the end of justice, thus you are not the good side. War over.] --No stimulus at home anymore; no wisdom abroad.

President Johnson told the U.S. citizens that the bombings were military targets only. They were not. This is a lie.

The U.S. had propped up a military dictator in neighboring Laos. Well, people in that country naturally knew he wasn�t a good guy, and rebelled. Bombings began in Laos, from 1964 to 1969. Over 75,000 tons of bombs were dropped upon Laos citizens. A young woman in Laos explained how the NLF made her feel equal to men; and how heartwarming this was. ....And soon, Cambodia will be the same,-- as the Viet Cong have headquarters there. ��Framed�, with the secret bombing. President Nixon, as the Supreme Court won�t allow the spread of this war unless approved by Congress. ..As late as 1973, there was a last ditch effort to bomb the heck out of Hanoi and Haiphong.

President Johnson, now unpopular. Poet Robert Lowell, Arthur Miller, refused their invitations to the Whitehouse. Eartha Kitt came to a Whitehouse luncheon, and lectured everyone against the war. A teenager, invited to the Whitehouse to receive an award, also lectured everyone against the war. The number of well known people, soldiers, and people in general who were protesting the war was so big, that there is an entire book to be written only about this.

Up to 1971, blacks and whites did get together, some, for higher wages. Then, no more.

Low self esteem hates oneself, but is personally allowed to work and keep his job, and make a middle class living at least. This wealth proves I am better after all, is self hatred actually. Is true failure.

William F. Buckley Jr.* is accredited as being the one who created the views of Modern Conservatism. Yet, if the scientific subject matter had been about something other then the economy, the New Deal stimulus era would have been clearest?. It is just, Yale University didn�t explain their pro New Deal Stimulus very well at all. Apparently. Yale University did not know the difference between a fact and an opinion.

The 1968 presidential race, had the democratic convention scarred with protests. With Robert Kennedy now gone, Eugene McCarthy, liberal against the war, and George Wallace, bigot ex governor from Alabama, �Centrist, Hubert Humphrey, became the Democratic Candidate. Hubert Humphrey was Vice President, under President Johnson, and had been a Senator from Minn. 1945-49.

The year before the Democratic Convention, -- held in Chicago, in 1968,-- the Summer of Love had already occurred, as the Pentagon Protests as well, had already occurred. �The Summer of Love, young college age people, and some high school age kids, [Hippi wear, the style], came in droves to San Francisco, to hang out in love and brotherhood, and protest also, if need. �.Too many came; San Francisco could not handle this abnormal degree of vacationers. Don�t come! The city begged.

MOBE, the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam was an umbrella group for many organizations to come together. MOBE�s leaders were David Dellinger, and the administrator, Tom Hayden. Both were experienced in organizing non violent protests. The Pentagon protests were organized by MOBE.. ..One of the groups under this great umbrella, were the Yippies, or rather, The Youth International Party. The Yippies most important point is true: the powerlessness of the people isn�t democracy. This is important, but I am not violent per say, insults, was their technique. �They held Yip-in�s, Yip-out�s, Be-in�s, had good music, all over New York City. For instance, a Yip-in at Grand Central Station had a big black banner that said, �Up Against the Wall Mother Fucker.:� As the day dragged on, the police standing near by, and then the Yippies began verbal fighting.
��..The Yippies were preparing for the Festival of Life in Chicago, to be held during the Democratic Convention. As the organization MOBE were mailing out invitations to 500 groups announcing the big party protests that are to occur as close to the convention as possible. �In advance, Chicago�s Mayor Daley knew this was going to occur, [as Chicago had experienced, this same year of 1968, riots caused by Martin Luther King�s assassination. Daley actually gave a shoot to kill order for looters.] Permits for the Convention protest gathering in many parks through out Chicago, were difficult to attain.
During the Convention, 8 days of protest, and scuffles with the police began. The two most famous Yippi leaders were Jerry Rubin and Abby Hoffman. Rubin, inside the convention, with a pig named Pigasus, and 6 others, attempted to nominate Pigasus for president. They were all arrested, including Pigasus.
��Seasoned protest leaders of MOBE did all they could to prevent mass arrests. ..While permit problems caused a lesser turnout for some planned events, [as only 60 women showed up to protest in front of the Hilton hotel.] ..Some felt the liberal base had �finked out�. �.Groups left the parks, onto the streets, in order to avoid mass arrests while dealing with the police. �.Allen Ginsberg led protesters chanting, �Ommmm�. SDS leaders led other protestors down the street chanting �Peace Now.� �In different incidences, police would come out arresting 11 people here, and then more people there.
�Sunday, MOBE �Meet the Delegates march�, they marched yelling, �hey hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today.� �..Rubin and Hoffman had a confusion over a truck; but it was resolved. The Protestors did not know this, so a crowd surged upon the truck, pinning it in, as they screamed obscenities at the police. There were a few token arrests.
�.Police came out with batons, in some instances. Some people were beaten bloody.
�Seen on TV, inside the convention, CBS reporters Mike Wallace and Dan Rather were roughed up by security! ..Senator Abraham Ribicoff [Conn.], said, ��George McGovern as president,�.we wouldn�t have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago.� �.Mayor Daley yelled a curse back. �Meanwhile there were threats to the police that protestors will storm the Convention or put LSD in the Chicago water supply.

Well. After the Convention, Abby Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale, were charged with inciting to riot, conspiracy, and whatever other fun charge they could come up with. The Chicago 8. �Bobby Seale, wanted his own lawyer, who was in surgery, to defend him. The judge would not allow this; so Seale began to yell �fascist dog!� and other like comments to the judge, who literally had him gagged! His case was severed from the others. [Graham Nash wrote a song �Chicago� about Seale being gagged, literally.] So now it is the Chicago 7.
At trial, the Yippi members, Hoffman and Rubin rolled in wearing judges robes. Instructed to take those off, they were wearing police uniforms underneath. Hoffman and Rubin both insulted the judge, -- Hoffman said the judge should use LSD, to get real. �Your idea of justice is the only obscenity in the room.�, said Hoffman, who pretty much referred to the judge as Hitler. Rubin said, �this court is bullshit.� ..The trial went on for months; as they called in well known liberals to testify. 1976, all were acquitted of conspiracy; but only Froines and Weiner were acquitted of all charges. The other 5 were convicted with intent to riot. 5,000 dollars fine, 5 years jail. The Court of Appeals overturned this ruling, acquitting them all completely, saying the judge had been prejudiced when he didn�t make certain the jurors won�t be.

Richard Nixon was the Republican nominee. George Romney was his big contender, and Ronald Reagan was already on the scene, as New York Governor, Nelson Rockefeller also wanted the nomination. �.Anti war demonstrations were going strong, as the riots had been occurring, while the teenagers and college students are dabbling in strange drugs, and having sex before marriage. The gulf between parent and child was greatly enhanced by the sexual revolution, all by itself. �Nixon capitalized on these social issues, and was seen by the �silent majority� as the good one, against all these hippie�s who dress funny and wear their hair long, and in general mock traditional values. Nixon is going to get us out of the war now. President Nixon stands for all that is right for our country. Balance the budget. The Democrats are communists. [The need for welfare wasn�t denied by Mr. Nixon, however; but stimulus era is no need anymore, except Mr. Nixon and Mr. Ford don�t know this either, -- economy is science.] Communists never paid living wages. But to hear the Republicans you�d think they did. I believe you are sincere about your other social issues only if you care about poverty, is fact of it. �.Richard Nixon won the presidency by 500,000 votes.

The big Roosevelt Review: At first Franklin Roosevelt made some government jobs, in hopes of jump starting the economy; this helped only those people. But that is about all he did regarding jumpstarting the economy. 1937, and the stock market had crashed again, the very moment Congress and the President stopped giving out stimulus to get people working, and merely cut the deficit. Roosevelt greatly supported more power for Unions, so that wages will rise; defense contractors either had to pay higher wages, or, as in one case, a true stimulus was given to a defense company to help pay living wages. They created Welfare programs. They created a minimum wage, which did raise all low incomes. This trend continued through out Johnson�s presidency. And then went away. Although I question the empathy level of who deems some people can just be in poverty, the disappearance act of the New Deal Stimulus was not willful either, -- the term �either�. But if they had continued these stimulus�s, [and ceased raising interest rates], they would have cured poverty. By 1965, the stimulus era was entirely over, and raising interest rates created inflationary trends already; thus 1966 is the end of the rise of our economic prosperity. For now on, down hill.

How could this stimulus reality, go away? �Dubious at best.

Nixon will pull out troops, was his campaign promise. He did just this. What he didn�t tell the public is, that he had no plans on ending the war, he was merely going to have a war without American soldiers, [the Vietnamization of soldiers, -- Vietnam men], and one that depends heavily upon bombing campaigns. �Well, it seems the Viet Cong�s headquarters are in Cambodia. 1969, a secret bombing campaign commenced there. As Nixon continued bombings in Laos to keep supplies on the Ho Chi Min Trail from reaching their destinations.

Johnson�s credibility gap, �lying it seems, regarding all these bombings are secret, is what they now said about President Nixon. [The president annoyed Cuba. The Soviets wanted to expand their base there. Nixon did not. Compromise won the day. It was agreed, no ballistic missiles on submarines. �President Allende, of Chile, was elected to office, presumably referred to as a Marxist. Overthrow him then, Nixon assumed was his right to do. �The military regrouped under General Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew Allende in 1973. During the coup, the deposed president died under disputed circumstances, concerning which there have been allegations of American involvement.� [wikipedia]. As the general public is hardly never aware that the U.S. now behaves so criminally in this way.]

1954, and Secretary of State Dullus refused to shake hands with the Chinese leaders. Nixon knew that ending the war in Vietnam in a good way, depends upon good relations with both China and the Soviet Union. In 1972, year of the next presidential election, President Nixon�s success was to open relations, is good communications, with both China and the Soviet Union. He went to China, met with their leaders, for the first time, since China became the nation it now was, after the Cultural Revolution, -- Communist Revolution. A new era settled in, when President Nixon shook hands with China�s Premier Zhou Enlai. 100 television journalists were there to catch it all. �Same year, Mr. Nixon and his wife went to the Soviet Union, and met with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Out of this summit came a trade treaty and 2 arms control treaties: SALT1 and the anti ballistic missile treaty ban. The two leaders will meet again in Yalta, 1974. Nothing more is achieved, except the term d�tente is in, �peace is the word now. And this had to seem a relief. �The powers were working together regarding Vietnam. At least, they are all trying to be on the same page now.

The idea is, coming from Mr. Nixon, that we will avoid direct combat assistance for indirect help. The U.S. now increases arms sales to foreign governments, -- foremost, Israel, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Our friends. �During Israel�s Yom Kipper War President Nixon ordered an enormous airlift to help Israel. The war created the 1973 Oil Crisis; because Arab countries refused to sell their oil. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of Defense, helped in solving this crisis, and Egypt now became a friendly country. [Oil Crisis, next chapter.] �.The U.S. and Soviet Union were both helping their friends, straining relations. As the Yom Kipper war began, {on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kipper}, because Arab countries got together in the attempt to regain their territories lost during the 6 day war. Israel was attacked in two directions. However, this war did not last long either; Israel won. After the war they prepared for a Geneva Conference and the Sinai Interim Agreement.

Raising interest rates because you can get away with it also. They were raising them, so that people will stop buying homes. Repeat moment, the economy will stall out if suddenly people can�t get the loan; so they always lower the credit standards. Thus, raising interest rates doesn�t really prevent anything, -- if but only far too late; and actually creates across the board inflationary trends, because the loans are more expensive, and business passes this cost onto the customers. Mortgages go up, then rents. [Interest rates are the rate of return profits for the lender only.] �.Well, Mr. Nixon�s administration had the highest interest rates since the Korean War. As we know, the president�s Federal Reserve Board does that. �.The deficit was also high due to war costs alone. The economy itself was going fine enough, but not as fine as it used to. However, not great anymore, the big symptom was inflation.
�..Stagflation, a new term here now, inflation caused by interest rate increases, are beginning to really show itself in costs now. They, the press reports at any rate, [oddly I recall], did not know what caused this mysterious stagflation illness.

The Republicans now wish for less power within the pronounced crooked unions. [All other crooks are fine, if it is institutionalized white collar crime, we guess?] Republicans yell Democrats are big spenders, -- not well intended, if you know how the economy works, [everyone knows no one is for spending just to spend.]. Or rather, No one understood how the economy works. Most politicians and journalists did not. But everyone went along as if all are on top of this. �.Those liberal colleges! The complaint by Buckley�s front men, foremost, Ronald Reagan, -- if you wish for New Deal era facts to go away, [or rather, don�t wish for wage increases.]

Congress approved, and Richard Nixon puts in wage and price controls, in hopes of stopping inflation. This won�t be good, if they ever lift the price controls, -- prices will shoot up.

The press mostly, do not honestly know how the economy works, 1970�s. Not knowing better, their honest excuse. Although I knew of the New Deal era, and I was only Jan Brady�s age, [high school age]. New Deal era facts: Why the colleges, economists, were too stupid to make these facts clear, [why would I feel this is disingenuous?.]� While Bob Dylan sang that �the times are a changing�, as the times are changing back.

Nixon�s two other wars: The Drug War, and the Cancer War.

Wage and price controls, 1971, were instigated, and did keep prices stabilized until they were taken off. Thus, Nixon placed in price controls once again, 1973. Shortages also occurred on some commodity, [as they made certain to be short.] �..1971 as well, inflationary trends the big economic issue, [low interest rates would have resolved, cured absolutely, for certainly most commodity]. �. Nixon dissolved the Gold Standard, -- no 100 cents for each dollar in gold anymore is promised; and the value will now fluctuate in the markets. If the United States maintains a big middle class, this will not be a problem, -- without a middle class everything is a problem. Big middle class = no deficits. [And say what you will, the gold standard always goes by the wayside in a economy that is bad.]

�He pursued a policy of "New Federalism", manifested in the policy of revenue sharing, under which more federal funds than before were allocated to the states and municipalities.� [Oxford Dictionary on Nixon, off Answers.com] ....The Cabinet level of the federal post office was taken away, 1971, and replaced by the United States Postal Service.

Socially, people are very concerned suddenly about ecology, our environment. All types of pollution was being advertised in media as bad. Because it is. While big money interests tend to down play any need to spend money over this problem, Nixon responded by creating the Environmental Protection Agency. He spoke of his concerns about pollution in his State of the Union speech, and also created the Clean Air Act of 1970, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National Environmental Policy Act which requires an environmental impact statement for Federal projects. He vetoed the Clean Water Act of 1972, because it was too expensive.

Congress overrode his veto, but Nixon actually impounded some of the funds allocated!; thus Congresses overridden veto was overridden?

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