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This 2.5 page paper discusses how the events and policies of the 1960s led to the Nixon Administration. The country was in turmoil – Vietnam, protests, riots, violence, liberal policies. Then, Nixon offered the people traditional values and order. This essay discusses these issues. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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on poverty and other Great Society legislation (Florig 2002). But, there was also Vietnam and racial and social strife on the domestic front (Florig 2002). Racial riots erupted in Watts,
violence was rampant (Florig 2002). The political system became polarized with militant political groups protesting for radical changes and blaming conservatives for the increasing racial tensions (Florig 2002). What began
as a coalition with Johnson as president became a multitude of groups going in different directions. A counterculture was born during these years. Judis suggests that the "sixties" really
began in the mid-1950s when Rosa Parks took her stand on that bus and the "sixties" ended in about 1974 when the New Left lost its fervor (1998). Among other
events, there were massive protests against the Vietnam War, people were "dropping out" and "turning on"; it was a time of increased drug use and numerous different parts of the
population calling for equality. There were militant groups as well as non-militant groups. There seemed to be a "movement" for everything. It spawned the growth of the counterculture, and it
began an awareness of environmental issues (Judis, 1998). With all that had happened, Nixons election seemed to be the answer to bringing the country back into some semblance of
order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw from Vietnam and they helped the Congress turn its attention to issues at home (Judis, 1998). During Nixons first
term, instead of spending billions to support a war, the money was going into rehabilitating cities, adopting affirmative action policies (Judis, 1998). Money was also dedicated to welfare programs because
the country had plummeted into an economic recession (Judis, 1998). The new domestic focus of the Nixon administration was hampered by an oil crisis in 1973 but this was an
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