AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: National Transportation Safety Board, Pentagon Papers, Conservatism In The United States
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Politics in the 1970s: best known where american conservatism began, relationship between the government and the economy, economic crisis that the new deal couldn"t fix, after the second world war conservatism were largely dismissed. Eisenhower helped institutionalized the products of the new deal. Young americans for freedom: wanted to see limits on the power of government, fighting their own party the republican party. At the convention that they were trying to repeal the whole 20 th century. Believed in economic freedom, business owner didn"t want to serve a person it was okay to them, obviously not friendly with the movement. President nixon-1968: conservatives didn"t like him, expanded the welfare state, he sought better relations with communist countries, difficult to classify him either liberal or conservative, and he was interested in foreign affairs. The great society: an addition to the new deal, medicaid medicare food stamps to the united states.
