... replacement of the Articles of Confederation. The chapter then explores federalism’s tug of war during the second half of American history, focusing on the twentieth century. It reviews the Progressive and Lochner eras, the Great Depression and the New Deal, the Civil Rights Movement and Great Society eras...

... in which the film and television industries faced a precarious financial situation. The studio helped create a political imaginary for Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. Additionally, Wolper Productions’s forays into programs with Jacques-Yves Cousteau charted a fresh path for nonfiction. Packaging...

... American law and politics and led ultimately to the overreach of the Great Society. His War on Poverty tried to help the powerless. In Vietnam, he obtained authorization in the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, distorting the facts to do so. Congress funded the war despite its misgivings. Johnson spied on domestic...

... in a generation. Helms’s pious incitement proved central to Republican victories in 1966 and 1968. The issues that most upset Helms allowed him to make the case against Democrats. He stoked viewer unease over black voters, the Great Society (especially the War on Poverty), the Watts riot, the black power movement...

... Walt Fifteen Year Old Captain A novel 1878 In Search of the Castaways feature film 1962 Scott Gavin Walt Disney World diamonds Great Society pirates space race utopia Walt Disney World Three Stooges Ursula Andress George Segal Shangri La The shift in tone of the next few years...

... less generous. Politicians from Great Society liberals to fiscal conservatives deemed that these later veterans had not earned the right to more substantial benefits because they had not faced fire directly. The bill made no distinction between veterans serving in peacetime conditions and Vietnam...

... ideology of “closing ranks” by establishing independent black organizations. The simultaneous rise of Great Society antipoverty programs led to a gathering of black professionals in both government and non-profit programs serving the black poor, which makes for an ideal case in examining the process...

... for a presidential candidate eager to make the city’s lawlessness a focal point of his campaign. Meanwhile, in the shadow of the Poor People’s Campaign, local activists battled the federal government over its War on Poverty efforts, revealing the ways Johnson’s Great Society undermined black self-determination...

... Soviet Union Cold War end and values American Reagan restoration of budget federal balanced Americans demanding government programs the Great Society liberals military abortion African American s Clinton Hillary Rodham Congress Constitution of the United States distributing power...

... neighborhood-based planning Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) downtown San Francisco San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Mission Council on Redevelopment (MCOR) municipal government model cities great society On March 27, 1967, residents of the Mission District packed the chambers of the San Francisco Board...

... groups came out against the plan, eventually succeeding in blocking it. Soon thereafter, Mayor Joseph Alioto nominated the Mission for a grant under Model Cities, a Great Society program that funded neighborhood-based planning efforts. Thus was created the Mission Model Neighborhood Corporation (MMNC...

... Patrick media Moeller Megan Morris Dick Theriault Sean abortion Carter Jimmy Ethics in Government Act 1978 Gore Al National Partnership for Reinventing Government Watergate White Theodore Constitution Great Society Perot Ross Progressive Party GI Bill Medicaid Mettler Suzanne Reed Bruce...

... Committee of 1976 Robert Welch John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson 1968 presidential election Great Society Some four decades before Mitt Romney ran for president, another prominent Mormon, Ezra Taft Benson sought the nation’s highest office. Benson’s quest commenced in 1960 and continued...

... creedal passions civil rights women's rights Great Society race gender venue shopping complex causation Assessing the relative merit of the various potential causes of a single historic event is difficult—overdetermined has become the term of choice for such situations. Perhaps...

... for cities to borrow. borrowers Great Society indebtedness inequality infrastructure Johnson Lyndon B municipal debt states bond financiers Calvert Gordon L federal government interest rates loans direct federal racial welfare state US Chamber of Commerce Vietnam War welfare state bond...

...This chapter recounts New Deal and Great Society constitutional development in three chronological steps. The first section outlines the labor and pension debates that gripped Congress and the Court through the 1930s and 1940s, noting how New Dealers built federal labor and welfare protections atop...

...This book provides a new perspective on the American Presidency through the lens of the ascendant Republican Party and its evolving challenge to Lyndon B. Johnson’s ‘War on Poverty’ (1964-1981). A core element of Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ vision, the War on Poverty began as a series of experimental...

.... Lippmann began the decade as a darling of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. They called for exactly the kind of “Great Society” that he had been demanding at least since the 1930s if not earlier. Yet Lippmann stayed a constant critic of American Cold War imperialism, notably in Cuba and Southeast...

... recording of “Visions of Johanna” would brilliantly blend poetry and rock, in a recording of unusual length and emotion. All of this is discussed within the context of the Great Society and racial conflict in this year. Coltrane John Down Beat Jazz Festival Dylan Bob The John Coltrane Quartet Plays 1965...