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THE “SILENT MAJORITY”

• November 3, Nixon televised his appeal to the great “silent majority,” who presumably supported the war.
• Aimed largely at middle class Americans who sought law and order;
• Symbolized the rise of a conservative backlash against liberalism

BALLAD OF THE GREEN BERETS BY BARRY SADLER

• • Fighting soldiers from the sky
  • Fearless men who jump and die
  • Men who mean just what they say
  • The brave men of the Green Beret

 

• • Silver wings upon their chest
  • These are men, America’s best
  • One hundred men we’ll test today
  • But only three win the Green Beret

 

• • Trained to live, off nature’s land
  • Trained in combat, hand to hand
  • Men who fight by night and day
  • Courage deep, from the Green Beret

 

 

• • Silver wings upon their chest
  • These are men, America’s best
  • One hundred men we’ll test today
  • But only three win the Green Beret

 

• • Back at home a young wife waits
  • Her Green Beret has met his fate
  • He has died for those oppressed
  • Leaving her this last request

 

• Put silver wings on my son’s chest
• Make him one of America’s best
• He’ll be a man they’ll test one day
• Have him win the Green Beret

 

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edeZqCchIYg

FORTUNATE SON, CCR-1969

• Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
  ooh, they’re red, white and blue.
  And when the band plays “Hail To The Chief”,
  oh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,

  It ain’t me, it ain’t me,
  I ain’t no senator’s son,
  It ain’t me, it ain’t me,
  I ain’t no fortunate one, no,

  Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
  Lord, don’t they help themselves? oh.
  But when the taxman come to the door,
  Lord, the house look a like a rummage sale, yes,

• It ain’t me, it ain’t me,
  I ain’t no millionaire’s son, no, no.
  It ain’t me, it ain’t me,
  I ain’t no fortunate one, no.

  Yeh, some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
  ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,
  And when you ask them, how much should we give,
  oh, they only answer, more, more, more, yoh,

  It ain’t me, it ain’t me,
  I ain’t no military son, SON, NO
  It ain’t me, it ain’t me,
  I ain’t no fortunate one, NO NO

  It ain’t me, it ain’t me,
  I ain’t no fortunate one, no no no,
  It ain’t me, it ain’t me,
  I ain’t no fortunate son, son son son

 

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f33qUqdZapw

KENT STATE

 

OHIO, CSNY-1974

• Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’.
  We’re finally on our own.
  This summer I hear the drummin’.
  Four dead in Ohio.

  Gotta get down to it.
  Soldiers are gunning us down.
  Should have been done long ago.
  What if you knew her and
  Found her dead on the ground?
  How can you run when you know?

  Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
  Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
  Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
  Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.

• Gotta get down to it.
  Soldiers are cutting us down.
  Should have been done long ago.
  What if you knew her and
  Found her dead on the ground?
  How can you run when you know?

  Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’.
  We’re finally on our own.
  This summer I hear the drummin’.
  Four dead in Ohio.

WOMEN’S MOVEMENT

GRISWOLD V CONNECTICUT & ROE V WADE

ERA

 

CHICANO MOVEMENT

 

AIM

STONEWALL RIOTS 1969

 

RESISTANCE AND BLACK POWER

MALCOLM X

BLACK PANTHER’S

 

BLACK PANTHERS

• Revolutionary social movement to organize African American men in northern and western cities to fight for liberation.
• — In effect, became a para-military organization to protect blacks from white violence (e.g. police brutality)

“LONG HOT SUMMERS”

• Poverty, unemployment, & racial discrimination common in major inner-cities.
• Empty promise of racial equality in the North ignited rage in many African American communities

“LONG HOT SUMMERS”

 

RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED

 

1968

1972

 

REAGAN AND THE “NEW RIGHT” 1980

• Received vigorous support from the including evangelical Christian groups like Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority.
• The “Religious Right” denounced abortion, pornography, homosexuality, the ERA, and especially, affirmative action.
• ii. Championed prayer in schools and tougher penalties for criminals.
• c. Reagan denounced the activist govt and failed “social engineering” of the “Great Society” in the 1960s.

1980

 

VIETNAM AND THE DOMINO THEORY

 

TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION

 

NAPALM

 

NAPALM ATTACK, JUNE 8, 1972, NICK UT, ASSOCIATED PRESS, WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE. KIM PHUC IS THE NAKED CHILD

 

MASSACRE AT HU: TET OFFENSIVE

 

PRESS AND MEDIA