The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

770 Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961–1975 students in 1960 to provide a focus for the sit-in movement and to conduct v ...

Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated 771 feared it would make passage of the civil rights bill more difficult. As in other areas, ...

772 Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961–1975 shield from exposure the masterminds who had engineered the assassination. A ...

LBJ cultivated the masculine image of a Texas cowboy. Biographers have suggested that Johnson was torn between the expectations ...

774 T he 1954 Brown v. Board of Educationdecision prohibited racial segregation in the nation’s pub- lic schools. But many state ...

775 ensure admission of the black stu- dents, Faubus ordered the closing of both of Little Rock’s high schools. In subsequent ye ...

776 Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961–1975 Quickly Johnson pressed ahead with his Great Society program. In January 196 ...

New Racial Turmoil 777 experimentation during the New Deal years, the pub- lic judged the results of the Great Society and the p ...

778 Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961–1975 bottles and bricks and sometimes shot at, while above the roar of the flames ...

From the “Beat Movement” to Student Radicalism 779 A young man perches in a tree with a guitar at Woodstock, a drug- and water-l ...

780 Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961–1975 concerns were racial bigotry, the bomb, and the “dis- turbing paradoxes” ass ...

Johnson Escalates the War 781 1965, American bombers were conducting some 5,000 raids each month. But the hail of bombs on North ...

782 Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961–1975 American soldiers—lots of them—would have to do much of the fighting themsel ...

Nixon as President: “Vietnamizing” the War 783 former attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the slain president, to dec ...

784 Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961–1975 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, a member of the Apollo11 mission, walks on the moon ( ...

The Cambodian “Incursion” 785 dozens of women and children, in a Vietnamese ham- let known as My Lai revived the controversy ove ...

786 Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961–1975 Nixon’s shocking announcement triggered many campus demonstrations. One coll ...

Nixon in Triumph 787 trip also produced striking results. The mere fact that it took place while war still raged in Vietnam was ...

788 Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961–1975 he had often seemed to lack in his earlier career. His willingness, despite ...

The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up 789 large number of social welfare programs and reduced federal grants in support of science ...