HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Watergate Complex, Hippie, Spiritualism
21 Oct 2016
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The great society platform left over from jfk, social aid, etc. Showing that the american system is more effective than the soviets. The great society is comprised because a lack of funding due vietnam and a lack of funds. He inherits a large de cit due to domestic policy because of great society and vietnam. Theft of democratic documents from watergate complex. At rst he says he had no involvement. Taped everything because he was suspicious of his administration. Tape records conversation with the watergate burglers. Hippies, domestic life, a turn to youth as illustrated through west side story. Youth population because of the baby boom. Speaks of the expectations of immigrants, based on romeo and juliet. By 1967 the summer of love american society takes in hippy culture as a part of itself. A new generation of beatniks and hipsters from the 1940s. Hipsters being jazz lovers who smoked a lot of pot.
