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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World War II (when the French were out of Indochina and when Ho Chi Minh's communist nationalists alone were able to give sustained resistance to the Japanese conquerors) which through President Roosevelt called for the permanent removal of France from Indochina, as of Britain from India, in the post-war reconstruction-only to be reversed by President Truman. And it is an admiration, finally, for that part of America which, in quite unexpected sectors (for Marxist analysis) have in fact become the American hearts of resistance to the war against their completion of the communist nationalization of Vietnam...
...living was no longer the dream as advertised. They feared that they were beginning to lose their grip on the country. Others seemed to be taking over ?the liberals, the radicals, the defiant young, a communications industry that they often believed was lying to them. The Saturday Evening Post folded, but the older world of Norman Rockwell icons was long gone anyway. No one celebrated them; intellectuals dismissed their lore as banality. Pornography, dissent and drugs seemed to wash over them in waves, bearing some of their children away...