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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
You were lucky to find more than 2 papers at the corner store and network TV wasn't much help. People that are living comfortably aren't going out of their way to seek bad news that rocks the very foundation of everything they know and believe.
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How could you be that isolated? Back then there were newspapers everywhere. Daytime network TV - all four networks - was completely terminated during those many weeks of Watergate hearings. Every station - even the non-network TV stations - carried nothing but those Watergate hearings all day. That's right. Even the non-network station were hooked into network feeds because Watergate finally became that big. No intelligent person could exist back then and not be confronted by facts that might "rock their belief in government".
When was a Congressional committee meeting so racous as to suspend daytime TV for an entire day! Not today. But that is what happened when Sen Fulbright finally had enough of Dean Rusk. First CBS, then other commercial networks suspended all daytime programs to report the confrontation live. Only an ostrich would not know that something had seriously changed in government. And yes, too many "over 30's" remained so entrenched in their pre-1960s mentality to still believe Nixon was not a crook. They just did not want to believe.
The 1960s was not about keeping government out of people's lives. That movement did not start until the Reagan 80's. The sixties were about government becoming so corrupt as to wage war against a soveriegn nation without any justification - without any smoking gun.
Today a president lies about WMD. Back then the lie was the Domino Theory. Difference was that people back then never before knew government to lie so outrageously. Today, even the "under 40 somethings" know that government may lie because we all learned Nixon was a crook.
The sixties were definitely not about getting government out of peoples lives. Your statement totally misrepresents the 1960s.