Decade. Bellbottoms, disco, bad hair. In recent years historians have seen that its very important. In some ways more important in the 1960s which gets a lot of the attention. One of the themes that i talked about is calling this era the age of limit. Will get to what that means. We will talk about that and we will talk about the question mark. We will discuss the import of the decade and the influence it had, not just on 1880s but down to our time today. Recapping what we talked about earlier, we see in the 1970s a profound loss in the american institutions. Driven by nixons resignation over watergate of 1974. The final end of the vietnam war. You see the photo of helicopter of the u. S. Embassy picking up the last of the vietnamese soon to be refugees out of the country. The loss of the war was devastating in many ways for the United States. It really showed that one of the world superpowers had a big achilles heel. Had a bill of big effect on the military. The Antiwar Movement have
news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org brian: martha is in for gretchen you have met kristin chen weted. martha: i love her. she is awesome. steve: she is such delightful person, she will be appearing in the fox & friends christmas special. martha: really? steve: i know stuff. senator roland burris, you know him, right? martha: sure. steve: he was up on capitol hill talking about the president making a sudden appearance to rally the troops. he said the president came up and said, quote. he said, in essence, if we don t hang together, all 60 of us are going to hang separately it was very clear to the president. brian: he has a way with words, doesn t he? steve: the president has made it clear. our goose is cooked. brian: today is going to be dedicated to the most contentious portion of the health care debate. that is going to be abortion. and the language in abortion. and what came out of the house and the senate. right now senator nels