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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Social Changes Of The 1970s 20150220

increasing divorce rates drug use and crime. from the american historical association s annual meeting last month in new york city this is two hours. welcome, everybody, to today s panel on the crises of the 1970s. so we have a great panel today and i i m going to just start out by talking a little bit about what we thought how we kind of framed this panel and what we are kind of hoping to accomplish. one of the things we have set this up as a round table intentionally. all of us were going to speak for maybe about ten minutes, so kind of making a few brief remarks about the literature on the 1970s and thinking you about the 1970s, what this unique time means to us today and then we would like to open it up and have a lot of time for conversation, both among both with each other and most importantly, with the audience. so we are going to be sticking to a pretty, you know pretty tight time and hopefully having a lot of time for conversation. so, one of the things that

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20150220

so, one of the things that we were thinking about in setting up this panel is the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking you about the 1970s, both in the contemporary political imagination of the time and also in historical scholarship. from water bait to the energy crisis, the urban crisis the fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is infused with this sense of danger and awareness of historical change. and histories of the decade, too, often treat it in these kind of heightened terms. there s as many people have observed, the period of 1970s has gone from being easily dismissed historical footnote or a kind of punchline of some sort to being sort of interesting the 1960s, 1980s to being seen as in some ways a moment when many of the things that were most aware of in our own present world really came into existence. history such as nixon land the invisible bridge laura kalman s right star rising, no direction home jeff cowy s staying alive, michael foley s front porc

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20150220

in the early 1970s and i think one of our challenges to think about what some of the consequences of those are and as kim said whether or not these are connected to each other. so, between about 1971 and 1976 and 1977 we first of all, get millions of new voters in this country, right? so you get a constitutional amendment that makes the voting age 18 instead of 21, so that s early in the 1970s. you also get a transformation of the primary system in this country, right? prior to the 1970s, you had primary systems they were not binding primary systems so the primary system that we all experience that at times has caused the last five or ten years crises of its own, that is also birthed in the early 1970s. you begin to get a transformation that had already started in the 1960s, but comes to true you wigs wigs in the 1970s of the ways in which congressional committees are structureded. you get the break down of the old congressional committee structure, dominated largely by south

Transcripts For CNNW Wolf 20150508

explain what prompted this decision specifically is it based on a specific threat? wolf orders were signed last night by the four-star admiral in charge of the u.s. northern command which oversees bases in the united states. not because there was a specific and credible threat meaning no information about an attack coming at a point the time in a particular place, but as one official said the temperature has been raised. growing concern in the u.s. military intelligence community, and law enforcement, about home grown violent radical extremism. we saw it this week in garland, texas. this has been something that has been growing in kidnapperconcern. james comey said there may be thousands of people in the united states on-line with groups like isis being radicalized joining militant ideologies. this is all a huge concern. i have to tell you we ve been told the military had this order in the works for some time as it was monitoring on-line communications as it was monitoring

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