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- Corruption - Harding administration - selling public land to oil companies |
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- Corruption - congress passes bonus for vets - vets want bonus immediately - march on dc - Hoover terms army on vets |
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- New Deal - gave people hope by providing work, food, medical care, etc |
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- Corruption - Nixon spying on democratic nation committee - Nixon breaks into Watergate - went through files - Ellsberg psychological papers - |
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- inflation, unemployment, lost war, radical cultural change - crisis of confidence - lost national will and unity of purpose - |
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- "getting back to American Values" - optimistic and optimistic about americas future - quick witted - firm stand against russians - reagan was Standing Strong For America |
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Contras vs. reagan optimism **** |
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Willing to put lives in harms way Beirut, Grenada Nicaragua Backed sandanista won, then we turned on them. Started backing contras, then abandoned them |
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