Romantic view of the 1960
One romantic view of the 60’s is that is represented an idealistic picture of a Camelot that was succeeded by the tragedy of a paradise lost through lies, conspiracy and assassination. To what extent is that view justified by simple facts as we know them and to what extent is it simply a product of imagination?It is impossible to generalise a whole decade in the way that the above statement does. Although during the early sixties public opinion was high, Kennedy was a failure in American domestic policy, and the threat of the USSR culminating in the Cuban Missile Crisis undermines the view of America as a ‘Camelot’. In the latter years of the sixties despite the assassinations and disastrous Vietnam War campaign, Johnson was able to effect significant changes with landmark civil rights legislation and a legislative record which has not been matched since. The ethos that emerged at the turn of the decade, of conflict, protest and idealism the latter was personified by the newly elected president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. For the bulk of middle class Americans the fifties had been a very prosperous decade, although relatively quiet and conservative, and in entering the sixties the civil rights movement was in full swing and m
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