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Episode 6 - 1973 - The Culture War Kickoff
- 2024/09/23
- 再生時間： 32 分
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あらすじ・解説
The 70s were crazy. And they still aren’t over.
We are in this episode looking at August 29 - September 4, 1973. This week was the culture war kickoff. The Vietnam War was still raging despite the US combat troops all leaving in March 1973.
The biggest war was now being fought in Washington DC - Watergate. On one side was good old Tricky Dick “I am not a crook” Nixon who was holding out from Judge Sirica’s slap down to cough up the White House tapes. Dick said no way.
His vice president, Spiro Agnew, announced he would never resign because of the accusations he was taking bribes - cash in paper bags - but he did finally quit that October, the first big victim of the culture war. In August he was still taking bribe…it’s a good bet..
American culture was splitting apart, never to come together again. Not yet. The pro-Vietnam War supporters versus the anti-war counter-culture, about to be enshrined in mass media by the amazing artists of the era, from movies to arts to books and then politics.
The battle over Watergate was front and center….a bellwether for the decades to come.