James T. Patterson

“The proliferation of these self-conscious groups, some of which (such as "seniors-only" enclaves) virtually excluded others, added to a perception by the…

— James T. Patterson

“Nothing did more during these years to excite such emotions than the successful launching by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957…

— James T. Patterson

“Moreover, Kissinger and Nixon deeply distrusted each other. Kissinger was sometimes contemptuous (behind Nixon's back) of the President. He called Nixon "our…

— James T. Patterson

“Roughly 80 percent of American soldiers in Vietnam were from poor or working-class backgrounds. Neither in college nor in graduate school—where most…

— James T. Patterson

“A rock concert at a farm in Bethel, New York, in 1969 attracted some 400,000 people who wallowed happily about in the…

— James T. Patterson

“In February, Nixon, his way paved by secret journeys that Kissinger took in 1971 to Peking, made a lavishly televised week-long visit…

— James T. Patterson

“On one occasion a demonstrator confronted him with a sign, LBJ, PULL OUT LIKE YOUR FATHER SHOULD HAVE DONE. He complained bitterly…

— James T. Patterson

“Jackie added in White's article, read by millions, that the Kennedy administration had been Camelot, "a magic moment in American history, when…

— James T. Patterson

“Between September 1969 and May 1970, there were at least 250 bombings linked to white-dominated radical groups in the United States. This…

— James T. Patterson

“In 1970 he was hailed on a Time magazine cover as the "Paul Revere of ecology." A year later he published The…

— James T. Patterson

“Still, the exaggerations of Johnson and other liberals at the time came to haunt them within a few years. Talk about the…

— James T. Patterson

“By the late 1950s millions of Americans were enjoying the bounties of affluence and the consumer culture, the likes of which they…

— James T. Patterson

“Still, it is a stretch to regard the beats as initiating a major cultural trend in the late 1950s, let alone to…

— James T. Patterson

“The American Zionist Emergency Council (AZEC) embarked on a well-financed publicity campaign that helped by late 1947 to generate large majorities—some polls…

— James T. Patterson

“It is arguable, especially in retrospect, that the Marshall Plan had some unfortunate, though unintended, consequences. Together with the Truman Doctrine, it…

— James T. Patterson

“Acheson then jumped into action with a dramatic and deliberately florid statement of what was later to be known as the "domino…

— James T. Patterson

“Though the ending is schmaltzy, there was bite enough in the film to distinguish it from a Norman Rockwell vision of the…

— James T. Patterson

“Sustained by popular responses such as these, conservatives in Congress mobilized to attack an administration effort then pending to exterminate rats in…

— James T. Patterson

“The Graduate, an Oscar-winning movie that appeared in late 1967, dramatized these changes. It featured a young man (Dustin Hoffman) who was…

— James T. Patterson

“Many black and poor people, moreover, had become politicized by the civil rights movement and had begun to develop higher expectations from…

— James T. Patterson

“Their expectations, however, had grown grand indeed, and they were impatient. Increasingly, they sought not only benefits but also guarantees and entitlements.…

— James T. Patterson

“Polls indicated that while women were growing increasingly sensitive about gender discrimination, only a small minority liked to be called "feminists." The…

— James T. Patterson

“Although Nixon stepped up military pressure by bombing heavily and greatly expanding South Vietnamese forces, the enemy did not bend. Nor did…

— James T. Patterson

“By the time Nixon reached office the environmental cause had grown stronger than ever, thanks in part to media attention given to…

— James T. Patterson

“Along with libertarians such as Milton Friedman, an especially influential economist, they pointed with alarm at the dramatic increase in the number…

— James T. Patterson

“Environmentalists had enjoyed modest successes during the New Frontier-Great Society years: a Clean Air Act in 1963, a Wilderness Act in 1964,…

— James T. Patterson

“Congress, however, stiffened, cutting off appropriations for such bombing as of August 15, 1973. In November it overrode a presidential veto to…

— James T. Patterson

“An anonymous GI poet added: Please Mr. Truman, won't you send us home? We have captured Napoli and liberated Rome; We have…

— James T. Patterson

“The divorce rate in 1945 shot up to double that of the prewar years, to 31 divorces for every 100 marriages—or 502,000…

— James T. Patterson

“By 1967 McNamara was pacing about his expansive Pentagon office, staring at the large framed photograph of Defense Secretary Forrestal (who had…

— James T. Patterson

“Most important, Kennedy's commission encouraged women activists on both the state and federal levels to develop networks and to talk seriously about…

— James T. Patterson

“Experts touted confrontational "encounter," gestalt therapy, bioenergetics, "sensitivity training," meditation, massage, breathing, drugs, and even easy recreational sex. Any or all would…

— James T. Patterson

“The theologian Reinhold Niebuhr observed that the Engel decision "practically suppresses all religion, especially in the public schools." Engel and other cases…

— James T. Patterson

“Resurrecting the tactics of Joe McCarthy, Agnew called Humphrey "squishy soft on communism." He observed, "If you've seen one slum, you've seen…

— James T. Patterson

“Few Americans—or members of Congress—read The Public Interest. Still, the rapid rise of the "neo-cons" to intellectual respectability was revealing. And their…

— James T. Patterson

“THE ESCALATING DEMANDS for rights after 1965, and especially the riots, did more than bewilder people. They also aroused significant backlash, the…

— James T. Patterson

“A teacher expressed the feeling of many Americans: After Watergate, it's crazy to have trust in politicians. I'm totally cynical, skeptical. Whether…

— James T. Patterson

“Kennedy, who had a mentally ill sister, also moved more actively than presidential predecessors to advance the cause of mental health. In…

— James T. Patterson

“Beginning in the late 1940s, the current of people fleeing from farm to town and city swelled into a flood—one of the…

— James T. Patterson

“Congress also did little to deal with poverty, education, or mounting urban problems. It seemed especially deaf to what was soon to…

— James T. Patterson