Tag Archives: The 1970s

Cal Thomas: The Nixon Resignation at 40

Source:The New Democrat  It is clear that President Richard Nixon had to go and even Republicans then and now will tell you that. Perhaps even a majority of them and the only question was how that was going to happen. … Continue reading

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ABC Evening News: Saturday Before Start of 1976 Republican National Convention

Source:The New Democrat  Just a few days before the start of the 1976 Republican National Convention and the GOP didn’t know who their presidential nominee would be. Even though they held the White House with President Gerald Ford. But President … Continue reading

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CBS News: Governor Ronald Reagan Talks President Gerald Ford On Face The Nation (1975)

Source:The New Democrat I don’t have the exact date on this, but I believe this is early 1975. The year I’m sure of and it was just after Ronald Reagan left the California Governor’s Mansion as a two-term Governor of … Continue reading

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CBS Evening News: John Dickerson: President Jimmy Carter’s ‘Malaise Speech’

Source:The New Democrat  I covered most of this yesterday, but John Dickerson’s comment about President Carter’s speech being ‘tone-death’ was spot on. This speech sounded like a President who was out of ideas and that his administration was also out … Continue reading

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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: Speech at the White House (12/17/79)

Source:The New Democrat This speech was given about three weeks after the Iranian hostage crisis in which Iranian Islamists took fifty Americans, working at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, hostage in November of 1979.  This was Thatcher’s first visit to … Continue reading

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Dean Matin Show: ‘Rodney Dangerfield Cracks Up Dean Martin With Back-To-Back One-Liners (1972)’

“My agent made a deal with The Dean Martin Show for me to appear on twenty-eight shows. I signed on to do some short skits—just me and Dean—and I would write all the material. “Dean only came in once a … Continue reading

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Movie Clips: Airplane! (1980)

Source:The New Democrat  When I think of the 1970s,  I think of a depressing decade that got better as the culture, entertainment and fashion improved. We went from hippy culture and bellbottoms to flares in the early and mid 1970s … Continue reading

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Tony Baretta: Myra Breckinridge (1970) Starring Raquel Welch

Source:The New Democrat  Myra Breckinridge may be the best movie that ever flopped at the box office.  It lost more than the 1962 New York Mets who lost something like 120 games that season.  I don’t believe the movie made … Continue reading

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Flanagan: Network (1976)

Source:The New Democrat  Anyone who’s interested in modern network news should watch the movie Network from 1976.  It’s almost forty years old now and except for the modern technology, the new players and the new stories they’d be hard pressed … Continue reading

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NFL Films: NFL 1975- NFC Divisional-St. Louis Cardinals @ Los Angeles Rams Highlights

Source:The New Democrat  In the 1970s especially, the NFL was about running the football and tough defense and not giving up big plays when it came to winning championships, and, in a lot of cases, just winning, period. The very … Continue reading

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