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Increasing divorce rates drug use and crime. From the american historical Associations Annual meeting last month in new york city this is two hours. Welcome, everybody, to todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today and i im going to just start out by talking a little bit about what we thought how we kind of framed this panel and what we are kind of hoping to accomplish. One of the things we have set this up as a round table intentionally. All of us were going to spea...

So, one of the things that we were thinking about in setting up this panel is the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking you about the 1970s, both in the contemporary political imagination of the time and also in historical scholarship. From water bait to the Energy Crisis, the urban crisis the fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is infused with this sense of danger and awareness of historical change. And histories of the decade, too, often treat it in these kind of heightened terms. ...

In the early 1970s and i think one of our challenges to think about what some of the consequences of those are and as kim said whether or not these are connected to each other. So, between about 1971 and 1976 and 1977 we first of all, get millions of new voters in this country, right . So you get a constitutional amendment that makes the voting age 18 instead of 21, so thats early in the 1970s. You also get a transformation of the primary system in this country, right . Prior to the 1970s, you h...

Ways of sounding the alarm and traditional media could be that vehicle but to do so, theyre going to need a hard looking inward of the kind that dana has so rightly suggested is well over due. >> absolutely. that will be a difficult turn. so glad to have you on to talk about this. thank you for writing that piece and fighting the good fight. nancy mcclain, thank you. jason johnson is sticking around. up next, stepping up for voting rights taking texas to court over just absolutely egregious re...

know, that has an impact on how i think about these issues. >> again, what i know is what his position was during the campaign and what it is now. you know, hes been very clear about it, he was very clear in the campaign, hes very clear about the fact that his position -- that its evolving. the president said that he was evolving. >> in explaining that process of evolving today, the president said he has always been adamant that gays and lesbians should be treated fairly and equally, b...

couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how i think about these issues. >> again, what i know is what his position was during the campaign and what it is now. you know, hes been very clear about it, he was very clear in the campaign, hes very clear about the fact that his position -- that its evolving. the president said that he was evolving. >> in explaining that process of evolving today, the president said he has always been adamant that gays and lesbians should be...

>> in explaining that process of evolving today, the president said he has always been adamant that gays and lesbians should be treated fairly and equally, but he hesitated on gay marriage partly he said because he thought civil unions would be enough. they would let people visit their partners in the hospital, for instance. in the abc interview, he acknowledged that same-sex marriage is an issue that elifts strong feelings both for and against. >> i was sensitive to the fact that for ...

couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how i think about these issues. >> again, what i know is what his position was during the campaign and what it is now. you know, hes been very clear about it, he was very clear in the campaign, hes very clear about the fact that his position -- that its evolving. the president said that he was evolving. >> in explaining that process of evolving today, the president said he has always been adamant that gays and lesbians should be...

go so far as to categorize his position on same-sex marriage as one that was in the process of evolving. >> whether gays and lesbians should be able to get married, ive spoken about this recently, as ive said. my feelings about this are constantly evolving. i struggle with this. >> youve said your position is evolving. you said youre struggling with it. what more do you need to know? >> well, you know, i probably wont make news right now, george, but i think theres no doubt that as i s...