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. Theres as many people have observed, the period of 1970s has gone from being easily dismissed historical footnote or a kind of punchline of some sort to being sort of interesting the 1960s, 1980s to being seen as in some ways a moment when many of the things that were most aware of in our own present world really came into existence. History such as nixon land the invisible bridge laura kalmans right star rising, no direction home jeff cowys staying alive, michael foleys front porch politics the
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 had primary systems they were not binding primary systems so the primary system that we all experience that at times has caused the last five or ten years crises of its own, that is also birthed in the early 1970s. You begin to get a transformation that had already started in the 1960s, but comes to true you wigs wigs in the 1970s of the ways in which Congressional Committees are structureded. You get the break down of the old Congressional Committee structure, dominated largely by southern senat
Idea. Either keeping fema out of it or keeping fema in dhs but more robust would be a better idea. Secret service could have been used opportunity to split secret service into two different agencies. Right now they have a dual mission. That dual mission is very confusing for people in secret Service Monetary investigations and protecting the president and other officials. Those are two you know, unrelated missions. So i think other things could have been done maybe not quite as extreme as what we got. Im sorry. Were out of time. We had a good discussion. There is no doubt that this issue of Homeland Security is an important issue for our country. The organization of government changed. The way that we looked at government changed as a result of it and you heard a challenge here today. If you dont like what you see, get involved with it. Thank you all. Thanks to the panelists for being here. We appreciate everything. Thank you. [applause] Hillary Clinton makes first trip to South Caroli
To update what i said a moment ago, i should have said the Vice President and mrs. Biden were away. Do we know if there were any bullets that struck the residence . Reporter at this point, joy, we dont know that. But this was outside of the driveway that goes to his home. You cant see the home from the foot of the driveway. So there were secret Service Agents stationed at the end of the drive when this happened an they and other witnesses reported that four to seven shots were fired from a car moving quickly past the home and leave immediately. And they set a check point and an hour afterward they arrested a person that was fleeing. That person has not been linked to the shots that point. But we have the local police fbi and secret service continuing to investigate and the Vice President didnt mention this in his remarks today on mlk day. Thank you very much. Thanks joy. New details on the sony hack attack and u. S. Officials know that north korea was behind it. It turns out the nsa wa
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