Expanding the Base, 1968-1980

Rise of Conservatism in America, 75-121 

HIST 1302: US History Survey, 1877-The Present

Week 13

Prof. Dobe's Introduction

LBJ Remarks on Decision Not to Seek Reelection in 1968

George Wallace - 1968 Campaign Ad & BrochureGeorge Wallace on 60 Minutes

George Wallace for President Brochure (1968)

•Labor•States' Rights•Crime•Vietnam•"Constitutional Government"

George Wallace

Spiro Agnew, Two Speeches (October 20, 1969 and October 30, 1969)

Attacks on:•Arrogant Liberals•Intolerance of Intellectual Elites

Spiro Agnew

Frank S. Meyer, Defense of the Republic (April 7, 1970)

•Get Tough on Crime•Prosecutions of Revolutionary

Organizations•Ban on Protests•End of "Social-Worker and Psychiatric

Attitudes Toward Crime"

Donald Atwell Zoll, Capital Punishment  (December 3, 1971)

•Three Reasons for Capital Punishment•Masculinity - Neither "Effete" nor

"Sentimentalized" Nor Guilty of "False Delicacy"

Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Confidential Memorandum: Attack on American Free Enterprises System (August 23, 1971)

•Widespread Attack on Capitalism

•National Chamber of Commerce Should Engage in Activities to Counter this Attack

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Jeff McNelly, "You in a Heap 'o Trouble, Son" (March 17, 1972)

•Rise of the Conservative Cartoonists•Anti-Busing Theme

Richard Nixon, Labor Day Radio Address  (1972)

•Themes include:•The Worker's Values Under

Fire•Work Ethic or Welfare

Ethic?•The Fallacy of Income

Redistribution•Quotas: Anti-Ability, Anti-

Opportunity•Labor's Choice 

Richard Nixon

National Rifle Association, Act Before It Is Too Late  (September 1974)

•Role of Conservative Lobbyists•Must Act By Financing the NRA

National Rifle Association

(NRA)

Affirmative Discrimination by Nathan

Glazer (1975)

•Racial Politics•Intellectual Argument of

the "Neo-Conservatives"•Theme of "Reverse-

Discrimination" in the Academy

Nathan Glazer

Alan Crawford, The Taxfighters are

Coming! (November 1975)

•Local Taxes•CT, PA, ME, AZ•Fighting Property Taxes

Phyllis Schlafly, Interview With the

Washington Star (Jan. 18, 1976)•Use of Direct Mail•Argument That Women

Needed Protection•Linkage of "Anti-family"

with "Abortion on Demand" and "State Nurseries"

•See Map of State Ratificaiton of ERA

Phyllis Schlafly

Attacking "Weakness on Defense"

•1977-9 Conservative Fears Realized:oPanama Canal "Give Away" oFall of the Shah of Iran and Hostage Crisis oSoviet Invasion of Afghanistan

•Reading: CPD, Common Sense and Common Danger (1976)oContext of the Carter Administration's Human

Rights EmphasisoAttack on DetenteoSoviet Military Build-UpoEclipse of American Power by Soviet Power

•Political Cartoon Attacking SALT II: Hugh Haynie, American Witness (Sept. 1978)

Committee on the Present

Danger

Eugene H. Methvin, The NEA: A

Washington Lobby Run Rampant

(Nov. 1978)•Anti-Unionism Continues as

Part of Conservative Cause•NEA as Second Largest Labor

Union in the USA•Issue of Local Control•Don't Want Washington

Dictating to Local School Systems How to Teach

•Lobbies for Teachers are Bad, Whereas Lobbies For Guns are Good ...

National Education

Association

Paul Weyrich, Building the Moral

Majority (August 1979) • Paul Weyrich and Richard Viguerie Meet

With Jerry Falwell to Found Moral Majority

•Attack on "Homosexual Rights Advocates, Genetic Engineers and Militant Secular Humanists"

•Role of "Electronic Preachers" in Promoting "Family Values"

•Seeking to Provide "Clear-cut Moral Choices"

• "Authentic Gospel Not the Social Gospel"

•Unite Conservative Religious Groups: Evangelical Protestants, Conservative Catholics, Mormons, Orthodox Jews

Paul Weyrich

Ronald Reagan, Nomination

Acceptance Speech (Mar. 1980)•Stagflation as an "Economic Stew That

Has Turned the National Stomach"• "We Do Not Have Inflation Because -

as Mr. Carter Says - We Have Lived Too Well"

•Call For More American Energy Production

• Putting the Federal Government on a Diet

•Carter Was Soft on Communism and Failed to Keep Americans Safe in Iran

•Eliminate Programs and Cut Taxes•Ends With a Silent Prayer and a Call to

a "Crusade"

Ronald Reagan