Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore (23 page)

President Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty, escort Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, from the White House to a helicopter parked on the south lawn of the White House, August 9, 1974. Standing behind them are Nixon’s daughters, Tricia and Julie, and their husbands.
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A characteristically unromantic reflection (in 1996) on the 1970s.
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President Ford meets with his chief of staff, Donald Rumsfeld, and deputy chief Dick Cheney (right) in the Oval Office, April 28, 1975.
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President Ford and Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev, Vladivostok, November 1974.
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An American official punches a man clinging to the door of an airplane already overloaded with refugees seeking to flee from Nha Trang, Vietnam, April 1975. ©
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“The Soiling of Old Glory”: The spearing of a black man during Boston’s bicentennial celebrations, July 1976.
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President Jimmy Carter with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt (left) and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel, at the signing of the Camp David accords, White House, March 1979. ©
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Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, and Leonid Brezhnev, after the signing of the SALT II Treaty in Vienna, June 1979.
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Energy crisis, California, late 1970s.
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Blindfolded hostages being led out of the United States embassy in Tehran on the first day of its occupation, November 4, 1979. ©
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Phyllis Schlafly, 1977.
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The Rev. Jerry Falwell outside his church, August 1980. © Wally McNamee/
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