Stayin Alive

Question 1

What does McGovern’s vote on the Gulf of Tonkin show us

Answer 1

That some of the votes had nothing to do with what happened on the Maddox and had everything to do with a presidential campaign - it was in August of 1964, and McGovern wanted LBJ to beat Goldwater

Question 2

Robert Kennedy thought in 1968 that the Democrats would have to give up on the south and unions - what did he think they would replace them with?

Answer 2

Negroes blue collar whites and the kids.

Question 3

How close was the 1968 race for president?

Answer 3

Nixon won by less than 500,000 votes

Question 4

What percentage did Wallace take in 1968?

Answer 4

About 13.5%

Question 5

Who wrote “The Emerging Republican Majority” and is credited with a “southern strategy” for the Republican party?

Answer 5

Kevin Phillips

Question 6

Which country music star…tapped perhaps for the 1st time in popular music a vast reservoir of resentment among Americans against the long haired young and their underground society.

Answer 6

Merle Haggard

Question 7

Complete this Spiro Agnew quote….Effete corps of ….

Answer 7

effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Question 8

Name two programs started under the Nixon administration

Answer 8

OSHA and EPA

Question 9

When was the first time that Nixon used the phrase “silent majority”

Answer 9

October 1969

Question 10

Every senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This chamber reeks of blood. Every Senator here is partly responsible for that human wreckage at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval and all across our land—young men without legs, or arms, or genitals, or faces or hopes.

Answer 10

McGovern Quote - McGovern-Hatfield to end Vietnam War by December 1969

Question 11

How many Senators voted for the McGovern-Hatfield bill

Answer 11

39

Question 12

Who said “the Democratic Party has disintegrated because it was being taken over by extremists.”

Answer 12

George Meany - AFL CIO

Question 13

What Nixon adviser was described as positive, persuasive, smart and aggressively partisan and had an instinct for the juggler.

Answer 13

Chuck Colson

Question 14

What strikes marked the beginning and end of the 1970s

Answer 14

Postal strike (that Nixon did not call a strike) and PATCO (who Reagan fired)

Question 15

What happened in May of 1970 in NYC

Answer 15

Hart Hat Riots

Question 16

What is the connection between the hart hat riots and Trump rallies

Answer 16

Both had people beating up protesters - in Nixon’s time it was a suggestion - as Trump was doing it the same way

Question 17

What did Nixon do for the economy in August 1971

Answer 17

Wage and price controls and took dollar off the gold standard

Question 18

Where was the Democratic convention in 1972? and how did it hurt their chances for victory?

Answer 18

Miami - there was too much hair, too many Afros, too many women, etc.

Question 19

How did Nixon help Wallace in 1972?

Answer 19

Stopped an investigation into his taxes and stopped a similar investigation into Gerald (his brother) - that same day Wallace announced his candidacy

Question 20

Who was George McGovern’s campaign manager?

Answer 20

Gary Hart

Question 21

What was the biggest selling book of 1972 and 1973 and how was it reflective of the disconnected Democrats?

Answer 21

Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - he wants to just fly, not fight it out with the other birds for scraps - he does not know what real life is like

Question 22

What issue “fell like an axe through the Democratic party and united white, blue collar northerners with southerners against blacks and upper-class liberals

Answer 22

busing

Question 23

What did Nixon do to the Muskie campaign in New Hampshire?

Answer 23

Had people call up voters and impersonate kids who drove all the way up from Harlem to help out the Muskie campaign

Question 24

What did Nixon do to the Muskie campaign in Florida?

Answer 24

People working for CREEP in Florida creep put up posters that said “Help Muskie busing more children now”. They also created a fake group called Mothers Backing Muskie Committee

Question 25

What did William Safire say about the type of challenge posed by George McGovern?

Answer 25

“Just as Barry Goldwater was Lyndon Johnson as gift from the gods, George McGovern was a gift to Richard Nixon”

Question 26

Aug ‘72 - what % of Americans “expressed considerable confidence” in Nixon on the issue of” making the government pay more attention to the problems of the working man and his family”

Answer 26

61%

Question 27

Who was McGovern’s VP Candidate

Answer 27

at time of convention, it was Thomas Eagleton - but he later had to let him go after it was discovered that he had electro-shock therapy. Eagleton wouldn’t quit (hurt McGovern’s reputation)

Question 28

What was the problem with choosing a VP for McGovern?

Answer 28

He didn’t get one until the night of his speech - then there was trouble all night - he did not make his “Come home America” speech until 3 am

Question 29

What was the trilogy that stuck to McGovern like a grand jury indictment

Answer 29

Amnesty, Acid and Abortion

Question 30

How do women who work outside of the home differ from women who do not

Answer 30

94% of women who work outside the home support pro-life, while 63% of the women who do not oppose abortion

Question 31

When did Dean tell Nixon that “there is a cancer growing on the presidency”?

Answer 31

March 1973

Question 32

When did the number of PACS quadruple

Answer 32

1974 through 1978

Question 33

Ballpark - what are the inflation and unemployment numbers in 1975?

Answer 33

Unemployment 8.5%

Inflation 9.25%

Question 34

Who was Chuck Wepner?

Answer 34

I guy who got paid $100,000 to go 15 rounds with Ali - and Sylvester Stallone was inspired to do Rocky

Question 35

Decade beginning and end - TV character than Movie Actor

Answer 35

Archie Bunker - Tony Moreno

Question 36

What was a triumph of Capitalism over art

Answer 36

Disco?

Question 37

What event of July 13, 1977 helped spur on Hip Hop

Answer 37

NYC Blackout - because so much sound equipment was lifted and looted during the blackout

Question 38

What do Many social scientists, politicians, white citizens, black citizens, and important civil rights leaders agree on?

Answer 38

They don’t like busing

Question 39

What was the name of the Carter July 1979 speech

Answer 39

Crisis of Confidence