| Last Decade Not So Bad By Comparison | | | | flag on the Moon.Despite the racial strife, we |
| January 7, 1970 | | | | made greater strides in solving our racial problems |
| Hardly anyone has a kind word for the decade | | | | than we had in the preceding ten decades.Despite |
| just finished.The Vietnam war, race riots, campus | | | | the wars in Asia, we stopped the spread of |
| rebellion and political assassinations left a bad taste | | | | totalitarian communism.Despite the unrest of |
| in the mouths of Americans. Good riddance, they | | | | youth, we turned out the highest percentage of |
| say, to the "Soaring Sixties" that fizzled.Yet, it | | | | educated, responsible young adults in the history |
| was no worse than any other decade in recent | | | | of man.Those who identify intimately with the |
| history; and in many respects it was considerably | | | | Kennedy brothers, or Rev. Martin Luther King, or |
| better.After all, we did conquer polio, learn how to | | | | with the soldiers slain in Vietnam, tend to place |
| transplant hearts and kidneys, sign a limited | | | | recent events in the blackest period of history. |
| nuclear test ban treaty and plant the American | | | | These acts are deplorable by all standards. |