Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970sThe world was watching when footage of the "tank man" -- the lone Chinese citizen blocking the passage of a column of tanks during the brutal 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square -- first appeared in the media. The furtive video is now regarded as an iconic depiction of a government's violence against its own people. Throughout the twentieth century, states across East Asia committed many relatively undocumented atrocities, with victims numbering in the millions. The contributors to this insightful volume analyze many of the most notorious cases, including the Japanese army's Okinawan killings in 1945, Indonesia's anticommunist purge in 1965--1968, Thailand's Red Drum incinerations in 1972--1975, Cambodia's Khmer Rouge massacre in 1975--1978, Korea's Kwangju crackdown in 1980, the Philippines' Mendiola incident in 1987, Myanmar's suppression of the democratic movement in 1988, and China's Tiananmen incident. With in-depth investigation of events that have long been misunderstood or kept hidden from public scrutiny, State Violence in East Asia provides critical insights into the political and cultural dynamics of state-sanctioned violence and discusses ways to prevent it in the future. |
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... Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma , where archivist Todd Kosmerick gave great assistance . Diane Windham Shaw of the David Bishop Skillman Library at Lafayette College helped me considerably during ...
... assassination . When Johnson asked him , Ford at first demurred , saying that his congressional duties were already demanding , but the president practically ordered him to serve on the commission as a 9 Introduction.
... congressional Republicans , almost always in the minority , never able to muster the votes to advance new or bold programs . To avoid the GOP's being branded as negative or obstructionist , he opposed President Johnson's programs ...
... congressional career , Ford established himself as a solid fiscal conservative . ( The conservative Americans for Constitutional Action gave him an overall 77 percent rating . ) 36 A quarter - century of friendship and conservative ...
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Contents
Hungering for Heroes | 17 |
The Congenial Presidency | 38 |
Gerald Ford and the Ninetyfourth Congress | 56 |
Fords Vision for America | 73 |
The Economic Challenge | 93 |
The Great Inflation of the 1970s | 95 |
Taking Aim at Inflation | 111 |
Teetering on a Knifes Edge | 120 |
The Energy Crisis of the 1970s | 197 |
A New Energy Program | 215 |
The Energy Stalemate | 228 |
Breaking the Energy Logjam | 246 |
Diplomatic and Political Challenges | 271 |
Gerald Fords Internationalism | 273 |
Thunder from the Right | 304 |
Back from the Brink | 325 |