timeline: seven decades of communist china

Schools close and the country disintegrates to near anarchy before youths decamp to the countryside to “learn from peasants.” . 1971: The People’s Republic of China joins the United Nations, displacing the Nationalist-led government in Taiwan, which had held the China seat. . 1972: U.S. president..

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By contrast, in 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned after the House Judiciary Committee voted for three articles of impeachment against him for obstruction of justice, abuse of power and contempt of Congress. Congressional Republicans, who had largely supported Nixon in the early days of..

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Most of this began during the drug wars initiated in Nixon years, when federal judges decided it was better for society to curtail liberties and get drugs off the street than to be faithful to their oaths to uphold the Constitution. ..

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