Fallout from the Carter Years

May 24, 2008 in Lesson Plans
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, born in the usa, carter, jimmy, mix, music, speeches, springsteen

Richard Nixon resigned. At the close of our last mix, the new President Ford pardoned him. He felt bipartisan heat because of it, fair or not. Americans skipped ahead to the next election, and so shall we.
Eager to regain the White House after the turbulent Nixon-Ford years, the Democrats nominate a peanut farmer from Georgia. [...]