1964 (American Experience) - 2014 - 7/10

Documentary lays out the premise that 1964 was THE pivotal year for the States.
The transition from the 50’s to the 60’s.
Cultural landmarks include: Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique,” Civil Rights marches, The Beatles arrival, Cassius Clay – Muhammad Ali, Vietnam, Berkeley unrest , etc …

The ongoing crux of the narrative was the Presidential contest between Johnson and Goldwater.
How Goldwater, in essence, shifted the Republican party out of the country club and into the right wing.

The edge of my memory, this, and events are difficult to separate from those I actually remember from those I subsequently learned through reading and watching.
One pet theory of mine is that this was the high water mark of the American middle class.
Thereafter, rising globalization and competition would level (lower) the game, while US politicians would tax the middle class to extinction. Decades later, they’re going, “How’d this happen?”