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The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is founded in Washington "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism—limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies, political accountability, and open debate."
2000s; 15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th; ... 1950 in American politics (3 C, 2 P) 1950s State of the Union addresses (11 P) 1951 in American ...
American money and manufactured goods flooded into Europe, South Korea, and Japan and helped in their reconstruction. US manufacturing dominance would be almost unchallenged for a quarter-century after 1945. The American economy grew dramatically in the post-war period, expanding at a rate of 3.5% per year between 1945 and 1970.
1950 – NBC airs Broadway Open House a late-night comedy, variety, talk show through 1951. Hosted by Morey Amsterdam and Jerry Lester and Dagmar, it serves as the prototype for The Tonight Show; 1950 – Failed assassination attempt by two Puerto Rican nationals on President Harry S. Truman while he was living at Blair House.
American artist noted for her portraits and still life paintings [185] Andrew Wyeth: 1917–2009 American regionalist painter and one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century [186] Patricia Hill Burnett: 1920–2014 Portrait artist and women's rights activist [187] Brigid Berlin: 1939–2020 American artist and Warhol superstar ...
However, shaky financial markets in the early 2000s, culminating in a financial crisis in 2008 and COVID-19, are among the many factors making the American Dream increasingly out of reach for the ...
Union representation nationally in the U.S. declined from over 30% in the 1950s to 12% by the early 2000s. [8] Fareed Zakaria stated in November 2016 in describing a book about conservative Alan Greenspan : "It's also a vivid portrait of the American establishment as it moved right from the 1970's to the 1980s and 1990s."
In the 1950s and 1960s, both major American political parties included liberal and conservative factions. The Democratic Party included the Northern and Western liberals on one hand and the generally conservative Southern whites on the other. Difficult to classify were the Northern big city Democratic political machines. The urban machines had ...