The Moral Majority

The Moral Majority was a political organization of the United States which had an agenda of evangelical Christian-oriented political lobbying. It was founded in 1979 and dissolved in the late 1980s. The Moral Majority was a southern-oriented organization of the Christian Right, although the Moral Majority’s state chapters and political activity extended beyond the South.^[1] After the Moral Majority’s establishment, the state chapters grew quickly, with organizations in eighteen states by 1980.^[5] The variety of resources available to the Moral Majority at its founding facilitated this rapid expansion, which included Falwell’s “Old Time Gospel Hour” mailing list. In addition, the Moral Majority took control of the “Old Time Gospel Hour’s” publication, Journal Champion, which had been distributed to the show’s donors.^[6] Falwell was the organization's best known spokesperson throughout the 1980s. By 1982, Moral Majority surpassed Christian Voice in size and influence.

The Iran–Contra affair

The administration lied about illegal acts in Iran and Nicaragua, knowingly defying the will of Congress, breaking laws and pretending innocence - all in the name of national security.
The Iran–Contra affair was a political scandal in the United States which came to light in November 1986, during the Reagan administration, in which senior U.S. figures, including President Ronald Reagan, agreed to facilitate the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo.^[1] At least some U.S. officials also hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of hostages and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund Nicaraguan contras.

Iran Contra Scandal
– Early 1986, news leaks that the Reagan administration has negotiated an arms-for-hostages deal with revolutionary Islamic government of Iran
– The Reagan administration sells arms to Iran the “out-law state” for Iran's assistance to free some American hostages held by Hezbollah, a pro-Iranian Shiite group in Lebanon.
– The profit made from selling the arms to Iran are used to support an illegal war in Nicaragua.
– Reagan orders the CIA to aid an armed Nicaraguan opposition group called the Contras.
– 1984, Congress bans the CIA from providing any military support to the Contras.
– Oliver North a U.S. Marine and aid to the National Security Council refuses to obey Congress's orders. He continues to take profits from the Iranian arms deal to assist Contras.
– When Reagan was questioned whether he knew of North's illegal actions, Reagan replies, “I don't remember.” Still won over by his charm, the public accepted this timely memory loss.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Johnson ran on the pledge in 1964 that there be no escalation of the Vietnam war- although he planned on doing exactly that. He had intense support from his military chiefs pushing him to enter the war with direct force. They believed the backward nation would "will fall easily to our massive power." Summer of 1964 an American destroyer (torpedo boats had fired on the destroyer Maddox) is involved in a small incident, in the Gulf of Tonkin - off Vietnam. Aug. 2nd, first attack - single bullet. Aug. 4th misread radar sightings... Did not matter National Emergency is called by president. Call to arms is had to resist. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution gave Johnson a mandate to conduct operations in Vietnam as he saw fit... to escalate as he liked.

The Tonkin Gulf Resolution is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia. Specifically, the resolution authorized the President to do whatever necessary in order to assist "any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty." This included involving armed forces. The unanimous affirmative vote in the House of Representatives was 416-0.
What prompted the military force?
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution (officially, the Southeast Asia Resolution, Public Law 88-408) was a joint resolution of the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in response to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron 135^[1] and the destroyer USS Maddox on 02 August 1964, and an alleged second naval engagement between North Vietnamese torpedo boats and the US destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy on 04 August 1964, in the Tonkin Gulf; both naval actions are known collectively as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

CREEP

Masterminds behind Watergate $ woking for CREEP were: G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, former CIA agents and FBI agents. As CREEP operatives they were aranging illegal wiretaps at DNC headquarters, campaign of ''dirty tricks" against Democrats. CREEP had illegal slush fund and it linked to key white house aides.


The Committee to Re-elect the President, abbreviated CRP but often mocked by the acronym CREEP, was a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon'smoney laundering administration. Besides its re-election activities, CRP employed and slush funds and was directly and actively involved in the Watergate scandal.

CRP used US$500,000 in funds raised for the purpose to reelect President Nixon to pay legal expenses for the five Watergate burglars after their indictment in September 1972, in exchange for their silence and perjury. This act helped turn the burglary into an explosive political scandal. The burglars, as well as G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt, John N. Mitchell, and other Nixon administration figures, were imprisoned over the break-in and their efforts to cover it up.

The CRP was also connected, e.g. via personal overlap, to the earlier group called the White House Plumbers.

Helpful Facts - JFK

From PEOPLE on YAHOO answers:

JFK, quite the charismatic breath of fresh air in an stodgy age of stuffy corruptive politics, sought to end Vietnam, lent political support to the Civil Rights movement by establishing the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, created the Peace Corps, challenged NASA to have an American land safely on the Moon and return to Earth, lent his political support for his Attorney General brother, RFK to battle organized crime and he stared down the steel eyed Communist aggressor, Russia, who were not only supplying Cuba with nuclear missiles---but were eager to launch them on the U.S.

JFK had his turblent moments of trials and tribulations as well: His decision to sign Executive Orders to dissolve the CIA came when he realized he was outright lied to about the Bay Of Pigs effort to liberate Cuba. JFK found out a sweet cozy deal was set up between CIA and Mafia to take over Cuba--and open up a mega-franchise of casinos, brothels and drug trade pipelines. The Bay Of Pigs fiasco was probably his biggest mistake in office.

There purportedly were moments during flashpoint minutes during the Cuban Missile Crisis--when several military and naval high command officers showed displays of defiance towards the President; their resignations afterwards were accepted quietly.

JFK and RFK both were aware their father's partnership with organized crime bootleggers during Prohibition led to the Kennedy family's prestige and wealth; the Mafia got him voted in as President. But that didn't make what was done right---something both brothers Kennedy sought to change and make right. And so, JFK and RFK bulked up to batter ram the Mafia, weaken and imprison them for good.

JFK went against the grain of corruptive D.C. politics--upsetting a lot of empowered people in areas of politics, military....and even organized crime.

And on Novemember 22, 1963---the men who bitterly HATED JFK---killed him in broad daylight, for the world to see---and send a message THEY were in control once again and to NEVER stand in their way.

It was done, many theorize, in the name of saving America---for it was rumored Kennedy secretly corresponded with Soviet leader Kruschev. And many young, but powerful (and evidently, deadly) upstarts in D.C. also contended Kennedy may himself be Socialist.

Today, believe it or not, several of these men---albeit they are well in their 70s---are still alive, which alone gives cause to why we will NEVER anytime soon know the brazen sordid whole truth to who ordered and orchestrated JFK's ( and quite likely RFK's ) murder.

They didn't want JFK to continue on as President---and they damn well didn't want RFK to make it as President.

Personal Life:
Anyways, he was Senator for Massachusetts and a WWII hero where he saved his fellow crew and ship in the South Pacific nation of Kiribati. He was honored with a purple heart and he also went to college in Harvard where he excelled in football more than schooling. He suffered a bad back and had to take a large amount of pain killers and antihistamines. He married Jackie Bouvier, but was a sex addict so he had numerous liasons with Marilyn Monroe and other prominent women of the time. It has been said he was a very sick man and suffered from STD's too.

Presidency:
He acted on Eisenhower's Bay of Pigs invasion. He trained Bolivian and ex-Cuban patriots to bring down Fidel Castro. Castro gave them an ultimatum to fly the aircrafts out of Cuban international waters or he would shoot them down. JFK didnt listen and it was an utter mess.

Ill give JFK credit where credit is due he created the Peace Corps. that is the only significant thing he has done as president.

In regards, to the Cold War it was in his presidency it was at an alltime high and we wee on the brink to literally go to war w/ the USSR. However, we didnt and we tend to give JFK credit when in actuality Nikita Khrushev was the one who saved the day. Castro wanted war on all cost he wanted nukes from the USSR, but Khrushev was wary and didnt want to give it to him because even though their was a series of resentment between the US and USSR he knew if they went to war total destruction would come out of it. So, he left Castro alone.

Also JFK did practically nothing for the Civil Rights Movement as he refused to invite Martin Luther King Jr., a very important figure of the CRM into the White House for a lunch. JFK also spearheaded the very unpopular Vietnam War because he sided and gave financial aide and military aide to Southern Vietnamese dictator Diem, who was responsible for the genocide of millions of Vietnamese monks in his countryside. This angered the Viet cong and Ho Chi Mihn and they declared war on the South and the US backed Diem's side and JFK sent an abundance of US troops to die in this war.

In fact, LBJ, JFK's Vice President often gets a bad rap because of the Vietnam War. But, he was put into a bad situation by JFK, in which he had no choice but continue with the war. As for the Civil Rights Movement LBJ had the best domestic policy than any US President in his term in the Great Society. Unlike, JFK he welcomed Martin Luther King Jr. with open arms and the struggle of segragation ended with the Lyndon Johnson presidency.

I think JFK is loved now because he was undeniably charismatic and a good speaker and the fact he got assassinated makes him forever remembered. But, the fact is he wasnt as great as he was perceived to be.

-Created the Peace Corps
--Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
--Supported racial integration and Civil Rights; proposed what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964
--Created Project Apollo, which led to the first man landing on the moon six years after JFK's death
--Created the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity which sought to end discrimination in government and covert discrimination among government contractors.

Guided us, safely, through the cuban missile crisis. Probably the most important period of his presidency.

Medgar Wiley Evers

Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi who was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith.

On November 24, 1954, Evers was appointed Mississippi’s first field secretary. President of the NAACP Mississippi State Conference and civil rights activist, E.J. Stringer, helped him gain this position.

Evers was involved in a boycott campaign against white merchants and was instrumental in eventually desegregating the University of Mississippi when that institution was finally forced to enroll James Meredith in 1962.

The admission of Meredith led to a riot on campus that left two people dead. Evers’ involvement and investigative work brought about hatred in many white supremacists. In the weeks leading up to his death, Evers found himself even more of a target. His public investigations into the murder of Emmett Till and his vocal support of Clyde Kennard made him a prominent black leader and therefore vulnerable to attack. On May 28, 1963, a molotov cocktail was thrown into the carport of his home. Five days before his death, Evers was nearly run down by a car after he emerged from the Jackson NAACP office.

On June 12, 1963, Evers pulled into his driveway after just returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. Emerging from his car and carrying NAACP T-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go," Evers was struck in the back with a bullet fired from an Enfield 1917 .303 rifle that ricocheted into his Jackson, Mississippi home. He staggered 30 feet before collapsing. He died at a local hospital 50 minutes later, just hours after President John F. Kennedy's speech on national television in support of civil rights.^[8]

Malcolm X

Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, andhuman rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. His detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence. He has been described as one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.

Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Nebraska. By the time he was thirteen, his father had died and his mother had been committed to a mental hospital. His childhood, including his father's lessons concerning black pride and self-reliance and his own experiences concerning race, played a significant role in Malcolm X's adult life. After living in a series of foster homes, Malcolm X became involved in hustling and other criminal activities in Boston and New York. In 1946, Malcolm X was sentenced to eight to ten years in prison.

While in prison, Malcolm X became a member of the Nation of Islam. After his parole in 1952, he became one of the Nation's leaders and chief spokesmen. For nearly a dozen years, he was the public face of the Nation of Islam. Tension between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad, head of the Nation of Islam, led to Malcolm X's departure from the organization in March 1964.

After leaving the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a Sunni Muslim and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, after which he disavowed racism. He traveled extensively throughout Africa and the Middle East. He founded Muslim Mosque, Inc., a religious organization, and the secular, black nationalist Organization of Afro-American Unity. Less than a year after he left the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X was assassinated while giving a speech in New York.