https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/american-resilience-1969-lessons-disunity-achievements/by Victor Davis Hanson
Fifty years ago, the United States was facing crises and unrest on multiple fronts. Some predicted that internal chaos and revolution would unravel the nation.
Yet a wounded United States did not just survive 1969, but reached new heights of scientific, technological, and cultural achievement.
For the first time in history, a national economy produced more than $1 trillion worth of goods and services in a single year, as American nominal GDP for 1969 exceeded that level.
America also put the first humans on the moon in 1969 — and did it again the same year, with the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 lunar missions.
Boeing’s 747 jumbo jet made its first successful test flight in 1969.
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