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Title: VDH: The Continued Resilience of Quiet America
Post by: jmyrlefuller on March 07, 2019, 02:30:03 pm

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/american-resilience-1969-lessons-disunity-achievements/ (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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