January 1973 upended our politics 50 years ago. The Dobbs’ decision may turn out to be equally disruptive in the exact opposite direction.
coalesced in January 1973 that together, almost as if in concert, fundamentally altered the path of the nation. Seemingly random events at the time actually had strong connectors and worked to supercharge profound change in the space of just 31 days.
Seemingly random events at the time actually had strong connectors and worked to supercharge profound change in the space of just 31The day after Christmas, 1972, former president Harry Truman had died in Independence, Missouri. The thought of a state funeral in Washington was scrapped when it became clear his widow, Bess Truman, was too frail to withstand the ordeal, so a private funeral was arranged in Truman’s hometown.
That would become clear when Nixon delivered his second inaugural in the third week of January 1973. He turned JFK’s “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country” line into “In our lives, let each of us ask—not just what government can do for me, but.” Obviously the line didn’t achieve the renown of its predecessor, but this was the start of the “Me Generation,” an America where the rich get richer, and everyone else have to figure it out on their own.
As January 1973 had started, Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger were in the midst of conducting one of the more barbaric bombing campaigns of any war—infamously known as the “Christmas bombings.” The statistics were unforgiving—over 200 massive American B-52 bombers flew 730 sorties to drop 20,000 tons of bombs on North Vietnam, mainly on the populous Hanoi, over a period of 12 days.
Judge Sirica suspected a cover-up and that higher-up authorities were involved. After a jury convicted the two who went to trial, Sirica threatened all defendants with 30-40 years in prison, hoping the pressure would cause one of them to crack. The tactic worked, and started a chain of events that would lead to White House Counsel John Dean’s stunning “cancer on the presidency” testimony, and the discovery of a taping system in the White House.
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