About the 1970's The 1970's sent Nixon out of the white house, revealed a deep power struggle for the destiny of this country, sent a peanut farmer from Georgia to the white house (Jimmy Carter), brought us to our 200th National Birthday, saw the end of the nasty war in Vietnam, brought us double digit inflation, an Arab oil embargo (an event of questionable cause), hostages in Iran (another event of questionable cause), the birth of the fledgling personal computer industry, ushered in the proliferation of cocaine usage, and emboldened a tremendous surge in women's rights (in reality all human rights). It was a time when the baby boomers settled in to raise their families and to try to integrate their newfound freedom of expression with the reality of day-to-day life. It was a time when the economics of the U.S. was to begin full integration with the rest of the world, causing widespread changes that would force us all to adjust to the fact that the golden years of opulence were indeed over, and that from now on we'd be working harder to try to absorb the losses we'd now face due to the fact that other nations were to meet or surpass our industrial successes. We all just spaced out after the war was over and drifted about for years. It was, however, the decade of widespread awareness and concern about our environment and how we were heading down the path of complete destruction of it. Whether or not we woke up soon enough, that remains to be seen.