Streitz says:
"NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) was the high watermark of the Free Trade movement. Passed by President Clinton,"
The agreement was initially pursued by free-trade conservative governments in the US and Canada, led by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and US President George H. W. Bush. There was considerable opposition on both sides of the border, but in the United States it was able to secure passage after President Bill Clinton made its passage a major legislative initiative in 1993.
Well Mulroney was born in 1939 , Bush in 1924 . But Clinton was born in 1946 , so I guess he's right and all us boomers are to blame .,
Streitz also says , (about Spielberg’s Private Ryan rewriting the accomplishments of the WWII generation.)
"Ostensibly written to eulogize the soldiers of WWII, it does nothing of the sort. It undermines their patriotism to the United States and willingness to risk and give their lives in its defense. Millions of Americans fought for in World War II, but it was not to enable their buddies to go home to their mother."
Maybe I'm wrong but isn't that why....
I disagree. They were still too junior, in 1965, and were middle management taking orders from the generation senior to them -- from the "whiz kids" and "wise men" David Halberstam wrote about in The Best and the Brightest. The "Wise Men" were older than the "whiz kids", who were the cabinet officers serving LBJ. They'd all been born a little before, or several years before, the "Greatest Generation". I think some of the younger "whiz kids" might have overlapped the latter, but most were slightly older. The "whiz kids" were defined by their dominative/competitive personalities*, their Ivy League (mostly Harvard) sheepskins, and their patronization by FDR, who was working through Bernard Baruch.
*This element is very important. The Atlantic Monthly once ran an article on this personality type's ascendancy in business and politics, and its lethal effect on innovation and inventiveness in America, as people with non-dominative, truly productive and innovative personality types have been weeded out of decisionmaking by this self-reinforcing "tiger club".