{The Coming-of-Age of America}[6th January 1976]

[Redbook2:76A-J][19760106:0000]{The Coming-of-Age of America}[6^th January 1976]

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Not the Bi-centennial, but Watergate marks the coming-of-age of America: more particularly, the discovery of Watergate, and those dozens of contemporary symptoms – militant pacifism, the Senate hearings, the foreign policy of Congress – which have become the pinpricks of traditional American pride. For a strange self-awareness, almost humble, is the hallmark of the new American: that, and a restrained self-assurance which needs no boasting.

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