16: 1950s Early Cold War

It is a misleading belief that the hotline was a red telephone that sat in the Oval Office of the White House. The first generation of the hotline had no voice element and actually resided in the National Military Command Center in the Pentagon. The countries decided against the use of a telephone as the leaders would rely too much on rapid translation, while using telegraphs instead would allow time to carefully read and then respond.

The United States first used the hotline when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The hotline was next used in June 1967 during the Six Day War between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria to clarify the intentions of U.S. fleet movements in the Mediterranean that could have been interpreted as hostile

"High levels of employment have put millions of jobless under somebody's payroll, cut unemployment to rock bottom. In addition, the number of women workers has jumped sharply, giving many low-income farmers a double paycheck. Farm prosperity has lifted a whole economic class out of the bottom brackets into the middle class. Many marginal holdings have been expanded--built up or merged into some income producing units. There are fewer farm families now, and they are making a lot more as a result of machinery, fertilizer, Government supports, and higher demands. The unionization of labor and Government policy on wages have boosted the bottom bracket incomes. At the same time they have caught many businesses in a vice that has squeezed down profits. Labor has used its new economic strength to take a bigger slice of the economic pie for itself. Welfare programs, unemployment compensation, social security, and the like fatten up family incomes that otherwise might shrink to the vanishing point."

The article points out that 10 percent of the people at the very top of the economic scale get a smaller proportion of the national income than they used to, and the other 90 percent of the people get more of it. This means that most of the people are better off than ever before. And the magazine points out that this is due to the things your Government has been doing.

Bernays launched a massive effort in the US to discredit Guatemala’s&nbsp;government by labeling them communist. <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2010/12/9834/banana-republic-once-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">He flew reporters</a> of major newspapers and magazines to Guatemala.