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Nixon was similarly unpopular and not liked as a 'grandfatherly type' like JFK, yet implemented the shock of breaking the dollar-gold link, which was tremendously disruptive but ultimately worked for US interests.

Within the past 20 years, there was a vigorous discussion in China about whether state involvement in the economy was helpful or harmful to economic development, with evidence suggesting that the most productive private firms in China outperformed state-led enterprises, but this debate has become less active in recent years.

The 1960s-70s crisis involved multiple dimensions: the war in Vietnam, civil rights movements (Martin Luther King assassination, Bobby Kennedy assassination, riots, Kent State shooting), economic crisis (18% interest rates, high unemployment), and a president forced from office for criminality, yet the country resolved it