Archive Report
Archive Report
Status of Plans for U.S. Birthday
Exoected Upsurge in Tourism at Historic Places
In a variety of ways and in a variety of moods, the United States is making plans to celebrate its 200th birthday. Indeed, the official bicentennial period1 has already arrived. The first major observance occurred April 19 at Lexington and Concord, Mass., to commemorate the opening combat of the American Revolution. Other observances during this year and next embrace a host of events that are both related and unrelated to the central act that is being celebrated, the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
It is being said in many places that the country, suffering from economic ills, the loss of South Vietnam and a post-Watergate erosion of confidence in government, is in no ...