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The Age of Anxiety- America entered the 1960s as a strong and secure nation, despite the troubles of the Cold War. America’s culture and morality were exclusive in the world. America had an honorable future, vast prosperity, and although it had some internal problems, including inequality and racism, they could eventually be resolved by the right laws and right men writing the laws. There was now a new boundary on which a great society would be raised. After the assassination of Kennedy in 1963, this perfect world began to unravel and was torn apart by the foreign policy his presidency had set up. America’s troubles were found in the tiny country of Vietnam. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and their advisers had convinced themselves that Vietnam was being taken over by China, in one of the most tragic foreign policy mistakes in history America went to war to support the satellite regime in Saignon.