The radical revolutionary sentiment of the 1960s and 1970s faded into a far more sedate end of the century. A new ideal that America was a good nation and her best days were ahead of her not behind her took hold. A new calm enveloped the culture and later generations would look on it as a good time to grow up. The American President called her a shining city on a hill that lead the world by her example. He declared the socialists an Evil Empire and the rest of the world awaited the final war between uncompromising ideologies that would end it all.