Nixon, After All: 1969-1972 - So it was that after intervening in foreign conflicts for a third of a century, the people of the United States turned inward once more, seeking comfort in insularity and renewal in isolation.  "So we beat on, boats against the current," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote at the end of his finest novel, "borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Epilogue:  Like their parents they are quaintly dressed.  There is something else, though,  It takes a moment to realize why they look so peculiar.  Then you see it.  There is an intensity in their expressions.  They are leaning slightly forward, as though trying to see into the future.  And they are smiling.