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Which raises a final irony: When America was far more conservative, far more religious, and far more concerned with daily modesty in dress, and when it insisted that male students and female students reside in separate dorms at college, it celebrated the Miss America pageant with its swimsuit competition. That was a healthier America.
That of course overlooks some of the most egregious examples of an 'unhealthy America', also supported by/remedies opposed by conservatives of the time, including racial segregation in schools, housing, education, public education and the military.
That 'more religious America' perpetrated the above, as well as anti-Semitism driven 'restrictions', stumbled into war, lied, cheated and stole at least as much as today. Nixon was a religious guy. So what?