treasurer who heads America250, has fond memories of that celebration as an 11-year-old in Northern California. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.īut Rosie Rios, the former U.S. It followed a decade that saw the assassinations of President John F. Times also were fraught in the run-up to the country’s 1976 bicentennial celebration, which came two years after Richard Nixon resigned his presidency over the Watergate scandal and convulsions over the end of the Vietnam War. reaches its semiquincentennial - try saying that out loud - it will have to survive the 2024 presidential election, which is shaping up to be as divisive as its prior two contests. Even decisions on where to shop or what beer to drink have been caught up in political fighting.īefore the U.S. Capitol and whether President Joe Biden was legitimately elected. The country is headed toward the anniversary date as it remains riven politically, its citizens divided over how to view the Jan. The organization spearheading the celebration, known as America250, will start recruiting people to share their stories of what the country means to them. The anniversary push will formally launch July 4 with an event during a Major League Baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs at American Family Field in Milwaukee. It’s three years until the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, but festivities are already starting.
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