American Revolution Bicentennial Administration

the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration (ARBA), which was charged with encouraging and coordinating locally sponsored events.[3] David Ryan, a professor at University College Cork, notes that the Bicentennial was celebrated only a year after the humiliating withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975 says the Ford administration stressed the themes of renewal and rebirth based on a restoration of traditional values, giving a nostalgic and exclusive reading of the American past.