January 2012
Happy 2012 – a year to think about the presidential election, the summer Olympics and ACIP’s 40th anniversary! Like today, 1972 was a time of change and contradictions. Richard Nixon was re-elected after his campaign team broke into the Watergate. He also visited China and launched the space shuttle program. Mark Spitz won seven gold medals amidst the tragedy of the Munich games. And, ACIP was incorporated in order to facilitate the growing movement of international personnel for multinational employers operating in a world that had been rocked by war protests, civil rights, wage and price controls, the release of Intel’s first microprocessor and Texas Instruments’ first pocket calculator.