In our Unit 3, there were the lessons dealing with the impact that the decision of the public organization had on those who were troubled by their policy decisions. It also dealt with the civic organizations who were working towards the same goals, the way they achieved their goals and how they exercised their values. The video lecture was by Dr. Emily Hauptman used “Fighting Words: How Political Scientists and the Big Foundations Defined ‘Democracy’ During the Cold War” to showcase the fact how the public and the private organizations were wrapped around each other via public opinions, interest groups, conflicts and effectiveness (Hauptman 2020).