Overview
By 1968, one of the most turbulent years in American history, the number of American troops in Vietnam had risen from 16,000 (in 1963) to more than 500,000. Nightly television coverage of the "living-room war" ignited a massive antiwar movement.
After a weak showing in the New Hampshire primary, President Johnson shocked the country on March 31 by announcing that he would not seek reelection. Just 4 days later, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, sparking riots in more than 100 cities. In June, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated after winning the California primary. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who entered the race late and had not won any primaries, became the Democratic nominee at a tumultuous convention in Chicago marred by fistfights and disorder inside the convention hall, and by the televised spectacle of violent confrontations between police and antiwar protesters in the streets outside.
http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/election/index.php?ad_id=862Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it...and Kissinger is once again advising on a war...
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