[Chad C. Mulligan]

This book is going on my reading list today. I lived through that tumult, but never understood it.

[Gay State Conservative]

Never understood it? The Maoist youth of this country...the same Maoists who *control* the Rat Party today...decided that Ho Chi Minh and his good pals in Moscow and Beijing were the good guys and that *we* were the bad guys.

Not complicated,actually.

[sopo]

How about this for the reason those things followed 6 years later and still ?

https://www.historycentral.com/sixty/60/school.html

[FarCenter]

In the review there is no mention of Eugene McCarthy, who’s performance in New Hampshire, Oregon, and Wisconsin primaries knocked Lyndon Johnson out of the race.

And the whole opposition to the Vietnam War gets very little mention, except in connection with whether Nixon was secretly negotiating with Hanoi.

“Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?”

[enumerated]

Collusion and Chaos in the 1968 election, the year Nixon won?
Let’s talk about 1960, the year he “lost”.

[marktwain]

The 1968 election was important, because it engendered the Media and deep state response to Nixon, which was the Watergate Media Coup.

In Watergate, the Media discovered they were the masters of the politicians, not the other way around. The media was one voice, and the voice was Progressivism, in all its forms.

[Jim Noble]

Yes, Nixon was elected in 1968, but the "year that gave us the Nixon presidency" was 1972, when he won 520 electoral votes and 61% of the popular vote, and returned to office with a mandate to govern as a socially conservative but economically interventionist, nationalist President.

Thta was too much for whatever forces are behind the FBI and the CIA.

Had it been known in time that the author of all the "Watergate" leaks was the Deputy Director of the FBI, and had the Justice Department staff had not already decided they were not obliged to be governed by the President and the Attorney General, things might have turned out differently.

[whitney69]

Tried reading the article until it go to this:

“(Yes, my children! Liberal Republicans once roamed the earth, before dying horribly of exposure.)”

As usual some liberal trained college faculty member is blowing smoke out of both ends. There has been a passel of liberal republicans just the same as conservative democrats (although not near as many) in our political schemes for a couple of hundred years.

Originally most of it was geared to more local targets to fulfill the needs of the states in congress like land deals, roads and grounds, and even shifting the cost of parks to the federal level and away from state control for economic purposes. A congressman was sent to represent “his” voters. But that’s changed only in the pack atmosphere as numbers talk louder than words now whether the project was national or county based.

The main reason for that is we’ve gotten too big that we now are sending congressmen to D.C. to handle our international affairs and have put the local needs on the back burner while both sides “talk” about the failure of the other’s platform and the people in charge of it because they look alike except for bickering purposes whether either or both actually make sense. And while they level their eyes at each other, Rome burns in controlled fires to further the governments causes and not the providers, uh, taxpayers.

So before I can even read the entirety of an article and run into someone trying to sell an absolute lie to smoke screen his trained position on a subject he obviously doesn’t understand or have incite in, it gets folded up and used on the bottom of the bird cage where it can have more contribution from an outside source to finish it.

And for those of you who are going to say, well it was published, so was Mein Kampf, the Satanic Bible, and Knitting with Dog Hair.

wy69

[PIF]

Noxious Nixon gave us the EPA and OSHA on whims. The Imperial Presidency.

[goo goo g'joob]

For any “third-party” cheerleaders out there...

1968 was the last election that a third-party candidate (Wallace) won any electoral votes.

That’s why they are referred to as “third-party”; because they ALWAYS finish third!

[dfwgator]

When the Marxist radicals started their takeover of the Democratic Party.

[Migraine]

I think some of these observations are valid; but the idea of “the myth of RFK inevitability” is spurious. IF I recall, there were still remnants of the national conventions’ smoke-filled rooms, where actual deals were brokered between several ballots, or canvassings, among the delegates and wheeler-dealers. I believe the “Clean-Gene” McCarthy delegates were swerving en masse toward RFK when he was killed. So, had he lived, the supposed 1200 delegates HHH “had in the bag” could and would easily found their way out of the holes in the bag via the onslaught of “Dump the Hump” sentiment, and RFK would’ve emerged the nominee.

So, I say, demythologize on that point of his premise, at least.

[cgbg]

The Deep State had some problems—and 1968 is when they started working them in earnest.

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