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...traveled a long way during the sixties. After Port Huron, it went through a left-liberal stage ("Part of the way with LBJ") and quickened its ideological tempo as the American smugness evaporated in Southeast Asia and in the ghettos. By the 1969 convention, the organization was riddled with factions which split over such issues as whether blacks were a colony of the American Empire or a super-exploited part of the working class...
...primary, the liberal and student community flocked enthusiastically to New Hampshire to help McCarthy in his drive to end the war in Vietnam and dump Johnson. With their help he won a major political upset gaining 42.4 per cent of the Democratic vote against LBJ showing just how divided the Democratic Party was over the war issue. McCarthy went on to gather an increasing amount to liberal support--as well as an $11 million dollar campaign fund--to run vigorous campaigns in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and California...
Everyone was on vacation when LBJ announced that he was stepping down and when Martin Luther King was shot and the cities burned and when the Chicago police busted heads during a convention and when Robert Kennedy was shot and when Woodstock became a household word...
...LONG BINH JAIL, where 739 overcrowded prisoners rioted in 1968, the inmate population has been cut to between 400 and 450. "LBJ" has fewer problems now under a new commander, Lieut. Colonel Paul Grossheim, a big, stone-faced lowan with a master's degree in criminology and penology. Says David Addlestone, a civilian defense lawyer for G.I.s in Viet Nam: "I came here really hot to dust the place over and just haven't found that many serious complaints...
...very clear about this, is not single persons, for these people merely embody the characteristics which our educational system, and our society, select for. The problem is fully systematic; the Dump Nixon movement will be no more successful in putting an end to the war than was the Dump LBJ movement...