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...McCall's greatest political challenges came when in 1970, at the height of the Vietnam anti-war movement and in the midst of McCall's re-election campaign, the American Legion scheduled a convention in Portland. In response, a group called the People's Army planned a massive protest in the streets of Portland...
With his cutting, analytical commentaries on the Vietnam war, the American presidency, the beatnik generation and the boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston, Mailer helped usher in a new writing style, the New Journalism, in which the reporter becomes an active participant in the story. According to Willie Morris, an editor of Harper's in 1968, Mailer was "creating the language" by his new use of words, sentences, and obscenities...
During the Mc Decade the seventies specialized gifts became popular once again. A play by play recording of the 1968 Yale Game wrapped in quick pack instant wrapping paper made gift giving simple. But once again, war up staged commercialism as pleas for money for Vietnam POWs cropped up among the more standard acts. Music, however, remained introspective. Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters," Joe Walsh's "The smoker you drink, the player you get," and Emerson Lake and Palmer's "Brain Salad Surgery" are a sampling of that decade's musical fare...
...then 60s. I was still connected to the White House and to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and I just saw the same way of making policies by the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. I got involved on a part-time basis in an effort to de-escalate the Vietnam War. I did so on the request of the Secretary of State. And then I saw the whole thing sabotaged, double-crossed by the military...
...when the U.S. took a more bellicose position in the arms race and in Vietnam, the Russian-born physical chemist grew increasingly skeptical of the political elite's commitment to peaceful policies. He left the Johnson Administration in 1967, devoting his efforts to building a "mass political movement for peace." The Council for a Live able World, an arms control organization that he chaired from 1977 until 1982, became a leading force in educating both the public and the Congress about the threat of nuclear...