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...39th floor of the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan, assembling the new Administration, a new cast of characters, Henry Kissinger, John Mitchell and the rest. The nation soon would be off on a different road, or so one imagined. It would be another four years before the U.S. withdrew from Viet Nam, and another seven years before the North Vietnamese armies would sweep south and accomplish the result that American power had sought so long to prevent. During 1968, another 16,000 Americans died in the war. By the time the polished black granite of the Viet Nam Memorial was installed...
...fiction writers would have dared to imagine such a debacle. Outside the convention hall: the massed outrage of the counterculture -- antiwar activists, Viet Cong supporters, Yippies (who brought along their own presidential candidate, a porker named Pigasus). Within: the political machine that rumbled forward to confirm Hubert Horatio Humphrey as its nominee. Between the two sides: heavily armed National Guardsmen and the burly, blue- shirted Chicago police, the armed forces of Mayor Richard C. Daley, whose clubbing and gassing of demonstrators brought a new term into the American lexicon -- "police riot." When the beating and rock throwing stopped, the Democratic...
They failed. Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring. The Fifth Republic endured. The Viet Nam war ground on. The alchemy of revolt was powerful enough to shake the world, but not quite enough to change...
...Viet Nam was the alpha and omega of an increasingly tangled American psyche. In 1968, it was a series of national traumas...
COVER: Photographs of daisies and bullet by Armen Kachaturian, Janis Joplin by Dan McCoy -- Black Star, U.S. Soldiers in Viet Nam by Larry Burrows -- LIFE, Robert Kennedy by Burt Glinn -- Magnum, Coretta King by Bob Fitch -- Black Star