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To: LindyBill who wrote (554534)4/13/2014 11:16:51 AM
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And as Gelernter wrote elsewhere in America-Lite, the antiwar movement actually preceded Johnson’s escalation; it was a creation of the nascent new left, about to devour the staid old left that birthed the New Deal and Great Society:
I think Gelertner is only partially accurate on this issue. Some years ago I was doing some research for a potential book/screenplay based on the Texas Western/Kentucky NCAA finals in 1966 (it was long enough ago that most of my info came from old Life magazines on microfiche at the library). I was surprised to learn that some of the earliest and strongest opposition came from retired military (a General Gavin?) and business leaders.
I've also read speculation that the Vietnam War lasted as long as it did in part because the anti-war movement was later co-opted by such anti-American groups as the SDS, and opposition to the war became equated with support for a Viet Cong victory (I think I posted earlier about a conversation I had with Bill Ayers in 1969 in which he stated that he thought the biggest mistake the left made was to support Israel; if they supported the Viet Cong, they should support the PLO in its effort to throw off the yoke of the colonial Zionists).
And another shock during that research was an article about the early adopters of LSD, which was completely legal at the time. It was apparently popular among business executives and their wives at cocktail parties - it was supposedly replacing martinis as the intoxicant of choice.
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