Wallace, who before the running in 1968 was thought to be "small time," and a southern racist. ... After losing the election for governor of California in 1962, Nixon announced that he would no longer seek any government-affiliated office. ...
President Kennedy was never able to mobilize sufficient support to pass a civil rights bill with teeth over the opposition of segregationist southern members of congress. ... Rioting mobs in the Negro suburb of Watts, California, pillaged, burned and killed, while 500 policemen and 5000 national guardsmen struggled in vain to contain their fury. ...
The U.S. ordered sustained bombing on Northern Vietnam, when that did not work Johnson sent in enough troops to take over from the Southern Vietnamese. ... In protest of such regulations the Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the University of California at Berkeley, the first of the 1960s campus student movements to make headlines all over the world, was born. ...
