“Pigasus” for President: Chicago 1968 Speaks to 2016

By Justin Stakes

“The mob is the mother of tyrants.” –Diogenes of Sinope

by Dr. Earl Tilford

Grove City, PA -(AmmoLand.com)- In late August 1968, two months after an assassin killed presidential candidate Senator Robert Kennedy and shortly after Republicans nominated Richard Nixon for president, the Democrats gathered in Chicago to pick their candidate.

The Democratic Party “establishment” supported Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who was opposed by antiwar contenders Senator Eugene McCarthy and Senator George McGovern. The culminating point occurred on August 28 when delegates debated two rival Vietnam policy planks.

The Johnson administration supported the continued, if also limited, bombing of North Vietnam. The opposing “dove plank” called for suspending the bombing of North Vietnam and vigorous negotiations. A raucous three-hour debate, punctuated with shouts of “stop the war” and the New York delegation singing “We Shall Overcome,” ended when the convention voted 1,567 to 1,041 to support the Johnson administration’s plank.

Several months earlier, leaders of Students for a Democratic Society, the anarchic Yippies, Black Panthers, and the “Old Left’” War Resisters League met to organize massive antiwar protests during the Chicago …Read the Rest

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