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11. there were the protests which took off in '67

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #7)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 03:15 PM

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...and the public reactions to the government's brutal response to those which brought more attention.

Support kind of ebbed and flowed under Johnson, and right after he withdrew, until it nosedived with Nixon deepening it after saying he was ending it, with resulting public pessimism that it wouldn't end soon.

That's where I came of age and was aware, '70 up to Nixon's resignation.

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