notes+on+1968


 * no clear cut winner in the war
 * increase in american forces in SE asia
 * viet-cong proved to be the guiding force in south vietnam
 * US tries to pacify south vietnam
 * Johnson remained determined to optimistic reports are sent back from Vietnam, McNamara sees a light at the end of the tunnel, overall the public still supported US in Vietnam
 * in the Tet offensive, an attack on US strongholds throughout South Vietnam by the VC, after tet, more people opposed the war back in the US, the VC lost in the fight but they won the political victory
 * LBJ struggles and congress cuts his Great Society budget
 * LBJ is critized in public and the defense secretary says the war is unwinnable
 * nation turns on Johnson
 * Johnson talks about halting bombs in vietnam...
 * Johnson says he won't run for president again and democrats are furious
 * a few days after that, MLK is killed
 * race riots are now happening all across the country
 * Robert Kennedy will run for pres. for the democrats
 * Kennedy was shot dead right before the Democratic convention by Sirhan Sirhan
 * the candidates for the democrats were Eugene McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey
 * there were riots outside the convention
 * Hubert Humphry was nominated against Nixon
 * george wallace, the racist senator from alabama, won 5 states
 * nixon won but his presidency was full of scandal