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Jackpine Radical

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3. And the magnitude of the antiwar protests

Reply to newfie11 (Reply #2)

Mon May 25, 2015, 01:15 PM

May 2015

was in no small measure due to the draft. Kids subject to the draft protested, and vets returning joined them.

Had it not been for Nixon's treason in dealing with the North to manipulate the US election, the war might have ended in 1968. Johnson had hoped to conclude the peace negotiations by then in order to take the issue off the table for Humphrey.

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And this is the strongest argument for the draft. Jackpine Radical May 2015 #1

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And the magnitude of the antiwar protests Jackpine Radical May 2015 #3