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This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. But there was a sub-text: these changes seemed to wish to reinforce themselves by including a cynical dismissal of all the thing the Sixties had purportedly stood for, as if not satisfied simply to exist on their own. And […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. “In a huge valley in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, the changing leaves crept over one ridge line to slowly transform the entire valley. On television, Richard Nixon continually affirmed his innocence while we sat around and […]

In 2001 and 2002, as America readied its military to invade Iraq, I protested the invasion, along with literally millions of others worldwide. I was particularly struck at the time by the ineffectual nature of our protests. They did not draw the kind of violent police response as the protests of the Sixties had, and […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. Cheney, in turn, seemed to have insulated himself from his own acts by defining himself as a selfless supporter of Bush’s presidential prerogatives, which Cheney defined in large measure as synonymous with his own priorities — among which was […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. Of course by the time of the younger George Bush-Al Gore debates both the candidates and their campaigns were acutely aware of the power of television, and they approached the debates defensively. Gore rated himself: “In the the first […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. Despite a spotty track record of success at his early endeavors, Bush had the makings of a Presidential candidate, at least as far as Karl Rove was concerned. When the two first met, Rove described Bush as having “huge […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. Bush’s opponent in the general election was Vice President Al Gore. Their debates were interestingly reminiscent of the Kennedy-Nixon debates wherein, famously, the people who listened on radio thought that Nixon had won, while those who watched on TV […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. We are all, by now, familiar with the images that would accrue during the Sixties: tear gas, dogs and beatings in the American South, King’s March on Montgomery, angry whites cursing blacks in Chicago, Watts burning, students protestors incinerating […]

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