Status Updates From Nixonland: America's Second...

Flipping through these pages can be so fun sometimes. One page you be reading about what kind of impact The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper had on young people and the whole idea of freedom through LSD, then you be reading about the Black Panthers and their armed patrols in Oakland, which lead to the Mulford Act; and then you get to hear about the Nework riots of 1967 and the state sanctioned killings of black civilians

“The youth’s new slogan [RFK] wrote… was ‘escalation without participation’—or at any rate without *me*. This was something Richard Nixon, with his gift for looking below social surfaces to see and exploit subterranean truths that broiled underneath, understood. The future belonged to the politician who could tap the ambivalence, the nameless dread, the urge to make it all go away…”