Yup! The Vietnam war. No it wasn't some snappy gun handling by a few security guards it's was the protests at home, which were fueled by the Hippies and youth of the day. Deal with it. While there was excursions into Cambodia it was denied by Nixon regardless of the evidence showing what was going on.
The establishment was doing nothing to change the plight of non-white Americans right up until the late 50s when MLK
led the charge to bring them about. Johnson did little more than lie and bow to public pressure to enact the legislation. Hippies is used as a generic term for youth much like Hipster is today. That it doesn't take into account all the other self divided groups people segregate themselves into to show their desired individuality and uniqueness.
Sometimes reading something in a book just doesn't convey the truth in history. Sorry for you.
As usual, you have NO idea what you are talking about.
The Vietnam War did not end with American withdrawal....,,,and that withdrawal was not forced by "Hippies". Nixon was elected in 1968 on a promise of "peace with honour"....by the majority of the American people. The invasion of Cambodia was announced by the Nixon gov't, that was what set off the famous Kent State riots and shootings.
And even AFTER the war "ended" in Vietnam, the political games between the rival Russian and Chinese backed factions in the area led to millions upon millions more deaths....
NONE of this (thankfully) attributable to drug addled youth of the time....of which I most happily was one.
The idea that "Hippies" even existed in any real numbers in 1965 (outside of the Merry Pranksters and some others) is ludicrous. The idea that that tiny group had some effect on the political moves of a man (LBJ) that worked and fought for civil rights and was essential to the passing of the first Civil Rights bill in
1957 is worse than ludicrous......
How does it feel to have your arse handed to you over and over and over by a lowly security guard????
Go learn something, little boy, then come back and try again.
