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Transcript: Tom Hayden and Eugene McCarthy Remember '68 Convention
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
- Article date:
- August 25, 1996
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Liane Hansen revisits with Tom Hayden and Eugene McCarthy via an NPR
program that aired in 1993, during which they discussed their participation
in the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
LIANE HANSEN, Host: Taxes, the economy, education and welfare were
all issues at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, but you didn'
t hear much about them because one issue dominated that gathering
- the Vietnam War. It was the war that forced Lyndon Johnson to abandon
his plans to run for a second term, it was the war that prompted the
presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy, and it was the war that
brought thousands and thousands of protesters to ...