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300 “Ah, Mr. President, but how beautiful it would be,” Ibid., 197.
300 slipping in a bathroom. Ibid., 277.
301 Miroslav Beránek was shot, Williams, The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath, 158.
301 “with whom you are dealing?” Mlynár, Nightfrost in Prague, 232.
302 refusing to negotiate without him. Schwartz, Prague’s 200 Days, 231.
303 “sacrifices of World War II.” Mlynár, Nightfrost in Prague, 237–41.
305 refugee status in other countries. Time, October 4, 1968.
CHAPTER 18: The Ghastly Strain of a Smile
307 “We also all felt, well, grown up;” Robin Morgan, Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist (New York: Random House, 1977), 62–63.
308 because violence seemed unlikely. Todd Gitlin, The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), 182.
308 Morgan had her regrets. Morgan, Going Too Far, 63.
308 Shana Alexander wrote in Life: Life, September 20, 1968.
309 “from Mayor Daley’s kiss.” Morgan, Going Too Far, 64–65.
309 a “Nixon for President” button. The New York Times, September 8, 1968.
309 “let’s stop trying to prove it over and over again.” Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left (New York: Vintage Books, 1980), 4.
310 asked Friedan to come speak. Davis, Moving the Mountain, 50, 52.
310 The average age of matrimony was twenty. Ibid., 17.
311 to make sure they were complying. Ibid., 18.
311 United States had more female stockholders than male. The New York Times, March 10, 1968.
311 to win a combat decoration. Ibid., January 1, 1969.
311 over the age of sixteen were working. Davis, Moving the Mountain, 59.
312 “A chicken in every pot, a whore in every home.” The New York Times Magazine, March 10, 1968.
312 rejected by every Congress since 1923. Ibid.
313 “That’s too manly, too . . . white.” Ibid.
313 I was difficult . . . if necessary. King, Freedom Song, 43.
314 “that streak was in him also.” Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 374–76, 617.
314 “You’ve got to fuck it to make it change.” Allyn, Make Love, Not War, 102.
314 attributed the problem largely to his own “ignorance” Correspondence with author, July 2003.
314 “as an issue!” Chen and Zelnik, The Free Speech Movement, 130.
315 more than one thousand arrests. Evans, Personal Politics, 73.
315 David Dellinger was shocked, Dellinger, From Yale to Jail, 299.
315 “non committal with his sidelong glance.” King, Freedom Song, 450.
315 was received as a joke. Ibid., 451–52.
316 not one responded. Ibid., 448–74.
316 almost all of them lawyers. The New York Times Magazine, March 10, 1968.
317 the first one in Berlin in January 1968. Demetz, After the Fires, 73.
318 “a bunch of cool cookies,” The New York Times Magazine, March 10, 1968.
318 would do the cleaning while the men meditated. Allyn, Make Love, Not War, 103.
319 “Maxis Are Monstrous” The New York Times, March 14, 1968.
319 would gain complete acceptance in the next five years. Time, April 19, 1968.
320 “now or never, and I’m very much afraid it’s now.” Life, October 18, 1968.
CHAPTER 19: In an Aztec Place
321 Octavio Paz, Posdata. All Spanish translations, unless otherwise indicated, are by the author.
321 “than their own even exist.” Elena Poniatowska, Massacre in Mexico (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1975), introduction, x.
325 declined by several hundred thousand. T. R. Fehrenbach, Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 524.
326 “Steady economic growth within” The New York Times, January 22, 1968.
326 “The economy of the country had made such progress” Octavio Paz, Posdata (Mexico City: Siglo XXI, 2002; original ed., 1970), 32.
328 anything other than sports. Life, March 15, 1968.
328 78 percent of disposable income in Mexico went to only the upper 10 percent. Ifigenia Martinez, interviewed October 2002.
329 “they saw it as revolutionary liberators.” Roberto Escudero, interviewed October 2002.
330 “We wore jeans and indigenous-style shirts.” Salvador Martínez de la Roca,