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362 “veto powers over what is happening.” Ibid., August 12, 1968.
362 more information on this later. Ibid., September 9, 1968.
362 “most of the time it does.” Ibid.
362 “losing their sense of humor.” The New York Times, September 25, 1968.
363 our tanks and our children. Life, September 27, 1968.
363 “has had it militarily” Ibid.
363 “There is none.” The New York Times, October 13, 1968.
364 “peapickers and peckerwoods.” Ibid., October 29, 1968.
364 “who will take care of things.” The New York Times Magazine, October 27, 1968.
365 Nixon and Humphrey were equally friendly to Israel. The New York Times, November 7, 1968.
365 three additional seats in Georgia. Ibid., November 6, 1968.
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366 “almost unnoticed” Life, December 13, 1968.
368 “law enforcement’s most effective tool against crime.” The New York Times, November 24, 1968.
368 a Westchester volunteer said. Ibid., December 7, 1968.
368 but the establishment press, Time, December 6, 1968.
368 “bad cops” who did not take orders. Ibid.
369 “contempt” for the flag. The New York Times, October 4, 1968.
369 “as night follows day” Ibid., December 7, 1968.
369 But the mayor had no comment. Ibid., December 2, 1968.
372 forty-eight years in prison, one was sentenced to twelve years, and one was acquitted. Ibid., December 13, 1968.
372 “send its troops to occupy American campuses.” Ramparts, June 15, 1968.
372 “There are no innocent bystanders anymore.” The New York Times, December 6, 1968.
374 rumors of a Powell run for president. Newsweek, September 11, 1995.
374 “oversold” the prospects for peace as the election approached. The New York Times, December 14, 1968.
374 eleven different configurations, Langguth, Our Vietnam, 530.
375 14,589 American servicemen . . . the highest casualties of the entire war. Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 726.
376 “the ideology of reform Communism.” Mlynár, Nightfrost in Prague, 232.
377 “The system inhibited change.” Dubcek, Hope Dies Last, 165.
377 The suppression . . . profound stagnation. Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynár, Conversations with Gorbachev (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), 65.
378 I wanted to create a democracy . . . the other half feels successful. Jacek Kuro´n, interviewed June 2001.
378 “We have passed . . . relationships among our people.” The New York Times, December 16, 1968.
379 “more powerful than he could ever be.” Marchand, Marshall McLuhan, 219.
380 “I can recognize . . . I could see he was one.” Adam Michnik, interviewed June 2001.
381 $44 billion on space missions. The New York Times, October 1, 1968.
381 blast out of the earth’s orbit and go to the moon. Time, October 11, 1968.
382 I really believe . . . not envious or envied. Michael Collins, Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journey (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001), 470.
383 To get back up to the shining world from there, Closing stanzas of Dante’s Inferno, translated by Robert Pinsky.
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