I watched it amazed. I no doubt watched a bit of the 64 campaign, but I was still in elementary school then, 4th grade, so it didn't mean as much. But by 68, my budding political fixation was in bloom, and I watched the scene in the street with amazement.
Since the war is sort of quiet. Do you remember Nixon calling students a bunch of bums? Do you know the story behind that?
I watched Kennedy get the Democrat nomination in '60. In the basement on a tiny tv, with Daddy. I was clueless, but I think I got bit that night. :-)
He died in '61, but not until after he read Advise and Consent and praised Alan Drury to the hilt. (I wonder if we would agree or argue about politics if he were still around.) My mother thinks Ted Kennedy walks on water. Since she's old, I don't mention Mary Jo....
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