Posted on 01/08/2008 3:55:36 AM PST by Kaslin
The 1968 presidential contest was unbelievably tumultuous and chaotic. RFK and MLK assassinated, race riots and anti-war riots. College campi turned upside down, black students at Cornell wearing bandoliers and carrying shotguns, professors turned out of their offices.
When Nixon won, there was a famous picture of him addressing a crowd (it may have been at his first speech after the election results were in) at which a young girl, maybe 19 or 20, was holding up a sign that said simply “BRING US TOGETHER.” The picture was widely reproduced; it was shown on one of the nightly news shows, and my eighth-grade social studies teacher commented on it to the class the next day.
The young lady who held the sign up was, as I recall, invited to the Nixon inaugural, and she appeared with the new President in photographs.
That’s my recollection of the first time the “call for unity” was a memorable feature of a presidential race.
How would it go over if/when this guy takes the oath of office on the Koran?
Sometimes a writer hits the nail so squarely on the head that you gasp, he did it. Excellent post.
exactly......
Obambi: Unite with me or else you’re a racist.
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