I More Or Less Shared The View

In Cairo, These Young Men Hanging Around In The Street, We're Told These Guys Are Lazy, They're Uneducated, They Don't Care, They Don't Have Any Political Instincts - Just Like The Working Class In America, Apparently - And Then Suddenly What The Hell Happened? What Was That? They Changed The World By Changing Themselves. Now Is That Over? No. Is The Civil Rights Movement Over? No. These Movements Have Not Accomplished What They Set Out To Accomplish.

That's Where We All Kind Of Were In The Mid-1960s. Students For A Democratic Society Grew From A Small Group Of Socialists At The University Of Michigan Into A National Organization, And In Many Ways, Its Growth Was Driven By The Vietnam War.

The Only People Who Have Never Had A Problem With Me Speaking In Their Venues Are Independent Bookstores And Libraries. Universities And Humanities Councils Have Canceled Me, But Never An Independent Bookstore.

Lyndon Johnson Who Was The President Who Was Executing That War, Announced In The Spring Of 1968 That He Would Not Seek The Presidency Again. He Would Go To Paris And End The War In Vietnam. Well We Were Ecstatic.

I Came Back To Ann Harbor, Got Caught Up With People Who Were Much More Sophisticated Than I, And It Was An Exciting Time Because My Eyes Were Opening And That's Always Exciting And Michigan Is The Place Where We Had The First Teach-in Against The War.