(05-12-2023, 11:36 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: I think the public at large was more divided in the late 60s and early 70s than they are now. That time marked a huge cultural clash between the regimented WWII generation and their free-thinking children. It was a culturally and socially tumultuous time when you think about how much this country changed between 1960 and 1970. It was a cataclysmic shift In almost every aspect of American life.

The public may have been more divided, but, there was no megaphone for the folks on the fringes.  There were few members of Congress for instance really representing those fringes.  Most votes in Congress were still bipartisan in those days.  All of the loudest voices were for trying to meet in the middle on those differences.

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