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It Transmitted Because On The Campuses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Was Recruiting, Was Organizing. Students For A Democratic Society Was Founded At Michigan Just A Couple Years Before I Got There. So, There Was A Kind Of A Churning Of Political Awareness. It Was Just Beginning.

I Thought In 1965 That My Job Was To Convince Most Americans To Be Against The War. So I Spent Summers Knocking On Doors, Handing Out Literature, Trying To Talk To People Who Didn't Agree With Me, Trying To Get Them To See The War Was Wrong. And By 1968 A Majority Of Americans Did Oppose The War.

I Don't Know That I Ever Bought Into The "american Dream." I Was A Child Of Privilege. I Grew Up In The '50s And It Was A Quiet Time In America, At Least On The Surface And I Grew Up In A Kind Of Feathery Bed Of Privilege.

It's Not Lyndon Johnson Who Makes The Black Freedom Movement; It's The Black Freedom Movement Who Makes Lyndon Johnson.

Politicians Are Conservative By Nature.