Abstract

Editorials

Campaign 1968 may not have yielded a single noble speech, but it did produce a hero. The U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy's decision to offer a challenge to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson within the Democratic Party changed the landscape of the campaign. Once he had provided a point of resistance, voters in the key primary elections proceeded to demonstrate that, as everyone but the old pros of both parties had known for some time-there was a large and growing opposition to the war and a sharp rejection of U.S. President's leadership. In the 1964 election, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson received the overwhelming support of intellectuals. While he was hardly their beau ideal, he was running against politician Barry Goldwater. When the Vietnamese War took a course that showed they could hardly have done worse with Goldwater, the intellectuals defected, at first in a stream and then in a flood.