2024-10-28
1 小时 15 分钟"Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.” On the night of Sunday, 31st of March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson, after announcing an end to the bombing of North Vietnam, stunned the world by revealing he would not seek the democratic nomination for that year’s presidential election. The seemingly never-ending Vietnam War had already made LBJ hugely unpopular with his progressive base. But now, facing challenges from Eugene McCarthy, the ambiguously anti-war senator from Minnesota, and Robert “Bobby” Kennedy, heir to the Kennedy throne, Johnson had decided to bow out. And so, as the war slowed for a moment, the Democrats would have to decide on the best candidate to take on a certain Richard M. Nixon… Join Tom and Dominic in the first episode of our six part series on America in 1968, as they look at the stories of Lyndon B. Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, and how the Vietnam War would come to define them both. _______ LIVE SHOWS *The Rest Is History LIVE in the U.S.A.* If you live in the States, we've got some great news: Tom and Dominic will be performing throughout America in November, with shows in San Francisco, L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston and New York. Tickets on sale now at TheRestIsHistory.com _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Anouska Lewis Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Even those who have watched the water rising and guessed the force of the wind and the tides driving it are shocked by the vehemence of the impact.
But in that same moment, the destructive force of the wave is temporarily spent.
Whatever has been unable to withstand it is safe in the slack waters of the trough until the next wave breaks.
For nearly five years since the assassination of President Kennedy, two long waves of danger had been racing toward the safe and settled shore where most Americans live the danger of war from Southeast Asia and the danger of rebellion in the heart of American cities.
The first week of April 1968 was the week the waves broke.
So those were the opening lines of the suitably named An American Melodrama, a book about the presidential election of 1968 by three journalists working for the Sunday Times here in London.
Hence the very portentous British accent with which I did that reading.
Dominic yeah, you have put down in your notes 1968, the most tumultuous year in modern American history.
And you would know because this is absolutely your subject, isn't it?
This is the background to your doctorate.
You know everything about this.
And on that level it's very exciting.