1968 ANTI WAR PIN BACK REMEMBER OCTOBER 9 NIXON LBJ VIETNAM PEACE HIPPIES S96 For Sale

1968 ANTI WAR PIN BACK REMEMBER OCTOBER 9 NIXON LBJ VIETNAM PEACE HIPPIES S96

THIS BUTTON REFERS TO A SPEECH GIVEN BY RICHARD NIXON ON OCTOBER 9, 1968 WHILE HE WAS CAMPAIGNING FOR THE 1968 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. IN THIS SPEECH, HE FAMOUSLY STATED, “ANY MAN WHO HAS HAD A CHANCE FOR FOUR YEARS AND COULD NOT PRODUCE PEACE, SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE.” AS NIXON DID NOT END THE WAR IN HIS FIRST TERM, THE PHRASE “REMEMBER OCTOBER 9TH” BECAME A MAJOR RALLYING SLOGAN FOR VIETNAM WAR PROTESTERS IN THE LATE 1960S AND EARLY 1970S

IN A SPEECH GIVEN ON OCT. 9, 1968, NIXON CRITICIZED THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION FOR NOT RESOLVING THE WAR IN VIETNAM PEACEFULLY, IMPLYING THAT HIS ADMINISTRATION WOULD. HAVING WON ELECTION, NIXON SCALED BACK U.S. GROUND FORCES, BUT STEPPED UP THE BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM AND CARRIED THE WAR INTO NEIGHBORING CAMBODIA AND LAOS. BY 1972 MANY FELT HE HAD BETRAYED THE PUBLIC, AND A GROUP KNOWN AS CLERGY AND LAITY CONCERNED BEGAN ISSUING \"REMEMBER OCT. 9\" BUTTONS. RARE

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