On The Campaign Trail '72
Thought you might enjoy this small selection from a book I'm reading for my American-history-since-1968 class: it's called Fear And Loathing: On The Campaign Trail '72, and it's by Hunter S. Thompson. He was covering the election for Rolling Stone.
"It sure as hell wasn't the AFL/CIO that ran LBJ out of the White House in 1968; and it wasn't Gene McCarthy either. It was the people who voted for McCarthy in New Hampshire that beat Johnson...and it wasn't George Meany who got shot with Bobby Kennedy in Los Angeles; it was a renegade 'radical' organizer from the UAW.
It wasn't the big-time 'Democratic bosses' who won the California primary for Bobby-but thousands of Niggers and Spics and white Peace Freaks who were tired of being gassed for not agreeing with The Man in the White House. Nobody had to drag them to the polls in November to beat Nixon."
-Earl Nigell Zemin, D.D.S.
"It sure as hell wasn't the AFL/CIO that ran LBJ out of the White House in 1968; and it wasn't Gene McCarthy either. It was the people who voted for McCarthy in New Hampshire that beat Johnson...and it wasn't George Meany who got shot with Bobby Kennedy in Los Angeles; it was a renegade 'radical' organizer from the UAW.
It wasn't the big-time 'Democratic bosses' who won the California primary for Bobby-but thousands of Niggers and Spics and white Peace Freaks who were tired of being gassed for not agreeing with The Man in the White House. Nobody had to drag them to the polls in November to beat Nixon."
-Earl Nigell Zemin, D.D.S.