Some Final Thoughts About Leadership, Democracy and the League

摘要

My political awakening began in 1968, when I was 17 years old. The Vietnam War was in high gear, sacrificing young Americans' lives; a gunman assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in April; and just two short months later, after winning the California primary, Robert Kennedy also was assassinated. In August riots broke out at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago outside the convention hall where police clashed with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War and the choice of Vice President Hubert Humphrey as the party's presidential nominee, and fights even erupted on the convention floor.