General William Westmoreland : the Tet offensive
Senator Eugene McCarthy : the college student crusade
Lyndon Johnson : "people grow tired of confusion"
Martin Luther King : the dream
Robert Kennedy : the "national soul"
Richard Nixon : the candidate from Squaresville?
Hubert Horatio Humphrey : the isolation of the politics of joy
George Wallace : the populism of the Vietnam war era
Nguyen Van Thieu : a merry-go-round in a chamber of horrors.