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Living standards issues

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Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) failed to deliver his aims to improve living standards due to the cost of US involvement in Vietnam.

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Civil rights campaigners

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  • 30% of African-Americans were drafted as opposed to 20% of whites drafted.
  • They were fighting for a country that discriminated against them.
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Students

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  • Students didn’t want to be drafted into a war they didn’t believe in. .
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Number of demonstrations

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There were over 100 demonstrations in 1968, the largest in US history occurring in Washington DC in 1969 which was attended by 700,000 protestors