The awful, horrible, detestable year of 1968

Idealism and failure

Friends,

The uncertainty about what younger voters are likely to do next fall brings me back to 1968 — the first modern presidential election in which young activists played a prominent role.

I was one of them.

It was an awful year. Those of you who were alive then surely remember.

Lyndon Johnson was escalating the Vietnam War. Nearly half a million Ameri…