The Movement and the 'Madman'

During the 1968 election, Richard Nixon talked as if he wanted to end the Vietnam war and said he planned on bringing troops home gradually. When he took office, the truth came out...Nixon planned on radically INCREASING the troops in Vietnam and only wanted peace on his terms. As a result, this galvanized the anti-war movement and energized them. This episode of "American Experience" is about this time period and centered mostly on the actions of various anti-war groups...such as huge marches on Washington.

This is an excellent installment of the show for anyone who wasn't alive or were too young to remember this time period. Well made and never dull.