The deadly bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 election

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.