The Antiwar Movement started in 1960, there were 3 key people to this movement:
Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon and J. William Fulbright. In 1967 Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th president of the united states, he had the CIA investigate antiwar activist illegally. Richard M. Nixon was the 37th president of the united states, he claimed the existence of the “silent majority”, he wanted to end the war in a very peaceful way, one way was to not always publically speak. J. William Fulbright wrote a book against Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 called The Arrogance of power.
The first key person is Lyndon B. Johnson, he became the 37th president of the united states , he came up with the idea in 1967 to use the FBI to track antiwar activist and …show more content…
Nixon though everything peaceful. He assured the war was going to come to an end after Lyndon B. Johnson mess. When Richard M. Nixon became president students started to have peaceful strikes, 400 colleges and university participated. Richard M. Nixon promoted a peaceful coexistence policy with the communist, to end the war Richard M. Nixon came up with a peaceful approach. By having a peaceful approach he was able to defeat senator George McGovern an antiwar democratic challenger. People like Richard M. Nixon tactic …show more content…
Cointelpro is at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting and disrupting domestic political organizations. After he found out what the protesters were up to they arrested them without legal cause. After people found out thats the government use there security illegally that made the people mad, this cause for the people to turn away from the federal government. They no longer felt safe because of the power the government have, they no longer have the privacy they first thought they had. This made the public unsatisfied, the war got worse. This tactic helped no one, it made everyone aggravated, the more of a reason to not trust Lyndon B. Johnson to take
Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon and J. William Fulbright. In 1967 Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th president of the united states, he had the CIA investigate antiwar activist illegally. Richard M. Nixon was the 37th president of the united states, he claimed the existence of the “silent majority”, he wanted to end the war in a very peaceful way, one way was to not always publically speak. J. William Fulbright wrote a book against Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 called The Arrogance of power.
The first key person is Lyndon B. Johnson, he became the 37th president of the united states , he came up with the idea in 1967 to use the FBI to track antiwar activist and …show more content…
Nixon though everything peaceful. He assured the war was going to come to an end after Lyndon B. Johnson mess. When Richard M. Nixon became president students started to have peaceful strikes, 400 colleges and university participated. Richard M. Nixon promoted a peaceful coexistence policy with the communist, to end the war Richard M. Nixon came up with a peaceful approach. By having a peaceful approach he was able to defeat senator George McGovern an antiwar democratic challenger. People like Richard M. Nixon tactic …show more content…
Cointelpro is at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting and disrupting domestic political organizations. After he found out what the protesters were up to they arrested them without legal cause. After people found out thats the government use there security illegally that made the people mad, this cause for the people to turn away from the federal government. They no longer felt safe because of the power the government have, they no longer have the privacy they first thought they had. This made the public unsatisfied, the war got worse. This tactic helped no one, it made everyone aggravated, the more of a reason to not trust Lyndon B. Johnson to take