Photo of the Day
No. 542
unappealing presidential candidates
September 1968.
The nation was exhausted.
The events of the year had put people through an emotional wringer.
North Vietnamese troops had breached the walls of the US Embassy in Saigon, inflicting a stunning, if futile, blow in the opening salvo of January’s Tet Offensive against the major cities of the South.
The offensiv…