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Photo of the Day

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Brenda Elthon
Feb 16, 2024
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unappealing presidential candidates

Hubert Humphrey campaigns for president, 1968.

September 1968.

The nation was exhausted.

The events of the year had put people through an emotional wringer.

US soldiers fire against a group of Vietcong, Spring 1968.

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…

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