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John. F. Kennedy
Charismatic president whose brief administration experienced domestic stalemate and foreign confrontations with communism
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Robert S. McNamara
Cabinet officer who promoted "flexible response" but came to doubt the wisdom of the Vietnam War he had presided over
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Nikita Khrushchev
Aggressive Soviet leader whose failed gamble of putting missiles in Cuba cost him his job
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Non-violent black leader whose advocacy of peaceful change came under attack from militants after 1965
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Brilliant legislative operator whose domestic achievements in social welfare and civil rights fell under the shadow of his Vietnam disaster
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Barry M. Goldwater
Conservative Republican whose crushing defeat opened the way for the liberal Great Society programs
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James Meredith
First black student admitted to the University of Mississippi, shot during a civil rights march in 1966
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Malcolm X
Charismatic Black Muslim leader who promoted separatism in the early 1960s
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Mario Savio
Early student activist and leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California (at Berkeley)
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Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota senator whose anti-war "Children's Crusade" helped force Johnson to alter his Vietnam policies
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Robert F. Kennedy
New York senator whose anti-war campaign for the presidency was ended by an assassin's bullet in June 1968
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Richard M. Nixon
Former vice president who staged a remarkable political comeback to win presidential election in 1968
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George C. Wallace
Third party candidate whose conservative, hawkish 1968 campaign won 9 million votes and carried 5 states
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Hubert Humphrey
Vice president whose loyalty to LBJ's Vietnam policies sent him down to defeat in the 1968 presidential election
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Alfred Kinsey
Controversial Indiana University "sexologist" who documented Americans' changing sexual behavior
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