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It was an anti-war resistance. what was at stake was nothing other than life and death. everyone over 18, every male had to have his draft card in his pocket. >> you can learn about watergate by learning about what richard nixon did, but if you really want to learn about watergate, learn what the country was like and what was going on in the country at the time watergate happened which allowed watergate to end the way it did. >> and there is a little bit of collusion in the victory at the end, richard nixon used collusion with a foreign government, the south vietnamese, in order to win in the ...

What was at stake was nothing other than life and death. everyone over 18, every male had to have his draft card in his pocket. >> you can learn about watergate by learning about what richard nixon did, but if you really want to learn about watergate, learn what the country was like and what was going on in the country at the time watergate happened which allowed watergate to end the way it did. >> and there is a little bit of collusion in the victory at the end, richard nixon used collusion with a foreign government, the south vietnamese, in order to win in the end. >> when you look back at t...

The same kind of voter. and so much of what we saw last year in that campaign was born in 1968. >> yeah. i want to read a short passage from your book if i may speaking about the '68 election. you write that it was a matter of life and death for real people we all knew. this meant this time running for president didn't have to be about ego, it meant running for president couldn't simply be a matter of political calculation. it meant that it wasn't just about what was best for bobby kennedy's future in politics, it was about life and death. do you have an equal sense of gravity about what's hap...

Resistance. and what was at stake was nothing other than life and death. everyone over 18, every male had to have his draft card in his pocket. it was a crime to even be without it and it. and a drfederal crime. kids suddenly started burning these things publicly. in 1964. they had to pass a federal law to make destroying it a crime because they hadn't made it a crime yet. people sentenced two years, six years for burning draft cards. nadia of pussy riot on the show friday night and told us 1968 in america was one of her great inspirations. she -- she didn't know i had written a book about it....

Out. he was completely lost. >> the country today is obviously divided culturally and politically. there have been comparisons to 2016, 2017 and 1968. do you see parallels not in the way the race was run. in the way our culture sits right now? >> the biggest difference between now and 1968 is when david at 18 years old had something in his pocket that could get him killed at any moment. and he had to have it in his pocket by the law, his draft card. so the entire male population of the country, 18 and older was threatened by this. that meant your boyfriend was threatened. your brother was thre...