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>> michael dover new york. >> joel hutchens new york. >> so far since the draft resistance movement began last year between two and three thousand young men burned draft cards or return them to the federal government. another four to 6,000 fled to canada to avoid the draft. >> it's another example of american youth saying to adults your values are not mine. >> the mantra is that you don't have to believe anything your parents told you because look what this they get us into in vietnam. you had a generation willing to question authority. >> we ha feeling of us against them, you know, us against...

Mobilized young people. how many different ways can you say hell, no, we won't go. ♪ >> my name is chris grounds from jersey. >> michael dover, new york. >> gerald hutchens, new york city. >> so far since the draft resistance movement began last year, between 2,000 and 3,000 young men have burned their draft cards or returned them to the federal government. another 4,000 to 6,000 have fled to canada to avoid the draft. >> it's another example of american youth saying to adults your values are not my values. >> the mantra of that generation is that you don't have to believe anything that your...

Going. especially coming in the midst of all the turmoil that was playing out in the streets around the country. >> president nixon's first term in office had been marred by loud, frequent, and sometimes violent protests. largely against the vietnam war. >> it really did seem like the world was unraveling, growing up in a suburban existence with parents who saw chicago in 1968 erupt into flames, saw people burning their draft cards, saw a sexual revolution, saw a drug revolution, saw woodstock come into their homes. >> when i joined the nixon white house, there were a lot of demonstrations aga...

Loud, frequent, and sometimes violent protests. largely against the vietnam war. >> it really did seem like the world was unraveling, growing up in a suburban existence with parents who saw chicago in 1968 erupt into flames, saw people burning their draft cards, saw a sexual revolution, saw a drug revolution, saw woodstock come into their homes. >> when i joined the nixon white house, there were a lot of demonstrations against the war. it probably was some of the most intense times i think our country had ever faced. i mean, often we were feeling like we were in a state of siege. you felt it p...

Nixon presence. what was at stake is 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 be without it. a federal crime to not have it on your person. kids started burning these things publicly. in 1964, they had to pass a federal law to make destroying it a crime, because they haven't made it a crime yet. people were getting sentenced to 2 years, 6 years for burning their draft cards. nadia from pussy riot was on my show friday night. she told us 1968 in america, was one of her great inspirations, and she didn't even know...