 of 1968 the country was very divided 1968 the Democratic Convention was gonna be in Chicago Walter Cronkite came back from Vietnam asked you know what the hell was going on and you know was very critical the war and Lyndon Johnson famously told his aides you know if I lost Walter Cronkite then I've lost middle America and shortly thereafter it took a couple weeks but he did a famous I will not seek nor like except my party's nomination