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Why didn't the '68 Democratic National Convention in Chicago hasten the end of the Vietnam War?

The convention took place 50 years ago.

The Vietnam War ended 5 years later for the US in 1973.

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  • Anonymous
    3 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    It was Johnson's war and Johnson's DEMONcrat party, even though he was not seeking Re-Erection,

  • kswck2
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Because it took a Republican to end it.

  • 3 years ago

    Dims lost the Presidential election of 1968.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Nixon and his secret plan to end the war kept the war going for 5 more years. All the while committing war crimes.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    It takes a Republican to end wars that Democrats and their brother Neoconservatives start.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    I have no idea why you would think that the party that lied us into that war (Tonkin Gulf Incident) would 'hasten' to end it.

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