Side Story: What exactly came of those 1960s protests?

With apologies to the 1961 American
musical romantic drama directed by
Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins

Ed, your “Hippy vs Protester” was great, as always. Have you ever pondered why Richard Nixon might today be considered too liberal to be the Democratic nominee for president, much less be nominated as a Republican? What exactly happened to all that positive liberal change the 1960s protests were supposed to bring to this country? —Paul Clark

Reply by Ed Rogers

Hippy vs Protester

Let’s get something straight

By Ed Rogers

Reading Chuck Smythe’s story “A Creek Runs through It” the other day brought back to mind the misconception that we were all hippies back in the sixties. We had long hair and dressed the same as the hippies, and smoked the same weed and listened to the same music as the hippies. However, we were as different as night and day.