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Maybe the biggest thing is the Democrats in 1968 were totally torn apart over the Vietnam War
也許1968年民主黨內發生的最嚴重的問題就是他們在越戰上產生的分歧
It was a war zone in Chicago and their convention with anti-war protesters against the police force
爭執的戰火蔓延到了在芝加哥召開的黨代會,反戰的抗議者與警察發生了沖突
Being basically pushed forward by mayor Richard Daley who was the Democratic old time political boss of Chicago
而這場沖突的幕后推手正是芝加哥市長戴利，他曾經是民主黨在芝加哥的政治首腦
and it led to a pretty ugly campaign
這一系列騷動為人詬病
I hear Humphrey who had been the great civil right champion
漢弗萊曾經是公民權的熱烈捍衛者
Being followed by young hecklers, calling him a fascist because of the Vietnam War, just imagine what that did to him
這時候卻被年輕人不停質疑，甚至因他支持越戰，而稱他為法西斯主義者，想象一下這對他有多殘忍
At the very end he took an anti-Vietnam stance and Johnson cut off the aerial bombing and Humphrey did pick up votes at the time
在最后，他終于明確了反對越戰的立場，約翰遜中止了空襲，漢弗萊得以在當時重拾一些選票
but not enough to lead to that pretty resounding victory by Richard Nixon
但那不足以撼動尼克松那場令人矚目的勝利
And I'm sure a lot of you remember this a lot better than I do, I was a little kid at the time
我敢肯定，在座的許多人對這段歷史比我熟悉得多，我當時還是個小孩兒
So, but I'm sure I could say a lot of you know this much more directly, so...
所以我敢肯定地說你們當中的很多人比我的了解更直接
Yeah the question is the decline of northern cities
他的問題是北方城市的衰退
The most of the big north-eastern cities reached their demographic peak in the 1950s early 1960s
大部分的東北部大城市是在1950年代到1960年代早期達到它們的人口最高峰的
So it's really not happening in much a big way
因此當時還沒有出現明顯的衰退
