60’s Anti-Johnson Pinback Button
February 7, 2011
Photo by ENIGMATIC TRAVELER
This 1960’s protest button refers to President Lyndon B. Johnson and his policies surrounding the Vietnam War. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about the issue:
As casualties mounted and success seemed further away than ever, Johnson’s popularity plummeted. College students and others protested, burned draft cards, and chanted, “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?”[68] Johnson could scarcely travel anywhere without facing protests, and was not allowed by the Secret Service to attend the 1968 Democratic National Convention, where hundreds of thousands of hippies, yippies, Black Panthers and other opponents of Johnson’s policies both in Vietnam and in the ghettoes converged to protest.