Well, it's another presidential election year, and the stakes are sky high in a nation

rivet by deeply polarized division.

Rioting in the streets has sparked outcries for law and order.

A former Vice President claims it's his time to clean house and refurnish the future.

Culture issues are on the table, amidst a geopolitical geometry of wartime struggle.

The whole campaign has become a referendum on national identity,

a pivot point on what sort of country the United States is and will become.

But I'm not talking about 2016 or 2020 or even our present presidential contest.

Hey Jude's playing on the radio.

Otis Redding sits on the dock of the bay.

In 2001, a space odyssey carries us to the frontiers of our galaxy

as Richard Milhouse Nixon launches his second campaign for the highest office in the land against an unexpectedly chaotic democratic opposition.

The year is 1968 and this is an election that will change everything. Hello,

this is.

I'm Don Wildman. Hello, I'm Don Wildman, and welcome to another episode of American history hit.

Thanks for joining us.

1968 is a year frequently spoken of in modern American history.

An unpopular war was being fought overseas in Vietnam.

Life on the domestic front was undergoing a cultural upheaval.

There were tragic assassinations of major figures

and resulting riots that lit America's cities ablaze.

It is a time, an era still vividly recalled by so many Americans alive today, and thus its consequences

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