USA - The Conservative Revolution

Senator Barry Goldwater was the surprise presidential nomination for the Republican party in 1964.

The 1968 Democratic National Convention descended into a brawl between those for and against the Vietnam War. Following Lyndon Johnson’s unpopular presidency, the party’s bitter divisions were laid bare for all to see.

After Watergate and Nixon’s resignation, the pardon granted to him by his successor, Gerald Ford, infuriates a public grappling with an unprecedented economic crisis.