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of 1964, 1965, and 1968 were passed because the American people demanded them. And their demands arose, not out of self interest, but from moral outrage.

This Second Reconstruction also paved the way for other social protest. The anti-war movement drew its earliest soldiers from the Souther Freedom army. Like the southern movement, the movement against the Vietnam war arose as a reaction of ordinary Americans, beginning with American youth, against the lies and deceptions of Presidents and the powerful. The re-born movement for women's rights took many of its cues, and its momentum, from the movement for civil rights.

These three impediments to democracy's success - race, sex and abusive power - were all weakened in the years between 1960 and 1969, and we are better for it today.

Whatever else the 1960s were, today they have become an industry, a vast machinery of recollection and reminiscence - and for some, regret.

For the latter, the lesson of the 1960s is a lesson of