[drcoastline]

People were far more trusting of our Government at that time and wanted to believe, the war was over and life in the USA was optimistic, we did not have a 24 hour MSM news cycle spreading knowingly false information. We had three stations reporting the news twice a day and the public loved and trusted Water Concrite (or at least the public didn't think the media was corrupt). Information took much longer to spread then it does today. Remember a news story in those days often happened days even weeks before it was made public just because of the amount of time it took to get the information from one place to another. Today information moves instantaneously often watching it live. The political environment was far less polarized and partisan then it is today. No doubt the Government and politicians were just as corrupt as today but the public didn't know it. Look at the Shenanigan's JFK and his brothers pulled that we know today that wasn't reported then. Yes, Teddy and Chapaquidick but all the affairs, corruption and vote rigging wasn't reported.

A very different environment then we live in today.