In this same time frame Lyndon B

In this same time frame Lyndon B. Johnson, the President, was continually escalating the war and sending more and more soldiers into that hell hole.

I loathed Lyndon and his minions (note: I had particular venom for Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense, who tried to run the war like a business). On the evening of March 31, 1968, I was driving home from studying or from work and listened to Johnson on the radio. He made his famous announcement that he would not seek reelection. I was ecstatic.

So I finished my senior year at Rice without getting a BA and that summer I left my part time job at the Houston Speech and Hearing Center and started working for Technology Incorporated under contract to NASA in Clear Lake. This turned out to be a cool job and I got Don Mauldin hired on as well. So my entire fifth year at Rice I took a heavy load of classwork and worked about 20-30 hours a week at NASA in order to support my sweet wife and my new daughter, Britany.