“Keith,” Milley said, “this is nothing like 1968. You were Lieutenant Kellogg in 1968 sitting on top of one of these buildings collocated with the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne.” President Lyndon B. Johnson had deployed combat troops into Washington. “This isn’t even on the same level of the 1968 stuff when tens of thousands of protesters and rioters are going through Detroit and Chicago and L.A.” “That’s right, Mr. President,” Kellogg said. The protests should be monitored, Milley said. “We should pay attention to it. It’s important.” But it was an issue for local police and local
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