As mentioned in the San Francisco Renaissance booklet description in Slide 2, the antiwar movement was one of the critical elements of the hippie, Haight Ashbury, “Summer of Love” counter culture. This handbill from 1964 is a very early example of the Bay Area’s concern that the policy of President Johnson was doomed to failure. THE BLUNT TRUTH IS, THE FRENCH, AFTER LOOSING HALF A MILLION SOLDIERS FOUND, AND WE A FINDING, THERE CAN BE NO VICTORY IN SUCH A SITUATION. OUR PRESENT POLICY CAN ONLY WORK TO THE DISCREDIT OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY. U.S.TROOPS SHOULD BE WITHDRAWN AND THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE PEOPLE ALLOWED TO DETERMINE THEIR OWN FUTURE.