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In his book Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves, historian Melvin Small chronicles the anti-Vietnam War movement with much detail as he discusses the link between the decisions of the Johnson and Nixon administrations concerning the Vietnam War and the stream of protests that accompanied the war. Small’s argument states that anti-war activities, from teach-ins and advertisements to massive demonstrations and the spectacle of the Kent State killings, contributed in both a direct and an indirect way to the decisions of the two presidents that served during the Vietnam War. Small begins his outline of the anti-war movement with what he calls the “Americanization of the war” when the majority of Americans were supportive of action in Vietnam. The author exhibits public opinion patterns that show a very small percentage of people were opposed to the war in 1965 as the war began, ranging from a low twelve percent to a still insignificant seventeen percent. During this early stage, Small asserts that Lyndon Johnson was seen as a dove and that he had “little to fear from the American public” after the nearly unanimous passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and the widespread support for Johnson’s “limited” dealings in Viet