article_snippet.sent: For the 1960s, the end arrived with -- depending on your ideals and your tribe -- either the Rolling Stones' Altamont fiasco in December 1969, the Kent State shootings in May 1970 or Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election.
article_snippet.sent: The latter half of 1969 included the Manson murders, the Woodstock festival, a New York mayoral campaign and the Vietnam War moratorium demonstrations -- plenty of fodder for the characters to interact with, if only tangentially.
article_snippet.sent: Instead, try this: it's April 1, 1970.
article_snippet.sent: Richard Nixon is signing legislation banning cigarette ads on radio and television, reminding Don of the day 10 years earlier when Richard Nixon came up with the Lucky Strike campaign that began the series.
article_snippet.sent: No fool, Richard Nixon had seen this day coming years before.
article_snippet.sent: Richard Nixon'll fix Richard Nixon a drink, ponder buying an avocado-colored refrigerator, clean out Richard Nixon ashtray and leave the show the way Richard Nixon arrived: on top of the zeitgeist, unable to accept Richard Nixon past and utterly, inscrutably alone.