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Lance Selfa, The Democrats: A Critical History, pp. 223–224. The SDS slogan was ‘Half the Way with LBJ’. It is indicative of how easily co-opted even the most ostensibly ‘revolutionary’ Left can be. Meanwhile, ‘Sixty percent of the members of the Business Council, an extremely influential Washington advisory group composed of chief executives of the largest and most important U.S. companies, backed Johnson. And LBJ won the lion’s share of the corporate contributions to the presidential candidates’. (p. 224).