A spirited discussion about energy, hosted by Newsweek's Howard Fineman.

Over 200 Vietnam Veterans finish a three-day, 86-mile march from Morristown, N.J. to Valley Forge, PA, as part of Operation RAW (Rapid American Withdrawal). The march, which retraced some of the same routes taken by Washington's army during the Revolution, was designed as a dramatic recreation of a Vietnam-type search-and-destroy mission. The vets (members of the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War, or VVAW) took hostages and seized property-with choreographed actors helping out-in the small towns they passed through. After President Nixon's promise to wind down U.S. involvement proved bogus, and the Kent State shootings in May, anti-war protests gained currency, and the sight of veterans marching alongside traditional left-wing protesters lent a degree of mainstream footing to the movement. The march, held over Labor Day weekend, generated a lot of press. On the 7th, it culminated with a protest rally at Valley Forge attended by over 1,500 people. Democratic Sens. George McGovern and Edmund Muskie (among other members of Congress) backed the rally. Featured speakers included John Kerry and actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, as well as many veterans who had determined that the war needed to end. As W.D. Ehrhart, a former Marine active with the VVAW said in the months before the march, "America was bleeding to death in the rice fields and jungles of Vietnam, and now the blood flowed in our streets. I did not want my country to die. I had to do something. It was time to stop the war."

On the road as the Illinois senator conducts a summer campaign swing.