re: All things considered, do you think the 1960s were positive for society?

There were many positive things about the 60s, ranging from equal voting, housing and education rights to the best-ever LSD. Unfortunately, all was negated by the nearly six years that Richard M. Nixon was enthroned as president. He came within a hair's breadth of dragging the republic to Titanic depths of spiritual and karmic bankruptcy. His election in 1968 is a tragedy from which our nation never fully recovered.