1968 Prices

Cost of a new home: $26,600

Median Household Income: $7,743

Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.34

Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.53

Cost of a gallon of milk: $1.07

Cost of a first-class postage stamp: $0.05 ($0.06 effective on 1/7/68)

President: Lyndon B. Johnson

Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey

U.S. Population: 200,706,052

Life expectancy: 70.2 years

Wall Street’s Dow-Jones Industrial High: 985 Low: 825

Federal spending: $178.13 billion

Federal debt: $368.7 billion

Inflation: 4.2%

Natinoal Unemployment Average: 3.8%