Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diverging patterns of our lives. Yet I still could not shake the sense that I had exiled myself from my responsibilities. In fact, some of the clearest memories I have of the past four years--being locked in a narrow jail cell with 50 other people after the antiwar demonstrations at the 1972 Republican Convention or walking down Brooklyn streets with a green-eyed woman--have nothing to do with Harvard...
...Clay Jacke, a Los Angeles attorney (and former policeman) calls the "slow erosion" of cops' courtroom status. Detective Tom Moran, 23-year veteran on the Boston force, observes: "Our credibility bottomed-out during the late '60s. We had all the civil rights cases, the riots, the antiwar marches, and we were ordered to control them. Corruption in government and scandals in police departments didn't help either...
...President in turn seemed at ease solely with such automatic yes men and relatively anonymous associates, but apparently confided fully not even in them. Yet he shared powerful prejudices with them, most dangerously a siege mentality in which so many other vague classifications of Americans ?liberals, antiwar radicals, academic intellectuals, Eastern sophisticates, the press?were seen as enemies, akin to unfriendly foreign powers. They were to be subverted, subjected to surveillance and eavesdropping, and "screwed" by agencies of Government. Nixon's re-election campaign became a crusade in which any means were seen as justified to keep all those...
...Democratic convention, the Chicago Seven trial with its flamboyant rhetoric and shouting matches, the sympathy demonstrations and trashing sprees across the country. But so much had changed since those days that it was difficult to call back the passion or the classic clash between the radical antiwar movement and the criminal-justice system. By the time three of the original defendants and one of their lawyers were found guilty last week of contempt of court during the first trial, the denouement had dwindled to a legal mop-up operation...
...should go free. There are also at least two reasons why it's important not to forget him. First, because he's a reminder of other things, things it is easy to forget even when they're in the newspapers every day. The people who were more shocked at antiwar students shouting down prowar speakers than at what was happening in Indochina were forgetting what was in the newspapers every day. I think I have been more concerned with the nobility of my compassion--what the English poet Jon Stallworthy called wearing suffering like a service medal--than with ending...