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...most people, those credentials and invitations were well out of reach. In Flamingo Park, 4500 uninvited and unaccredited non-delegates--mostly young--plotted to disrupt and embarrass the Republicans. They sought to confront President Nixon once more over his policies of Vietnamization negotiated settlement and bombing in Vietnam...
...logical extension of this comparison was that the protesters in Flamingo Park were also McGovernites. So it was that the trouble on the streets fit perfectly into the scheme, complimenting the written script which timed every demonstration, every burst of applause, every "spontaneous" resolution from the floor inside Convention Hall. The delegates made it inside with a minimum of obstruction, the cameras were focused on the President as he again accepted the nomination of his party, and outside, as the media would dutifully report afterwards, police were sweeping 1200 unruly demonstrators of the radical left into Miami's jails...
...short of cash. Party leaders sweeping down Collins Avenue in their rented air-conditioned limousines could pass up a sandaled, T-shirted hitchhiker only at their peril; they never knew whether he might be a key delegate. The violent tradition of Chicago was dead; the encampment of protesters in Flamingo Park was quiet, even a bit forlorn...
...about claims that up to 10,000 militant protesters would storm the city during the Democratic National Convention. As it happened, the feared invasion was more carnival than confrontation. Fewer than 4,000 "non-delegates" showed up. With the approval of the city fathers, they unfurled their bedrolls in Flamingo Park, seven blocks from the convention center. The armies of the New Politics looked anything but menacing. Saffron-robed Hare Krishnas jingled and danced next to the Young Socialists. Satanists tossed Frisbees with the Jesus people. Half a dozen young stragglers took refuge under a spreading shade tree, stuck...
After McGovern's nomination was assured and the protesters in Flamingo...