Word: jose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President was agitated, stern in a noisy setting, and the victim of a bad television tape. His subject was the San Jose stoning, an atrocity already condemned in all responsible and even quasi-responsible quarters, but Nixon was still trying to score points from it. "They're not romantic revolutionaries," he said of violent dissenters. "They're the same thugs and hoodlums that have always plagued the good people." What to do? "Our approach," he said, "the new approach, demands new and strong laws that will give the peace forces new muscle to deal with the criminal forces...
Although the Midwest and California have dominated the national rankings in the past few years, six Eastern teams finished among the top nine. The order was St. Louis, Hartwick, Harvard, Philadelphia Textile, San Jose State, Quincy, Buffalo State, Brown, and Navy. Penn was ranked 17th in the poll...
What brought on Nixon's strident outburst was a physical assault on his campaign motorcade in San Jose, Calif., during the closing week of the campaign. It was an attack that came dangerously close to disaster, but it played perfectly into the President's political hands. Throughout the campaign, Nixon and Vice President Agnew have tried to win Republican votes through popular resentment against extremist-and sometimes not so extremist-dissidents. At times, small groups of hecklers were deliberately allowed into his audiences, just numerous and noisy enough to enable Nixon to score the points he wanted...
Governor Ronald Reagan and Senator George Murphy to address a crowd of 3,300 in the San Jose municipal auditorium, where he replayed his standard speech of the campaign. Then Nixon emerged into the darkness to confront several thousand hostile demonstrators. He clambered onto the hood of his limousine. Face hard and chin jutting out, he stood in the glare of television lights; he spread his arms and waggled his fingers in his "V" salute. "That's what they hate to see," he remarked...
Luckily-for now anyway-Nixon has been thwarted. Murphy's losing campaign was not helped by the San Jose fracas, and there was little in the election returns to indicate a sweeping national desire for a police state. But we aren't about to get off that easy. Nixon's behavior since the Carswell defeat-particularly last week-indicate the lengths to which he is willing to go to get what he wants. He has gone off the deep end. If he is willing to risk his life, he is certainly willing to ignore the Bill of Rights...