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...Nixon told welcoming crowds in Indianapolis. "I firmly believe that the people know best." The presidential party met for more than two and a half hours with ten mayors of medium-sized cities, exchanging notes and briefings on urban policies. Then Nixon flew to Chicago to talk with four Midwestern Republican Governors about the pollution of the Great Lakes. In terms of immediate action, the trip probably had limited value, but that was not entirely the point. The larger motives were psychological and-inevitably in a campaign year-political...
...recovery caps five years of observations by the Smithsonian's Prairie Network, a system of 16 automatic camera sites that continously photographs the night sky in seven Midwestern states...
Months before, the Vice President had turned down an invitation to speak at the Midwestern Regional Republican Conference in Des Moines. Last week, just two days before the meeting was to begin, Agnew suddenly reinvited himself. The conference chairman hastily hired the Fort Des Moines Hotel ballroom and scheduled Agnew as the klieg-light speaker. Agnew's words were written by Buchanan, who is a hard-line conservative, and vetted in the upper echelons of Nixon's personal staff...
...that read: "Whether what I've said to you tonight will be seen and heard at all by the nation is not my decision, it's their decision." Hence "they," the three television networks, had their cameras warm and waiting when Spiro Agnew arrived to address the Midwestern Regional Republican Conference...
...most of the nation, TIME correspondents found that the size and vitality of the M-day turnout exceeded dispassionate expectations. Even in the Midwestern heartland, reported Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark, "so many of these folks?far from being professional liberals or agitators or youths simply trying to avoid the draft?were pure, straight middle-class adults who had simply decided, in their own pure, straight middle-class way, that it was time for the U.S. to get the hell out of the war in Viet...