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...city that cultivates Southern mannerisms. The waitresses smile and drawl just that way. The blacks keep the government buildings clean, drive the buses, and increasingly, are the cops. The commercial downtown is a pastiche of Woolworths and cheap department stores. It was into this America that a half million people from another America marched...
...from a small town goes to Harvard he can never feel safe in that town again. The eyes of the haggard speechwriters and secretaries are too tired to focus on the Tobacco Road slums five blocks away from the Capitol. When we get excited because a half-million of us have gathered so close to the White House we forget that four times as many people have attended college football games the same...
...there we were. A half-million people sitting in the middle of the imperial seat, surrounded by its lying architecture. One of the isolated Americas superimposed on another. How many times had we all been through the very same ceremony? It was as if we had to gather every so often to make sure that we existed. Each individual had to reaffirm periodically that he was at least part of one of the Americas, even if that America was hopelessly at odds with all the others. Each individual had shuddered at the thought that he could believe only in himself...
...Nixon trusts his own eyes. It may be idiotic, but he really thinks he sees America. And, of course, we trust our own perceptions. What this means is very simple-there will be no more mass marches on Washington like the one last Saturday. If a half-million people ever come back to Washington the script will be a little different. Authority has become merely power, orphans will soon become Weathermen, and America will be in for a bad trip...
Current estimates say that the commercial development of the thirteen acres would provide the City with an additional $3 million annually in tax revenues, but some city councillors have expressed a desire to see the land used for public housing instead...