Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite know what kind of fight we can wage. "Surely." Tom Wicker wrote in Tuesday's Times, "Mr. Nixon does not wish the world to see protesting Americans clubbed in the streets with the White House as a backdrop." Why would Nixon not want a good bloody knock-some-sense-into-their-dirty-heads streetlight to show the Viet Cong and the world that Nixon is in the driver's seat? And why should he be afraid of further alienating the anti-war movement? The fact that we have to beg for a parade permit after four years of this...
PRESIDENT NIXON has given the American people another lesson in the misuse of power. In a series of mighty insinuations, well-orchestrated for press impact, the Administration has tried to obscure the issue behind Saturday's march on Washington by pounding on the themes of violence and ?anarchy. Individuals can help counter this insidious campaign by going to Washington themselves and making the march a huge, peaceful demonstration of indignation and anger over what has become " Nixon...
This is not the first time Americans have seen their President respond to dissent by ignoring the issues and seeking to discredit dissenters themselves. But the Nixon scenario has a new and dangerous twist. By initiating unnecessary and arbitrary "safety" measures, the Administration has generated a threat of violence where none had existed before...
...Nixon began by imposing a gratuitous restriction on the course of the march, refusing to permit the protestors to travel up Pennsylvania. Avenue and so refusing them a symbolic exposure to the White House...
...Nixon had wanted to provoke violence he could not have planned the preliminaries more cleverly. And it is easy to see how an eruption of violence would serve Nixon's purposes. Flickering T.V. images of students bailing police a mile from the White House would drive those celebrated "middle Americans" right into the President's arms, giving him the unthinking support he begged for on November...