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...while en route to the festival. Fewer than 100 people were arrested, all on minor possession charges, and just over a hundred people were treated in hospitals. Only one seriously bad acid trip. The crowd was remarkably quiet. More Confederate flags than the red, blue, and yellow of the NLF which had become so familiar at mass gatherings of the young the past five years...
...then, was that it stirred up divisive passions in the United States. Their anti-war opposition, like Nixon's support, arose from their fear of radical social change. But unlike Nixon, they thought continued controversy over the war was more likely to bring turmoil and radical change than an NLF victory...
...Americans were even beginning to understand the real alternatives before the Vietnamese people, and to say either that the Vietnamese people themselves would have to decide the question ("How many Vietnamese fought in our Civil War?" William Sloan Coffin demanded), or--the same thing made more explicit--that the NLF represented the vast majority of the Vietnamese people and deserved...
...order to continue the war effectively, the government needed to stop its opponents from hampering the war effort. Most antiwar liberals disliked the NLF as much as they disliked General Minh, General Khanh, General Ky, and General Thieu. But in a two-sided war, to oppose one side actively means helping the other. The generals had found themselves hampered by anti-communist liberals who insisted on preserving civil liberties and democratic forms in their efforts to stamp out revolution. General Thieu had himself triumphantly re-elected while his opponents languished in jail cells. Similarly, the American government found itself embarrassed...
...Thieu in making criminals of his opponents; but then the necessity for Nixon's struggle was born in his imagination. When Thieu threw his opponents in jail, as we have seen, he had good reason to believe he was taking a necessary step to delay an NLF takeover--for his opponents stood for the civil liberties and democracy which would bring the NLF to power. In the United States, on the other hand, middle-class democracy faced virtually no viable leftist threat. When Nixon's men broke into the Watergate Hotel, they were acting out of the same insecurity that...