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...held none of Tocsin's naive hopes about establishing a meaningful dialogue with Washington officialdom. Its leaders chose Easter weekend for the march, although they must have realized that Congress would be in recess and Johnson probably in Texas. Students made no appointments with officials. They did not seem to think that they could "come and reason together" with Johnson; nor did they believe that a dramatic reevaluation of U.S. policy would result...
...terms of these goals the demonstration was a success. The crowd which gathered, from as far away as Mississippi, Berkeley and Minnesota, far exceeded the private expectations of SDS leaders. While news coverage was , and probably did not equal that accorded the Tocsin demonstration, the figures alone are impressive...
...because of the emphasis on protest rather than policy, the marchers lacked the clear thinking and directed proposals of Goldmark's Project Washington. In 1962, although Tocsin had a very fragile coalition of allies (the Student Peace Union, Student SANE, the American Friends Service Committee, and SDS), it managed to produce a sharply focused set of policy proposals...
Even the mood of the marchers was different. In 1962 a peace march was novel, and the demonstrators were novices. An air of solemn appreciation surrounded the Tocsin marchers; the participants were clearly moved by what they were doing...
Despite the strength showed on Saturday, however, the student peace movement is still weak. At Harvard, anyway, there is no leader of Goldmark's caliber. In addition no group except the May 2nd Movement has yet produced position papers which approach the sophistication of Tocsin's. But the fact that the March on Washington outdrew Tocsin's 1962 demonstration nearly three to one mean sthat the foundation exists on which to build a strong peace movement