Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mace is a chemical irritant--it blinds you, makes your eyes water and your skin sting. It is meant to be sprayed at the chest, where the fumes will still have plenty of effect, one Seabrook cop tells you the next day. Maybe the policemen don't know this--they spray it straight in your eyes from inches away, and the only thing you can remember is to yell "Medic." They arrive with plastic jugs of water and boric acid, and after a few pints you can stand the smarting. Your face stays red for a long time...
...fire captain brings out the water cannon, but there isn't enough pressure for it to be really effective. People get wet, one person gets flipped, and the skirmishes continue, so the police come out from behind the fence, and now what do you do? You can't rush by policemen, you just don't do that, and besides, would it be non-violent? Would everybody follow? So you retreat to a high spot and wait for the tide to come in while you hold some meetings...
...goes limp, is clubbed until his hand is fractured and he is rolled down the hill. The glasses are ripped off one of you, and your eyes are sprayed with Mace. They kick and they shove and they are strong, and then everybody is retreating and every available water bottle is above somebody's face, and you know there is no way on God's green earth that you'll ever get near the plant. It starts to rain, and the Mace on your hair washes down into your eyes and starts to sting again...
...they don't know for sure that this demonstration is legal and peaceful and what the heck, you seem to be blocking Route 1, so the firehoses get turned on again. But people know by now not to fear the portable hoses, and there is dancing in the water. They knock down a guy holding an American flag on a branch, and every photographer in the area has his picture for the front page...
...Saturday, April 25, Nixon called me to Camp David to review the planning. I walked along at the edge of the swimming pool while he paddled in the water. Nixon began to toy with