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But we don't 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...
The whole point of Washington is the symbolic confrontation, the possibility of violence we detest but feel we must not run from. The public still isn't interested in what we have to say: Politicians and the press talk about parade permits and troop concentrations; they still find it newsworthy...
So why are we going? We can make a witness to America and the world that not everyone approves of what the government is doing at this moment in history, that not everyone went along with the manipulated majority-but that is a sterile exercise in working out our own...
According to a statement issued by the Tufts administration, "the Federal law is vague in stating what non-compliance actually is, saying only that there must be an affirmative effort to maintain equal employment opportunities in Federally funded projects."
In many ways Lerner's piece offers advice on what to watch for in Washington.)