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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI was too young to remember, did Nixon address protesters or ignore/incite a la Twitler?
Aristus
(66,328 posts)He was in his 'drunken, wandering the halls of the White House talking to the paintings' phase of his Presidency.
On a whim he convinced the Secret Service to accompany him to the Lincoln Memorial one night. He encountered a bunch of protestors against the Cambodian incursion and proceeded to have the verbal equivalent of walking on the beach in a suit and wingtips with the young people.
He remained his usual socially tone-deaf self throughout...
MaryMagdaline
(6,854 posts)But he also walked out in the middle of the night to speak to anti-war protesters.
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)Supossedly one night he sneaked out of the White House and went to the Lincoln memorial to talk with the protestors of the Vietnam war. Drove the secret service crazy.
JI7
(89,249 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Stallion
(6,474 posts)....a few weeks after the Democratic Convention
Law and Order
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)His man Haldeman was responsible for the first case of government astroturfing I ever witnessed in the Hard Hat Riots.
lastlib
(23,224 posts)which was code for "suppress the blacks, feminists, peaceniks, and anybody else who tried to upset the social pecking order with rich old white men at the top."
Jarqui
(10,123 posts)A number of the protests, including the one I was in, involved streaking to emphasize we did not believe his claim of "nothing to hide"
So he 'incited' that.
He blew off war protesters as a "vocal minority" vs his "silent majority" who he claimed supported the war.
Another example was by his actions: he escalated the Vietnam war, which was already being protested, by bombing Cambodia and invading Cambodia & Laos. Those actions triggered more protests. He initiated the draft lottery and that got protested.
Dan
(3,554 posts)What Nixon did - to promote Law&Order was to say that he had the Great Silence Majority on his side!!!
captain queeg
(10,188 posts)Which was pretty surprising. I guess he had a little sense of humor. Trump has none