Nixon's wall around the White House

[japple]

Nixon erects wall around the White House: 1970
With only a week’s planning, 100,000 demonstrators filled the Ellipse behind the White House May 9, 1970 protesting President Richard Nixon’s expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia.

D.C. Transit buses in the background were parked bumper to bumper to form a ring around the White House at the direction of D.C. police after consultation with the U.S. Secret Service. Nixon feared that antiwar demonstrators may try to storm the White House.

Earlier in the week, four students were killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University while protesting the Indochina War. Nearly 500 campuses were closed by student strikes against the war and protesting the Kent State and later Jackson State student deaths at the hands of authorities.

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The photograph is by Pete Schmick. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post

[SCantiGOP]

1. FDR refuses to do this after Pearl Harbor

Did not want the country to look like it was under siege.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Just one nit to pick. If the picture is from the Washington Star collection at the DC Public Library

then how can it be copyrighted by the Washington Post?

I'm not griping about the post, just thinking out loud.

[japple]

3. I have no idea. I found it on flickr.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. There should be a bunch more of those at the DC Public Library.

The Washington Star was the afternoon newspaper, at least one of them, along with the Washington Daily News. The Star was a broadsheet, and the Daily News was a tabloid.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Toward the end of the entire Watergate thing,

Doonesbury was showing a physical wall around the White House. I think several strips had it being built in the background, while something else was happening in the foreground. And then, after he resigned, it was shown being dismantled.

I remember being very impressed.

[gulliver]

7. I was thinking of the same series of strips.

Deleted my post on it after I saw you already got to it. I wonder if Trudeau will give us a callback.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. I hope he does.

I just wish I could find at least some of those strips and post them here.

[SeattleVet]

9. I posted one on another message thread a few days ago.

If you do a Google search for "doonesbury nixon wall" you'll get a lot of images.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Thank you.

I tried to search for those images recently but didn't use the right words.