2 Million Protestors kept Nixon from Nuking Vietnam...According to:

[KoKo]

Henry Kissinger on PBS's "60's Retrospective." 2 Million People stopped Nixon... (He was setting up plans to drop nuclear bombs on the Vietnamese) (New info...I didn't know this. Must be from Nixon tapes)

But it won't stop the Chimp...while we fight over A.N.S.W.E.R.

Then there was another Demonstration of 700,000 that got Violent. and John Mitchell was afraid it looked like Russian Revolution...folks made up of all kinds...that was infiltrated by the FBI.

Kissinger slept in the basement of the White House and he said "it didn't interfere with what we were doing..but it was uncomfortable."

April 30th, 1970, Nixon sent troops into Cambodia but the Anti-War Demonstrations and murders at Kent State and Jackson State electrified the Nation.

And, there we leave it for what happened after that.

[Gman]

1. Just another reason why I would much rather have Nixon right now

And, at the time, I never, ever thought I would even consider saying this.

[KoKo]

4. Oh lord....I hope you don't mean that.

unless you mean you wish you had a President who actually worried about things in the country. Still...Nixon? :eyes:

I'm glad we got rid of that mean bastard...what we have now is worse in some ways...but a different evil. If Nixon had been fully impeached and "frog marched" out of the White House it would have been BETTER for the country than what happened after, though. Instead his administration lived to come back another day more evil and smarter. They actually NEVER WENT AWAY! Ugh.

[Gman]

5. Oh yes! Regretfully, I do mean it

Nixxon did have a very primitive and poorly functioning conscience as opposed to Bush's complete lack of a conscience. Bush is a real live and true sociopath. Something that's very rare in the wild, much less in the WH.

[KoKo]

6. Who knows what the Protests for Peace have stopped under the Bush

Crime Family. Maybe the invasion of Iran? Maybe more bombing than we've already done? Kissinger's comment was interesting, in that I didn't think he would admit that the 60 Protests did anything.

[charlie]

2. Henry the Toad said that?

Ha. It's just as plausible that he wanted to glass Indochina and Nixon wouldn't go for it. Invert anything that comes out of that prick's mouth and you're likely to be closer to the truth.

[KoKo]

3. Yes...he said that...

:-( Cheney was tucked away with his "stent" operation while folks in DC were protesting and the Chimp was in San Antonio...

They learned...

[KharmaTrain]

7. Nixon Was Also Drunk

A couple of us discussed the Nixon/Kissinger drinking calls. Tricky Dick also snuck out of the White House during the 1971 Moritorium at 5am to confront demostrators in front of the Lincoln Memorial. It's one of the most sublime episodes of that era.

The Cambodian invasion protests were widespread and on a level we still can't imagine. Thousands were marching on almost every college and even junior college campus. Our High schools had a walk-out...hundreds of kids just walked out of class and did an impromptu march on Downtown Skokie.

The demonstration that got Mitchell's ire was the Chicago "Days Of Rage" march by the Weather Underground that became very violent...ending up paralyzing the State's Attorney, Dick Elrod. There was also bombing that were happening in Madison and New York City. Those are the part of the 60's I'd rather not see repeated today.

Peace...