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For all you young whippersnappers out there:
I worked in DC during VN/Watergate.
I attended a march on the Pentagon and got a whiff of teargas.
I worked two blocks from the WH, used to go to Lafayette Square at lunchtime to watch the demonstrators, read the signs, etc.
Here are two images that stand out in my mind:
On the day of a mass demonstration to "shut down the Capital" there was a ring of old DC Transit buses parked bumper-to-bumper around the entire White House/Executive Office Building complex! Right out of an old cowboys-and-Indians movie.
The other image is of a "flower child" in a peasant dress putting long-stemmed roses in the rifle barrels of the troops ringing the pentagon shoulder-to-shoulder with fixed bayonets. (that one got interrupted by the tear gas)
Let's keep up the pressure. Write your senators and congresscritters and encourage. Pressure, pressure, pressure. This house of cards can come down, one way or the other. And as long as they are on defense, they have less time for offense.
Bush won't "do the right thing" like Nixon, but something will snap.
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