Pat Jehlen had an interesting speech at the rally. She mentioned that Nixon was constantly checking on the crowd size at a protest against Vietnam. I
looked this up.
Nixon even claimed to have watched a football game while a half-million of us marched and rallied within earshot of the White House.
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What about Nixon’s claim to have ignored the Nov. 15 Mobilization? “Untrue,” according to Daniel Ellsberg, who was then working for the Nixon administration: “Every 10 minutes he [Nixon] was calling the Situation Room and finding out what was going on, getting the reports from the U-2s on crowd size… He was totally absorbed.”