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Jun. 24th, 2020 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emma_in_dreamAmerican politics – I am interested in the barrier currently swaddling the White House. I can’t remember there being one before in my lifetime. Please advise if I am wrong.
The last one I know of was the fence that Nixon put up around the White House to stop the Dewey Canyon III protests in 1971 That was a very moving protest lead by Vietnam vets who had intended to return their medals. Instead, they threw them over the fence that Nixon was cowering behind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P1zXcQ3ZGw
OTOH, Nixon had far better instincts than Trump in that he told the Police to back off from the vets who would have public sympathy and to instead target the long haired hippies. He didn’t get the Police to teargas them so he could go to a church to hold a Bible upside down and savour the smell of his own hands burning.
The last one I know of was the fence that Nixon put up around the White House to stop the Dewey Canyon III protests in 1971 That was a very moving protest lead by Vietnam vets who had intended to return their medals. Instead, they threw them over the fence that Nixon was cowering behind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P1zXcQ3ZGw
OTOH, Nixon had far better instincts than Trump in that he told the Police to back off from the vets who would have public sympathy and to instead target the long haired hippies. He didn’t get the Police to teargas them so he could go to a church to hold a Bible upside down and savour the smell of his own hands burning.
