Think that was Nathan, though NN and I made the same point.
Back to Gordon>I remember something about a Welfare recipients' union being derided in the bourgeois press. It was not my impression that the established order took it very seriously. Derision is only the second stage of their immune response to radical ideas (pretend it isn't there, deride it, fight it, co-opt it). Do you think Nixon and company were shaking in their boots on account of these people, when they ignored the vast demonstrations against the war? I don't.
Any number of accts. of the anti-war movement (try the big one from U.C. Press for starters, "The War at Home." BTW, UC Press has a slew of new boks on the Vietnam War, mostly on the LBJ period) which draw on archival material from the Presidential libraries and oral histories, show that for all of Nixon's claiming he was watching the Washington Redskins (and calling in plays to George Allen, Sr.) during the MOBE's, the WH staff esp. on the NSC and his top advisors, FBI, etc. were paying alot of attention to the radical and liberal opposition.
As for ignoring the NWRO, I suspect if you go to the FBI webpage which has the volumnious FOIA case #''ers, you will find files for NWRO. http://foia.fbi.gov/alpha.htm Hmm, nothing on first glance, (Though that catle mutilation file!....) Betcha I can find something with NWRO & COINTELPRO...
Some of the material on Nixon I've read over the years makes a case that he wanted to remold the GOP into a "progressive conservative" party with John Connolly the nominee for '76.
Michael Pugliese