Nixon's the One

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Mon Feb 26 04:38:48 PST 2001


Gordon Fitch wrote:
> > when they ignored the vast
> > demonstrations against the war? I don't.

Carrol Cox:
> Not true. Haldeman's diaries reveal that in fact they obsessed over the
> demonstrations -- probably in fact took the demonstrations more
> seriously than we (the demonstrators) took them. It was this concern
> with the anti-war effort that triggered the events leading up to
> Watergate.

I meant that they ignored them in a policy sense. The war was continued.

Hence, the theory that far smaller demonstrations drove the Nixon administration towards social-democratic policies at home is not likely to be correct.



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