Young people demonstrating against the Vietnam War splash in the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial in May 1970.
By Mike M. Ahlers and Athena Jones,
CNN TV
November 11, 2011
Washington (CNN) -- On a Spring day in 1970, just five days after National Guard troops opened fire on anti-war demonstrators at Kent State University, a restless president awoke in the pre-dawn hours, strolled to the Lincoln sitting room, and sat down to listen to some music.
From the window, he could see student protesters gathering on the grounds of the Washington Monument.
A White House attendant asked the president if he would like coffee or hot chocolate. He declined.
What happened next is the stuff of political legend.
Nixon's Watergate testimony released
President Richard M. Nixon, the strategic, calculating -- and some say paranoid -- architect of his own rise and fall, took an uncharacteristic gamble. He asked his attendant if he had ever seen the Lincoln Memorial at night, then led a small entourage on an unplanned visit to the Lincoln Memorial, where he talked to young anti-war protesters.
Washington (CNN) -- On a Spring day in 1970, just five days after National Guard troops opened fire on anti-war demonstrators at Kent State University, a restless president awoke in the pre-dawn hours, strolled to the Lincoln sitting room, and sat down to listen to some music.
From the window, he could see student protesters gathering on the grounds of the Washington Monument.
A White House attendant asked the president if he would like coffee or hot chocolate. He declined.
What happened next is the stuff of political legend.
Nixon's Watergate testimony released
President Richard M. Nixon, the strategic, calculating -- and some say paranoid -- architect of his own rise and fall, took an uncharacteristic gamble. He asked his attendant if he had ever seen the Lincoln Memorial at night, then led a small entourage on an unplanned visit to the Lincoln Memorial, where he talked to young anti-war protesters.
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