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The Three Demands (Peaceful Protests (Popular Marches Against Vietnam War,…

- - - - President Nixon denies the power and large population of the protesters, referring to them as a "minority."
        "The following year, Nixon claimed in a famous speech that anti-war protesters constituted a small–albeit vocal–minority that should not be allowed to drown out the 'silent majority' of Americans."
        Quote from History.com
      - The government took military action to stop many protests. The National Guard was sent to many college campuses to stop student protests.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVNUlOUlMeo
      - President Johnson called the peaceful protests and movement "communist-run" to try to stop them.
        Jennifer Keene, Saul Cornell, and Edward O’Donnell, Visions of America: A History of the United States (Boston: Pearson Education, 2015), 801.