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After the jury delivered its verdict in San Jose Lawyer James Boccardo's most recent big case, one of Boccardo's colleagues gulped: "What was it, Jim, a class action?" The question was understandable. In the ever-soaring market of personal-injury verdicts, Boccardo and two associates had just captured the highest money award in legal history...
...simplistic rationale for the Kent State tragedy often heard in some conservative quarters-"They asked for it" -has appealing applicability to Nixon's behavior in San Jose. Confronting a known hostile crowd of several thousand, waving the V salute and remarking, "That's what they hate to see" [Nov. 9] has got to be the act of a very calculating politician or a damn fool. I in no way condone the behavior of the hostile crowd...
Fortunately Nixon overdid it. The San Jose incident and its aftermath scared away more voters than it gained. But the viability of the book's central ideas remains, however unpleasant they...
...different. In Indiana, Utah, Nevada, North Dakota, and Wyoming, where Conservatives of the true mold had given their votes to the Republicans in 1968, the Administration bootlickers met ignominious defeat. And in California, a topsy-turvy state where currents and trends are so many and so strong, where San Jose had whipped the reactionary conservatives into their rabid finest, John Tunney beat George Murphy and Ronald Reagan won a far less than landslide victory...
...Nixon decides his law and order message wasn't brought home strongly enough we can anticipate more provocation of the San Jose "This is what they really hate" style. The tactic is really an old one: tempt the opposition into some exceptionally sensational and yet fruitless act and then use it as an excuse to quash them. Hitler, for example, did it with the Reichstag fire...