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Three week before the second installment of the escalating Moratorium even begins. Moratorium leaders can see their constituency slipping away from them on both the left and right flanks. The first indications of the Moratorium leaders' concern came Saturday when the Boston Globe reported that Moratorium leaders were shaving away from the November 15 March on Washington. More trouble will follow when Nixon makes his major Vietnam address November third...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Brass Tacks Sam Brown's Blues | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

After millions turned out on October 15 to register their protest, the national press, utilizing the Moratorium's promise of bigger and better things to come, turned its attention to the dramatic march on Washington, the movement's second step...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Brass Tacks Sam Brown's Blues | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

Their haste to predict the Mortaorium's future has not helped Sam Brown. The march, unfortunately, is not Sam Brown's or the Moratorium's -and early this week. Brown indicated to a Globe reporter that he had severe reservations about the march...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Brass Tacks Sam Brown's Blues | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

Tuesday, both march organizers and Moratorium leaders tried to squelch the idea that they were at odds on the march. But, as Brown knows well after his McCarthy days, that's the way politics are supposed to work: first you tell the press your private opinion, then you cover it up with a forthright public denial...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Brass Tacks Sam Brown's Blues | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

...BROWN'S Moratorium crowd spans a spectrum that includes the student radicals on its left and disgruntled older voters who are speaking out against the war for the first time on its right. The Washington march splits them down the middle...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Brass Tacks Sam Brown's Blues | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

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