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Nixon had campaigned in 1968 that he would end U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam War. Among other platform statements that detailed an end to the war, the Republicans wrote in 1968, “We must urgently dedicate our efforts toward restoration of peace both at home and abroad.” His narrow victory over
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Students pitched tents and built makeshift shelters on a grassy area known as the
Carnegie Green. There they debated, performed, sang, talked and tried to make sense of their sorrow and anger. The spirit of those first few days replicated the peace and freedom of its namesake, the 1969 music
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illustrated, in part, the voters’ support of this platform imperative. On April 30, 1970, however, the president came clean about a 14-month bombing campaign in
Cambodia. This signaled to many he had broken his campaign promise and had, instead, escalated the war he promised to end.
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into Kent after various violent incidents occurred in town and on campus. A Monday morning anti-war rally ended with
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