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Some of the rocks were as big as potatoes and the eggs were hitting the limo with considerable force.

But Nixon was ready to take that to the bank.

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slash visit Scotland. Yokes mixed with political placards used as missiles, even a few lit candles. A few windows on a nearby press

bus were broken. But the presidential motorcade was unharmed. Not that they didn't hear the

commotion outside. The president was safe, but his secretary, Rose Woods, was shaken.

This is just like Caracas, she said, referring to the incident in Venezuela when Nixon

was vice president and angry protesters had gone after his car with a fury.

Well, now this time it was in America and young American protesters, hundreds of them.

In October 1970, in San Jose, California, just four days from the midterm election that year.

A big opportunity.

23 states in three weeks, the President of the United States utilizing Air Force One,

here supporting George Murphy from a tough Democratic challenger for Senate.

Big crowd. Good people. Governor Reagan in tow, but in between two stops getting to the car,

lots of protesters. These protesters will not be the future of America, Nixon said.

They won't keep me locked up in the White House.

That's the kind of message he gave in San Jose. And then, as he got in his car, the mob,

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