Newsweek 

November 24, 1969

Down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, the "path of Presidents," they marched in the morning chill, some 250,000 Americans come to their Capital to tell their President he was wrong.

If there was a high moment, it came when folk singer Pete Seeger stepped up to the microphone. Sporting a full beard and accompanied by the rich baritone of his Negro "brother" Fred Kirkpatrick, Seeger brought the mass to its feet with a song called "Bring Them Home." Then, as the crowd chorused, Seeger's voice echoed over the Mall: "Are you listening, Nixon? Are you listening, Agnew?" Scores of thousands of people, their fingers thrust upward in the symbolic "V" gesture, roared their approval.

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