Honoring the special night they were welcomed back by President Richard Nixon. No, this dinner was not hosted by the administration but by the Richard Nixon Library.
Not attending either dinner was Obama friend and colleague, Bill Ayres, former Vietnam protestor
" Ayers went on to accuse Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who spent five years in a POW camp, of murdering civilians in the war, lament the deaths of two fellow Weather Underground members – skipping over the fact that they blew themselves up while trying to make bombs – and painted his actions as a heroic bid to end U.S. involvement in Vietnam."
Ayres called a "Vietnam-era radical". ... "Ayers was not simply protesting "against" the Vietnam War. Firstly, he wasn't against war in principle, he was agitating for the victory of the communist forces in Vietnam." ...
(Emphasis in the original.)
Hat tip to Val Brose; Santa Maria, CA
(Emphasis in the original.)
Hat tip to Val Brose; Santa Maria, CA
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