"Tin soldiers and Nixon comin'..."

The front page of the New York Times on this day in 1970.

Interesting to read in the story that the National Guard initially claimed there was a sniper firing at them from a rooftop. Convenient things, those snipers. Always good to have one in your pocket in case you have to use deadly force against unarmed people. Like when that tank fired at the hotel full of journalists in Baghdad. Or like those unruly crowds of ungrateful Iraqis.

And I wonder was it only a coincidence that last night while I was eating dinner in a small Mexican restaurant in the Annex, CSNY's "Ohio" was playing over the sound system.