Posted on 02/07/2023 7:20:29 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The date: January 28, 1972. The occasion: a White House gala celebrating the 50th anniversary of Reader's Digest magazine. The entertainment that night: the wholesome Ray Conniff Singers. The president quipped, "And if the music is square, it's because I like it square!"
But what happened next was anything but square.
One of the women on stage held up a sign reading "Stop the Killing," and said, "President Nixon, stop bombing human beings, animals and vegetation. You go to church on Sundays and pray to Jesus Christ. If Jesus Christ were here tonight, you would not dare drop another bomb. Bless the Berrigans and bless Daniel Ellsberg."
The woman who stunned President Nixon and the star-studded audience with a plea to end the war in Vietnam was Canadian-born Carole Feraci.
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My memory is that Joe wanted him to get the MOH and the Navy wanted to court-martial him, the compromise was a non-combat valor medal for his towing the wounded crew member, something I’m sure the other crew members would have done anyway.
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