"I called the media. . . . I said, 'If I take some crippled veterans down to the White House and we chain ourselves to the gates, will we get coverage?' 'Oh, yes, we will cover that.' "--John Kerry, testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971
Wonder if that was the same reasoning for sending Max Cleland down to Texas today?
I never thought about this, but that's just like the scene in that movie "Coming Home" with Jon Voight and (er...guess who) jane fonda.