Richard Nixon went out among the demonstrators — I do not remember how often probably just once but there had been several demonstrators before that one.
This was published on-line (don't know about paper edition) by the Washington Post Saturday morning
the main photo of site taken hours before start of event
The Post employees said that there were few young people there;
people concealed their anger;
too close to the election to be non-political;
a black man counter protester attacked by (elderly?) white woman screaming "No signs!", the man was covered with scratches from the attack;
a local sandwich shop employee told of violent reaction when the out-of-town folks were charged sales tax, had sandwiches thrown in his face