Nation: Nixon's Unsilent Supporters

We don't smoke marijuana in

Muskogee.

We don't take our trips on LSD,

We don't burn our draft cards down

on Main Street,

'cause we like living right

and being free.

THOSE defiantly straight lyrics from the ballad Okie from Muskogee were rendered at the Washington Monument on Veterans Day by a close-cropped country music group from rural Virginia. They were met with roaring approval by a Freedom Rally crowd of 15,000 proudly self-proclaimed "squares." Swelled in response to the President's TV appeal for "the silent majority" to speak up, the cheering anti-Moratorium demonstrators represent...

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