In Timing and In Size, Last Weekend's Antiwar Protests Made History
"Yet the size of the protests was hardly the only thing that made them unique. Over 35 years ago, when the contemporary antiwar movement was first emerging as a truly mass phenomenon, many protesters naively assumed that the U.S. government simply didn't understand the realities of the national liberation struggles it was opposing in Indochina. It was only years later, after the publication of the Pentagon Papers, that the true American motives in the region were understood."

In Timing and In Size, Last Weekend's Antiwar Protests Made History
"Yet the size of the protests was hardly the only thing that made them unique. Over 35 years ago, when the contemporary antiwar movement was first emerging as a truly mass phenomenon, many protesters naively assumed that the U.S. government simply didn't understand the realities of the national liberation struggles it was opposing in Indochina. It was only years later, after the publication of the Pentagon Papers, that the true American motives in the region were understood."