■ There’s at least one thing the student rioting of the last couple of weeks has accomplished: It’s killed the chances of the eighteen-year-old vote bill.
■ John Lindsay started it. On April 2, at Berkeley, he claimed that the real danger to society came not from New Left dynamiters but from members of the Nixon Administration who “are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.” On May 4, Spiro Agnew counterpunched. Lindsay, he said, is a “well-born elitist” who espouses “philosophical violence.” “We have seen all too clearly that there are men—now in power in this country—who do not represent authority, who cannot cope with tradition and who believe that the people of America are ready to support revolution as long as it is done with a cultured voice and handsome profile.” Way to punch, Veep. Now how about the latest Lindsayism, on the draft: “The ones I have unending admiration for are the guys who say, ‘I simply will not serve in the Army of the U.S. in Vietnam and I am willing to take the consequences for it.’ These are the guys who are heroic.” Go get him.
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