Wes Pruden appears to be one of those "never let the facts get in the way of your argument" guys.
" When Richard Nixon cut out the draft, the anti-war protests dried up almost overnight. So much for the idealism of the campus, circa 1971."
There's another explanation. Maybe, just maybe, the anti-war protests dried up because the end to the draft was announced on 1/27/73 -- the same day that the Vietnam peace accords were signed.
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