POSTERS FOR PEACE
Benson, Thomas W. (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Rhetoric, Penn State University)
By the spring of 1970, Americans were frustrated by continuing war in Vietnam and turmoil in the inner cities. Students on American college campuses opposed the war in growing numbers and joined with other citizens in ever-larger public demonstrations against the war. Some politicians¿including Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, and Richard Nixon¿exploited the situation to cultivate anger against students. At the University of California at Berkeley,...