who i consider a hero as someone who needs to be safe in the country. he calls her a criminal. i call her a hero. the trump administration like to play games with words. we have already seen him in action in the last couple of days. i think that i will not know that i m safe until it is clear and it is on paper and it is public. i will continue to fight for the 11 million people who are undocumented in this country. today was a day of action around the country. people resisting trump policies, visiting the local state offices of their senators and washington representatives, urging them to oppose the trump agenda in washington and of course that follows the biggest, just most massive inauguration protest in the history of the inauguration process that we saw in washington and around the world on saturday. cecile, i want to talk about
every city, a peaceful, united gathering of mothers and grand mothers and daughters and sons and fathers and friends and people who became friends by meeting in the march. when the final marchers passed st. patrick s cathedral at 7:38 pvm, a new york city police officer standing there all day said he never saw anything like it. the most peaceful protest gathering he had ever seen. i saw toddlers sleeping in strollers during the march because it was that peaceful. others riding on their father s shoulders. like all of the marches, fifth avenue was a very safe place to be. there s a short history of inauguration protest in this country. we have had only four significant inauguration prot t protests. the first two re for ricrd nix nixon s inauguration in 1969 and 1973. in 69, 8,000 people gathered on
taking to the streets against his vietnam war policy. when those protests began, he expected to cruise to re-election in 1968. by the spring of 1968, those protests drove lyndon johnson to surrender and decide not to run for re-election. he was succeeded by richard nixon who became the most protested president in history. the year after the second inauguration protest against richard nixon, he resigned from office in scandal. at the time of the second inauguration protest against richard nixon, the news media did not think there was much point to the protest. after all he was re-elected, sworn in for a second term. why protest that when there s nothing he can do about that? a year later, nixon was gone. in the middle of the non-stop decade of protests of the 1960s, the decade when martin luther king jr. and the civil rights
inauguration protest in this country. we have had only four significant inauguration protests. the first two were for richard nixon s inauguration in 1969 and 1973. in 69, 8,000 people gathered on pennsylvania avenue the day before the inauguration and in 73, 100,000 gathered for the second nixon inaugural protest and then went 28 years without a significant inaugural protest. and in 2001, 20,000 people came to washington to protest the inauguration of george w. bush a he lost the vote to al gore but won the electoral college, thanks to the supreme court decision on how the votes would be counted in florida and that was it. that s the history of inauguration protests in america. 58 inaugurations, four protests. yesterday, in washington, d.c. alone, more people gathered to protest donald trump s
the year after the second inauguration protest against richard nixon, he resigned from office in scandal. at the time of the second inauguration protest against richard nixon, the news media did not think there was much point to the protest. after all he was re-elected, sworn in for a second term. why protest that when there s nothing he can do about that? a year later, nixon was gone. in the middle of the non-stop decade of protests of the 1960s, the decade when martin luther king jr. and the civil rights protesters eventually joined protesters, the protests seemed hopeless to the people that never seem v participated in the protests. but the protesters succeeded in give getting this civil right and voting bill passed and eventually the war in vietnam ended. the american news media was not filled with predictions of the