Hippie Chick Pricks Tricky Dick

In retrospect, the Nixon administration should have realized the young award recipient was trouble: She hailed from liberal Madison, Wisconsin, seemed like a "hippie," and gave poor J. Edgar Hoover a "dead fish look" right there at the White House. So it shouldn't have come as a surprise when the girl took the opportunity to confront the president about Vietnam. This bizarre memo by Hoover shows how the FBI boss and other Nixon aides were outraged by the unnamed chick's reckless exercise of free speech. (2 pages)