Curriculum and Protest

I've seen this happen before at President Nixon's re-election tour at MacArthur Airport on Long Island (where I also saw Hubert H. Humphrey in an open car motorcade) Air Force One pulled close to the fence behind where all people were, some with protest signs. The small group were moved back behind the bleacher seats by Secret Service I think, where they could not be seen or heard by the President who came out onto the stairs of the plane. More recently, I was asked to pick up maps in the afternoon that President George W. Bush was visiting Saint Patrick's Cathedral in NYC (where Pierre Toussaint remains are under the altar, a colleague worked on the archaeology of his burial) my stop on the express bus, to pursue the documentation of the history of the Upper Hudson River for the PCB cleanup designed by my then company, to be done the following day at Peebles Island in Waterford, NY. I was struck by the division of protest vs. supporters of the current President. All that disagreed were placed far away from the sight of the President it appeared as I pulled up to my bus stop outside the Cathedral near the former office of TAMS now part of TYCO.