Yesterday, The American Spectator published my article drawing comparisons between the 1968 riots in Washington, D.C. following the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and today’s rioting spawned by the death of George Floyd. In 1968, my wife and I lived in Arlington, Virginia while I attended the Georgetown Law Center and she worked as a nurse at the Washington Hospital Center. The first half of the article relates our experiences in Washington during the riots. I describe how President Lyndon Johnson ordered the deployment of active duty units of the regular Army and Marine Corps to quell […]