Vietnam veteran John Kerry urged antiwar protesters Saturday to forego further demonstrations and concentrate instead on defeating President Nixon at the polls.
Kerry's address was the highlight of an otherwise listless rally which attracted fewer than 500 people to Boston Common on a warm, sunny afternoon.
"We have got to realize that talking, marching, striking and sloganeering are not going to get rid of Richard Nixon and are not going to end the war," Kerry said.
Kerry, founder of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and a candidate for U.S. representative from the fifth congressional district, encouraged opponents of the war to work for Sen. George McGovern (D.S.D.).
The rally broke up early in the afternoon to allow participants to hand out leaflets and build support for a moratorium May 4.
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