Lead Story
In March President Clinton invited sidewalk protestor Todd Ouellette, 27, into the Oval Office for a meeting. Ouellette had requested the meeting on February 19, 1993, after returning from a seven-month walk across the U.S. during which he’d collected signatures demanding action on Vietnam War POWs and MIAs. After a five-minute chat with the president, Ouellette announced he was satisfied and was ending his 25-month protest and moving on to other issues, such as the war with China that “will be coming up around the year 2000.” Ouellette, who had no friends or relatives serving in Vietnam, said he didn’t know why he was so obsessed with the POW-MIA issue.
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Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
