Should protesters be permitted to picket military recruiting offices?

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1864: The Red River Campaign begins as a combined Union force of infantry and riverboats begins moving up the Red River in Louisiana. The month-long campaign was poorly managed and achieved none of the objectives set forth by Union commanders.

1864: Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to the rank of general-in-chief of the Union armies in the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln.

1917: Russian troops mutiny as the "February Revolution" begins.

1938: German troops enter Austria without firing a shot, forming the anschluss (union) of Austria and Germany.

1947: In a dramatic speech to a joint session of Congress, President Harry S. Truman asks for U.S. assistance for Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of the two nations. Historians have often cited Trumans address, which came to be known as the Truman Doctrine, as the official declaration of the Cold War.

1972: The last remnants of the First Australian Task Force withdraw from Vietnam. The Australian government had first sent troops to Vietnam in 1964 with a small aviation detachment and an engineer civic action team.