Just after the scheduled starting time of 3:30 p.m., John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, presented McGovern to the rally.

"We must learn that it is madness-not security-to devote 70 per cent of our controllable Federal budget to armaments and only 11 per cent to the quality of life," McGovern said.

"Perhaps out of the blood-soaked jungles of Southeast Asia will come the humility and the national wisdom that will lead us into the light of a new day," he said.

McGovern received a huge roar from the crowd when he said the New York Mets had won yesterday's World Series game. He then quoted Mets pitcher Tom Seaver as saying, "If the Mets can win in the World Series, we can get out of Vietnam."

Zinn, in a bitter denunciation of America's involvement in Vietnam, said, "We have been fighting against a basically decent revolutionary movement in Vietnam. The people of Hanoi have fought a long war for independence from foreign control."

"Forty thousand American men have been killed because someone threw the word Communist at us," he said.

Breeden said, "Our nation is wrong in Vietnam. No conceivable good could flow from our presence that outweighs the evil, and no conceivable evil could flow from our withdrawal that outweighs the good."

Camejo criticized Massachusetts Gov. Francis Sargent for claiming to support the Moratorium while telegramming a statement of support to President Nixon. "We are not here to contemplate." he said. "we are here to repudiate."

"The NLF are the most beautiful people in this world. They're giving their lives for all of us," Camejo said.

"Seventeen million Vietnamese are counting on you to end this war." he said.