President Nixon drew some shouts of “End the war!” and a few obscenities from hecklers, but thunderous applause was the overriding reaction to his speech at Kansas State University. After stepping out of Air Force One at Forbes Air Force Base, the president (sporting a purple and white Wildcat tie) had taken a helicopter to Manhattan to deliver the Landon Lecture to a crowd of nearly 16,000 at the KSU fieldhouse. Nixon told his audience that the time had come to “recognize that violence and terror have no place in a free society.” He noted that both he and the lecture series’ namesake, 83-year-old Alf Landon, had experienced setbacks at the polls, and added that he hoped to be a better President for having learned the “lessons of defeat” in 1960 and 1962.