Artwork depicts President Richard Nixon as Gulliver being tied down by Lilliputians representing the peace movement.

Two major anti-war demonstrations were staged in the nation's capital in the spring of 1971, the first on April 24, in which approximately 200,000 people marched, and the second two weeks later, on May 5 (to commemorate the deaths of protesters a year earlier at Kent State and Jackson), in which a smaller but more belligerent gathering converged on the Capitol, resulting in a mass arrest of 12,000 protesters (the largest police action in U.S. history). Responsible for organizing opposition to the war on college campuses, the Student Mobilization Committee took a leading part in both actions.