Never mind, Toto, maybe we are still in Kansas
The President heads to Kansas State University today, where he'll use the annual Landon Lecture as an opportunity to defend his secret NSA spying program. Surfing around a bit to find out more about the annual lecture, which is frequently delivered by a head of state, I came upon a great anecdote from historian Stephen Ambrose (the author, of, in additional to several other great books, a three-volume biography of Richard Nixon). Ambrose was a professor at Kansas State at the height of the Vietnam War in 1969 when Nixon came to deliver the Landon Lecture. (Apparently, there's a tradition of heading to KSU when you're in some political trouble.) Ambrose heckled the speech and walked out early and was pretty much fired for his bad behavior.
Read the story in this interview with Ambrose; it's about 2/3 of the way down the page.
It's a safe bet no one with heckling tendencies will be let within a few miles of the auditorium today.
