Video: 'Nixon in Peru - 1958 | Today In History | 8 May 17'

(Thursday, May 8, 1958) — Vice President Richard Nixon, on an eight-nation tour of South America, was spat upon, grazed on the neck by a stone, shoved and booed as he marched today in Lima, Peru, into mobs of Communist-led demonstrators demanding his ouster from the country.