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With a paranoid compulsion, the agencies developed lists of troublesome or potentially troublesome Americans. These included members of organizations on the right (the John Birch Society, Ku Klux Klan) as well as the left (the Socialist Workers Party, Students for a Democratic Society). The FBI kept handy a list of people-26,000 strong at one point-who were to be detained during a national emergency (including Novelist Norman Mailer). The Army accumulated the names of 100,000 people who were involved, even tangentially, in political protest activities (including Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III, who made the list for merely...
...million budget, can respond so automatically to the whims of its director. There are lengthy discussions about Hoover's fanatical desire to destroy the New Left, and his seeming inability to recognize the civil rights of virtually anyone in any group to the left of the John Birch Society. Ungar is at his most graphic when he details Hoover's determination to stamp out left-wing opposition over his half-century tenure...
Robert Gordon would have us believe that a vote for Birch Bayh is a vote for the poor and oppressed of Brazil and America. Such could not be further from the truth. Birch Bayh is just another politician who caters to a special interest group; in Bayh's case the special interest is organized labor. It is stretching incredulity to say that this group has the interests of the poor and oppressed at heart. By exerting their monopoly power, unions have been a major factor in promoting both inflation and unemployment, neither of which are in the interest...
...most of us in the campaign there had always been the knowledge that Birch Bayh was, politically speaking, the best all around liberal Democratic candidate since Bobby Kennedy. For myself, and perhaps for others, there had been a naive and ongoing belief in his invincibility, in the inevitability of eventual victory. Massachusetts would keep him alive, and New York would put him over...
March 2 was not just a loss, out a massive, mindblowing defeat for Birch Bayh, for Massachusetts liberals, for the voters who did not know better, for the nonvoters who forsook their chance, and for the poor people of Brazil. Especially for the poor people of Brazil and for all of their American counterparts in Massachusetts and across the nation...