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...White House been so consistently alien to the values of the people as during Nixon's reign of terror. He delivered packaged death to Vietnam and we protested; he sliced away at the programs that helped the poor, and we cried out in pain. But never had contempt for youth been so clear in such powerful places as it was during the Nixon regime; never had so many of the government's facilities been employed to strangle opposition, Never had corruption and evil been so clear, and yet so seemingly invincible; never had justice been in so broad a retreat...
...been the duty of every freeborn humorist to make jokes at us." He may have had in mind Mark Twain's crack that Congress is our only native American criminal class. But there have been times in recent years when the entire nation could have been indicted for contempt of Congress...
...Hollywood Ten," Charlie Chaplin, Paul Robeson, and numerous others of greater and lesser note whose only crimes were either to refuse to answer questions concerning their political affiliations, or to acknowledge past membership in the Communist Party, U.S.A. Many of the former group wound up in prison for contempt of Congress; many of the latter found their careers and livelihood destroyed...
Nixon gambled desperately on releasing his transcripts; it was not much of a gamble though, with the Supreme Court, 8 to 0, forcing the issue. The tapes, even in edited form, revealed an atmosphere of startling moral squalor in the White House, a spirit of callousness and contempt for law that repelled even Nixon's steadiest allies. The House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearings showed to a nation skeptical about Congress a group of earnest men and women trying to achieve fairness in a historic and profoundly disagreeable job. At last Nixon was forced to yield up what...
Historically, Harvard's graduates have generally stood with the social engineers, beginning with those Harvard-educated Abolitionists whose sensitivity to the plight of black slaves strangely blended with a massive contempt for Irish workers. By helping to create and run a society that kept poor blacks and whites fighting for its leavings, these people helped to nourish the roots of racism, even though they discriminated only in the most genteel ways--much like Harvard today, with its fashionably mild distaste for the Afro-American Studies Department and its yearly production of a crop of youth to fill the houses...