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...Ever since the first reports began trickling in of the butchery in the Congo, I have been running around to my fellow whites calling on them to rejoice. "By golly," I cry, "those goddam nuns, missionaries and doctors are really getting what they deserve. What are they but a bunch of lousy outside agitators, not even of the same race, going in there trying to change the Congolese way of life? Don't they have enough sin and disease back where they came from? Why don't they clean up the mess at home before bothering other people...
...months after his 1962 election to the Philadelphia N.A.A.C.P. chapter presidency, Moore broke into print with some remarkable outbursts against Jewish leaders in the civil rights field. He knew of none, he said, who was not "a goddam phony." Later he claimed that he had been misquoted, said that he had really been castigating the whole lot of "socalled Northern white liberals," who are "all a bunch of phonies. I accuse anybody who exploits another group as anti-American. This includes Negroes, Catholics, Jews, newspapers, everybody...
First, after picking a not-too-friendly legislator to manage the bill on the floor, Fenstemaker wears him down with Bible-belt hectoring: "World's cavin' in all round us; rocket ships blastin' off to the moon; poisonous gas in our environment; sinful goddam nation laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers. My princes are rebels and companions of thieves." Next Fenstemaker prevails on the speaker of the house to move the bill up on the calendar. "He's a reasonable and honorable man," explained the Governor. "All I had to do was threaten to ruin...
...their Governor because he settles for so many half-loaves and refuses to talk like a liberal, are scathingly portrayed as a cynical, ingrown coterie that spends most of its time boozing and rutting. Fenstemaker, groans one liberal, is "Mahatma Gandhi and Rasputin, the Prince of Darkness and the goddam Mystic Angel." But he concedes that the old fox "knew what absolutely had to be done; he could engage himself and then withdraw without losing that commanding vision...
...Patton's Third Army across Europe, he would lean from his Sherman tank, chomping on a huge cigar, and rally his tankers with his war cry: "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Said Abrams: "I like to get out on the point where there's nothing but me and the goddam Germans and we can fight by ourselves." When the 101st Airborne was surrounded at the Battle of the Bulge, Abrams led the relief column into Bastogne, later led the dash to the Rhine...