Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hoffa's release and the large contributions that the Temaster's union made to Nixon's re-election campaign are being investigated by the Watergate Special Prosecutors office, recent news reports have said...
...Hoffa still believes in Nixon. "I guess he [Colson] hoodwinked Nixon," he says. Hoffa also defends Nixon on Watergate, saying that the "expose has almost wrecked the entire country...
Similarly, Hoffa sweepingly condemns government transgressions of civil liberties, but seems reluctant to assign blame. He opposes wiretapping, but is unwilling to condemn the Nixon administration directly for asserting its unlimited authority to wiretap without court order: "I'm opposed to all wiretapping, I'm opposed to room bugging, I'm opposed to any kind of spy system against people in this country...
...There's no question that the U.S. is a police state. They've got more investigatory bodies and inquisitory bodies here in this country in the guise of law than anywhere else in the world," Hoffa says, but he is unwilling to make the connection between his case and the ones of leftist political prisoners, one of whom, Philip Berrigan, was in Lewisburg with...
...Though Hoffa terms himself a political prisoner, and it is evident that he shares many of the left's criticisms of Gestapo-like tactics, he is unwilling to acknowledge that their use in this country can be politically motivated. He seems to believe all problems are solvable by traditional liberal means, that "social changes come about only by the better education of people and by the way which they learn to live within the education they secure...