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Pete Seeger, one of the most memorable people in the documentary, reflects on his experience as a communist with this remark: "If you're going to mourn don't mourn for a fighter who made a mistake and lost." Seeing Red all but praises. Like The Good Fight, which tells the story of the Lincoln Brigade, it presents a history of America on film unavailable in any other medium. Seeing Red is a comprehensive study of American Communists that allows one to meet the ideology of communism through the once youthful eyes of those who saw an America below their...
...suggestion of the remark by the man who campaigned against Washington is ask not what you can do for government, but what your government...
...remark that I was "in control... pending return of the Vice President" was a statement of the fact that I was the senior Cabinet officer present. I was talking about the arrangements we had made in the Situation Room for the three-or four-hour period in which we awaited the return of the Vice President from Texas. Less precise, though in the same context, was my statement that "constitutionally ... you have the President, the Vice President and the Secretary of State, in that order." I ought to have said "traditionally" or "administratively" instead of "constitutionally...
...BIOGRAPHY of E.B. White, author Scott Elledge reports a remark about White which the poet Adrienne Rich made in a letter to Katharine Angell. White's late wife. Rich said "she thought, without detracting an inch from H.D.T., that it must be a good deal more difficult to be E.B. White in the 20th century than Henry Thoreau in the 19th ... How's this? Is White a troubled or oppressed American? Famous as a stylist, essayist, and author of children's books. White has long been identified with the The New Yorker. America's most prestigious and profitable magazine...
...have no recollection." But at a Manchester synagogue two days before the New Hampshire primary, Jackson finally admitted making the offensive comments. "In private talks we sometimes let our guard down and become thoughtless," he explained. "It was not in a spirit of meanness, but an off-color remark having no bearing on religion or politics. However innocent and unintended, it was insensitive and wrong...