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...Doesn't it strike you as strange," says Robert Scheer, the former Ramparts editor who spent three months watching Brown for Playboy magazine, "that here's an S.O.B. who pretends not to be interested in traditional politics, and after a little more than a year of being in office, he's running for president...
...Scheer, his voice made hollow by several thousand miles of telephone wire from San Francisco warns, "He's a sharp, cunning, ruthless politician. And if you buy that mystic stuff, you're crazy...
...Crap!" cries Scheer. "That guy never reads a book. He's a politician. He's...he's..." Silence on the other end of the phone for a moment. "He's Sam Huntington! He's Pat Moynihan!" Now Scheer, who as an Institute of Politics guest at Harvard led the famous demonstration which kept Robert MacNamara captive for hours, is livid. The phone falls. "You don't believe me? Read the interview again. He's a return to the politics of the fifties, the paranoia of the Cold War, enemies everywhere, too much dissent. I know he believes that there...
...Scheer's Playboy interview happens to be the most specific outline of Brown's beliefs to be found east of Encino. It is a surprising collection of views from a man once viewed as a great liberal hope. For instance, on military budget cuts, Brown says...
...Scheer and Bell attacked the capitalist system for "breeding racism and poverty." Bell, a machine operator and Vietnam war veteran, stated, "The reason we don't have low-cost housing in Cambridge is because it's not profitable. Capitalists only invest in things that are profitable, like...