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...confused with other house organs, the Black Book is a case study of a rightist movement among the inhabitants of the Okeefenokee swamp. It presents shocking and no doubt suppressed information about the threats boring the Republic from within, all the clear and present dangers in our midst and on our doorsteps. A series of memorable characters and vignettes warn us that there is little time left; we are on the brink, and there is much loin girding, belt tightening, and upper lip stiffening to be done. Maybe a little flag waving and God snatching...
...mind with a powerful, if threadbare message. He is the Flounder of the Jack Acid Society, its spirited, selfless leader. He guides the Deacon when that Godsymp's flesh weakens, and it is Mole who prepares the Society's blacklist. The list of all the suspect members of the swamp is quite comprehensive; it even includes Mole's friend, the Deacon...
...Chicago they know them as WASPS (for White Appalachian Southern Protestants), in Cincinnati as SAMS (for Southern Appalachian Migrants). St. Louis calls them, among other things, swamp turkeys and hoosiers. In Columbus and Cleveland they are simply called hillbillies (the name they dislike most). By whatever name, more than a million impoverished white Southerners, comprising 20% of the population of the 250 Appalachian Mountain counties in nine Southern states, *moved northward between 1950 and 1960 to eke out a precarious living in the big cities. Packed into secondhand cars loaded down with their meager possessions, swarms still arrive every...
...example of the President's attitude toward State politics, Gleason cited an anecdote from Theodore H. Whites The Making of the President 1960. Someone asked Kennedy, then a Presidential candidate, what he had done during his career in Massachusetts. Reportedly Kennedy answered "I've kept out of the swamp...
...expenditures rather than "order" them. To help Vinson out of his hole, President Kennedy suggested: "Why don't we send a letter that you could make public?" Without a word, Vinson produced a draft of such a letter. Laughed Kennedy: "That's where you got the name Swamp Fox." Then, while Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. along with other White House and Vinson aides. debated about the precise wording of letters to be signed by the President and McNamara, Kennedy and Vinson strolled through the Rose Garden. When they returned, the agreement was ready...