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...would dispute that statement. As a young radical hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1939, Lash became a special confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt. That friendship lasted until Eleanor's final days. Lash remembers running back to his room at the White House or Hyde Park after dinner to scribble down what he remembered from conversations with the first family...
...Boston College Law School in 1970 when he ran for the House because of his revulsion against the Viet Nam War. He served with single-minded devotion to liberal causes. He was a leader of the successful battle to abolish the House Internal Security Committee (formerly the Un-American Activities Committee). He advocated strong support for Israel, and he was the first Congressman to introduce a resolution to impeach Richard Nixon. The citation from his 1977 honorary doctorate from Villanova University, which hangs on his office wall, reads, now with some irony: "Your life's work has proved that...
Most outlandish and un-American of all?and disturbing to those who believe that growth in energy use is a necessary element in the improvement of society's well-being?conservation, however limited, is beginning to be a hopeful factor in the nation's energy calculations. To what degree the flammable situation in the Middle East, the world's largest oil- producing region, plays a part remains uncertain. Price is a key factor and it keeps going up. Administration officials are confident that heating-oil supplies are sufficient to tide the nation through the winter, despite the U.S. declaration...
...control of our energy supply for decades to come. It will be devilishly tempting for the government to do obeisance to the private sector and accede to the latter outcome. Our leaders may find the courage to withstand this powerful compulsion in a campaign that brands the oil companies "un-American" and paints a federally-owned oil corporation as an all-American answer. Activists should not be embarrassed about draping their proposals in the American flag. There are a number of ways a publicly-owned oil firm could appeal to traditional American values, and a number of themes activists...
What first impelled Pearson to pursue J. Parnell Thomas, head of the House Un-American Affairs Committee? The belief, according to Anderson, that the "Americanism that went in for public inquisitions into the politcal notions of movie actors was bound to attract the dishonest man, the cheat looking for a patriotic cover." So Pearson learned that Thomas was romancing a young woman in his office; a jealous older secretary's testimony about the Congressman's payroll padding sent Thomas to jail, and a grateful Pearson put her on his payroll for 15 years. In Pearson's eagerness...