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Jefferson's yeoman farmer and today's middle American are both on the outside looking in. But the corporations also exert their influence directly, through the authoritarian organization of the shop. Working people in this country, according to Rifkin, are told what to do on the job and off the job. Because so few Americans are self-employed now this corporate influence is greater than the East India Tea Company could ever have dreamt back in the eighteenth century. Rifkin links the two struggles with these gems from Thomas Jefferson...
...Tower's red-and-black-clad Yeoman Warders (the Beefeaters) scrambled to carry the injured out of the basement. Said Armory Warder Harry Harrington: "It was just like wartime. There was a woman with her leg off, kids with no clothes." When the dust settled, 37 persons, including eight children, had been injured. Two of the victims lost their legs, and a child's foot was found beneath the cannon. One British woman, Dorothy Household, 47, died later that night...
Welander admitted that perhaps he should have tried to find out more about the information provided by Radford. But far from staying on the defensive, the admiral accused the yeoman of being out to get him. Welander's charge stemmed from the fact that in December 1971 he had been the first to suspect that Radford was the one who had leaked a number of highly sensitive documents to Columnist Jack Anderson. The job of finding the leak was turned over to the plumbers and their chief, John Ehrlichman, then Nixon's top domestic adviser...
...when Radford was questioned by the plumbers, according to Welander, the yeoman turned the inquiry round by detonating the bombshell that he had been stealing documents on orders of his superiors since 1970. Ehrlichman then called in Welander and demanded that he sign a statement on White House stationery that, in the admiral's words to the committee, admitted "totally false charges of 'political spying' on the White House." Welander refused to sign...
When he learned about the plumbers' investigation of Radford, Admiral Moorer testified, he twice recommended starting court-martial proceedings against the yeoman, only to be overruled by a "higher authority," whose identity was never revealed...