Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
GORE VIDALAs for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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