Go one step beyond that and maybe put out these papers. In every case i got serious answers. But the point was, as ator gravel put it to me, as senator goodell put it to me, dan, and my business, you cant ridiculous. Ook you cannot afford to be laughed at. The top people in the senate t i mentioned here im a some said much the same, if i could find somebody else to go with me, i would do it, but i cant do it myself. I look foolish. I can afford that. Here was a senator not afraid to look foolish. Basically, that is the fear that keeps people in line. All their lives. [applause] yous the kind of thing learned your mothers me to my to get along, go along your fathers knee. And dont stick out and dont make yourselves look, you know dont raise her head, sort of this thing, and look ridiculous. Wasnt afraid to do that on a transcendent issue like the draft. I thought, ok, maybe this is a guy. I had met the other once before, i knew them. So i did not know him. I said, ok, hes doing a filibu
Go one step beyond that and maybe put out these papers. In every case i got serious answers. But the point was, as ator gravel put it to me, as senator goodell put it to me, dan, and my business, you cant ridiculous. Ook you cannot afford to be laughed at. The top people in the senate t i mentioned here im a some said much the same, if i could find somebody else to go with me, i would do it, but i cant do it myself. I look foolish. I can afford that. Here was a senator not afraid to look foolish. Basically, that is the fear that keeps people in line. All their lives. [applause] yous the kind of thing learned your mothers me to my to get along, go along your fathers knee. And dont stick out and dont make yourselves look, you know dont raise her head, sort of this thing, and look ridiculous. Wasnt afraid to do that on a transcendent issue like the draft. I thought, ok, maybe this is a guy. I had met the other once before, i knew them. So i did not know him. I said, ok, hes doing a filibu
It occurred 50 years ago this month, a story known primarily by people now dead but one that is vital for our times, and for all time.
It is a tale about the Pentagon Papers, the Unitarian Universalist Church, a teeny publishing house, a radical historian, a renegade Pentagon employee, a couple of suitcases spilling over with secret documents, a meeting on Boston Common, a few FBI agents, and â here is the poetry and poignance of it all â a tourist walk called the Freedom Trail.
And at the center of it all is an enigmatic senator who died at age 91, last month on June 26.
It occurred 50 years ago this month, a story known primarily by people now dead but one that is vital for our times, and for all time. It is a tale about the Pentagon Papers, the Unitarian Universalist Church, a teeny publishing house, a radical historian, a renegade Pentagon employee, a couple of suitcases spilling over with secret documents, a meeting on Boston Common, a few FBI agents, and â here is the poetry and poignance of it all â a tourist walk called the Freedom Trail.
And at the center of it all is an enigmatic senator who died at age 91 last weekend.
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