Surveillance and the sort of central question i want to think about today is can intelligence agencies operate in a Democratic Society and be successful at protecting the government and its citizens while also upholding those same Citizens Rights . Especially the right to dissent. In other words, are liberty and procurity compatible . No doubt, there is a need for intelligence communities to operate. Threats exist from foreign and domestic sources, those threats are real. They have been real throughout u. S. History and they can come from across the political spectrum. But for over a century, in addition to taking real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the United States government have surveilled those who have expressed what the Cato Institute described as, quote, Strong Political views that run count toer to the prevailing government paradigm. This challenges the notion by those who support a state of some sort if you have nothing to hide, you hav
My parents didnt have an answer. It became kind of a quest to find out about it in the sense that there was enormous power and that would change the direction of my life. When i wasnt looking for it to happen. Cspan how many of your years did you think about this . Guest i started after i got into a book career in the late 70s after magazine journalism. I wanted to write about this period because i hadnt answered the question what is it made of and i thought in 1981 with what was proposed to be a three year history of the teen years and its now been 16 years and ive done it in two volumes is now projected to be a trilogy or will be a trilogy after i finish it but i would have 20 years. Definitely turning into my life work but im thankful for the privilege of it. Cspan the first book, parting the waters, 1,056 pages. This but there are 546 pages. Whats been your approach . Guest to do it in storytelling. One of the reasons i wanted to do it is i knew this had an enormous impact like the
Morgan college, loyola and johns hopkins, they decided they were going to stop taking no for answer answer and they were going to get this thing done. By this point, other businesses in the downtown, including drug steers, even some other theaters, they were already getting desegregated. But the northwood theater was a holdout. The students and the civil rights activists ramped up their protests that february. They ramped up into a confrontation that looked like this. On the left there, the white guy with the cigar is obviously from the theater, he is standing in the door of the theater, telling this orderly cue of wouldbe black patrons, no, you are not getting in. This is from the Baltimore Sun at the time. They kept up their demand to be let in, day after day. The theater kept saying no. The police started arresting people. At first by the dozens and ultimately by the hundreds as these protests stretched on increasing in size for a week. The Baltimore Sun said the police started to r
To make it clear, i hear references about my contribution to dr. king s speech. dr. king wrote most of his speeches, i was honored together with the very dear, beloved friend of mine and a major adviser to him by the name of stanley levenson. periodically to provide suggested material, in connection with the speech he gave on the march on washington, i had provided him with a summary of ideas and summary of language that he had previously discussed. so it wasn t as if i was providing him with some creative ideas that were solely mine. i was more like a secretary who was summarizing and putting in the form that could be used for the speech, the opening paragraphs, little did i know, until i was sitting listening to him, i was standing some 50 feet behind him, when i was listening very carefully, i said, oh, my god, i guess he decided to use those opening paragraphs.
Friend of mine and a major adviser to him by the name of stanley levenson. periodically to provide suggested material, in connection with the speech he gave on the march on washington, i had provided him with a summary of ideas and summary of language that he had previously discussed. so it wasn t as if i was providing him with some creative ideas that were solely mine. i was more like a secretary who was summarizing and putting in the form that could be used for the speech, the opening paragraphs, little did i know, until i was sitting listening to him, i was standing some 50 feet behind him, when i was listening very carefully, i said, oh, my god, i guess he decided to use those opening paragraphs. to those paragraphs, which constituted the first seven paragraphs.