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| Photo credits: Wikimedia Commons; Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report Magazine |
Monday, May 14, 2012
Nicholas Katzenbach
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| Photo credits: Wikimedia Commons; Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report Magazine |
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An utterly remarkable public servant. I look forward with relish to Schapiro's biography. (I don't read too much in this genre, the last one being Urofsky's wonderful work on Brandeis).
I might have mentioned one of the darker moments in Katzenbach's career involved his attempt to discredit the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) with some all-too-familiar red-baiting in 1965, as opposition to the Vietnam War was beginning to gain momentum (ironically, at the same time, the SDS was actually beginning to play a less prominent or coordinating role, at least nationally). The Justice Dept. initiated a national investigation of groups behind the anti-draft and anti-war movement, although in fairness to Katzenbach, his statements were selectively quoted from and therefore somewhat distorted, still, the implication that Communists were at the helm of SDS was simply not true and reinforced mass media distortions and political libel from the Right.
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