One day our teacher, an Englishman who had worked in Canada, came into the classroom and spoke these words:
"If you ever have any say in the matter, do everything possible to make sure that Richard Nixon never becomes President of the United States of America."
One day our teacher, an Englishman who had worked in Canada, came into the classroom and spoke these words:
"If you ever have any say in the matter, do everything possible to make sure that Richard Nixon never becomes President of the United States of America."
I don't recall now if there were Americans in that class, maybe one, the son of a distinguished general. But I suspect I'll have been one of the few to have gotten the message, remembering that face well from the unsavory group assisting Senator Joe McCarthy at the HUAC hearings.
1952. At school in England. I was 12.
One day our teacher, an Englishman who had worked in Canada, came into the classroom and spoke these words:
"If you ever have any say in the matter, do everything possible to make sure that Richard Nixon never becomes President of the United States of America."
I don't recall now if there were Americans in that class, maybe one, the son of a distinguished general. But I suspect I'll have been one of the few to have gotten the message, remembering that face well from the unsavory group assisting Senator Joe McCarthy at the HUAC hearings.
And those of us who remember know that HUAC is pronounced HUE-ack.