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Abbie Hoffman — Part 37
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Branch of the United States Government can respond to the
Executive Branch of the United States Government,
The result, ‘hey were turned down by the networks.
What did they do next? They appealed to the Federal
Communications Commission, What'd the FCC do? The Fcc
turned them down. Now, without regard to how you feel
about Richard Nixon or what not, you've got an imbalance
between the Legisiative and Executive Branch of Government,
that is a matter of concern to a lot of political scientists
who study the matter and ought to be of concern to a lot
of American citizens,
The second imbalance is an imbalance between the
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that the Republicans have the White House. It doesn't make
any difference in terms of what I'm saying whose in the
. White House. The point is when Richard Nixon decides he
wants to do the China Show and then the Moscow Special and
tonight do us his little White House Supreme Court appointments
version of & Checker Speech, there's really no way that
anybody in the Democratic Party can answer the China Show.
I mean, what do you do? (Unintelligible) even..,..,even Muskie
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answer to a China spectacular, And this is a very real
problem that you simply must (unintelligible).....I don't see
many people concerning about it..uh...and I think they ought
to be.
Apbie Hoffman:
Maybe I could....this was one of the incidents and
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of the clues as to why John Chancellor wasn't here, About a
week ago I gave a speech at Drew University in Madison, New
Jersey, at which I made some comments about hip culture being
devoid of politics, people turning on and not getting involved
in politics and without politics the culture meant crap. And
to illustrate the point, I pulled out 4 switchblade and I
carry that around to different speeches and I hacked off a
hunk Of. 4.8 hunk of locks and threw them down in the stage to
Gramatized the point. And @ iot of peopie Gv, up took
photographs as they invariably do and there was an AP
Story that was at ileast...that got quite distorted and the
story that John Chancellor broadcast on NBC Went something
iike this.
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