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Abbie Hoffman — Part 38

123 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Oct 14, 1971 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 122 pages OCR'd
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f. Abbott Howard Hoffmari. } 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 narty tn nawer and the narty ant af nawanr Tt Ranneane nnw le wy a oT Ta Te tre oO wea wah ww wa ih wTwrwsA © a. ae Ye we tae enw FE 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 ah et tree ‘by hte 4 wanlana ashes A bnew «2 sAaAaAwan 1: enawenalew an Ba vw Lip, 44840 2 bhi PA eeu BIW ANY fH YLT couy eee ORV Ee wag mae 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 Af aznuvsnae NEO fauna aut akhant and thie micht hava Reaan ans or eV Ow Mey £2 VS OW I Oe a 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. - 12 -
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