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12. Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, “Labor Day, 1985,” Nation, Sept. 7,
1985; Reagan quoted by Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, On Democracy
(Penguin, 1983), 26. For further discussion, see Frank Ackerman,
Hazardous to our Wealth (South End, 1984).
13. The journal of the Newspaper Guild observes that the policies of the
Reagan Administration are causing “the most significant . . . restrictions”
on access to government information “since the end of voluntary
censorship in World War II,” citing numerous Administration actions
“restricting access to information and editorial freedom” and proposed
legislation which shows that “more threats are coming.” Guild Reporter,
March 22, 1985; see Human Rights Internet Reporter, May-August
1985, 563-4, for summary.
14. Ira Glasser, Executive Director, ACLU, open letter, Feb. 24, 1984; see In
Contempt of Congress and the Courts: The Reagan Civil Rights Record
(ACLU, Feb. 27, 1984), for a review of the government’s contempt for
the law on the domestic scene.
15. Subsequently, an all-white jury in a largely black county convicted a
black voting rights activist from the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference of abusing the absentee voting process, the Justice
Department’s first conviction. Five other defendants were found not
guilty; in four of these cases juries were racially mixed. NYT, Oct. 17,
1985.
16. Andrea Bernstein, “Battle in the Black Belt,” Progressive, October 1985;
William Schmidt, NYT, Sept. 29, 1985.
17. Ferguson, “Party Realignment.”
18. On this matter, to which we return, see Cohen and Rogers, On
Democracy.
19. Quoted by Saloma, Ominous Politics, 22.
20. Steve Curwood, BG, Oct. 3, 1985.
21. John Patrick Diggins, NYT Book Review, Oct. 20, 1985.
22. I intend to take up this matter elsewhere, and therefore will not go into
details here. See Peter Biskind, “Vietnam: a TV history,” on the PBS
series, and my article on the companion volume by Stanley Karnow, in