Epstein Secrets

history actually knew that the U.S. air war in Southeast Asia was a dism=l failure. Even as he was telling the media that the saturation bomb=ngs of Vietnam and Laos were "very effective," Nixon was =rivately acknowledging the opposite. "We have had 10 ye=rs of total control of the air in Laos and V.Nam,

er, "Mr. Conservative." Always first an= foremost a libertarian, he lashed out in the 1980s at the religious right=movement led by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. In the 1990s, orthorox conservatives denounced him as a liberal for supporting environmental protections and gay rights. Indeed, it's fair to say t

e an example of the former; but to challenge under the same circumstances Senator J. William Fulbright for his opposition to Administration policy in Vietnam is considered by insiders to be a frightening instance of the latter. The more Jacqueline Kennedy has tried to erase the crudeness of her husband's s

closest friend. He was responsible for launching The Realist. The masthead announced, “Freethought Criticism and Satire.” In the words of the late Jerry Falwell--who once said that God is pro- war-- “If you’ re not a born-again Christian, you’ re a failure as a human being.” We salute, then, a few successfu/h

husband’s decision, but there was nothing I could say that would make him change his mind. He talked about patriotism and the need to end the war in Vietnam and insisted that he was doing the right thing. Five years after he retired from the Supreme Court, Justice Goldberg decided to run for governor. He

atements about blacks, gays, and foreigners to shouting fire in a crowded theater. I responded with my own op-ed, disputing the analogy. The Reverend Jerry Falwell, in arguing that the First Amendment doesn’t protect a parody of him having drunken sex with his mother, invoked the Holmes example: “Just as no pers

career in several important cases pitting national security against the First Amendment. These early cases grew out of our disastrous experience in Vietnam, and I observed at close range the ravages of war on our freedoms at home. The first major Vietnam case was the conspiracy prosecution against Dr. B

es have superimposed the heads of public figures on the bodies of others to demean or insult them. In 1988, the Supreme Court ruled that the Reverend Jerry Falwell could not sue Hustler Magazine for publishing a parody of the well known Campari Liqueur ads in which a celebrity described “his first time.” The ad

pacity and _ intellectual sophistication. Yet, the spiritual climate of these English intellectual Christians were different from today’s post, post Vietnam return of the religious themes of the turn of the Twentieth Century, big tent revivalism and Billy Sunday’s brand of Christian patriotic America. Tod

n angry, and it frightened me. | never anticipated that my culturally enriched, intellectually sophisticated sons would be quoting Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. 123 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013623 The Freudian psychoanalyst of my younger days tried to write off these (to me) cataclysmic changes as manifestations o