Nixon's well-deserved shove from office is viewed by 1960s liberals as vindication of their activism in the later part of that decade and the early part of the next.
It was for a while, but in 1981 Ronald Reagan moved into the White House for an eight-year stay.
My congresswoman, Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston), is a child of 1960s "movement" politics, as is her husband, Robert Creamer. I'm sure neither will appreciate the irony that Creamer (no relation to the sports author) started writing his book in "The house with many doors," just as "Tricky Dicky" had pledged he'd do.
From Lynn Sweet's Chicago Sun-Times blog, here's what Creamer says:
I did much of the preliminary work on this book while spending five months on a forced sabbatical at the Federal Prison Camp at Terre Haute, Indiana.
Creamer drew the attention of federal authorities because he kited checks while executive director of the Illinois Public Action Council, a self-appointed consumer advocacy group. Rep. Schakowsky, who was not implicated in any crimes, served on the board of the organization while Creamer was writing those funny checks.
Author Creamer declares that the "liberal" word should vanish.
Sweet writes:
He also suggests that liberals toss out that label in favor of branding themselves as progressive, if for no other reason than the right has "vilified" the word liberal so much that’s it's a negative.
The Left has been trying for years to tar the word conservative, but with no success. Why is that?
Creamer's book, which will be published next month, is called Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win.
It's skipping the hardcover stage, the book will come out as a paperback.Hat to Backyard Conservative.
Related post:
Ex-con and congresswoman's husband Creamer taught at Camp Obama
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