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"ref": "1968 July 7, Telford Taylor, “Who's Un-American Now?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "In 1959 ex-President Truman, never one to mince words, called the Committee the “most un-American thing in the country today.” Mr. Goodman strongly disagrees: “…unless one is prepared to blank out large and significant patches of our history, there is nothing un-American about the Un-American Activities Committee.”",
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"ref": "1972, Mike Gravel, Citizen Power: A People's Platform, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page xii",
"text": "Surely there is nothing strange or new or threatening about such a platform. It will distress only those who have the essentially un-American view that change itself is frightening and should be avoided at all costs.",
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"ref": "2012 February 17, Fiachra Gibbons, quoting Bruce Springsteen, “Bruce Springsteen: ‘What was done to my country was un-American’”, in The Guardian",
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"ref": "2018 March 19, Charles M. Blow, “Trump: The Un-American President”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"ref": "2022 June 28, Luke Broadwater, Michael S. Schmidt, quoting Cassidy Hutchinson, “Trump Urged Armed Supporters to Capitol, White House Aide Testifies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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