Liars (42 page)

“ ‘hordes of barbaric yellow dwarves' ”
Adam Serwer, “Lyndon Johnson Was a Civil Rights Hero. But Also a Racist.”
MSNBC.com
, April 12, 2014,
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism
.

“ ‘pretend you're a goddamn piece of furniture' ”
Adam Serwer, “Lyndon Johnson Was a Civil Rights Hero. But Also a Racist.”
MSNBC.com
, April 12, 2014,
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism
.

“ ‘any civil rights legislation' ”
Wynton Hall, “The Unknown History of Civil Rights,”
TownHall.com
, February 4, 2008,
http://townhall.com/columnists/wyntonhall/2008/02/04/the_unknown_history_of_civil_rights
.

“ ‘the nigger bill' ”
Adam Serwer, “Lyndon Johnson Was a Civil Rights Hero. But Also a Racist.”
MSNBC.com
, April 12, 2014,
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism
.

“ ‘everyone to know he's a nigger' ”
Adam Serwer, “Lyndon Johnson Was a Civil Rights Hero. But Also a Racist.”
MSNBC.com
, April 12, 2014,
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism
.

“ ‘than Democrats' ”
Alicia W. Stewart and Tricia Escobedo, “What You Might Not Know about the 1964 Civil Rights Act,”
CNN.com
, April 10, 2014,
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/politics/civil-rights-act-interesting-facts/
.

“he became president himself”
Roger Stone and Phillip Nelson, “The Truth About LBJ and MLK,” Breitbart, December 30, 2014,
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/30/the-truth-about-lbj-and-mlk/
.

“Democratic nomination in 1964”
Roger Stone and Phillip Nelson, “The Truth About LBJ and MLK,” Breitbart, December 30, 2014,
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/30/the-truth-about-lbj-and-mlk/
.

“his marital infidelities”
Dia Kayyali, “FBI's ‘Suicide Letter' to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance,” Electronic Frontier Foundation, November 12, 2014,
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance
.

“on the basis of ‘national security' ”
“June 16, 1967: LBJ Orders No Wiretapping,” Today in Civil Liberties History, accessed May 27, 2016,
http://todayinclh.com/?event=lbj-orders-no-wiretapping
.

“ ‘is bared to the nation' ”
Dia Kayyali, “FBI's ‘Suicide Letter' to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance,” Electronic Frontier Foundation, November 12, 2014,
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance
.

“as the population ages and people live longer”
John Stossel, “The Medicare Ponzi Scheme,”
TownHall.com
, May 21, 2009,
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2009/05/20/the_medicare_ponzi_scheme
.

“ ‘drug bills cut in half' ”
“Bush Promotes Medicare Prescription Drug Plan,”
FoxNews.com
, March 14, 2006,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/03/14/bush-promotes-medicare-prescription-drug-plan.html
.

“$1.3 million for a family of four”
John Stossel, “The Medicare Ponzi Scheme,”
TownHall.com
, May 21, 2009,
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2009/05/20/the_medicare_ponzi_scheme
.

“to spy on antiwar activists and other dissidents”
The Rockefeller Commission,
Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States
, June 1975, Assassination Archives and Research Center, chap. 11,
https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/rockcomm/pdf/RockComm_Chap11_CHAOS.pdf
.

“files collected on them by the government”
David P. Hadley, “America's ‘Big Brother': A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance,”
Origins
7, no. 3, December 2013,
http://origins.osu.edu/article/americas-big-brother-century-us-domestic-surveillance
.

“ ‘Nothing more' ”
Brendon O'Connor,
A Political History of the American Welfare System: When Ideas Have Consequences
(Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004).

“attended the Republican National Convention”
Brooks Jackson, “Hillary Worked for Goldwater?”
FactCheck.org
, March 27, 2008,
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/hillary-worked-for-goldwater/
.

“George McGovern's disastrous presidential campaign”
Martha T. Moore, “6 things to know about Hillary Clinton,”
On Politics
(blog),
USA Today
, April 12, 2015,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2015/04/12/hillary-clinton-six-things-to-know/81596160/
.

“ ‘an inspiration' ”
Lyndon B. Johnson, “Remarks Upon Accepting a Portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” (Washington D.C., January 31, 1967), The American Presidency at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=28316
.

“ ‘toward the broader horizons of human hope' ”
Lyndon B. Johnson, “Remarks Upon Accepting a Portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” (Washington D.C., January 31, 1967), The American Presidency at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=28316
.

“ ‘how many kids did you kill today' ”
“Hey! Hey! LBJ!”
The Economist
, September 28, 2013,
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21586830-what-current-fascination-lyndon-johnson-says-about-barack-obamas-america-hey-hey
.

“a decent political legacy”
“Lessons Learned: LBJ Announces He Will Not Seek Reelection,” Council on Foreign Relations, March 27, 2012,
http://www.cfr.org/world/lessons-learned-lbj-announces-he-not-seek-reelection/p27745
.

“ ‘another term as your president' ”
Lyndon B. Johnson, “Address to the Nation Announcing Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam and Reporting His Decision Not to Seek Reelection,” (speech, Washington, D.C., March 31, 1968), LBJ Presidential Library,
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/680331.asp
.

“ ‘tyrannical' ”
Jacques Kelly and Carl Schoettler, “Philip Berrigan, Apostle of Peace, Dies at 79,”
The Baltimore Sun
, December 7, 2002,
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2002-12-07/news/0212070391_1_philip-berrigan-vietnam-war-jonah
.

“by the age of five”
Shawn Francis Peters,
The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).

“church's work in social justice”
Shawn Francis Peters,
The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).

“ran over the cobblestone”
Terry Lenzner,
The Investigator: 50 Years of Uncovering the Truth
(New York: Penguin Group, 2013), p. 84.

“cooked with whatever she had to spare”
Mary Pemberton, “1 [
sic
] Arrests Later, Phillip Berrigan Still Fighting for Peace,”
The Seattle Times
, September 12, 1993,
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930912&slug=1720603
.

“made to resemble napalm”
Mary Pemberton, “1 [
sic
] Arrests Later, Phillip Berrigan Still Fighting For Peace,”
The Seattle Times
, September 12, 1993,
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930912&slug=1720603
.

“a ‘grave' on the Rumsfelds' lawn”
Donald Rumsfeld,
Known and Unknown: A Memoir
(New York: Sentinel, 2011), p. 217.

“six years in prison”
Mary Pemberton, “1 [
sic
] Arrests Later, Phillip Berrigan Still Fighting For Peace,”
The Seattle Times
, September 12, 1993,
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930912&slug=1720603
.

CHAPTER 5: FOURTH WAVE: THE HOPE AND CHANGE OF BARACK OBAMA

“highly segregated city”
Nate Silver, “The Most Diverse Cities Are Often the Most Segregated,”
FiveThirtyEight.com
, May 1, 2015,
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-diverse-cities-are-often-the-most-segregated/
.

“Hyde Park stands out as a vibrant, racially diverse”
Peter Slevin, “Uncommon Ground,”
The Washington Post
, October 16, 2008,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101503728.html?sid=ST2008101503923
.

“former domestic terrorists”
David Remnick, “Mr. Ayer's Neighborhood,”
The New Yorker
, November 4, 2008,
http://www.newyorker.com/the-new-yorker-blog/mr-ayerss-neighborhood
.

“take any responsibility for it”
Joe Miller, “Obama a Constitutional Law Professor?”
FactCheck.org
, March 28, 2008,
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/obama-a-constitutional-law-professor/
.

“FBI's Ten Most Wanted list”
Ben Joravsky, “The
Long, Strange Trip of Bill Ayers,”
The Chicago Reader
, November 8, 1990,
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-long-strange-trip-of-bill-ayers/Content?oid=876592
.

“killing those who got in the way”
“Bill Ayers,”
DiscoverTheNetworks.org
, accessed May 28, 2016,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169
.

“adhere to their beliefs”
Dinitia Smith, “No Regrets for a Love of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life with the Weathermen,”
The New York Times,
September 11, 2001,
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/books/no-regrets-for-love-explosives-memoir-sorts-war-protester-talks-life-with.html?pagewanted=all
.

“professor of law at Northwestern University”
“Bernardine Dohrn,”
DiscoverTheNetworks.org
, accessed May 28, 2016,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2190
.

“murdered at least seven people”
Alfred S. Regnery, “They're All in This Together,”
The American Spectator
, September 2, 2011,
http://spectator.org/37001_theyre-all-together/
.

“didn't seem to have a whole lot of sympathy”
Guy Benson, “Confirmed: Bill Ayers Hosted Fundraiser for Obama,”
Townhall.com
, November 30, 2011,
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/11/30/confirmed_bill_ayers_hosted_a_fundraiser_for_obama
.

“ ‘some people have to die' ”
Alfred S. Regnery, “They're All in This Together,”
The American Spectator
, September 2, 2011,
http://spectator.org/37001_theyre-all-together/
.

“calls himself a progressive”
Charles Kesler,
I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism
(New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. x.

“he was destined for prominence”
Andrew Walden, “What Barack Obama Learned from the Communist Party,”
American Thinker
, July 8, 2008,
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html
.

“to be taken care of by her parents”
Thandeka, “Obama's Religious Roots,”
UU World
, Fall 2012, October 8, 2012,
http://www.uuworld.org/articles/obamas-religious-roots
.

“ ‘after himself' ”
Tim Jones, “Family Portraits: Strong Personalities Shaped a Future Senator, Barack Obama,”
Chicago Tribune
, March 27, 2007,
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-03-27/features/0703270151_1_sen-barack-obama-stanley-ann-dunham-coffee-shops
.

“ ‘What's wrong with Communism' ”
Andrew Walden, “What Barack Obama Learned from the Communist Party,”
American Think
er, July 8, 2008,
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html
.

“ ‘The Little Red Church on the Hill' ”
Glenn Beck, “Barack Obama's Foundation,”
FoxNews.com
, April 6, 2010,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2010/04/06/barack-obama-foundation.html
.

“ ‘position-paper liberalism' ”
Barack Obama,
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
(New York: Times Books, 1995), p. 75.

“ ‘how I go about the world of politics' ”
Tim Jones, “Family Portraits: Strong Personalities Shaped a Future Senator, Barack Obama,”
Chicago Tribune
, March 27, 2007,
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-03-27/features/0703270151_1_sen-barack-obama-stanley-ann-dunham-coffee-shops
.