Elia Kazan Quotes
For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
Kazan, Elia. Testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 10 Apr. 1952.
The presidential nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896 split the Democratic party. Governor Hill was a strong party man, but couldn't abide Bryan's "free silver" and other positions, so when a reporter asked him if he was still a Democrat, and would campaign for Bryan, the governor answered:
As a relatively political unknown, he took the opportunity to tell the press and the public that he was a part of the New York Tammany Hall Machine. At the time most NY politicians saw this as a political assurance to the voters—as opposed to the reformers who might change things. Political machines were mostly affiliated with the Democratic Party in the large cities. The corruption tended to b Republican outside the cities, except in the South where all government was Democratic in reaction to the Civil War Republican role. When the Democrats strove to eliminate racial discrimination in the 1960s. the racists of the South persuaded the Whites to shift to the Republican Party which then dominated most of the South. The people who controlled the corrupt machines however did not change. The corruption of the Southern machines just became Republican labeled.
He was about to become President but his overt, sharp criticism of Communism caused him to be shunted aside.
In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become very critical of organized and orthodox religion of all kinds.
President Lyndon Johnson was distressed over the effectiveness of the anti-war protests and thought that the American leftists, who were among the organizers of the protests, were acting under direction of Russia. He had previously ordered Helms to investigate that, which was (and is) technically illegal. Helms complied, but what the CIA found was not what the president wanted to hear. He told Helms to keep investigating.
Elia Kazan was an American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
