Orson Bean Quotes
I certainly have no plans to quit the United States.
The Congressman represented a heavily Italian district that was very ambivalent about fighting for America in World War I. He addressed his constituents.
Seeger had been a Communist in his youth and left the Party after Stalin’s excesses were disclosed, but he always espoused liberal causes like civil rights, rights of labor, freedom of speech and he was against the Vietnam War. Critics always accused him of hating America because he found fault with so much. See {639853} for more of his views on the subject.
All foreign immigrants were welcome provided they would “renounce” their allegiance to an foreign ruler or religious leader. The latter was really directed at Roman Catholics. European history had many instances where the Pope and the Vatican plotted with different forces to produce armed rebellion in various states to maintain a Catholic Establishment. England and Ireland were both the subjects of Papal revolutionary initiatives and the Americans were well aware of it. Popes and cardinals had ordered good Catholics to take various political positions including what was treason and sedition. The fear of political control of American Catholics motivated the inclusion of Ecclesiastical renouncement to become a naturalized citizen. Also note that it was the States who controlled citizenship at that time and not the Federal Government.
Orson Bean was a veteran American film, television, and stage actor, and a comedian, writer, and producer. He was a game show and talk show host and a "mainstay of Los Angeles’s small theater scene." He appeared frequently on several televised game shows from the 1960s through the 1980s and was a longtime panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth. "A storyteller par excellence", he was a favorite of Johnny Carson, appearing on The Tonight Show over 200 times.
