Charles Murray Quotes
My whole career has been one wrong answer after another as far as the left is concerned.
Murray, Charles. Interview by Jason DeParle. The New York Times Magazine, 9 Oct. 1994.
In the latter part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, one of the tactics of conservatives was to accuse liberal candidates and office holders of being un-American, unpatriotic, and disloyal to the country. The tactic goes back to the beginning of the nation when Jefferson and the Democratic Republicans claimed the Federalists were un-American--monarchists and Anglophiles. In the 1950’s, Senator Joseph McCarthy attacked President Truman, Secretary of State Acheson, Secretary of the Army Stevenson and many others for “un-Americanism.” Even wounded war hero, paraplegic, Senator Max Cleland was accused by Republicans a of being unpatriotic which led to his defeat at the polls. So accusing the President of being un-American, was that unique an act even though it shocked most Americans.
Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente
Eldest son of Robert Walpole
Republicans when they had control of both houses of Congress and the White House did just what Gingrich had feared and promised that they would not—engaged in right-wing social engineering.
Nixon had just made a television address explaining why he had asked for the resignations of his two most senior White House aides in the midst of the Watergate scandal. Nixon continued his lies and there were some of his supporters, like Graham, who were still fooled. Note the reference to Ruth—Graham’s wife. Nixon, himself, had been one of the first to perpetuate the Red Scare and blame communists for anything that goes wrong and to smear any critics by calling them communists who were just trying to destabilize the country.
Charles Alan Murray is an American political scientist, writer, and public speaker. He is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.
