The Power of Political Vision

The power of the political vision of someone like Hoover and most of the presidency collaborated with in the midst of the Cold War was such that it seems to me, as I read it, I thought about Hoover coming along and writing these things. It actually reminds me, Hannah Arendt, she talks about how one of the ways you can tell that people have stopped thinking is that their language becomes full of stock phrases and cliches," he said. "It's almost as though the editors at CT sort of turn the page when Hoover shows up"