By Judith Nies
On the top of the Vietnam warfare protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a possible idyllic existence. either have been development their respective careers in Washington—Nies because the speechwriter and leader staffer to a middle crew of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury division economist. but if her husband introduced domestic a listing of questions from an FBI dossier with Judith's identify at the entrance, Nies quickly discovered that her lifestyles was once approximately to take an intensive flip. stunned to discover herself the focal point of an FBI research into her political actions, Nies started to reevaluate her position as thankful worker and dutiful spouse. A heartfelt memoir and a piercing social statement, the lady I Left in the back of deals a clean, candid examine the Nineteen Sixties. Recounting Nies's brave trip towards independence and equality, it evaluates the implications of the feminist circulate at the related ladies who made it happen—and at the daughters born of their wake.
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The largest recipient had been the international section of the National Student Association, but many other American organizations had been involved. A picture of J. M. Kaplan accompanied an earlier Times article. Mr. Kaplan had made his fortune in sugar and started his foundation with the proceeds from the sale of the Welch’s Grape Juice Company. What could be more American than Welch’s grape juice? The news stories followed the announcement by a powerful Texas congressman, Wright Patman, to hold hearings over the alleged domestic operations of the CIA.
These were questions I frequently asked myself. Chapter Three The Godfather S u mm e r 1962 n July 1962, I was looking at the world through the windows of a restaurant called the Landfall, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a weathered waterfront building (still there) located next to the pier where the ferry leaves for the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. The Landfall sits on pilings out over the water with an ocean-facing wall of glass, and when the tide is high and the wind blows from the east, the ferries dock at an angle that makes them appear as though they’re about to crash through the restaurant’s windows.
Burton was among those willing to chair ad hoc hearings that kept congressional opposition to the Vietnam War on the six o’clock news and on the front pages of newspapers. ) My job was to act as a speechwriter, coordinator, and all-purpose staffer to build the group’s reputation and make the congressmen’s individual positions seem larger and more influential. I rotated offices and was paid a month or two at a time from each individual congressman’s payroll. I started out working in Bob Kastenmeier’s office, then moved to Ben Rosenthal’s.