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Abbie Hoffman — Part 14
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“t of what they turn out. I was invited to her birthday party
at the White House. They sent out these little engraved
invitations to the alumni and accepted unbiasedly the first
ones who responded. So I called Abbie Hoffman, and he slicked
down-his hair and put on a blue-suit. He looked like a karate-
chopping pimp. It was a gas. So we showed up *t the White House
and gotthrown out as "security risks", Boy, were they right,
because I had 600 micromilligrams of LSD in my purse that we were
going to put into the tea. Can you hear them nov? "Wow, the
President's daughter is freaked out drawing dirty pictures on the
White House walls!" The security guards were criticizcéin the
press. People wrote, "How ridiculous ~ not letting someone
in because she's a rock singer." Well, it's not ridiculous because
I really would have done it. I figured the worst thing a little
acid could do to Tricia Nixon is turn here into a merely delightful
person instead of @ grinning robot. But we wereaiming for the
Old Dad, hoping he might come down to the party and have aap
of tea, Far out, I figure f they can shoot us down, we can
get them high, right?™ = 8 |
The "Washington Square Journal" a New York University
student newspaver in its November 12, 197) issue on page 1,
contained an article entitled "Hoffman, Millett Speak at Fleg-Art
Exhibit" which ‘stated in part as follows:
"'] think people have the right to burn the flag (obscene)
on it.!t eatid Abbie Hoffman Mondav night, setting the tone for the
wes me wy A ee ee ee oe) ee wa wee sey =s=D Se Vv errs ~
opening of the Independent Artists Flag. Show to last through
Friday at the Judson Memorial Church at Five Washington Square -
South.
"Hoffman's remarks came at the end of his account of the
depreddations he has suffered for wearing, blowing his nose into,
burning and generally demonstrating his lack of reverence for
what to some is the penultimate symbol of their patriotisn:
Ola G1 lory.
"Kate Millett, author of Sexual Politics, quite the
liberated woman in this h length dungaree work shirt and streak-
bleached blue bell-bottoms, said, ‘I think he's very witty,'
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