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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26
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up to serve in Chicago, But it's goin’ to Supreme
fs Court because it sounds sorta strange, you know, if you're
soe not arrested for anything, how can you resist arrest to
Thy it? But, well, you know, Earl Warren and all his friends,
they work for us, right? Tell ‘em yea, they work for us.
They'll figure it out. We got more important things to do.
Any others?
“(Question “how do you pay for the lectures"?)
How do we pay for the lectures? ("how do you pay for
your travel?") I don't pay for the travel. Oh, that
flyin’ free thing. I don’t know if I wanna like say it.
It's too big an audience. There's some reporters here,
and TWA would shut it off. That's a good way. I'11 tell
can't use it cause they'll like follow me and the guys,
you know, I'd be up for fraud, sure as hell. So I don't
use it, but we get it.
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“see, from the ah, from Chicago, on August 17,
at 4:30 a.m. on Seventh Street and Avenue B in New York
City, we met with a guy who gave us ten thousand dollars
b-+ { in small bills in a brown paper bag. His name was Spiro
Agnew. You Know, I went on TV and told that story, see,
and the producer of the show came up at the end and said,
hey, FY don't think the people know the Republicans gave
you all that money. And the moderator said, well, it
certainly helped them; I mean Nixon said and Humphrey said
oo. that that's what hurt him in the election, and ah, it makes
C alot of sense that they would give them the money for that.
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And then the cameraman got in, and there was these three
i serious guys, smokin’ it all up. I was just checkin’ ‘em
Pa. ali out, watchin’ it. v
“T love TV. Watch it all the time. I don't know
nothin’ but boots and color TV. That's how it's done.
See, they don’t teach you that in college. They teach you
how to watch, ah, you know, you go to church on Sunday,
right, you got Meet the Press, Issues and Answers, and Face
the Nation, the big three. And you watch it careful, seg,
you watch the liberals and conservatives talking about the
war in Vietnam, The liberals say, well, ah, we believe in
the right of self determination, the people they have a
right and we are doing this, and liberals say, well, and the
conservatives say, well, there's aggression from the north
and they're supported by Communist China and all this; they
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