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i i ee ee ae "Gordon: "Halli: Re: Lou Gordon Television Show Of . July 13, 1969, Detroit, Michigan, ; Featuring Abbott Howard Hoffman, kes James Freed and Gordon Hall “dialogue with a man whose leader has just been picked up by responsible Federal Agents liké the FBI on a bank robbery charge, which is pretty clear and another man who sat here and off the air was calling a judge in your town here a pig who he had never heard of and he was absolutely certain he was a fascist pig. It is difficult to really come to grips, however, with, you know, with either side in that context; however, there is a larger picture of the far left and the far right. It is fairly serious in a sense that the name of their game is power, both sides want power. Mr. Wallace, representing my, in my Judgment the major thrust of the far right and he will be back in 1972 and he is picking up a lot of the sentiment that was expressed by Mr. Freed, although he disavowed that particular _. party. An Wallace, Wallace disavowed Freed, not Freed dis- avowing Wallace. . Yes, that's what I meant. I‘m sorry, I, I worded it clumsily. I meant Mr. Wallace picks up that kind of support while, at the same time, disavowing'it and he totaled over nine million votes in the last election and then you have the disruption tactics on campus led by people like Mr. Hoffman and, dispite the obvious exhibitionism, it does get serious because they do close down great institutions and they do slow up the educational process without ever actually reforming it. So I. think to dismiss them both as being member of the zoo, which I think they are, is also to miss the point, but I don't think that this ' afternoon, was the time, or this evening was the time, to try to come to grips about it. Do you think that the movement that Mr. Hoffman leads or attempts to lead represents any danger to this country? — , I suppose depending on how well the administration, this one and the succeeding administrations do in handling things like brushfire wars or future Vietnams and the race question, depending on how well or how fo | ee -- - . 28 -. _ . - oy - ee, EE en, a EE tale Som Be Maen i Se