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Article: Another `Card-Carrying Member of the ACLU'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 22, 1988
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Comes before me a letter from Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.). He says
Attorney General Richard Thornburgh "was a director of the Pittsburgh
chapter of the ACLU at one time." Simon wonders why this has not
been mentioned anywhere. "I think it might be worthwhile for somebody
to point that out." Thanks, Senator. It just so happens, "Somebody"
is my middle name.
A call to Pittsburgh verifies what Simon says. Marion Damick,
associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union chapter
there, says that from 1966 to 1969, Thornburgh was one of 38
directors. (A tiny item in the Sept. 16 Post, ignored by millions,
says the same. So much for The Post's reputation as a crusading
liberal rag.)
I'm ...