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"(I tend to begin most of these pieces with 'When.' When I was… When in the course… So here we go again.)"
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"I would love to claim that I have had an impact on my times."

"In the summer of 1956, I called Manny Muravchik to ask to meet with him. I had been told that he knew just about everybody in the labor movement. "

"I started writing this on August 28, 2005, the 42nd anniversary of the March on Washington."

"Over the years, I have met a lot of people in connection with my work."

"I don't want the title of this piece to give the wrong impression."

"It is January 1, 2010, and I was wondering if I had any new thoughts for the new year."

"It was a slow morning at the Field Services Division of the US Commission on Civil Rights. "

"One evening, toward the end of August in 1968, I received a call from someone named Stan Weir, explaining that he had just arrived in Washington from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and that a mutual friend gave him my name."

"These days, you can’t pick up a newspaper without coming across a story about some sexual transgression on the part of a prominent political figure."