"These so-called patriots," Lou Levov said to Dawn, "would take this country and make Nazi Germany out of itYou know the book It Can't Happen Here? There's a wonderful book, I forget the author, but the idea couldn't be more up-to-the-momentThese people have taken us to the edge of something terribleLook at that son of a bitch
"I don't know which one I hate more," his wife said, "him or the other one
"They're the same thing," the old man told her, "they're interchangeable, the whole bunch of themThat his father might have been no less incensed if she were there, sitting with them all in front of the set, the Swede recognized, but now that she was gone who better was there to hate for what had become of her than these Watergate bastards?
It was during the Vietnam War that Lou Levov had begun mailing Merry copies of the letters he sent to President Johnson, letters that he had
ladies omega watches written to influence Merry's behavior more than the president'sSeeing his teenage granddaughter as enraged with the war as he could get when things started to go too wrong with the business, the old man became so distressed that he would take his son aside and say, "Why does she care? Where does she even get this stuff? Who feeds it to her? What's the difference to her anyway? Does she carry on like this at school? She can't do this at school, she could harm her chances at schoolShe can harm her chances for collegeIn public people won't put up with it, they'll chop her head off, she's only a child To control, if he could, not so much Merry's opinions as the ferocity with which she sputtered them out, he would ostentatiously ally himself with her by sending articles clipped from the Florida papers and inscribed in the margins with his own antiwar slogansWhen he was visiting he would read aloud to
louis vuitton backpacks her from the portfolio of his Johnson letters that he carried around the house under his arm--in his effort to save her from herself, tagging after the child as though he were the child"We've got to nip this in the bud," he confided to his son"This won't do, not at all
"Well," he'd say--after reading to Merry yet another plea to the president reminding him what a great country America was, what a great president FDR had been, how much his own family owed to this country and what a personal disappointment it was to him and his loved ones that American boys were halfway around the world fighting somebody else's battle when they ought to be at home with their loved ones--"well, what do you think of your grandfather?"
"J-j-Johnson's a war criminal," she'd say"He's not going to s-s-s-stop the w-w-war, Grandpa, because you tell him to
"He's also a man trying to do his job, you know
"He's
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"Well, that is one opinion
"There's no d-d-d-difference between him and Hitler
"You're exaggerating, sweetheartI don't say Johnson didn't let us downBut you forget what Hitler did to the Jews, Merry dearYou weren't born then, so you don't remember
"He did nothing that Johnson isn't doing to the Vietnamese
"The Vietnamese aren't being put into concentration camps
"Vietnam is one b-b-big camp! The 'American boys' aren't the issueThat's like saying, 'Get the storm troopers out of Auschwitz in time for Chris-chris-chris-dinsftnas'"
"I gotta be political with the guy, sweetheartI can't write the guy and call him a murderer and expect that he's going to listenRight, Seymour?"
"I don't think that would help," the Swede said "Merry, we all feel the way you do," her grandfather told her"Do you understand that? Believe me, I know what it is to read the newspaper
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"You have
"Honey, we live in a
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