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Steven Greenhouse

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first: 2017-06-19
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“Yes, he talked about how wonderful the GI bill was. It helped pay for him to go to graduate school. It helped him buy this little house on Long Island in Massa Piqua. It really helped social mobility. He had been really poor, and then he became, you know, a successful teacher. He taught community college. He got a very good pension. And he saw how the government, the GI bill, could really help people like him rise. And he very much believed in economic opportunity. He believed in dignity for everyone. My mother would always lecture me. Even the worker with the humblest job, you've got to treat them with dignity. And maybe some of those life lessons I got from my parents prepared me to be a labor reporter.”
2017-06-19 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 157 - Steven Greenhouse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I don't think so, really, because we were, you know, our ally was Russia Stalin. If anything, the communists were even more anti-Nazi than many other folks.”
2017-06-19 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 157 - Steven Greenhouse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Would have been a lie. And so after 1960, President Kennedy lifted the requirement for the loyalty oath in most government jobs. So then he was able to get a job as a teacher. My father was a wonderful teacher. He was repeatedly chosen best teacher at the high school he taught at. And he was studying for a doctorate. He was a very good in statistics. During the war, he actually studied here at the University of Chicago. He studied physics. He was sent here to work, to prepare to work on the Manhattan Project. He was kind of in the farm, the Minor League. But by the time he was ready, they had already developed the bomb. And then he served in Japan.”
2017-06-19 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 157 - Steven Greenhouse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So yes, so he was, you know, it was never clear to me whether he's officially blacklisted, but at the time in the 1950s, if you wanted to get a government job and he had really studied statistics and he was prepared for a government job, he would have to sign an oath that swore he had never been a member of the Communist Party and he didn't want to do that. That's why he went into business for himself.”
2017-06-19 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 157 - Steven Greenhouse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now my father grew up very poor during the Depression. His father was a garment cutter, was laid off in the depression, and then my father was so poor that his parents had him live with an uncle who had more money. And my father told me some days at his house he'd open up the refrigerator and there'd just be a quart of milk. And he was really poor and was very disgruntled with the system then, and he became a real man of the left. He went to City College where a lot of people became communists. And for a while he was a communist. And he left the party in, I think around 1956 after Khrushchev denounced Stalin and after Hungarian rebellion. And I was kind of, I rebelled in the family by being the anti-communist because I said communism denied freedom of speech.”
2017-06-19 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 157 - Steven Greenhouse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So my folks, my father was a high school teacher and he taught math and then economics. He taught community college on the side. He didn't start that until around 1960 before he was an independent businessman. He was a dry cleaner. My mother used to work in retail as a sales lady. And then after 1960, she became a social worker for Nassau County.”
2017-06-19 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 157 - Steven Greenhouse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source