"...it is easy to lose sight of how much people's lives were changed by the expansion of federal responsibility during the 1930s. Even the conservative politicians of the late twentieth century who repudiate a strong federal government take for granted that working people will receive Social Security benefits upon retirement....A world without these protections is hardly imaginable."
---Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal (1990), 267
“one homosexual can pollute a government office” —U.S. Senate subcommittee report, 1950
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