81. He is bright and obviously competent, but his values and political views are diametrically opposed to mine in many important areas. 82. He got his nickname playing baseball as a kid in West Texas, not because of his political views. 83. He has pushed his ideological clones into the State Department and blocked the nominations of others whose contrasting political views caught his attention. 84. He ended up on a government list of potential German-American troublemakers and nearly paid with his life for his left-wing political views. 85. He had extreme political views. 86. He said that he was almost fired for his liberal political views and sometimes free-spending ways, and that he nearly quit on several occasions. 87. He served eight years in prison for his political views, ran for president four times and never apologized for or wavered from the increasingly marginalized ideology he championed. 88. He understands that for decades he and Robeson were unwelcome because of their political views. 89. He was seen less as a sophisticated financial wizard with a seductive way of life than a nostril-flaring, table-pounding obsessive with mean-spirited political views. 90. He told the assembly that he made the trip to the United States because the Eastern world has misrepresented his political views. |