Harry Truman Said Then What Needs Said Now

Thanks to Best of the Blogs for linking to this video of a speech by Harry Truman, in which Truman says, "Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism. We are not going to transform our fine FBI into a Gestapo secret police. That is what some people would like to do. We are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. We are not going to turn the United States into a right-wing totalitarian country in order to deal with a left-wing totalitarian threat." -- April 24, 1950

Wow. Maybe Nixon's ghost isn't the only one making the rounds these days.