Tag: tom clark

  • A Complicated Heritage

    A Complicated Heritage

    For two decades, the American Heritage Foundation preached the importance of community and civic engagement. Their message was valuable, but it missed something important… something that Kefauver understood.

  • Haste Makes Waste… and Bad Laws: Kefauver and the Jencks Act

    Haste Makes Waste… and Bad Laws: Kefauver and the Jencks Act

    What do you get when you have two months to pass a law driven by anti-Communist paranoia, anti-Supreme Court resentment, and with the FBI and Justice Department holding a gun to your head? Nothing good. But it’s a law that’s stood for 75 years.