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Citizen Action and Other Big Ideas By David Bollier --- Chapter One The Beginnings

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"It's of the same order of the hula hoop -- a fad. Six months from now, we'll probably be on another kick."
-- W.R. Murphy, President of Campbell Soup Co. and member of the Business Council, 1966, dismissing Ralph Nader's campaign for auto safety.

In 1963, Ralph Nader, then an unknown twenty-nine-year old attorney, abandoned a conventional law practice in Hartford, Connecticut, and hitchhiked to Washington, D.C., to begin a long odyssey of professional citizenship. "I had one suitcase," he recalled. "I stayed in the YMCA. Walked across a little street and had a hot dog, my last." (A few years later he would expose the repulsive ingredients that go into hot dogs.) Taking a job as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Labor, working for Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nader moonlighted as a freelance writer for The Nation and The Christian Science Monitor. He also acted as an unpaid adviser to a Senate subcommittee, chaired by Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff, which was exploring what role the federal government might play in auto safety.
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