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• ... that biochemist and crystallographer '''[[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]]''' (1917–1997) investigated the structure of heme-containing proteins, and that Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with [[Max Perutz (nonfiction)|Max Perutz]] for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography? | • ... that biochemist and crystallographer '''[[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]]''' (1917–1997) investigated the structure of heme-containing proteins, and that Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with [[Max Perutz (nonfiction)|Max Perutz]] for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography? | ||
• ... that White House counsel and presidential aide '''[[John Ehrlichman (nonfiction)|John Ehrlichman]] said (as quoted in "Legalize it all" Harper's Magazine, April 2016): "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." | |||
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• ... that biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew (1917–1997) investigated the structure of heme-containing proteins, and that Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography?
• ... that White House counsel and presidential aide John Ehrlichman said (as quoted in "Legalize it all" Harper's Magazine, April 2016): "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."