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Then he said to me,"Well, so what are you goingto be doing in the meantime, I mean, and...

Mighty Ira • 2020

[soft music playing] Then he said to me,
"Well, so what are you going
to be doing in the meantime, I mean, and if you don't want to
continue to edit that magazine?
What are you thinking of?" I said, "I do have another offer
that a former colleague of mine
at the magazine who was now the executive
director of the ACLU in New York and had just called me and said
that they were expanding a bit and he was thinking
of creating a position
of Associate Director there." And Kennedy said, "And?" And I said, "I told him no."
[laughs] For one thing, I was interested
in working for you and for another thing,
I hardly knew
what the ACLU was." I thought it was all lawyers
and I was not a lawyer

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[soft music playing]

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Then he said to me, "Well, so what are you going to be doing in the meantime,

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I mean, and if you don't want to continue to edit that magazine? What are you thinking of?"

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I said, "I do have another offer that a former colleague of mine at the magazine

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who was now the executive director of the ACLU in New York

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and had just called me and said that they were expanding a bit

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and he was thinking of creating a position of Associate Director there."

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And Kennedy said, "And?"

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And I said, "I told him no." [laughs]

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For one thing, I was interested in working for you

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and for another thing, I hardly knew what the ACLU was."

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I thought it was all lawyers and I was not a lawyer.

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48 seconds

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00:10:13

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May 26, 2025

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Movie Summary

Ira is one of America's unsung champions of civil rights and liberties. As his generation retires from the barricades, Ira reminisces on his life at the forefront of defending the rights of all Americans.