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Ralph Nader
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Ralph Nader
An American lawyer and major consumer advocate. He rose to prominence in the 1960s exposing unsafe American automobiles, leading to numerous lawsuits against General Motors. In the 1970s, he became an environmentalist and ecologist. He also ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States several times. He was born in 1934.
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We revisit the tangy irony of GM attempting to trap the ascetic Nader in an illicit sex scandal by planting women along his way, then a GM executive confessing during Congressional hearings to a campaign of personal harassment (Bobby Kennedy provides a moment of articulate outrage), and finally the company being forced to pony up nearly half a million dollars in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit--seed money, it later turns out, for Nader's Raiders.
Driven: 'The Hoax' & 'An Unreasonable Man' by Cooper, Rand Richards / Commonweal
Even his foray into apparently leftist politics, when he was among the original Nader's Raiders in 1968, had a more traditional, progressive Republican tilt.
Newest Nixon: Cox Considers Hillary Race by Ben Smith / The New York Observer
Sorry to break the news to Nader's raiders and Badnarik's boosters.
Electoral unenthusiasm by Gillespie, Nick / Reason
 
 
 
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