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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
December
Year
1974
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America's Birthday: A Planning and Activity Guide for Citizens Participation During the Bicentennial Years, People's Bicentennial Commission, Simon and Schuster, cloth: $8.95, paperback: $3.95.

"Last week, we got a propaganda analysis that was done, we believe, by the CIA. It's being sent for $7 around the country. It's a 35 page analysis of us, saying this is the most sophisticated propaganda campaign ever conceived by the American left. It has the potential of making a revolution in middle America within thirty-six months if it's Ieft unencumbered," said Jeremy Rifkin, chairperson of the People's Bicentennial Commission (PBC) while speaking in Ann Arbor last month.

The tools being used to stir up a movement by the People's Bicentennial are the grand drama of the American Revolution. As the country 's 2OOth birtliday approaches in 1976, PBC is using such people as Thomas Paine, Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson to convince middle Americans that this country was not set up