Ralph Nader
speaker
37 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Ralph Nader’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is my point. Either it's sheer callousness or indifference, or they don't bother to find out how their cars behave.
I was better known by more people in the United States than Taylor Swift is today.
It was certainly freedom of the road. When you were in the car driving, you were the queen or king of the car.
And what you did in the back seat was no one else's business. And listen... Outside a rambler.
It was all revolting to me.
Well, my parents were immigrants from Lebanon, and they sailed past the Statue of Liberty. They took it seriously, which means that it isn't just freedom they were after. They wanted freedom to make a difference.
One time I came home from school, my dad said, what'd you learn today? Did you learn how to believe or did you learn how to think?
I lost a lot of friends in car crashes. They were killed or they were permanently disabled. It's far, far worse then than it is today.
I kept thinking of people who could be living productive lives today and who were killed in totally survivable crashes. You know, I began looking at the cars and how they were crushed in.
It punctured the advertising fantasy of these auto companies.
The Corvair was a unique design because it had its engine in the rear. Someone once said you were the bumper on the Corvair.
It would veer out of control and roll over and kill people.
I knew it was a book that had dynamite potential.
Ralph Nader.
General Motors decided this was a great threat. They had been unleashing private detectives month after month, following me everywhere.
They used ex-FBI agents often for their so-called investigation of critics. They tried to seduce me with young ladies. They followed him into the Safeway.
Another time, a young lady came up and she said, you look like a studious fellow. We're forming a study group to study foreign affairs. How would you like to join us? And he said, no, thank you.
And I was invited to testify.
Just think of how fast Congress acted compared to the sluggish, indentured corporate gridlock of today. Within six months from March 1966, And in September, I was invited to the signing ceremony at the White House, among others, where he handed out the signature pens. Six months.
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