3 Quotes & Sayings By Frank Church

Frank Church was born in Idaho in 1925 to an architect father and a homemaker mother. He attended the University of Chicago, where he made his first contribution to college journalism with the "Ideas" column for the student paper, The Daily Illini. He later taught at the University of Illinois for five years, where he wrote a book about Abraham Lincoln, titled Lincoln: The Story of a Common Man. In 1951, he married his wife Margaret and they would have three children Read more

He served as a U.S. senator from 1963 until his death in 1980.

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The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back. . Frank Church
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The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations. Frank Church