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[Scott Morehead]

This week in Michigan history: GM's president says sorry to Ralph Nader for harassment
March 18, 2012  |  1  Comments
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General Motors President James Roche, right, testifies before a U.S. Senate subcommittee with his attorney, Theodore Sorenson. / March 22, 1966, Free Press file photo
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Ralph Nader was harassed.
General Motors President James Roche appeared before a U.S. Senate subcommittee on March 22, 1966, and apologized to Ralph Nader for the automaker harassing him.
Nader, an attorney, had criticized GM's Corvair in his book, "Unsafe at Any Speed."
A year to the day earlier, the panel had launched an inquiry into the federal role in traffic safety. Nader had testified, and GM hired private detectives, apparently trying to discredit the consumer-protectionadvocate.
"I deplore the kind of harassment to which Mr. Nader has apparently been subjected," Roche told the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization, part of the Committee of Government Operations. "Certainly, I bear Mr. Nader no ill will."
The investigation showed that the GM detectives had given false names; used recording devices during interviews; followed Nader in Iowa and Pennsylvania; had him under surveillance during the day he testified before the subcommittee; followed him into private places, and constantly rang his private phone number late at night with false statements and anonymous warnings.
Roche denied knowing about the detectives' work, but said he held himself responsible.
Nader, who testified the same day, called the probe into his personal life "an attempt to obtain lurid details and grist for invidious use."
More than 50 of his relatives and acquaintances had been questioned about topics ranging from his sex habits to his feelings about anti-Semitism, an undertaking that cost $6,700 (about $46,500 in today's dollars).




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