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In 1909 Keller joined the Socialist party in Massachusetts. She had read Marx and Engels in German braille, and welcomed the Revolution in Russia in 1917. At the age of 36 she fell in love with Peter Fagan, a journalist, who worked as her temporary secretary. Their romance was ended by Mrs. Keller, who ordered Fagan out of the house.
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This photograph from 1961 shows Helen visiting President John F. Kennedy in the White House. The two are seated with Helen's secretary Evelyn D. Seide; a few Presidential aides are standing nearby. Everyone is smiling, including Helen, who is explaining something to the President.
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Keller's own response to this sort of red-baiting can be seen in the "name check" of July 1, 1953. "The Washington, D.C., Times Herald issue dated January 24, 1948, carried an article headlined, "Plan to Smear Red-Probers Hit by Congressman," wherein it was reported that Helen Keller was one of the original sponsors of the Committee of One Thousand." The committee was predictably tagged as "a Communist created and controlled front organization" as "cited by the California Committee on Un-American Activities. . . . In March 1948, there was made available to this Bureau a copy of a letter which was sent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives in protest against the action of the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives. Helen Keller was listed as one of the signers of this letter."
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