'Change just ONE letter and it becomes NAZIreth! Surely the Almighty is telling us something!' To rile the Freedom Riders crusading for Civil Rights in Mississippi in the early '60s, for instance, Rockwell got racist musicians to perform at nearby 'Hate-o-nannies.' He liked to claim that 'Jewish agents like Benny Goodman' foment 'cultural anarchy' and that 'any pansy can be a pink' but 'it takes a MAN to be a Nazi.' In the mid-'60s, trying to wrap his party in the shawl of Christian justification, he noted 'the amazing similarity between the name of the birthplace of the great Prophet.

This advertising man, freelance writer, navy flier, Brown University alumnus and son of a renowned vaudevillian - Groucho Marx and Jack Benny came to Georgie's christening - knew all about wild statements and PR ploys.

Rockwell (1918-1967) was pathetic and probably mentally ill, but he had charisma.

Call me sick, but I had to laugh sometimes while I was reading 'American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party.' Laugh the way I would at, say, Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel in his 1940 Hitler spoof, 'The Great Dictator,' because you can't believe someone that depraved, that clownish, that peerlessly narcissistic can win over a single person, much less crowds.

White Power by George Lincoln Rockwell