"Oddly enough, the only person likely to be an ideal victim of complete manipulation is the President of the United States. Because of the immensity of his job, he must surround himself with advisers, the National Security Managers, as they have been recently called by Richard Barnet, who exercise their power chiefly by filtering the information that reaches the President and interpreting the outside world for him."

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Hannah Arendt was a German-born political theorist and historian known for her analyses of totalitarianism, authority, and modern political life. Born in 1906, she became one of the most influential political thinkers of the twentieth century through works such as The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition. She died in New York on 1975-12-04.

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