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The Office of American Absorption (OAA) is a fictional office created by President Charles Lindbergh for the purposes of absorbing or assimilating Jews into broader American society.
Office of American Absorption (OAA) Quotes in The Plot Against America
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Chapter 5
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My brother had discovered in himself the uncommon gift to be somebody, and so while making speeches praising President Lindbergh and while exhibiting his drawings of him and while publicly extolling (in words written by Aunt Evelyn) the enriching benefits of his eight weeks as a Jewish farm hand in the Gentile heartland—while doing, if the truth be known, what I wouldn’t have minded doing myself, by doing what was normal and patriotic all over America and aberrant and freakish only in his home—Sandy was having the time of his life.
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Chapter 6
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“I lived in Kentucky! Kentucky is one of the forty-eight states! Human beings live there like they do everywhere else! It is not a concentration camp! This guy makes millions selling his shitty hand lotion—and you people believe him!”
“I already told you about the dirty words, and now I’m telling you about this ‘you people’ business. ‘You people’ one more time, son, and I am going to ask you to leave the house.”
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Chapter 7
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“Well, like it or not, Lindbergh is teaching us what it is to be Jews.” Then she added, “We only think we’re Americans.” “Nonsense. No!” my father replied. “They think we only think we’re Americans. It is not up for discussion, Bess. It is not up for negotiation. These people are not understanding that I take this for granted, goddamnit! Others? He dares to call us others? He’s the other. The one who looks most American—and he’s the one who is least American!”
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A previously unpublicized section of the homesteading plan called the Good Neighbor Project [was] designed to introduce a steadily increasing number of non-Jewish residents into predominantly Jewish neighborhoods and in this way “enrich” the “Americanness” of everyone involved. […] The underlying goal of the Good Neighbor Project like that of Just Folks, was to weaken the solidarity of the Jewish social structure as well as to diminish whatever electoral strength a Jewish community might have in local and congressional elections.
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Office of American Absorption (OAA) Term Timeline in The Plot Against America
The timeline below shows where the term Office of American Absorption (OAA) appears in The Plot Against America. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3: Following Christians
...boys’ aunt Evelyn, is now the executive assistant to Rabbi Bengelsdorf, the director of the OAA in New Jersey—it is she who has encouraged Sandy to participate in the program which...
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...get bad for Jewish people in America. With Bess at work, Sandy busy with the OAA, and Herman frequently driving back and forth to go visit Sandy in Montreal, Philip is...
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Chapter 4: The Stump
...Meanwhile, Philip feels overwhelmed by his confusing fears about Alvin, Lindbergh, Sandy’s involvement with the OAA, and the recent squabbles between Herman and Monty. He robotically moves toward Alvin and hugs...
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Chapter 5: Never Before
...be someone of importance, is greatly enjoying extolling the virtues of Just Folks and the OAA.
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...She explains that Aunt Evelyn has made a mistake getting involved with Bengelsdorf and the OAA—Bess doesn’t want Sandy, like Evelyn, to become “overexcited” and lose all perspective. Bess kisses Philip...
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...he is no longer to participate, in any way, in any programs sponsored by the OAA. Herman insists that one day, Sandy will understand the depths of evil to which every...
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Chapter 6: Their Country
...of 1942, the Roths receive a letter from Metropolitan Life informing them that under the OAA’s new Homestead 42 act, their family will be relocated to rural Danville, Kentucky in September....
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Chapter 7: The Winchell Riots
...marriage—and carefully states that the great work the two of them are doing for the OAA is helping Americans to live together in harmony.
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...of 1942” were filled with Italian families under the edicts of the Good Neighbor Project—an OAA program designed to flood Jewish neighborhoods with non-Jewish residents and “enrich the Americanness” of all...
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