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Yeah, you're right. I completely forgot that. I just looked it up. They knew each other through the Prussian state library where he was working(?) for Gadamer(?).
`` When she criticized his conservative political views and dismissed his suit, he became bitterly angry. The bitterness lasted for decades, growing worse when the two joined the same American faculty at the University of Chicago in the 1960s. Strauss was haunted by the rather cruel way in which Hannah Arendt had judged his assessment of National Socialism: she pointed out the irony of the fact that a political party advocating views Strauss appreciated could have no place for a Jew like him...'' (98p, Young-Bruehl)
So it might be worth looking into the detail of what Strauss had to say early in the German nationalism debates of the 20s, where people like Mann began to see the consequences of what he had orginally written, show up as literary trappings for the early nazi movements. Heidegger of course fits right in. And it was reflecting on this cultural phenomenon that later leads Cassirer to write the Myth of State.
Anyway any link, no matter how obscure between the German nazis and the American Neoconservatives is fine by me. I always thought they were nazis anyway.
Chuck Grimes