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Heinlein supported himself at several occupations, including real estate sales and silver mining, but for some years found money in short supply.

Heinlein was active in Upton Sinclair's socialist End Poverty in California movement in the early 1930s.

When Sinclair gained the Democratic nomination for Governor of California in 1934, Heinlein worked actively in the campaign.

Heinlein himself ran for the California State Assembly in 1938, but he was unsuccessful.

In 1954, he wrote, "... many Americans ... were asserting loudly that McCarthy had created a ' reign of terror.

' Are you terrified?

I am not, and I have in my background much political activity well to the left of Senator McCarthy's position.