Spectator's Journal
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL The 1980 Watch Mastiff: "Wait & See" Still undecided as to whether he should announce his candidacy for the 1980 Republican Presidential Nomination: If another candidate...
...Respected observers aren't placing any sizeable bets...
...Ham's problems were always of an arrestingly ribald nature...
...Postgraduates went further, declaring adultery not always wrong, defense spending excessive, and Communism not the worst kind of government...
...Yet even this bulwark to Communist rule has now been proven vulnerable...
...There was the time during Middle East negotiations when he threw the Arab world into an instantaneous tumult by doltishly misstating his government's policy vis-a-vis Jerusalem, which he referred to as the capital of Israel...
...At home in Bucharest, of course, life is less gay...
...In foreign chancelleries everywhere diplomats would crowd before their teletypes eager for every fresh report from Washington...
...If so, their view that defense spending should be cut is logical, since in spite of everything the Park Regime does not yet pose a grave threat to our security, at least militarily...
...Alas, the infernal contraption was full of juice, and the Wonderboy's discourtesies were broadcast all over the dining room...
...In one particular section, entitled "Personal Values of Americans by Educational Attainment," the most educated individuals are shown to have the least responsible attitude on every issue...
...Flaunting a local ordinance well known to Mr...
...That the poet Dylan Thomas had yet to be commemorated in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner...
...No information on just which political system they find the worst is included—although Pinochetism, Shahism, Ian-Smithism, and South-Koreaism seem likely choices...
...Considered a Possibility Long-shot Republican Presidential Nominee or merely dark horse...
...An answer may be inferred from a remarkable portrait of America's new ruling class by Professor Everett Carll Ladd, Jr., in the July/ August issue of Public Opinion magazine...
...Such an inquiry would rarely leave him unconsoled...
...Would Governor Brown be ticketed...
...Mysteriously, Rumania enjoys a charmed reputation in the West...
...The Paris stock market tumbled 2.5 percent and the astounded leader of France's center-right government began to sweat...
...Not since the Marshall Plan had Washington attracted such avid curiosity from abroad...
...From Poland the boys went to Teheran where Jimmy attended the Shah's New Year's Eve party, took aboard two glasses of wine, and turned weepy...
...In Paris he enlivened a critically important national election by embracing a radical party leader and notifying him of their shared metaphysique...
...How social science faculty under 35 at upper tier schools might have voted is anyone's guess...
...Control Data Corp., of Minneapolis, had chosen the Rumanian capital to announce its first cash dividend, but an earthquake intervened and the Yankees were forced to fall back on the safer, if less progressive, fastness of Vienna...
...Callaghan's exasperated warnings that the President's arrival there might ignite demonstrations among Welsh nationalists dissuaded our President...
...The Rumania Watch Our East European correspondent has sent us this dispatch: "Nicolae Ceausescu, potentate of Rumania, friend of moguls and parliaments, has suffered an unexpected reverse with the defection of a top-ranking Rumanian security officer, Lt...
...Still no luck, and as the summit went on, Jimmy announced his intention to take his crusade to the South Wales fishing village where Mr...
...Only Mr...
...Sternly he stood, hand on heart, staring stonily into the faces of a thousand Spokanese as they gazed upon Old Glory rising majestically behind him...
...By the time the Wonderboy had returned home the whole world had grown interested in the political science of our populist genius...
...Next New York Governor Hugh Carey, who had a fundraising party the same day a few miles down the shore in Easthampton, revived the controversy by asserting that he, as the state's chief executive, had the right to fly his helicopter to the home of his close personal friend, Mrs...
...The move was met by an embarrassed silence, and, as Prime Minister Callaghan tried to engage the attention of the leader of the free world in the problem of his balance of payments, Jimmy hit upon a new approach...
...Pacepa is perhaps the most senior police official to turn from the Soviet Bloc since the end of World War II...
...Instead he went off and sought out the Abbey's archdeacon, informing him of his desire to "personally recommend" the Welsh rummy for the Poets' Corner...
...When the news appeared in the Washington Post The American Spectator November 1978 39...
...Four years of giggling and getting really drunk lie ahead for the college class of 1982...
...While 60.8 percent of the electorate voted Republican that year, 76 percent of university-level social science faculty voted Democratic (ominously, another 2 percentvoted "other...
...Finkelstein is best known locally for having given much of his fortune and part of his name to further the Manhattan political career of his son, Andrew Stein, who last year acquired the fabulous island's Borough Presidency...
...Practically every economy in the West was having difficulty and what was it that most concerned Jimmy...
...It must have been an unusually quiet flight back to Washington, and my guess is that no sooner had Jimmy returned to the White House than he had Ham Jordan on the telephone hollering at the aforementioned Spokanese pol and threatening him with every sort of horror...
...Ham was the Wonderboy's chief assistant president, and as the late Niccolo Machiavelli was wont to admonish: First impressions of a ruler and of his intelligence are gained from seeing the men he has around him...
...Few governments are more oppressive...
...Thomas is interred...
...a cheery American TV special, "Nadia—From Rumania with Love," was from Bucharest's standpoint marred only by the defection of its Rumanian coproducer...
...He stood by him with such doltish devotion that old Niccolo would not have scratched his noodle for long before delivering up a judgment on the political wizard of campaign '76...
...There was the time he was caught flagrante delicto with his paw on the pectoralis major of Mrs...
...Variously he tried Helen Reddy's husband and the publisher of the New York Law Journal himself, but they demurred...
...The defection was also noteworthy for what it has revealed of Rumanian palace life...
...University Fashions Late in August eight thousand teenagers wearing jogging shorts arrived at a large Midwestern university...
...Even in remote Bangladesh there must have resided a lowly peasant who, after plodding through furrows, his face impassively set toward the undulating hindquarters of a mortgaged bovine, would rush home to inquire: "What's the latest with the Washington yokel, eh...
...The leaders of all the other countries were addressing themselves to such worries as inflation and unemployment, but not the Wonderboy...
...There, the smartestyoung man ever to be raised in Plains, Georgia, could not find the American flag, though there was not a drunk in the crowd who shared his difficulty...
...Establishment Candidate...
...The matter absorbed him...
...The Wonderboy handled Ham's next adventure more presidentially...
...College graduates were far likelier than those less educated to dismiss work, success, saving money, and staying out of debt as "not very important...
...few heads of state more power-crazed...
...In India he astonished government officials by growing dyspeptic when they temporarily demurred from taking him and his photographers to an impoverished village...
...But the arriving officer was perplexed as to whom he should hand the summons...
...Finally the helicopter pilot was stuck with the thing...
...before heading out into the fields...
...Have the Democrats, who in 1896 absorbed the franchise of the ludicrous Populist Party, lost touch with their roots among The People...
...Amal Ghorbal, lawful wedded wife of the Ambassador from the sovereign state of Egypt...
...When Ceausescu dropped in on Britain this spring, the government declared it a state visit, thereby allowing him to inspect as many palace guards as he pleased...
...EDITORIAL (continued from page 4) until the Warsaw saloons opened...
...Mariachis played, grape workers mingled with guests, and at the party's crescendo La Causa' s fundraiser "asked everybody to shut their eyes and pretend they were a farm worker's wife in the dusty plains of Delano, California, eating baloney sandwiches for breakfast at 3 a.m...
...Anne Ford Uzielli...
...In a hardcover book Tom Wolfe immortalized the hospitality of this socially-concerned family: "The first big Radical Chic party, the epochal event, so to speak, was the party that Assemblyman Andrew Stein gave for the grape workers on his father's estate in Southampton on June 29, 1969...
...For an explanation of how college graduates have come by their interesting perspective on global politics and the good life, Professor Ladd and Seymour Martin Lipset's earlier study of "Academics, Politics, and the 1972 Election" is suggestive...
...During a state dinner he and only he was harassed by a common housefly, thus necessitating the professional services of Prime Minister Desai's official Hindu fly swattist...
...The 1978 Brown fundraiser descended from these heights, yet stimulated a small drama of its own...
...On the last weekend in August a large fundraising cocktail party was given for California Governor Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Jr., by Democratic Party chieftain Jerry Finkelstein, the wealthy owner of the New York Law Journal, the Civil Service Leader, and the Manhattan Borough President...
...He promised the archdeacon to "pray for his soul if you'll memorialize him...
...My own favorite was a flag-raising ceremony in Spokane, Washington...
...There was the time he greeted the President of Rumania with the wrong national anthem, and there was his curious appearance at an economic summit in England during the spring of 1977...
...During this crisis the White House pothered indignantly and indecisively, at first issuing denials and then piously requesting to see the smoking gun, so to speak...
...Just how will our universities be molding these leaders of America's Third Century...
...Did our President take the hint and amiably turn around...
...The lone populist stared resolutely forward, and it was not until a local pol gently remonstrated with him that he gave up his hilarious pose...
...Not at all...
...For members of the Class of '82 reading this, it should be recalled that the November 1972 balloting took place before John Dean emerged as a world historical figure...
...A Southampton woman has written a frank letter to the editor of a local paper trenchantly arguing that high office does not put anyone above Hamptons Law...
...The Southamptonpolice sprang into action...
...Democratic Re-nominee After the recent Summit Conference he is considered certain of the 1980 Democratic nod...
...In Washington, Rumanian diplomatic offices are held to be invaluable...
...Ham was never far, and he was almost always a slob in trouble, yet Jimmy stood by him...
...Doubtless everyone has their own treasured memory of a Carter botch...
...Finkelstein from previous violations, Governor Brown arrived at the lawn party by helicopter...
...University faculty as a whole also strongly supported the McGovern candidacy, with those under 35 and those in "upper tier" schools giving him 71 percent and 72 percent of their votes...
...Ethel Kennedy was there to represent the lower income tax brackets...
...Pictured above: mastiff bush, dark horse, ass...
...Ion Pacepa...
...And during the meal he whispered contemptuous remarks about Desai while facing a mysterious electronic device that, upon further inspection, turned out to be a microphone...
...Several prominent national columnists have mentioned him as a contender for the 1980 Republican Presidential Nomination...
...The CIA and its European counterparts lost no time in grilling the general on Rumanian affairs, secrets of the Warsaw Pact, and the truth of rumors of further Communist infiltration in the West German government...
...Barbara Walters and Joe Garagiola both have sung its praises...
...SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL The 1980 Watch Mastiff: "Wait & See" Still undecided as to whether he should announce his candidacy for the 1980 Republican Presidential Nomination: If another candidate effectively articulating his own principles steps forward, he will not run at all...
...The Rumanian security apparatus is said to be second in size only to the KGB...
...Who now will guard the tyrant's sleep ?" 38 The American Spectator November 1978 The Party of the People Our New York-based Insight Team has submitted the following eyewitness domestic political report: SOUTHAMPTON, L.I.—The proclivity of Democratic political leaders for air travel has stirred controversy in this quaint seaside community...
...Pacepa's defection has reportedly brought down a major purge of the Securitate, protector of the person of Nicolae Ceausescu himself...
Vol. 11 • November 1978 • No. 11
