The Bootblack Stand: Letters to Plunkitt
Muskie, Senator & McGovern, Senator
The Alternative November, 1971 25 The Bootblack Stand Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has just completed a penetrating study of the last Congolese election....
...eThe citadel of Roman Catholic scholarship in Hollywood, California, Immaculate Heart College, has hired Mr...
...Perhaps it would be shrewdest of you to tell the truth, yet again - - you could make it your special gimmick...
...By replying that "in my judgment such a ticket was not electable in the present climate of political opinion," I set off an uproar...
...Justice Hugo L. Black announced his retirement on 17 September and died on the 24th...
...it can be purchased in all bookstores...
...Now, the distinguished Dr...
...John Dunne thought he should have...
...Or maybe I am beginning to take too seriously those references to my rugged features as "Lincolnesque...
...Next time you're in the neighborhood, stop by...
...Real freaky...
...William Kuntsler, Mr...
...You surely would not find any Communists at an antiwar or antigovernment meeting in North Vietnam, though" a few police might drop in...
...Kunstler, the Rt...
...Tom Hayden of the celebrated Chicago Seven to teach a political science course on Vietnam...
...eWelfare was in the news as Governors Rockefeller and Reagan criticized mismanagement of state and federal programs...
...Twenty-eight of the prisoners' demands were acquiescedto, citizens' negotiators Mr...
...Informed sources considered it a cheap shot at (continued on page 27) From The Mad Old Ads, Richard Sutphen...
...Twenty-nine hostages were saved, thirtythree prisoners perished, more escaped...
...C) 1966 by Richard Sutphen...
...Maybe he takes the public statements you make in America more seriously than we do...
...Are you a mooncalf...
...Plunkitt has agreed to, through this column, advise American statesmen in this time of" troubles...
...GWP Dear Mr...
...U. Thant said he would not run for another term as Secretary General...
...Explain to the nation what you really meant when you said a Negro could not get elected as .your running mate, that is, the American people would never elect a Negro who ran on a ticket with a Pole...
...Nathan F. Leopold, the ex-kidnapper passed away...
...Yours for a better World, Senator George McGovern Dear Senator McGovern: My, how good it is to hear from you...
...eLittle controversy stirred when the Indiana University Journalism Department's survey found that nearly twice as many editorial writers for daily newspapers claim to be Democrats as claim to be Republicans...
...At any rate I was standing before this group and from the back row a gentleman of color asked if a ticket composed of me (a Pole) and a black man could win the Presidency...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U.S.A...
...Published in August, it focuses on the unique position of minority groups in the Congolese electoral process...
...While answering questions from a group of colored people in California, ! inadvertently gave an honest reply...
...While in New York, Mr...
...and mentioned that Mr...
...Look magazine was terminally ill...
...I mean that while on my recent fact finding tour of South Vietnam I was merely doing a little heavy rapping with a few antigovernment and antiwar idealists and the racist pigs tried to bust the place, you know what I mean...
...But do not fear, no one is going to hurt your chances now...
...How embarrassing...
...Are you unfamiliar with the history of the two-party system...
...Frankly I am not very certain why a church meeting full of antigovernment and antiwar forces in South Vietnam would have any Communist agents in i t at all...
...And Saigon's Chief of Police asserted that the reason his constabulary had attacked the 14 September church meeting between anti-war and antigovernment Vietnamese and Senator McGovern was that the gathering was aswarm with Viet Cong agents...
...Dear Mr...
...The story was reported somewhat differently by the less biased national media...
...One prison guard died, and three prisoners were murdered, apparently by their fellows...
...More good news comes from Yippie newlyweds, Abbie and Anita Hoffman, who have named their new child amerika...
...Or perhaps he just wants to hurt your chances of becoming President of all the people...
...On 13 September authorities delivered an ultimatum, it was rejected and twentyseven state troopers led by correctional guards attacked the 1000 prisoners...
...How can I repair the damage...
...And the place was a church...
...eMr...
...Fire every bright boy in your office...
...Herman Badillo, a Mr...
...Surely you realize that no truly sincere politician ever answered a question honestly...
...Why do they always have to result to name calling and ad hominus arguments...
...Meanwhile New York's penal and governmental authorities scurried about trying to respond to what is called the worst prison disturbance in American history...
...Any politician who tells the truth in public is bound to arouse the suspicions of the American electorate...
...He will also lecture on the protest movement...
...Have you never read my book, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall...
...In New York, where welfare recipients must now collect their checks in person, twenty per cent were too afflicted to claim their checks...
...Plunkitt: Last month a dreadful experience befell me as I attempted to kick off my presidential bid amongst the underprivileged...
...Plunkitt: Like why is it that everytime I try to go to church or something a bunch of Neo-McCarthyites claim I am associating with COMMUNISTS, you know...
...GWP CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 2) otherwise sat tight...
...Perhaps I am simply not up to presidential caliber...
...Very sincerely yours, Senator Edmund Muskie Dear Senator Muskie: How can you ask me, an advisor to American statesmen, such a simpleminded question...
...Bobby Seale and Mr...
...Were you overcome with the jimjams...
...Arthur Eve and a Mr...
...Address all correspondence to The Bootblack Stand, The Establishment, R.R...
...And Fidel Castro, the Cuban reformer, ended the agreement with Amerika whereby 250,000 Cuban spies have been allowed to return to Amerika...
...Welfare reform was urged by the Nation's Governors, but not everyone agreed on what that meant...
...Helms even shff,~ed me a few pictures of you at that church meeting...
...A New Demand Response System...
...On the 23rd Justice Harlan retired...
...Nikita Krushchev, the Russian ex-politician, and Mr...
...It is titled Escape...
...This is obviously an instance of slovenly staff work...
...Used with permission of McGraw-Hill Book Company...
...My son wants to challenge you to a game of jacks...
...My guess is that the Chief of Saigon's Police is either antireligious or he had had a bad night at the baths...
...What gets into people...
...Harry Riding who defied anyone in the world to surpass him in eating hot mustard...
...As to how you can repair the damage, I am not really sure...
...Hoover informed me of your recent trip to South Vietnam, and Mr...
...Afterwards the New YorkTimes asked the rhetorical question, "Should Governor Rockefeller have talked with the enraged prisoners...
...From Blackburn, England came an international challenge by Mr...
...Tom Wicker were allowed to talk with prisoners and to hold press conferences, and reinforcements were summoned while authorities waited ninety-six hours...
Vol. 5 • November 1971 • No. 2
