Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits and Outrages Consent and Consent A Senate staff member re c en t ly gave Susanna McBee of The Washington Post this appraisal of how presidential nominees are scrutinized and...
...And Then Let Him Tuck You In There’s a new book coming out about incest...
...sional sources estimate that there are more than 40 retired generals and admirals-earning as much as $77,200-now in high government civilian jobs...
...Tidbits and Outrages Consent and Consent A Senate staff member re c en t ly gave Susanna McBee of The Washington Post this appraisal of how presidential nominees are scrutinized and evaluated by the Senate during the confirm at i on pro cess: “They can be crummy, mediocre, not qualified, even in industry’s pocket, and if they haven’t done anything criminal, they’re approved...
...Johns is not alone...
...The Case for Taboos Further notes on the Beautiful People: Abby Rockefeller has written the introduction to a new book called End Product: The Last Taboo, of which she says, “It is a valuable catalog of the subject documenting the problems of our relations and attitudes to excrement...
...You almost have to be found with one finger in the cookie jar to get rejected...
...In fact, during a recent 12-month period, 1,030,000 federal workers wthin grade pay raises for merit...
...Nobody's Prefect the Nations’s most predictably intelligent magazine...
...It now turns out that the Post itself had the story six weeks before the News...
...It was in Mike Causey’s civil service column, which is buried every day deep within the Post’s local news section and is apparently not read by the paper’s national editors...
...Merit Widespread In Civil Service The merit pay increase, as its name implies, is supposed to be awarded to federal employees in recognition of merit...
...It’s called Kiss Daddy Goodnight...
...According to Mike Causey of The Washington Post, “Congres...
...The last time a Cabinet nominee was voted down by the Senate was in 1959...
...Now Joe, About That Raise A federal employee named Thomas- Johns is getting $78,225 a year, or $12,000 more than his boss at Health, Education, and Welfare, Joseph Califano...
...Only 819 employees were denied them...
...Johns has a salary of $47,025 in his grade 15 position at HEW and gets a pension of $3 1,200 for previous employment in the Secret Service...
...That’s all right, New Republic, we have an ad this month in which the main subject of The Washington Monthly is spelled eovernemnt .” The Left Hand and the Right Hand You may recall that last month we pointed out in this space that The Washington Post has published as front-page news an article about 800 dismissals at the CIA without giving credit to the Detroit News, which had run it two weeks earlier and from which the Post had procured a clip of the story...
Vol. 10 • March 1978 • No. 1
