Political Book Notes
Political Book Notes The Alaska Pipeline: The Politics of Oil and Native Land Claims. Mary Clay Berry. Indiana Univ., $10.95. American Public Administration: Past, Present, Future. Frederick C....
...The thought immediately occurs to you as you walk into the cloakroom that Congress is afternoon baseball,” and St...
...Ellis Lucia...
...they were as familiar with every detail of the transcript as Buzhardt himself, and they knew the dangers to both the party and the country...
...Flynn claims the book is a brief for extending the benefits of the Wagner Act to the public sector, but he never really develops his argument...
...Richard Pogak, ed...
...But Bradlee shares so many of Kennedy’s own unfortunate values-e.g...
...John Bryan...
...Harper’s Magazine Press, $12.95...
...The Big Woods...
...Leslie Tonner...
...Mark J. Green...
...Graham Hughes...
...Daniel H. Newlon, Norman ? Breckner...
...He entitles one essay, “Kicking Richard Nixon Around Just One Last Time” and sprinkles the rest of the text with observations like: “The Watergaters demonstrated again and again that they did not understand...
...By Tuesday...
...The previous evening George Bush, National Chairman of the Republican Party, a close personal friend, almost a protege of the President’s, had pondered his loyalties, personal and partisan, and on Wednesday morning had delivered to the White House his final judgment as party leader...
...Sto the Presses, I Want to Get Off...
...There’s probably never going to be another night like it in the country’s history.’ ‘Not for about eight months,’ Tip O’Neill said, Lynn’s mouth opened...
...William Lee Miller...
...Robert Asprey...
...For the sake of history, the record ought to show how much good had been done for the country by Richard Nixon...
...Lobbying for Freedom: A Citizen’s Guide to Censorship at the State Level...
...Bryan traces Remiro’s evolution from an apolitical working-class Catholic to bitter Vietnam veteran to violent revolutionary...
...Bank Management and Portfolio Behavior...
...Yale Univ., $20...
...The Descriptive Analysis of Power...
...The United States Army...
...Who’s Afraid of 1984...
...A Child is Being Beaten...
...Breach of Faith: The Fall of President Nixon...
...Arlington House, $9.95...
...The book is surprisingly short on crime-stopping suggestions, but he does note the unimportance of requiring a college education for patrolmen and administrators...
...On Economics and Society: Selected Essays...
...At a time when New York City teeters on the edge of bankruptcy because of a generation of extravagant pay-offs to its municipal employees, a lament like this borders on the ludicrous...
...Prentice-Hall, $5.95...
...Which did they want...
...This book is a substantial expansion and elaboration of an essay by Mr...
...No Place to Hide: A Guide to Bugs, Wire Taps, Surveillance and Other Privacy Invasions...
...Teddy White, who was one of the last to awaken to the Watergate scandal-he had a two hour interview with Nixon on March 17, 1973 and did not ask a single question about it-has now produced what is not only his own best book but is also the best book yet written about Watergate...
...We learn once again that Nader sleeps four hours a night and lives in a cheap rooming house...
...The author with his subject’s permission kept a record of his social life with the Kennedys...
...Dear Mr...
...Clair “appeared to l i e the television lights too much to have any confrontation with the client that might lead to a new lawyer,” and one heretofore unpublished allegation by Dean Burch that Nixon was the only one who could have erased the tapes...
...Martin’s, $8.95...
...the loyalty of his daughters and their husbands was the last genuine base of support he commanded...
...Bradlee is sufficiently honest to include enough unfavorable material to have already supplied Bill Safire with a whole column of anti-Kennedy anecdotes...
...The Speed Culture...
...We’ve got plenty on him...
...McGrawHill, $12.95...
...Being Old in America...
...Hugh Sidey...
...it simply wasn’t right to take the country through this debate for another three or four months with no hope for victory...
...their moral obligation to their adversary in a democratic system...
...Breslin seems completely unaware that, since even the most radical revisionist has not charged Kennedy with corruption, this story is either untrue or front-page news...
...The offense, the impeachable offense, must be focused sharp...
...Miller is most at home with the 1950s and early 1960s-his essay on Eisenhower is the strongest piece in the book...
...The Invisible Crash...
...Grossman, $6.95...
...Jerome Tuccille...
...There are a couple of dories the author may regret...
...Andrew Hacker...
...The Oil Security System: An Im ort Strat8 Prices...
...Idols of the Tribe: Group Identity and Political Change...
...Lookin Away: Hollywood and Vietnam...
...Benjamin I. Cohen...
...A competent, sympathetic look at the life and times of Joe Remiro, one of the founders of the SLA...
...Julie Nixon Eisenhower was its leader...
...Harold R. Isaacs...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, $6.95...
...Arlington House, $7.95...
...But he is sublimely sensitive to Kennedy’s attractive side and the result is a book that brings life to the high intelligence and humor that one would so much like to see in the presidency again...
...Democracy and Poetry...
...Jack Nagel...
...Naomi Feigelson Chase...
...Another anecdote for which the source seems to be that devoted public servant, former Congressman Cornelius E. Gallagher, who while serving a two-year sentence for tax evasion at Allenwood, says he was invited to play tennis by Jeb Stuart Magruder . “The first time Gallagher went on the tennis court with Magruder, it was plain Magruder was not interested in tennis...
...Doubleday, $12.95...
...James Lynn went away from the night with cement in his stomach...
...The Other Government: The Unseen Power of Washin ton Lawyers...
...and she could see in him not only his anguish but what she felt was his greatness...
...Don Gold...
...Nothing But the Best: The Luck of the Jewish Princess...
...Cheryl Payer...
...Why Survive...
...If you could do anything to help, the President really would be able to do something for you,’ Magruder said...
...Pat compromised-let us wait, wait just a few days, wait to see what the nation’s reaction would be...
...On the other hand, there are two marvelous pages of lawyers in politics, some really fine lines, e.g...
...In his vignettes, Breslin provides the kind of shrewdly observed human detail that is so rare in political reporting...
...Barbara A. Reynolds...
...Randall B. Ripley...
...The innovative former police chief of Washington, D.C...
...provides a dull survey of the major problem areas of police administration...
...The Conscience of the Courts: Law and Morals in American Life...
...Freeman, $6.95...
...FKiegnhnt et P. Norwick...
...When we come up with something on Rodino, the public will be so revolted that the President could make it through...
...Harvard, $5.95...
...of Wisconsin, $8.95...
...Congress...
...of Chicago, $15...
...Martin’s, $8.95...
...Anchor/ Dou bleday , $8.9 5. Conversations with Kennedy...
...Free Press/Macmillan, S9.95...
...They insisted that Buchanan must lead the fight...
...Harvard, $15...
...Other sources like Buzhardt, Burch, Haig, and Timmons are treated with consistent reverence for their part in the administration’s final days...
...But even here his underlying themes are not very striking-Eisenhower represented America’s deprecation of politics, Kennedy’s values were those of the technocrat...
...By Wednesday afternoon...
...Mason/Charter, $10...
...Ezra Solomon...
...Clair, Garment, PBurch, Timmons and other honorable men who had served the President unflinchingly would themselves become party to crime...
...What they were seeking was one staff member, just one, to lead the President’s guard to the last battle...
...A series of graceful, carefully-crafted, generally intelligent, but not terribly original essays on American political life by a former Adlai Stevenson speech-writer...
...If they fought, Buchanan said, they would drag the whole party down with them...
...President,’ read the Bush letter, ‘It is my considered judgment that you should now resign.’ ” White is still too kind to his sources...
...I’ll take the cash.’ “ O’Neill handed Kennedy the cash and watched it disappear into the inside jacket pocket...
...Peter Bradford...
...The result is a fascinating picture of John Kennedy’s informal off-the-record self at small dinner parties and weekends in the country or on the Cape...
...Hays Gorey...
...the President was moving toward the only conclusion possible, held back from it only by the family guard...
...Of Thee, Nevertheless, I Sing...
...James Dines...
...They wanted to carry the fight right down to the Senate floor...
...With a pardon...
...William Moore...
...Viking, $6.95...
...The Thin Yellow Line...
...Anders Boserup, Andrew Mack...
...A few of Breslin’s other anecdotes have about the same ring of truth as a Reader’s Digest “My Most Unforgettable Character” story, although it must be acknowledged that the prose is more like Mary McGrory than the Digest...
...Harper &Row, $12.95...
...The President had lied to her, as well as to everyone else, but he was her father...
...This is the kind of book which could have been infuriating if only Flynn had done a coherent and thorough job of putting it together...
...War Without Weapons: Non-Violence in National Defence...
...The Victims...
...Martin’s, $7.95...
...Frank Carrington...
...On the Creation of a Just World Saul H. Mendlovitz, ed...
...snobbery and machoism-that he seems unaware of much that was wrong with Kennedy...
...now she insisted on an appointment with Haig for her husband, David Eisenhower, to press on Haig her father’s plea...
...Tip O’Neill gave this great street laugh of his and jammed a Daniel Webster cigar in his mouth...
...Everett C. Ladd, S.M...
...Instead he relies on flat assertions such as, there is “if not an active desire, at least a broad tolerance, for treating public workers, economically, and in other ways, as second-class citizens...
...Blue-Collar Aristocrats: Life Styles at a Working Class Tavern...
...Fragile Structures: A Story of 01 Refineries, the National Security, and the Coast of Maine...
...Portrait of a President...
...His own success at reducing crime bet ween 1969 and 1972 offers a few lessons to other cities, including the importance of requiring district commanders to be personally responsible for crime control in their areas...
...Agapos...
...Praeger, $7.95...
...Rather than a statement of the new militance of the Albert Shanker, Jerry Wurf (who wrote the introduction) variety, this book is little more than an inept cut-and-paste job...
...BobbsMerrill, $8.50...
...Gorey is a respected reporter whose reputation will unfortunately not be enhanced by this tiresome’recitation of the highlights of the Public Citizen’s career, padded with pointless anecdotes and lengthy quotes from the Great Man...
...MasonlCharter, $15...
...Yale Univ., $1 1.50...
...Nor could it balance the danger to the country-months more of controversy in a lost cause until the vote came on the floor of the Senate, with the country unable to strain the clear and narrow perspectives of crime from the turmoil...
...War in the Shadows...
...The Case for 0 timism in Looking Ahead in the 198bs...
...Jay Y. Gonen...
...Public Work, Public Workers...
...Frances Cairncross, Hamish McRae...
...He remembers Magruder saying to him, ‘Peter Rodino is going to be wiped out...
...Frederick C. Mosher, ed...
...The Divided Academy: Professors and Politics...
...If you could help, that’s all we need...
...Doubleday, $35...
...The daughters disagreed...
...You could practice law.’ ” This is supposed to have happened well after Magruder had seen the profit of the Boy Scout route and had no reason to play along with the White House which would scarcely have trusted him anyway since his testimony was helping to send a good part of its staff to jail...
...This book is at times alarming in its oversimplifi-‘ cation, but useful for laying out what is becoming an influential theory...
...This Soldier Still at War...
...How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes From an Impeachment Summer...
...To which Buchanan could only reply: the course they sought could not balance the danger to the President himself, vulnerable to every penalty of law if he were found guilty by the Senate...
...Deputized to receive them, Buchanan listened in his EOB office to the last plea of Edward Cox and David Eisenhower, at three o’clock...
...Scribner s, $8.95...
...They were eloquent,” said Buchanan...
...Buchanan countered again: if we had known about this mess fifteen months ago, we could have gone to the nation, made a confession of it like the Bay of Pigs...
...What we don’t get is an intelligent analysis of Nader’s impact on public life...
...Theodore H. White...
...But there had been a year of “ongoing deception...
...One of America’s livelier reporters returns to journalism with an impeachment book focused around Tip O’Neill and the Judiciary Committee staff...
...The author seems aware of the motivation for their sudden concern for justice in only one sentence: “The matter was intolerable...
...Richard Titmuss...
...The only other reason for cash is to protect the identity of the giver and O’Donnell, Kennedy’s most trusted assistant, would certainly have done that...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $9.95...
...The previous day, Senator Stennis of Mississippi had relayed his message that the President must resign...
...Robert N. Butler, M.D...
...Norton, $7.95...
...Even more predictable is his liberal academic’s outrage over Watergate...
...Most of the book is directed to examining why the “fall” occurred...
...But they were appealing to Buchanan as a man of the conservative cause...
...Social Policy: An Introduction...
...Holt, $7.95...
...The Second Great Crash...
...At about four, the two young men left and, said Buchanan, ‘I felt no minds had been changed.’ “What message the sons-in-law carried back to the President from Buchanan must have been a melancholy one...
...He stopped the game and went off to the side of the court and spoke to Gallagher...
...Haig listened, not commenting, recognizing that the only resistance left came from the family...
...Heath, $9.50...
...Originally prepared as part of Stanford University’s alumnieducation program, this is a clearly written, comprehensive, sensible survey of the economic system and its current disorders...
...Bryan uses Remiro as a symbol of the upheavals of the late 1960s, but he is really representative of no one but himself, worth a magazine article, but not a book...
...he must be removed only by clear Constitutional judgment of his responsibility and its abuse...
...Monthly Review, $1 1.50...
...Martin’s, $10...
...Jimmy Breslin...
...A Psychohistory of Zionism...
...There was no purpose to such a fight at such a cost...
...As traditional economic “authorities” run out of answers fringe theories, including those of gold-bugs like Dines have attracted wider audiences...
...New Republic, $5.95...
...of California, $8.50...
...Grosset & Dunlap, $8.95...
...One goes this way: “During the 1960 presidential campaign, O’Neill was an advance man in Missouri for John F. Kennedy and in the course of his duties he came upon August Busch, who offered to round up 30 people for a $ 1,000-a-head breakfast meeting if Kennedy would show up...
...Lester Grinspoon, M.D...
...The Debt Trap: The International Monetary Fund and the Third World...
...Benjamin C. Bradlee...
...Norton, $7.95...
...Jesse Jackson: The Man, the Movement, the Myth...
...The first chapter is an engrossing account of the last two weeks of the administration...
...Detroit: I Do Mind Dyin : A Study in Urban Revolution...
...Donald D. Hester, James L. Pierce...
...Curing the Mischiefs of Faction: Party Re form in America...
...Grossman, !10 . Police Re ort: A View of Law Enforcement...
...Here is his account of the role of Nixon’s family: “Buchanan met...
...Now I have twelve thousand in cash and seventeen thousand in checks, what do you want me to do with it?’ “ ‘Give the checks to Kenny O’Donnell...
...Would Buchanan do it...
...And then you, you’d be out of here clean...
...Ral h J. Flynn...
...But, they argued, the fight must be made all the way to the Senate floor, because Constitutionally it was important that a President not be removed, by a wave of public opinion...
...No Left Turns...
...LeMasters...
...Joseph L Schott...
...Henry S. Bloomgarden...
...O’Neill called Kennedy, who quickly asked the crucial question about the proposed meeting...
...The New Yorkers: A Profile of an American Metropolis...
...Lipset...
...Robert Penn Warren...
...Leonard Garment is called “the conscience of the White House” without the slightest hint of what modest praise that is...
...Government-Industry and Defense: Economics and Administration...
...The only possible meaning of the story is that Kennedy was going to use the cash personally...
...Multinational Firms and Asian Exports...
...Schocken, $6.50/2.95...
...Harper & Row, $10...
...Like what?’ Gallagher said...
...Remiro is now in prison, charged with the murder of a black school superintendent...
...Isaacs called “The House of Muumbi” that appeared in the October, 1971 issue of The Washington Monthly...
...Yale Univ., $12.50...
...Nader: Making of a Revolutionary...
...Buchanan argued against-they had only one choice: either their father would be the first President of the United States to resign, or he would be the first President to be impeached and convicted...
...Atheneum, $10.95...
...Pantheon, $7.95...
...Unless he, Haig, acted immediately, then he, St...
...of Alabama, $10/3.50...
...The Anxious Economy...
...Written &y the former executive director of the Coalition of American Public Employees, this is a book about a newly discovered group of downtrodden and exploited Americans-the government employees...
...Alan LeMond, Ron Fry...
...A Hero’s Welcome: The Conscience of Sergeant James Daly vs...
...Harper & Row, $15...
...Random House, $10.95...
...Austin Ranney...
...the record should demonstrate by trial in the’ Senate the precise reason why he had been removed...
...Julian frnith...
...Harry G. Johnson...
...The author concludes with an irritating fantasy chapter on a Nader presidential race, filled with enough homilies on civic participation to arouse a new sympathy for corporate executives...
...The Gun: A “Biography” of the Gun That Killed John F. Kennedy...
...Little, Brown, $9.95...
...James Daly, Lee Bergman...
...The two young men made no’ attempt to justify the “trivial” crime of which Nixon was guilty...
...Harper & ROW, 8~7.95...
...Because of the author’s access to O’Neill, he was able to come up with a series of stories about the back-stage machinations behind impeachment...
...of Alabama, $10.95...
...Nelson-Hall, $9.95...
...For example, on the night that Ford was sworn in as Vice-president, we see James Lynn, the HUD secretary, talking to Tip O’Neill: “ ‘Tip, did you ever think we’d be standing here in the White House with history being made, The Twenty-Fifth Amendment working for the first time...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $10...
...Dan Georgaaas, Marvin Surkin...
...Saturday, in the solarium of the White House, with the two daughters of the President and Bebe Rebozo...
...Jerry W%on...
...Bellevue: A Documentary of a Large Metropolitan Hospital...
...But the messages coming in to him from his party via the Haig track were worse...
...What time should I be there?’ The breakfast was arranged at an airport motel and Kennedy arrived, stepped into the room, received the money nod from O’Neill, and then said to the guests, ‘If you’ll excuse Congressman O’Neill and me for a moment.’ “The two of them went out and jammed into what O’Neill remembers as the world’s smallest men’s room...
...And the recitation of meaningless detailO’Neill’s “Daniel Webster” cigars and his “worn Impala” car-sometimes becomes tedious...
...Random House, $8.95...
Vol. 7 • May 1975 • No. 3
