Editorials/Ever Jimmy/ Plutonium and the President
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS Ever Jimmy by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. id you catch the front-page D interview of former President Jimmy Carter in the New York Times the other day? It was a perfect substitute for a...
...One hundred million dollars is not all that much to one of these nations—or for that matter to some international terrorist organization—if it offers the hope of, say, holding the United States hostage...
...Now that Christopher is Bill Clinton's secretary of state, Carter will not leave him alone...
...Nonetheless, as the Wall Street Journal has observed, the U.S...
...In what may prove to be a historic memo, he has notified the heads of the armed services to plan on delaying major weapons systems for several years...
...Jimmy does, and in this historic interview in the Times he glows over the assets of two such beauties, but only after reading one of his idiotic poems...
...He was also a shrewd businessman...
...I hope he read some intelligence reports on the plutonium that German security officers have been intercepting from Russia...
...After depicting his 1980 opponent Ronald Reagan as everything from a tool of Kapitalism to an agent of the South African government, he was publicly miffed when President Reagan did not repair to him for foreign policy advice...
...Later, they became our friends, but habits live in memories...
...He was a devoted healer, a doctor of the first rank...
...We still need him...
...Jimmy calls that a poem, but consider what he says about the former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam (who he admits was a killer), "I found him to be charming...
...He dines with The Stars and cuts the military budget...
...What made this discovery so alarming was the astounding purity of the plutonium...
...This is the material that the Germans discovered in Jaekle's garage...
...Nor will Jimmy leave seated presidents alone...
...Carter was off to-Port-au-Prince, leaving Christopher to spend Saturday afternoon at the movies watching Quiz Show with his deputy Strobe Talbott...
...All the world has heard of the August "sting" operation at Munich airport that netted 300 grams of plutonium being bootlegged from Russia...
...Security Council resolution ordaining military measures against Iraq...
...At a time when they were being shamelessly exploited by political opportunists, Doc did what he could to shore them up...
...He pops up in the midst of the administration's every (well, almost every) foreign policy disaster...
...There is still more evidence that state-of-the-art Russian nuclear technology is on the market to terrorists and outlaw nations...
...is cutting funding while deploying troops "to more world hot spots than ever before...
...General Cedras is nicer...
...He made the administration of The American Spectator easier by his generous support, friendship, and wise counsel...
...He was a clever columnist, and he authored an engaging collection of biographical essays, Call Me a Doctor, which we were so proud to publish, in which he retailed the stories of men who went on from medicine to other things...
...The buyers mentioned were North Korea and Iraq...
...Incidentally, Jimmy does not like Mrs...
...I thought at the time that it was not a very kind thing to say about a man of such obvious mediocrity...
...Instead, Our President is allowing research into new weaponry to go the way of the military budget, to wit, towards decline...
...Now, Carter admits in the Times that he sought to thwart President Bush's request for a U.N...
...I cannot recall any other admirer of the fair sex ever having a special eye for the wives of dictators...
...Scientists claim that plutonium of the purity found in the wretched Jaekle's garage could be used in a nuclear device small enough to be put in a coffee jar...
...At Martha's Vineyard he boasted of reading whole armfuls of "thrillers...
...And attractive...
...A German legislator, Peter Struck, said on August 19 that Jaekle had received an offer of around $100 million for his treasure...
...Apparently he has written an entire volume of dithyrambs that will soon be published...
...Training exercises are being cut back...
...Unfortunately, so tight is the military budget that it is questionable whether the armed services can even maintain their present weapons systems...
...In the garage of one Adolf Jaekle, a 52-year-old entrepreneur living along the Swiss border, the German secret service discovered six grams of plutonium 239...
...Cedras or Mrs...
...At 99.7 percent, it could be used to create pocket-sized nuclear weapons...
...For over a year, authoritative voices from the General Accounting Office to the Heritage Foundation have been claiming that the defense budget over the next five years has been underfunded by from $100 billion to $150 billion...
...I have no views on either Mrs...
...Americans might recall that President Carter's foreign policy was among the country's most amateurish, transforming a friendly Iran into a dungeon for American diplomats, delusionally imposing "human rights" on Moscow, thenkissing Brezhnev in public, then pathetically witnessing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...Then too, he was a truly civilized man, a voracious reader, a connoisseur of prose...
...This is typical of Our President...
...Carter presents himself as a poet, a harasser of Warren Christopher, a stalker of presidents, and a ladies' man with a special hankering for the wives of dictators...
...R.I.P...
...Doc now is going on to other things, bigger things, and we hope he will remember the multitudes of friends he has left behind...
...In mid-September, at the height of the Haitian blunder, the anile figure of Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...Russian scientists have admitted that the Soviets were intent on creating nuclear bombs capable of being smuggled into Western cities...
...It was a perfect substitute for a deficiency that the Times prides itself in, no comics page...
...Now Carter expresses his wonderment that Christopher is not appreciative...
...The First Amendment being what it is, there seems to be no way to avoid it...
...Mengistu is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands...
...According to the Times it reads thus: We justify our nation's wars each time with words to prove we kill in a moral cause...
...He boldly plays the game that rendered Dwight D. Eisenhower derisible to Our Progressive Intelligentsia and cuts the military budget...
...Carter sent letters to members of the Security Council asking them to oppose President Bush...
...In September of last year, a Russian nuclear expert, Professor N. V. Polynov, speaking at a conference in New Mexico, related that the laboratory he worked in had refined extremely pure plutonium with gallium in an alloy for military purposes...
...Obviously the old boy is non compos mentis...
...Our President goes on vacation and cuts the military budget...
...With the proliferation of inexpensive missiles, the civilized nations should be developing defensive weapons envisaged in the "Star Wars" programs of the 1980s...
...RETA s Our President pratfalls his way through his fantasy presidency, ominous discoveries are being made throughout the world...
...We've cursed the names of those we fought—the "Japs" instead of Japanese, German Nazis or the "Huns," and "Wops"— when they were enemies...
...And on to Mengistu's wife, "one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen in the world, she was like King Solomon's daughter, and eloquent and personable...
...He has now sent troops to Haiti to challenge a tiny army—yet he will not challenge Congress to fund them...
...Doc Griffitts was a friend of freedom and of the Republic...
...As for General Cedras's wife, during his recent visit to Haiti Jimmy 14 The American Spectator November 1994 found her "impressive, powerful and forceful...
...Jimmy also reminds us that he once called Warren Christopher, then a member of his State Department, "the finest public servant I've ever known...
...He probably does not think her very pretty, either...
...Not even dictators have an eye for the wives of dictators...
...Thatcher and would not suffer the "waste of a stamp" soliciting her support against President Bush on the Security Council...
...Now Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch has come forward and tacitly acknowledged that our penny-wise and pound-foolish leaders in Congress and the White House have woefully underfunded national security...
...Obviously the civilized nations of the world should be developing weapons capable of defending themselves from such horror...
...Funding for the military in real dollars has declined nearly to pre–World War II levels...
...01 Plutonium and the President 16 The American Spectator November 1994...
...He loved our American institutions...
...His poetry reading suggests it, his enchantment with the dictators' ladies confirms it...
...When things looked grim in the Middle East, Carter threatened to fly in...
...A more alarming German seizure took place in May, though it was kept secret for months...
...t is with great sadness that I contemplate the death of James J. Griffitts, M.D., my friend and one of the most generous and thoughtful friends that The American Spectator has ever had...
...One is called "With Words We Learn to Hate...
...During the embarrassment with North Korea, Carter was there...
...Mengistu, but I can tell you Mr...
...10 James J. Griffitts, M.D...
...She was slim and very attractive...
...Personnel shortages are developing...
Vol. 27 • November 1994 • No. 11
