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CORRESPONDENCE Defensive Secretary "The Peking Pentagon" (Kenneth R. Timmerman, TAS, April 1996) alleges that Defense Secretary Perry "made a fortune trading high-tech goods to an enemy." That...
...To put "politics aside" is exactly what has been made impossible in the present climate...
...Something appears to have been added at the last moment before publication...
...ERIC M. JOHNSON Alexandria, Virginia Before I renew my subscription, I would like to ask a question and be favored by a response...
...The case made by Newman, who was on the movie's payroll, is ridiculously circumstantial — viz., Vice President Nixon was hawkish on Cuba in NSC meetings, ergo he must have been in on the Castro plots...
...The filed complaint usually contains a lurid tale of a vast conspiracy involving the Company, investment bankers, accountants, and anyone else with a deep pocket...
...Bower of St...
...she was politically incorrect to the core...
...Hatemi courageously raised all these issues with the U.S...
...Indeed, nothing in the recently enacted securities reform legislation changes the liability of Charles Keating or his ilk for such actions...
...A good speaker doesn't just know this...
...McDonald's has every right to ban smoking in their restaurants if they see fit...
...I'll bet you have the original version tacked up on your wall...
...government and New York State in the 1980's, but both failed to do anything at all about these allegations, when the Ayatollah and his regime were solidifying power...
...Such a settlement is not an admission of guilt but rather a rational calculation of the costs and benefits of fighting the lawsuit...
...Politics aside, Hurston was a sparkling prose stylist with an earthy sense of humor and a fascinating perspective on life...
...He may point, for example, to the National Science Foundation's racially exclusive summer camp, altered last fall to permit admission by students of any race or ethnicity...
...One, Bob Flanagan, "performance artist," and the other, Lt...
...Clinton also may try to take credit for the Pentagon's decision last fall to end the Rule of Two...
...All well and good, but one wonders what Taylor thinks of Ambrose's even-handedness in his June 23, 1991 piece on Silent Coup in the New York Times Book Review in which Ambrose concludes: 'Whatever the true story of Watergate is, and whatever the lessons that we can learn from it, they have not been disclosed in Silent Coup...
...JOHN M. GARRICK Los Angeles, California John H. Taylor replies: Roger Ebert's point is well taken...
...As for the inconveniently revisionist although best-selling Watergate study Silent Coup, the insult Hamburg recycles from the Washington Post Co.'s Newsweek cannot silence the White House tapes, which prove that the Watergate cover-up was rooted in the actionsof Stone's consultant John Dean...
...Iacocca himself attributes his business success to speaking...
...Well, sure, and some people say that the Christian Coalition is a club for Neanderthals, but they are wrong, too...
...Nixon's passing...
...CHARLES A. KRAMER Tehachapi, California Smokes Alive One comment in John Corry's February "Presswatch" article disturbed me greatly...
...Not only has he not taken the initiative to limit preferences, but has allowed his administration to expand them...
...Bakshian offers sensible, uplifting advice for every occasion, from the Thanksgiving toast to a defense of your industry before a hostile audience...
...He and other Foundation employees whom I interviewed said that once the Ayatollah was in power, women at the New York City Fifth Avenue office were required to wear chadors to work, and Iranian Jewish employees were forced out because they were Jewish...
...there is no comparison...
...According to Meyer, a January 8, 1973 taped conversation between Nixon and his special counsel, Charles Colson, puts to rest Silent Coup's "core allegation that the Watergate break-ins were a John Dean operation with the sole intention of gathering sexual dirt on top-level Democrats" and "demolishes Silent Coup's central thesis that an innocent Nixon was done in by his various subordinates...
...LARRY COLLINS Apopka, Florida It is important to balance the quality of your wordsmithing with that of your art work...
...As with alcoholism," he writes, "there is no known cure for stage fright...
...Anyone can master the art of speaking in public, Bakshian says, "In the last analysis, the spoken word is still king...
...Now, perhaps, after a read of your article, a brave public official (are there any...
...MARK JAMISON Logan, Utah As a regular fan of "Crossfire," I knew that I was going to miss Michael Kinsley...
...Re-education In the March Current Wisdom, you highlighted a letter [to the Sacramento Bee] from Mr...
...In making a first impression, Bakshian writes, "Your appearance can raise expectations, but what you say and how you say it will determine how people evaluate you...
...To order, write to: Georgetown Publishing House, 1101 30th St., NW, Dept...
...American Speaker Your Guide to Successful Sp,,Kmg THE AMERICAN SPEAKER Your Guide to Successful Speaking Aram Bakshian, Jr., Editor (600 pages...
...In 1994 Congress imposed the Rule of Two upon the entire government (Clinton did not then object), and for more than sixteen months the administration dawdled over implementing the law...
...Without the lawsuit, the Pentagon would likely still be using the Rule of Two...
...Within days, contingency fee lawyers (aided by an "investor" plaintiff who may only hold loo shares in the Company) have sued the Company...
...Likewise, Joe's Bar and Grill has every right to permit smoking in its restaurant if it sees fit...
...Also, the Pope is clearly worthy of attention in a magazine that reports on world events as well as national politics...
...However, such behavior is not the foundation of the average securities class action lawsuit...
...Thus, when J.C...
...Listening to a candidate with a positive, forward looking, Reaganesque platform is the most refreshing voice I've heard since 1984...
...But the administration changed that program only under the duress of a lawsuit...
...MARK S. YAEGEL Florence, Kentucky The Kinsley Reports Charles C. Mowry II should be well pleased to know that in the future, Michael Kinsley's seat on "Crossfire" will be filled by Bill Press, chairman of the California state Democratic Party (Correspondence, TAS, March 1996...
...Clinton tells lies," but that Bob Bennett "was only playing with words" when he stated that "Billy Dale was willing to plead guilty to embezzlement and spend four months in jail...
...Taylor evidently is unaware that respected historians such as Arthur Schlesinger, Michael Beschloss, John Newman, and Fawn Brodie have documented Nixon's involvement in Track 2 and the assassination plots against Castro as Vice President...
...Kutler writes, Nixon's "lies are at the heart of his history...
...MELANIE GRAHAM Los Angeles, California Congenital Lawyers In his March Presswatch column, John Corry states that "Safire was right...
...will get hold of this problem and run with it...
...I was criticizing the politicization of literature by the left-wing academic establishment...
...I wish him well in his new position...
...I acknowledge that Congressman Waxman is a nut case and a disgrace to California...
...May the population awaken to your message...
...But I say "hallelujah" to the press for continuing to expose the disaster that cigarette smoking certainly is...
...However, plaintiffs lawyers will have to think twice before attempting to extort a settlement from a company which has merely had the misfortune of suffering a downturn in business...
...I happen to agree with her loo percent, and wish to know what action (if any) you intend to take in answer to her suggestion...
...Bakshian tackles head-on the challenges of public speaking in AMERICAN SPEAKER...
...What the record does show is that the commencement of implementation of CIA plots occurred after the election of President Kennedy, with the most intensive efforts occurring in 1962 and 1963...
...Being from a post-literate culture such as Hollywood, they assume that listing their "sources" is enough...
...Hurston was a fine—andunjustifiably neglected — novelist, folklorist, and historian whose staunch conservative, Republican beliefs continue to perplex and disgust many of her literary advocates...
...He cites Woodward and Bernstein, but fails to mention their ample documentation of Nixon's drinking and use of those deleted "expletives...
...When the Silent Coup trial begins, Garrick will have a busy time assisting Dean in reconciling the contradictions in his Watergate testimony, statements, and writings that the authors of Silent Coup claim exist...
...and as the man in charge of scholarship funds given by the Foundation to Iranian children in America, Hatemi was ordered to cut off all funds to the children of "Shah people" and steer them instead only to children of "Ayatollah people...
...If they had, they would probably reverse their respective opinions...
...Before the Company can get the complaint dismissed, the plaintiffs lawyers can subject the Company to extremely burdensome document requests and its executives to exhausting and time-consuming depositions...
...Bower should have is the right to patronize places that please him/her and the "right" to stay the hell away from places that don't...
...From simple retail sales spiels to sensitive boardroom presentations, speech keeps the wheels of commerce turning...
...It might be useful for her to thumb through the Catechism of the Catholic Church to find a moral teaching she objects to...
...She knew that men and women were not interchangeable...
...Reviews of Primary Colors overwhelmingly proclaim it as dead-on accurate and well written...
...Shepard's true colors come out when she says that "Where are those who argue that Catholicism is not even Christian...
...When the New York–based not-forprofit Pahlavi Foundation was still associated with the Shah, its charter did not allow for use of its funds for religious purposes...
...He truly was nice and a very funny guy...
...Haldeman bluntly disavowed that hypothetical passage from his ghostwriter-controlled book, and Hamburg knows it...
...Shepard wants articles from Pat Robertson and James Dobson for "equal time," but neither man is a figure on the world stage the way Pope John Paul II is...
...Clinton also might try to say that it was his idea to decline extending the Rule of Two to the rest of the government...
...The GOP-supported securities reform legislation aids these companies by requiring that plaintiffs lawyers allege with specificity the fraud they believe has been committed, encouraging judges to sanction lawyers who file frivolous lawsuits and providing some protection from lawsuits for companies that make good-faith predictions...
...the best economy in the world will not save a wicked nation from ultimate destruction...
...He demonstrates how a shared reference can warm up the audience, draw a favorable analogy or build a bridge from past to present...
...Or call them at 800-915-0022 — or, fax 202-337-1512...
...No...
...In my opinion, the artistic contributors at The American Spectator have often been able to produce illustrations equal to the best creations of your many eminent writers...
...How often has Taylor written anything—anything at all—negative about Richard Nixon...
...They speak all the time in the workplace and to colleagues, customers and the media...
...Rather than replacing Hemingway, her books should push "the likes of" Maya Angelou off required reading lists...
...Just who does this J.C...
...Hamburg had plenty of room in his letter for name calling and, astonishingly, more lies...
...The only person whose decision matters in this situation is the owner of the restaurant...
...Look, you can redesign the Spectator every six months for all I care—as long as you keep printing Ben Stein's pieces...
...The chairmen of Fortune 500 companies like Coca-Cola, IBM and General Motors make more speeches in a year than most politicians do...
...Apparently Mr...
...All Thumbs As a faithful reader of The American Spectator, I was dismayed to come across this statement in your article "Nixon on the Rocks," by John H. Taylor (TAS, March 1996): "Siskel and Ebert gave Stone 'two thumbs up,' but their Chicago-based program is distributed by Disney, too...
...To illustrate the business address, Bakshian quotes nine speeches that used humor and anecdotes to deliver serious messages to several very different audiences...
...Discuss the need for morality —Christian Christian morality," Shepard says, "but not as it's proclaimed by the Catholic Church...
...While both pieces are sympathetic to Catholic teachings, they don't add up to TAS being a tool of the bishops...
...JOHN A. CARROLL Springfield, Virginia Romanism In objecting to The American Spectator's two recent articles on Catholicism, Christy Shepard has worked herself up for nothing (Correspondence, TAS, February 1996...
...Although he accuses me of errors, he cannot name any...
...No one knows how I hate making speeches," President Calvin Coolidge once complained to a friend...
...However, the cartoonists have now pulled into the lead, leaving your authors in the position of having to catch up with the new standards of excellence established by, specifically, the illustrator of page 67 in your March 1996 edition...
...Robertson and Dobson are admirable men who doubtless carry a great deal of positive influence in America, but that is the extent of their ministries...
...The only flaw I can ascertain in this work perhaps stems more from editorial cowardice than a lack of vision on the part of the artist...
...SYBIL CARNELL Toronto, Ontario Forbes in Force Please, oh please do not confuse Steve Forbes with Ronald Reagan (About This Month, TAS, March 1996...
...More objective observers than Mr...
...Review AMERICAN SPEAKER for 30 days...
...Taylor is sincere in wanting the full truth about Richard Nixon to be known, he would stop blocking the release of all 4,000 hours of Nixon tapes, of which only 6o hours have ever been made public...
...Though such a complaint contains few specific allegations and is not supported by any evidence, it is the plaintiffs lawyer's ticket to begin intimidating the Company...
...Best of all, the entire package is guaranteed...
...May I then conclude that Hillary Rod-ham Clinton is not Anonymous...
...HARVARD R. FONG Sacramento, California The editors heartily encourage you to sound your barbaric yawp...
...Bower pits the restaurant smoker and the restaurant non-smoker against each other and decides in favor of the nonsmoker, he/she misses the point...
...Brodie's hatred of Nixon, like Stone's, was corrosive...
...Beschloss acknowledged that the passage Stone cited from his book The Crisis Years was speculative...
...Fear and loathing of the rubber chicken circuit have long plagued public figures...
...Thanks, Steve Forbes...
...His considerable accomplishments in both foreign and domestic policy are brought out in the film, and it is our hope that the film will prompt students and others to read, study, and learn more about Richard Nixon, his Presidency, and his legacy...
...Oddly enough, our other Silent Coup–basher, John M. Garrick, does not disclose his vital personal interest in this matter, so I shall: He is a member of the Los Angeles law firm that represents Dean and his wife in the very lawsuit he describes...
...But here's what really makes AMERICAN SPEAKER stand out from the crowd of business publications...
...Timmerman, raise an interesting question: Did the Iranian regime have a New York corporation—the Mostazafan Foundation—under its control in the 1980's...
...ROBERT J. ROBINSON Queensbury, New York Going Back to Hurston Donald Lyons, in his review of Wendy Steiner's The Scandal of Pleasure (TAS, March 1996), takes a swipe at "the likes of Zora Neale Hurston," whose writings Steiner suggests should replace the "virile chest-thumping" of Hemingway in academic curricula...
...Taylor cites Nixon biographer Stephen Ambrose as someone who supports Taylor's condemnation of Oliver Stone's Nixon...
...The true answer to this dilemma is freedom...
...ROGER EBERT Chicago, Illinois John Taylor's blind loyalty to Richard Nixon is perhaps understandable, if misplaced...
...So was my father, Daniel Graham...
...Try as they might, feminists will never be able to claim Hurston as one of their own...
...But that she was...
...I'd pay good American money for a copy...
...IRWIN CHUSID Hoboken, New Jersey Donald Lyons replies: Zora Neale Hurston is a fine writer...
...She even rebukes TAS for accepting an ad from the New Oxford Review, which, ironically enough, is an ecumenical magazine...
...Reading only Mr...
...I have noticed that these pages have often contained kind words for evangelical Protestants, and I never felt excluded...
...A few weeks after the publication of the original article, he sent in another letter, having had his awareness expanded by meeting with people more intimately involved with the event...
...policy toward China is too important to be poisoned by articles that replace fact with fiction and reasoned argument with personal attack...
...Iran Run Kenneth R. Timmerman's article in your December issue ("Islamic Iran's American Base"), and Robert Ferguson's (lawyer for Alavi Foundation) letter in the March issue upbraiding The American Spectator and Mr...
...He has also obstructed, in every way he can, the issuance of concealed weapons permits here in California under current law...
...Dean and that reviewer Herbert Meyer dismissed in your magazine (TAS, September 1991) as a "mess, with allegations and judgments flying all over the place...
...There was no one "the likes of" Zora Neale Hurston...
...But his weird rant against our film is so wildly inaccurate that it is hard to know where to begin in responding...
...RON WALKER Huntington Beach, California First off, let me agree with J.C...
...Whichever of the present candidates (if any) might be eligible for the illustrious "Reagan mantle," it is certainly not Steve Forbes...
...Lungren is indeed of the "Hamiltonian" school of thought, since he has been doing everything in his power to prevent passage of AB 638, or the Citizens Self-Defense Bill, which changes (Continued on page 71) 12 May 1996 • The American Spectator Eastland (Continuedfrompage 35) Despite his clear record in favor of preferential affirmative action, Clinton will no doubt try to portray himself as an affirmative action abolitionist as Election Day draws near...
...What an insult...
...Hatemi says that the Foundation employees took their marching orders from the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations...
...Rather, I am heartened that Christians who are fully committed to their faith can be powerful allies against further degradations of American culture...
...Schlesinger, also like Stone, may have wished to absolve his friends John and Robert Kennedy of their own roles...
...That unsubstantiated statement, like many others in the article, is completely untrue...
...I know of no credible scholar who takes her psychobabbling assaults seriously...
...Mowry will be gratified by Press's attempts, when confounded by the facts, to try to obscure his inability to respond in kind, by erupting into positively volcanic displays of liberal gibberish...
...reading his second letter, he appears to be an honorable man who has reassessed his opinion after reviewing new information...
...Many of my fellow papists would, too...
...And yet I've lost them in the smoke...
...A good speaker is always in demand...
...I have noticed a very pro-Catholic bias by your magazine in articles and advertising...
...Stein) are fraudulent and should be punished...
...In the calendars section, for instance, Bakshian compiles thousands of speech pegs for every day of the year in three calendars: celebrity birthdays, today in history and the months at a glance...
...There is no evidence that Nixon created or authorized Track II, as journalist Evan Thomas wrote after reading the CIA's own secret history and interviewing the man who really did dream up the Castro assassination plots, Richard Bissell...
...And it was H.R...
...And so on...
...Copies are available only from Georgetown Publishing House...
...In addition to the basic 600-page volume, readers also receive timely updates, transcripts of recent, powerful speeches and a free consulting service with Bakshian, to resolve those last-minute speaking challenges...
...Louis when he/she states that people have a right to a cigarette-smoke free environment when in public (Correspondence, TAS, March 1996...
...The amateur is thrown by it, but the professional needs it...
...10 May 1996 • The American Spectator R E VIE W Applause, Applause Anyone can win over a tough audience, says hailed speechwriter...
...Every audience gathered to share a common interest or celebrate a specific occasion has a built-in common bond," Bakshian writes...
...Correspondence (Continued from page 12) the current "good cause" language (which apparently exists only for politicians and judges) for concealed license permits, to "shall issue" in cases of no criminal/mental records...
...If Mr...
...And not just on television...
...Fittingly, Nixon enshrined that legacy in his own memorial...
...He also cites historian Stanley Kutler, but fails to mention Kutler's brilliant essay in our book, which critiques and deconstructs the Orwellian Nixon "library" headed by Mr...
...Bower went to a strip club and didn't like the nudity, would he/she demand that the stripping stop because the strippers right to strip ends where J.C...
...As David W. Belin, executive director of the 1975 Rockefeller Commission on the CIA, wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal, "[T]here is nothing to show any involvement of either Eisenhower or Nixon...
...Some have found it overly so...
...ANNA I. HORNBECK Kansas City, Missouri What It Takes Lisa Schiffren's review of It Takes a Village (TAS, March 1996) portrays Hillary's parental primer as Sopho-moronic...
...In his autobiography, he writes: "I've seen a lot of guys who are smarter than I am and a lot who know more about cars...
...He purports to give an inside account of the making of the film, but to one who was actually involved in the production, his version is almost laughable in its distortions, misrepresentations, pettiness, and paranoia...
...In addition, Garrick and his firm are defendants in a separate libel suit filed by one of the book's authors, Len Colodny...
...KENNETH H. BACON Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Department of Defense Washington, D.C...
...It must not occur to them that people will look them up, in actual books, and see that the central contention the movie, that Nixon was complicit in the Kennedy assassination, is a monstrous lie, as is almost everything else Stone shows and says about the Nixons...
...There is no reason to think that a second term would be any different...
...One could as easily write, "John H. Taylor gave Stone 'two thumbs down,' but he is executive director of the Yorba Linda—based Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation...
...Given that the administration had decided it could not defend the Pentagon's use of the Rule of Two, however, it was a foregone conclusion that the rule would be inadvisable for the rest of the government...
...JOHN RAY Miller Place, New York Fire Away In last December's Christmas Books issue, Dan Lungren, attorney general of California, told your (most excellent) magazine that he enjoyed the Federalist Papers...
...We see Nixon as a tragic figure, with greatness in his grasp, but brought down by his own flaws of character...
...she was a connoisseur of male braggadocio and a celebrant of chest-thumping...
...Yoshida's first letter, you would think him a sanctimonious jerk...
...Forbes is definitely not the man for whom most Reagan supporters have been waiting—especially those who joined the GOP because of Reagan's stand on the social issues, foremost among them abortion...
...That is why the "character issue" has proven to loom so large with the present administration and why so many Americans have vague, pervasive fears about the future of this country under the Clintons...
...it was simply the color of her skin...
...Never has this been more true than in today's intensely competitive business climate...
...In effect, Shepard is telling two-thirds of the world's Christians—and a quarter of American Christians—that they have no business in American politics...
...However much he has clouded the issue, Bill Clinton has from the start of his presidency been a strong supporter of race- and sex-based preferences...
...Haldeman, not Oliver Stone, who first suggested that Nixon's repeated references to the "Bay of Pigs thing" on the Watergate tapes were actually a code word for the Kennedy assassination...
...The fact of the matter is, the only place I consider to be "in public" is a federal, state, county, or community building or outdoors on public property...
...I am simultaneously reminded of a startled squid and the "speaking in tongues" of former televangelist Robert Tilton...
...Bower person think they are to demand that a restau72 M ay 1996 The American Spectator rant owner accommodate him/her at the expense of other customers...
...The interrupting and mindless badgering of Juan Williams, the leftist rant of venomous copperhead Bob Becket, and now the odious far-leftist Bill Press, who would drop off of the left side of the earth if it were flat, all make Michael Kinsley seem reasonable, decent, and easy-totake by comparison...
...While purporting to disparage theories, Taylor dredges up the discredited conspiracy theories of Silent Coup, a book which Newsweek recently called a "wacko tract...
...She felt neither pride nor humiliation in being black...
...I love good irony...
...If it doesn't meet your expectations, return it to Georgetown Publishing House for a complete refund...
...General Daniel 0. Graham...
...In the last sentence regarding the secondhand smoke controversy and Henry Waxman, he states: "In a stunning display of misplaced priorities, the press still refuses to abandon the anti-smoking crusade...
...In an era of mortifyingly unctuous public voices (start with the Clintons, Phil Donahue, Kathy Lee and Regis), Ben Stein is as conspicuous for his scrupulous avoidance of any such cheap tone as he is for his courageous honesty, his wit, and his genuine sensitivity...
...Belin accused filmmakers such as Stone and Hamburg of "injecting a virus of lies into our nation's school system" with study guides peddling the "false accusations" in their movies...
...I had read Tom Bethell's article on Catholicism and the cover story on the Pope...
...Suffice it to say that if Taylor had read the book of our film, which he clearly didn't, he would know that the scenes contained in the film are more than amplyresearched and documented...
...Her quarrel is with certain Catholic theological teachings, not morality per se...
...They're all over AMERICAN SPEAKER...
...This is the same Silent Coup that is the subject of a defamation lawsuit brought by Mr...
...The restaurant in question is no more a "public" place than a private home is...
...Just ask Lee Iacocca...
...Arranged alphabetically, AMERICAN SPEAKER is easy to navigate, highly entertaining and loaded with good ideas...
...Perhaps the best contemporary example is Lee Iacocca, who saved the Chrysler Corporation by using his enormous talent as a speaker to win the support of the Congress, the White House and the American people for the biggest corporate bailout in history...
...More typically, the price of a high-flying technology company's stock drops precipitously after the announcement of lower than expected earnings or a delay in the shipment of a new product...
...In either case, it's easy to minimize that suffering — or even turn it into an advantage...
...As it is, the administration continues to use other preferential devices to award contracts...
...As Prof...
...What about actual speeches...
...Oh, boy: A quarter-century later and we'll still be wallowing in Watergate...
...Furthermore, she says that the editors of this fine journal should "give equal time to the Protestant viewpoint...
...and Mrs...
...Ask any former smoker whether nicotine is addictive...
...Unusual for a book or periodical of any kind, AMERICAN SPEAKER is more of a personal mentor — a do-it-yourself guide designed to save hours or days of preparation time, or, conversely, an enormous bill from a professional speechwriter or "coach...
...No one denies that cooking books or shipping bricks (two incidents cited by Mr...
...You're either a 'chronic' sufferer or a 'recovering' sufferer...
...Whereupon, says Hatemi, funds from the Foundation were used to construct a great Mosque in Washington, D.C...
...JOYCE Y. LEITNER @cello.gina.calstate.edu Stein Lines By criticizing the GOP for siding with "the looters and their accountants" over "stockholders," Ben Stein ("Marshal Laws," TAS, March 1996) displays a surprising blindness to the reality of securities litigation...
...The debate over U.S...
...Because I'm tough...
...Hatemi has sworn to the truth of these things...
...At events from business conventions to weddings, "a good speaker not only adds to the occasion, he also benefits from 'free advertising' that adds to his stature in the community and attracts future business...
...But the Pentagon took that action upon advice from the Justice Department that it could not defend the procedure, then facing an Adarand challenge in the federal courts...
...However, J.C...
...He was fired in 1981 for refusing to vote for the Ayatollah Khomeini in a plebiscite Khomeini held for himself that year...
...Speechwriter to "The Great Communicator" himself, Ronald Reagan, as well as to two other former presidents and the heads of several major corporations, Bakshian has witnessed the rise and fall of international leaders based on their ease — or lack of ease — on the podium...
...He also did a creditable, even-handed job of moderating "Firing Line...
...Ambrose is "widely praised for his even-handedness...
...Few professionals can afford to ignore a promise like that AMERICAN SPEAKER ($297, including bimonthly updates) is not available in any bookstore...
...I hope that mainstream Evangelicals don't agree, and also I hope to see more articles about Catholicism in The American Spectator...
...If J.C...
...I thank Eric Hamburg for his tacit affirmation of my article...
...VALERIE H. PROTOPAPAS Huntington Station, New York How sweet it is...
...Taylor...
...I will not vote for anyone, for any office, that actively attempts to abrogate citizens rights as enumerated by the Bill of Rights...
...You've got to know how to talk to them, plain and simple...
...In the education section, Bakshian shows how cartoonist Garry Trudeau hilariously defused the "political correctness" time bomb in speaking to a graduating class at Yale University...
...Georgetown Publishing House) By Len Taylor The difference between success and failure, writes Aram Bakshian, Jr., in this remarkable new resource for public speakers, is the ability to communicate clearly and effectively...
...As the Walt Disney Co.'s clout grows, however, people inevitably and properly will wonder about its influence upon even our most respected critics...
...It is unfortunate that Taylor undermines what valid points he does make on Nixon's behalf with his undeserved faith in an unworthy book...
...As a condition of keeping his job with Mostazafan, Mostazafan required American citizen Hatemi to deliver his Iranian passport to the Foundation, to be delivered then to the Algerian ambassador in Washington, and thence to Iran, where it would be used to cast a ballot for That Very Important Man in the Napoleonic"election" in Iran...
...And contrary to Corry's opinion, I thought that the CEOs who represented the tobacco companies before Congress made complete asses of themselves...
...I highly recommend the Library of America's two volumes of her collected writings...
...You can travel to practically any corner of the Earth and find pictures of the Pope on someone's wall...
...Forbes is a supposed fiscal conservative, but he is also an admitted social liberal, and though Reagan did not pursue the The American Spectator • May 1996 71 social issues as President as much as he should have, he openly declared that the moral conscience of a country is far more important than mere economic policy...
...This viewpoint was expressed very eloquently by a letter from one Christy Shepard of Toledo, Ohio...
...I suspect that neither Lyons nor Steiner has read much Hurston...
...Here is information which may clarify the issue: I am a lawyer who represents Noshiraven Hatemi, a naturalized Iranian-born American citizen who was the highest paid employee of Mostazafan in the early '8o's...
...Taylor have found our film to be a surprisingly sympathetic look at Richard Nixon...
...Regrettably, the cover-up continues, even after Mr...
...Bower's definition of a "public place" is so off the mark that I must respond...
...What's the difference between a shyster lawyer who is a "congenital liar" and a shyster lawyer who "adroitly mixes fact and fiction...
...Bakshian should know...
...It's a clever, accessible concept: a three-ring binder crammed with hundreds of pages of material on every imaginable aspect of public address: body language, delivering an inspiring eulogy, antidotes to nervousness, using humor, developing a powerful speaking voice, or engaging the audience in a positive questionand-answer session...
...Meanwhile scholars have had a field day plumbing the bogus footnotes in his and Stone's published script...
...Under the new laws, crooks and swindlers will still be prosecuted...
...In his apologia for Richard Nixon's "legacy of progressive Republicanism," Taylor cites the book Silent Coup as authority for the proposition that the Watergate break-in was John Dean's "brainchild...
...Over the years Gene Siskel and I have voted "thumbs down" on a good many more Disney productions than we have voted "thumbs up" for...
...PETER S. HEINECKE Palo Alto, California I'm furious at R. K. Mahler for calling Ben Stein's January '96 diary "unctuously guilt-ridden...
...Business is the single biggest rhetorical arena...
...a good speaker takes advantage of it...
...Both are discussed extensively in The Final Days as well as many other books...
...ERIK PETERSON Gresham, Oregon Bittersweet Imagine my surprise upon reading the March issue of my favorite magazine and finding death mentions of two people I knew—and both in the same paragraph...
...ERIC HAMBURG Co-Producer, Nixon Santa Monica, California Apparently Richard Nixon Library Director John H. Taylor is not a regular reader of your magazine...
...Of particular interest is whether the cover-up plan the President approved on June 23, 1972, was the brainchild of John Mitchell (as Dean told Bob Haldeman it was that morning) or Dean himself (as Silent Coup alleges...
...Faced with the multi-milliondollar cost of preparing for trial and the inherent unpredictability of the average jury, many executives choose to settle the lawsuit and get on with the business of running their companies...
...Yoshida and his thoughts on Pearl Harbor Day...
...The President of the United States is certainly the economic leader of the nation but, even more importantly, he is America's moral leader...
...Bower's eyes begin...
...As head of the Farsi school run by the Foundation in Harlem, Hatemi was also required to abolish all old (read "Shah") holiday celebrations at the school, after the Ayatollah had ousted the Shah...
...Such a change will benefit both growth companies and their investors...
...She might find a few, but not more than that...
...The only "right" J.C...
...Certainly, without Adarand on the books, it would be using the rule, a quota-like device that from the start of the administration was never threatened by the president's well-advertised anti-quota principle...
...A section on acceptance speeches includes as an example Winston Churchill's masterful appearance before Parliament in 1954, on the occasion of his 80th birthday...
...But once that corporation became the Mostazafan Foundation in 1979, it added an article to its charter that allowed for use of funds for religious purposes...
...Write us at 2020 N. 4th Street, Suite 750, Arlington, Virgina, 22201, or post e-mail to: amspec@ix.netcom.com The American Spectator • May 1996 73...
...As Carroll O'Connor, the legendary "Archie Bunker," put it, "A professional actor has a kind of tension...
...Where is the answer to the simple question I posed: Why is Oliver Stone covering up for John Dean...
...4KE6, Washington, DC 20007...
...I did improv comedy with Bob many years ago...
...Other than your strong pro-Catholic bias, you have a fine magazine...
Vol. 29 • May 1996 • No. 5
