Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady
Mitchell, Greg
The First Lady of Anti-Anti-Communism Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas Greg Mitchell Random House /316 pages / $25 REVIEWED BY Stephen Schwartz This is a...
...politics forever...
...I laughed for a good solid five minutes as I pictured Mr...
...Or in a better world, anyway...
...At his funeral in April 1994, President Clinton said, "May the day of judging President Nixon on anything less than his entire life and career come to a close...
...Only in the fantasies of former Americans like Chafets (why don't you ask him if he ever gave up U.S...
...Please...
...Simply put, the American people returned to the same opinion of Stalin they had in 1940 (and of Hitler, too): they were anti-American rats and enemies of humanity...
...Disabilities ex nihilo, a phalanx of new victim groups, and even more imaginative and absurd class action suits are hardly the stuff to generate a warm glow of appreciation for the well-intentioned senator and his high-minded colleagues...
...While we now know everything Nixon said to Chuck Colson in February 1971, we will evidently have to wait years to learn everything he said to Mao Tse-tung in February 1972...
...Does this media star live such an existence that he is unfamiliar with children of parents who—as a result of emotional damage from, say, war—have had to learn to move forward only by separating themselves from toxic parents...
...for however short a time the media's monopolistic presentation of this issue was broken...
...Incapable of explaining such phenomena, Mitchell leaves them mainly unaddressed...
...as Sidney Hook, James Bumham, and Irving Kristol...
...This may be his last effort, and he realizes what he is up against...
...I'd rather, s--t, lose the election...
...The litany went like this: America could not effectively oppose Communism until, say, the sharecroppers of Alabama were succored...
...Jude Wanniski's letter in the same issue brought back some laughable moments from the Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown Governorship Era...
...Stein take heart...
...I understand that her husband of many years had recently passed away and, incredible as it may seem to you, people who are grief-stricken sometimes behave differently than normal...
...the threat to peace came from the "arms race" and therefore from both sides...
...Beyond Kennedy's tragic death, the reporter credits his persistent popularity to his grace and style and his mastery of television...
...Helen Gahagan Douglas Greg Mitchell Random House /316 pages / $25 REVIEWED BY Stephen Schwartz This is a work of politically correct historical narcissism...
...He strongly resembled Garner's Wyatt Earp of "Hour of the Gun...
...Not one national Israeli election has ever been influenced by this issue...
...It never dawns on him that Downey, as a U.S...
...Douglas's views played very poorly in 1950, a time when Stalinists were clamping down on Eastern Europe and Mao's victory in China was followed by Communist aggression in Korea...
...Mitchell's only answer is that they were corrupted and bought-off As he writes of Downey: "By the mid-194o's, while maintaining a mainstream New Deal record on national programs, he began to side with corporate interests on important California issues...
...they were outraged by it...
...Without question...
...Though Mitchell claims to eschew a simplistic "Beauty and the Beast" approach to his subject, Nixon remains the villain, and Helen Gahagan Douglas, the liberal-left queen bee and wife of actor Melvyn Douglas (who wisely avoided all but perfunctory involvement in the whole mess), the victim...
...honor and validate the sacrifices made by the three million Americans who served...
...This is especially ridiculous in view of the exten;ive use both Nixon and Kissinger made 3f-the documents in their memoirs...
...Since he never got his day in court, history still owes him one, conducted with the dispassion of the passing years...
...The first, treated in Mitchell's 1992 book The Campaign ofthe Century, pitted socialist Upton Sinclair against Republican Frank Merriam in the state's 1934 gubernatorial race...
...Sorry, but that's been done...
...I really would...
...were not "afraid" of Communism...
...Shiflett/Nashville (Continued from page 44) songwriter and producer who has been in Nashville sixteen years, is inspired by the experience of a song he wrote that contained a deeply spiritual theme...
...You can feed people cotton candy for only so long before they demand meat...
...So while Nixon increasingly gets no credit for what he did and is clobbered for what he said in moments of extreme tension, Kennedy is excused for what he did because he looked and sounded so darn good while he did it...
...ARTHUR L. SADLER College of Wooster-Medical Osterville, Massachusetts P.S...
...I cite, for example, a legislative catastrophe to which Mr...
...Hatch's belief that pragmatic or "governing" conservatism requires varying degrees of compromise...
...One gets the impression from such damaging exaggeration that Ehrlichman, who had tacitly approved Hunt's Los Angeles break-in, quickly decided that it might be better for everyone, but especially Ehrlich-man, if Mitchell took responsibility for Hunt's Washington break-in...
...Maybe the soccer team Hillary played on was the one Larry Lawrence put together to break the tedium on those long voyages to Murmansk...
...And as long as the money spigot continues, the Israeli government will continue the peace process...
...Instead, Mitchell frequently cites Boddy and Nixon's charge—articulated in Nixon's famous "pink sheet" handout—that Helen Douglas's voting record as a member of Congress closely paralleled that of Rep...
...Should we be relieved that only most, rather than all, of Clinton's judicial nominees have been approved, thanks to Mr...
...There is no secular versus religious divide in Israel...
...The religious parties do the exact same: participation in the government, at the expense of any political or moral principle, is the means to extract funds for favored yeshivas and seminaries...
...But this radio music is all cookie-cutter stuff...
...Deep in what may be Nashville's darkest heart—the heart found in John Moffat's chest—the news brings a flicker of delight...
...Keep up the good work...
...This gives rise to a provocative question: What could have so changed California politics that two prominent Sinclairites,after sixteen years, would come to support Richard Nixon...
...But so long as hatchetmen such as Kutler and Scheer command so much attention by prosecuting the ideological battle that President Clinton claims to have abandoned while the full documentary record is kept from legitimate historians, President Nixon's reputation will suffer unfairly...
...But this may mean nothing other than that the true history of the Vietnam-Watergate era will be written by true historians, not journalists or indeed the president's friends and staunch admirers...
...More clarity may come if Dean's role is ever probed anew...
...The Bluebird Cafe is probably Nashville's most famous listening room, a venue for both established songwriters and the thousands of wannabes who come seeking their envisioned glory...
...Skinner is not chosen to perform tonight, but he is not discouraged...
...No doubt later McGovernite Democrats would think her ahead of her time...
...citizenship...
...In every entry of his diary he makes reference to having been recognized as a showbiz celebrity and what a lovefeast it was for all concerned...
...Contrary to Ms...
...Moonbeam" once again requested campaign contributions from the teachers, to which they promptly replied that they would instead provide "psychic" support...
...But I'm working on it...
...Finally, how do you like her new look...
...I think a big change is coming," he says...
...WILLIAM M. STERNBERG New York, New York Like many others, I enjoy Ben Stein's Diary (I overlook his occasional attacks on Michael Milken...
...Lewis's response, TAS never suggested that she was planning on leaving...
...Shirley Allen: "For five weeks, the heavily armed lunatic resisted both a barrage of pepper spray into her filthy domicile and the dreadful din of Barry Manilow being incessantly broadcast through bull horns...
...It has been called savage, traumatic, a time of crisis—`the year it all fell apart," it begins...
...Stein...
...I won't do that to him...
...Nikita Khrushchev considered Kennedy amusing, handsome, and—after their summit in Vienna in 1961, at which the president himself admitted he did poorly—weak...
...you provoked disgust...
...Just follow the money...
...So Mr...
...She was deprived of water, plumbing, food, electricity, heat, and she could not go outside...
...Nixon, we are told for the umpteenth time, smeared her for her naive liberalism, thus boosting his career as the prince of American political darkness...
...Only someone who's never been there and done that could suggest otherwise...
...Had even these truncated transcripts been available to his attorneys, his prospects would have been even brighter...
...Brock hints that because of the stellar nature of the first two qualities, conservatives should give Senator Hatch a pass on the third...
...Clear your eyes, Mr...
...Brock devotes a single sentence...
...As a loo percent Liberal Democrat since 1936 (my first voting year), I have no truck with the religious right—the conservative Reagan, Nixon, Dewey Republicans...
...No world leader in history has ever left a more detailed record, at least for the period between February 1971 and July 1973, when his voice-activated taping system was in operation...
...Oops, I spelled her name wrong...
...ALLEN W. MEIER, DDS Hickam AFB, Hawaii Letter Rip An old college professor of mine once remarked that one of the side benefits of an education is that one learns to "cuss a fella' out" in words that are printable...
...According to Douglas and her partisans, Nixon substituted concern about the Kremlin for discussion of "the issues...
...For his part, Mitchell went to his grave in 1988 insisting that Ehrlichman and the president were wrong...
...And unfortunately for Douglas, in 1950 the American people certainly did not want to be told that everybody in rural California had to have an indoor privy before we could act to stop Muscovite aggression in Korea or elsewhere...
...The secularist radical left attacks the orthodox only to drum up votes and diaspora money...
...The state police arrived September 22 and the siege began...
...Dear Bill & Hillary Bashers" I didn't open your disgusting missive daring me to open it...
...www.spectatororg THE NEWS click on r the TAS Daily 1 0 www.spectator.org 90 March 1998 • The American Spectator...
...But what are other people getting out of this...
...I nominate for the Order of Stalin those Republicans and private power executives who...have obstructed the development of this vital source of energy...
...America at mid-century experienced a year like no other...
...That campaign, with its pioneering use of film as electoral propaganda, changed U.S...
...For Mitchell it's all very simple...
...My long and deep respect for Senator Hatch will always be tempered by the knowledge that he and too many of his GOP cohorts are maddeningly susceptible to the Kultursmog...
...Each side is preaching to the choir...
...Vallejo, California Name This Tune I just had to send in a few comments regarding Anne Lewis's response to your January issue (Correspondence, TAS, February 1998...
...Both contests took place in California...
...Some may say: It's over, Nixon's gone, and the details about what he said to one aide or another twenty-five years ago don't matter...
...True enough, but to what end...
...Is Stein making an early run at the 1998 "Strange New Respect" award...
...as they tumble from a highrise balcony...
...Stein that I, too, detest cigarettes and cigarette smoke, but that, of course, is not the point...
...C ould the Nixon-haters actually be in denial about the prospects for a bear market in their beloved field...
...Talk about smears...
...and the USSR changed everything...
...For now, the historical Nixon is in a purgatory where massive new evidenceabout his role in Watergate doesn't even make the book reviews...
...Am I missing something here...
...In 1944 Helen Douglas was elected to Congress, with the backing of Communists who'd become so submerged in New Dealism that they had dissolved the Communist Party in favor of a "political association...
...At 42, Skinner is older than most of those present...
...As for the peace process, as long as the U.S...
...His concerns were fed by Ehrlichman, who blithely assured the president that Mitchell's underlings could demonstrate that he had been "in eighteen meetings where this was discussed, ratified, authorized, financed...
...A few weeks into the series' first and only season, NBC apparently determined that a happy sheriff was going nowhere in the ratings so they had him shot and killed right on screen...
...Nixon, alas, is much better known to American readers and scholars, who will expect more than a compendium of clichés...
...On a central point of history—who sanctioned or ordered the break-in that broke a president?— the record remains intriguingly muddy...
...STEPHEN SCHWARTZ is the author of the newly released From West to East: California and the Making of the American Mind (Free Press...
...These men began World War II as believers in "moral equivalence" between Western imperialism and fascism, but by 1950 arrived at a clear understanding that Stalin was no better than Hitler and that resistance to Soviet expansionism was a matter of extreme urgency...
...You'resupposed to write from the heart...
...Vito Marcantonio, a Communist marionette from East Harlem who became the standard-bearer of the so-called American Labor Party (ALP...
...He'd had little hope it would be recorded, but the song did surprisingly well...
...America was, according to Helen Douglas, equally threatened by "communism, Nazism, Nixonism...
...Is there some sort of post-modern irony or deep conservative-based figure satirizing the self regard and hyper-smugness of the degenerate Hollywood culture...
...But they did not say that resistance to the Kremlin had to wait until after the arrival of a "just" society in the West...
...04 Taylor/Nixon (Continuedfrompage 5r) with Mitchell) had planted a seed in the president's mind that remained rooted for the rest of his life...
...A time-tested asset to the GOP and the nation...
...LANE BINKLEY Jersey City, New Jersey Bury My Part In "Murphy Brownout" (TAS, January 1998) Mark Steyn comments that "Murphy might yet become the first to put its lead character into the casket...
...by Tom Bethell, TAS, January 1998...
...Most of them, as described by Mitchell, originated not with Nixon or the Republicans, but with legitimate Democrats like Manchester Boddy and Sheridan Downey, whose understanding of Communism was much closer to that of Sidney Hook than that of Helen Douglas...
...Who knows, this The American Spectator • March 1998 knowledge may help you one day on "Win Ben Stein's Money...
...A recent Associated Press report on "The Kennedy Legend" begins by listing some of JFK's transgressions — philandering, sanctioning of political assassinations, misleading the public about his health, links with the Mob—and then states, "People concede all that about John F. Kennedy,and it doesn't seem to matter...
...Has The American Spectator ever heard of the right of self-defense...
...Ai Correspondence (Continued from page 12) around chatting up the opposition on the subject of wind chill factors is just not part of the process...
...Surely he knows that thanks to the Nixon family and estate, virtually all the most sensitive and potentially damaging White House materials, both taped and written, are now out...
...He even ignores the Douglases' background as opponents of Stalinism during the period of the Nazi-Soviet pact, which if anything spoke well of them and arguably made Helen Douglas a more attractive figure...
...In my opinion, she sure acts like a spokesperson...
...After all, Nielsen doesn't yet report unstable and soon-to-be unstable parent ratings...
...Furthermore, she points out that her position at the White House was Director of Communications, not spokesperson...
...Many argued his resignation proved that the system worked...
...The idea that Kennedy saved us from nuclear war is fixed," said one historian, "and I don't think that will ever go away...
...While songwriters in other genres traditionally make a similar complaint—commercialism requires the lowest common denominator — Skinner echoes his peers by saying that country music is different...
...Radio 6 Records recently reported not only that country record sales have dipped io percent over the past few years, but in somemarkets country radio's ratings have declined as much as 32 percent...
...Bigger, even, than the upheaval of the sixties...
...However quaint Douglas's fumings about "electrification" may seem today, they reflected a serious early form of moral equivalence...
...Once pitted against Nixon, she clearly preferred to forget her "finest hour" when she and her husband had fought Communism in Hollywood...
...The wartime alliance between the U.S...
...Notwithstanding the boilerplate reissued by generation after generation of American intellectuals, "the masses" in the U.S...
...In large and influential segments of the religious community, accepting state subsidies for yeshiva studies has become a way of life that inhibits developing any marketable skills...
...Though he obviously set out to contribute to the ever-lengthening bookshelf of Nixonophobic pamphleteering, he also exposes a curious and forgotten item—namely, that Helen Gahagan Douglas was undone in the 1950 senatorial race in California as much by critics and opponents within her own party as by Nixon...
...And there never has been...
...Shame on you...
...Garner played a laid-back, easy-going, nice guy sheriff named Nichols in a small western town also named Nichols...
...Thus has Israeli socialism, not unlike the American welfare state, made havoc on the left and right...
...He was the single most important source for Silent Coup...
...Fortunately, I have other sources of information...
...This letter reflects only my views, not the College of Wooster, whose student body wildly supported Alf Landon...
...But since it's the only book around on the Sinclair campaign, it has gained a certain credibility...
...I'd be curious to hear...
...Howard Baker, who knew the prior Watergate record as well as anyone, has argued that the president might not have been convicted in a Senate trial...
...I shake my head in bewilderment when a Republican of Senator Hatch's credentials fails yet again to grasp the predictable effects ofhanding a blunt instrument to the liberal troika of trial lawyers, federal judges, and bureaucrats...
...Brock's indulgence as I shout course corrections to the all-too-frequently misdirected captains of our GOP Congress...
...On this point, Labor, Likud, and the religious parties are no different...
...the "dog fight" may not have been "a waste of your good time...
...The real story of Helen Douglas—which won't be found in this book—begins with the fashionable leftism she and her husband embraced in Hollywood at the end of the 1930's when both were minor cinema personalities...
...Although you never called her a spokesperson, I wish that she would have explained the difference between a spokesperson and a Director of Communications...
...These failed businesses are a tremendous drain, morally and financially...
...and the New York Times editorial page is the alleged cultural divide a pressing issue...
...Now that would be investigative journalism...
...The Ribbentrop-Molotov pact of 1939 led to a split in the front, with the Douglases among the exceptional few who chose to view Stalinism and Hitlerism as equally baneful forms of totalitarianism...
...Kutler's own oddly defensive mantra is that the only thing that really counts about Nixon is that he quit, which presumably means that even if the accumulation of evidence absolved him totally he wouldn't be entitled to a shot at redemption...
...Lardner, purportedly the Post's archives expert, reported this complaint with painful solemnity...
...Hatch was on watch...
...Recently, singers from as far away as Great Britain and Australia cued up for the Monday night open mike lottery, hoping to be one of the thirty-five or so musicians chosen to play, and with any luck heard by an industry executive ready to offer a deal...
...They shot "tear gas" into her house and she shot her shotgun over their The American Spectator • March 1998 87 heads...
...Mark Skinner, a songwriter from Wilmington, North Carolina, recognizes this minor legend and tells him he wants to pitch a song to Emmylou...
...Greg Mitchell's credentials essentially tell the story: former editor of the "peace" journal called Nuclear Times, contributor to the long-misnamed Progressive magazine, and co-author of a book attacking Harry Truman's decision to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima...
...Senate and on the road to the White House...
...As a regular reader of your magazine for several years I have the following question: What's the deal with Ben Stein...
...Asked how campaigning could be secret, she insisted, "You just check and you'll see I'm right...
...The opposite dynamic operates with Nixon's 1960 opponent...
...What, then, of the so-called "smears" against her...
...Do us all a favor and take my name off your mailing list...
...To judge President Nixon on the full record, we shall have to see it...
...In the early 197o's, NBC introduced a show called "Nichols" starring the pre-"Rockford Files" James Garner...
...both involved fierce fighting between left and right...
...Well, when the next election came Mr...
...If Murphy Brown dies of breast cancer, she will be the second lead character to meet her demise...
...And if the DNC did not like her before, just wait until they find out that she does not consider them to have ever been a significant client...
...Melvyn Douglas openly fought the Communists in Hollywood...
...senator, might have had larger—indeed global—matters in mind in opposing Douglas...
...There is so much record that it will be harder and harder for Kutlerization to succeed...
...The same is true of the orthodox parties: they only attack the far left to win votes for the next election...
...You can tell Mr...
...instead, government has decided for them: smoking is bad, and entrepreneurial freedom (and the market) be damned...
...Perry venting with such creative artistry...
...Hatch and his GOP buddies...
...They recognized the immediacy of the danger, which Douglas and her ilk did not...
...Stein, please note that it is physically impossible for a nuclear power plant to produce an atomic explosion...
...Would Khrushchev have risked slipping offensive missiles into Cuba under the nose of President Son-of-aBitch...
...Despite his undeniable intellect, I have noted his relative deficiency when it comes to scientific and technical matters...
...In that spirit he asks that I come outside, where he pulled an old Gibson from his van and limbered his fingers...
...It really proved that Richard Nixon worked, because he relinquished power before he had to but precisely when his gut told him he should...
...All too often hell-bent to sell his conservative birthright for a mess of pottage...
...Ever conscious of the ratings, I'm sure the network has a plan to deal with this in all political correctness...
...The sad truth is not the differences between the far left and the religious right, but the extraordinary similarity...
...JAY TOLAND via the Internet The Editors reply: Any sister of Barney Frank is okay by us...
...Journalists report this fact as though it is laughingly ironic, but yet again, the boss may have been playing nine or ten moves ahead of us all...
...What of substance is left for us to try to restrict...
...The deputies came for her and she refused to go...
...Shockingly, its author is none other than Ben Stein...
...Pressed three days later to pin Watergate on Mitchell and fire him, Nixon said, "I can't do that...
...ALBERT R. FREVELE, JR...
...Of course, for the first forty years of Israeli history, the same religious parties were in Labor led governments...
...Hatch "played a key role" in inflicting the Americans With Disabilities Act on a nation too enchanted with the symbolic beauty of the ADA bottle to grasp the malevolence of the genie within...
...James Perry's letter describing Jeffrey Bernard in your January issue exhibited the most creative and colorful lexicon that I have seen since the demise of Spiro Agnew...
...Convinced that Mitchell had either approved the Watergate break-in or permitted it to happen through managerial negligence, Nixon wondered aloud many times why his friend refused to come forward and take the rap...
...He may have been precisely correct...
...Maybe, but not without first wanting to kick the dog and shout at the walls...
...The fact that her 47 acres of land contained two oil wells probably had nothing to do with her family's concern...
...government gets photo opportunities that are useful for the next domestic election, our government will continue the money spigot to Israel and the Palestinian Authority...
...Sidney Hook and other anti-Stalinist liberals were entitled to their opinion that the most effective way of fighting Communism might be to embrace social democracy—i.e., to show that democratic capitalism, rather than The American Spectator • March 19 9 8 Communism, did more to secure the prosperity of ordinary people...
...Maybe he doesn't see them from his perch as host, star, and pitchman...
...I would kindly ask Mr...
...Then Skinner sang his song, a beautifully rendered story with all the right elements: longing, pain, a passing train —and not a smiley face in sight...
...Try that yourself for five and a half weeks and see how clean your "domicile" remains...
...Think too of the statesmanship Richard Nixon exhibited by resigning before a House impeachment vote and the Senate trial to which he would have been entitled...
...His heretofore unacknowledged twin brother, also played by Garner, came into town to take over as sheriff, only this Nichols was a brooding tough guy with an attitude and a gun...
...The second, discussed in this new volume, was the 195o election that put Richard Nixon in the U.S...
...In discussing critically the "self-evident truth" of overpopulation and the rapid depletion of the earth's resources, he might just have enlightened some viewers...
...He has also written book-length chronologies of two of the defining confrontations of twentieth-century American politics...
...Having met Nixon in 1959 during the Kitchen Debate, Khrushchev reportedly considered him a "son of a bitch...
...As these same judges rend the little remaining fabric of our Constitution over the next two or three decades (the true Clinton legacy), should we take solace in knowing that at least judicial vacancies were filled promptly while Mr...
...Her trajectory was the exact reverse of the path taken by such anti-Stalinist counterparts in the eastern U.S...
...Just as American leftists frequently portray each election victory for the right as a fundamentalist Christian conquest and the next step in abandoning the First Amendment, in Israel, the election of a right of center government with religious parties in the coalition is portrayed as the end of civilization...
...Indeed, two of the men who most contributed to her downfall, and who even acted as unofficial "Democrats for Nixon," were former associates of the socialist Sinclair: Los Angeles liberal newspaper owner Manchester Boddy and Sen...
...Most every issue we are treated to delightful little episodesfeaturing his perfect boy, his perfect car, his perfect blah, blah, blah...
...To this end I would like to compliment your magazine not only on the editorial commentary and great feature stories, but also on the colorful and descriptive correspondence letters...
...In your December 1997 issue, on page 8 (The Continuing Crisis), you made a "passing smear" at Mrs...
...and both became legendary...
...Brock appears to endorse Mr...
...MICHAEL BARRERA Miami, Florida Hatch Once More I raise neither a pitchfork nor a toast to David Brock for his not-so-gentle scolding of conservatives who grind their teeth over Senator Orrin Hatch ("The Real Orrin Hatch," TAS, November 1997...
...I have good songs...
...Is the senator an eloquent and normally reliable defender of conservative principles...
...You did not promote chuckles from me...
...I want to be here when country music finds itself again...
...I believe that in most states you will find that it is lawful for a citizen to defend himself or herself against excessive force by law-enforcement personnel...
...The couple was prominent in the California Popular Front linking Communists and "liberals...
...Then the left saw no threat to 88 March 1998 • The American Spectator Humanity...
...The far left still manages to extract state Funds from the Israeli treasury to subsidize "kibbutzim...
...SETH BARRETT TILLMAN Brookline, Massachusetts Stein Symposium "I am telling you, if your parents are still living, honor them and cherish them," invokes Benjamin J. Stein threateningly ("Memories Are Made of This," TAS, January 1998...
...If he didn't have the nonexistent secular/religious divide to write about in Moment and other American Jewish journals, he'd be just another out of work journalist...
...Sheridan Downey, the retiring incumbent whose seat Douglas hoped to win...
...During the campaign she asserted, "Joe McCarthy is going up and down the state campaigning secretly for Nixon, but the Republican press is so ashamed of McCarthy they don't publish a word about it...
...If Shania Twain could play half so well, she wouldn't need to shake her tail a tenth as much...
...Apparently, Stein is gleeful that California bar and restaurant owners no longer have the option to permit their patrons to smoke or not...
...In anticipation of the resurrection, he has started up a publishing company whose name reflects Moffat's full disdain for Nashville's current penchant for conformity: Blithering Gibbon Productions...
...Or what...
...Henry Waxman would be proud of his fellow Californian's political "growth...
...Just as he had concluded after the 1960 election, which was tainted by Democrat fraud in Illinois, Missouri, and Texas, that it would hurt the nation to demand a recount, he also believed that he should spare the nation the trial of a president...
...The tacit foes of full disclosure are Federal government officials who are too ;low in declassifying materials relating to Richard Nixon's interactions with dead Communists, his maneuvers in the Mid-Ile East, his efforts to end the war he inherited in a way that would preserve U.S...
...No small accomplishment...
...Moonbeam" indicated to the teachers that they didn't need a raise, that teaching provided them with "psychic" pay...
...WOODS South Hero, Vermont Who's the Filthy Lunatic...
...Hunireds of hours of this foreign policy president's taped conversations about Russia, China, the Mideast, and Vietnam are also ;till classified...
...S till, Mitchell's plodding account, like many similar books, is also unintentionally revealing...
...I suspect Harold Ickes was not planning on leaving either...
...A prominent writer with a summer 1998 deadline for a book 86 March r998 - The American Spectator )n Sino-U.S...
...Late last year a trio of scholars who oppose the idea of the Nixon Library becoming part of the National Archives complained to the Washington Post's George Lardner that access to records would be restricted if the Nixon White House materials are ever moved to Yorba Linda...
...We'd been loo percent better off with Adlai Stevenson than with Eisenhower, in whose administration the "statesman" McCarthy flourished...
...84 March 1998 • The American Spectator 85 Helen Douglas thus rose to political power not as an anti-Stalinist, but as an ally of the Stalinists...
...In both books Mitchell's method consists of chronicling the day-to-day activities of these campaigns, without offering much if any background and almost no interpretation or analysis beyond the usual liberal-left shibboleths about corporate and conservative evil...
...In truth, it was the anti-anti-Communist view that was provincial, in holding that America could better ignore the fate of the Czechs and Slovaks, the Koreans, and ultimately the Vietnamese and Cambodians and Cubans, putting our immediate local needs first...
...He also said that he wanted his administration to be the best documented in history...
...The drain on Israeli society is staggering...
...relations was recently told by NARA that he would have to wait up to :WO years before the "memcons" of Pres[dent Nixon's meetings with Mao and Chou En-Iai could be declassified...
...It's all just one big con...
...Bigger than the Revolution, the Civil War, the Depression...
...He has paid his mortgage up a few months, explaining that his family bid him farewell by saying "Go get a hit, Daddy...
...You simply reported that she would "be moving on...
...But had Nixon taken office in January 1961, would there have been a Cuban missile crisis...
...A song he might consider to have high artistic merit could be doomed by commercial standards, while a lesser song could serve as his economic salvation...
...Right...
...The anti-Communism of that era has been consistently painted as a provincial reaction by American yahoos...
...It was her family that wanted her mental health evaluated...
...Many conservatives toiling in flyover country simply can't fathom why agreeing to a daily poke in the eye is the best outcome possible when dealing with the school bully...
...Too often our conservative leaders remind me of men who repeatedly gasp "So far, so good...
...An attack dog was sent in after her and she wounded the animal...
...Is this the kinder, gentler Ann Lewis...
...The claim is a familiar one: that "McCarthyism" was more significant than anything else that ever happened in this country...
...She was wrong, her supporters were wrong, and she deserved to lose...
...The song's story line, he explained, finds Jesus returning to Earth as a crack baby...
...ROY WIEBE via the Internet I have just finished reading a monstrosity of an opinion piece in today's (January 12, 1998) USA Today entitled "Calif...
...Israeli governments have uniformly had religious parties as coalition partners...
...If the answer is no or even maybe not, then what is important in a leader—style and grace, or something else...
...But when the right formed its first government under Begin in 1977, the broke secular left found that portraying domestic rabbis as extremists was a sure opportunity for free media and Western think-tank funds...
...STEPHAN KINSELLA Houston, Texas When asked why he worked on television, Malcolm Muggeridge once said it was like being a piano player in a whorehouse: once in a while he had a chance to play something beautiful that might edify his clients...
...At the bar, a man identifying himself as Emmylou Harris' tour manager buys a large shot of tequila and a Corona beer, then leans against a nearby wall to make a well-received observation: "I could write a good song with those lyrics," he laughs, then begins reading from a sign posted on the wall —"According to the Surgeon General, women should not drink alcoholic beverages when pregnant...
...Stein should not be too discouraged about being on "Politically Incorrect" (TAS, January 1998...
...Absolutely...
...Hope is also fueled by anticipation that Internet marketing can diminish radio's influence, but perhaps the greatest expectations have sprung from what would initially appear to be a bad omen...
...I know why I can't help reading him every month—he makes me so damn mad I can go without coffee for a couple of days...
...Ahead of the liberal-left pack in 1940, by 1950 Douglas was arguing, as Mitchell notes, that "on domestic issues conservative Republicans, not liberal Democrats, were the ones doing the dirty work of the Soviets, such as halting projects intended to provide cheap electricity...
...You refer to her "filthy domicile...
...President, unleash your declassification gnomes...
...For example, in his January entry he implied, with apparent seriousness, that a nuclear power plant might explode...
...If he is to be rescued from his purgatory, it will be by his massive record — especially the tapes, which will now come out in chronological segments beginning with those recorded between February and July of 1971...
...In all seriousness, Douglas attacked "those persons who opposed public [utility] development in the last five years" as "among the most effective saboteurs of our national strength that the Communists could hope to enlist...
...J. PLUNKETT Black Rock, Arkansas Show Them the Money Don't believe Ze'ev Chafets's snake oil ("Whose Country Is It...
...The Nixon side having done its part to open the record, now it's the spooks' turn...
...This gutsy lady, alone, held off the forces of an increasingly oppressive state for five and a half weeks and you should have investigated her case instead of writing a glib and "witty" paragraph designed to provoke chuckles and scorn...
...This made his book on Sinclair a handy chronological reference, but it is useless for any understanding of Sinclair, his appeal, or his EPIC program for state socialism in California...
...If she was ahead of her time, it was in the nutty, conspiratorial streak she occasionally displayed...
...Don't be snookered by Ze'ev Chafets...
...One of its luminaries was Ewart Guinier, father and mentor of the unfortunate Lani...
...CRAIG MILES Houston, Texas P.S...
...Communism would not exist but for continued social injustice under capitalism...
...Hatch's ability to help tone down reprehensible bills into laws only slightly less awful...
...He is also credited by many, continues the AP, for saving the world...
...They ought to know better than to approach a railing where a Clinton, a Daschle, or a Gephardt stands waiting with the Cheshire grin of "bipartisanship...
...The market is finally repudiating the apostate form of country music, Moffat argues...
...Must we applaud Mr...
...Nixon himself said that history would take fifty years to judge him fairly...
...I was a university professor in California at the time and, along with thousands of other professors, was forced to go for several years without a cost of living raise, even though the inflation index was about 7.5 percent per annum...
...Mitchell never explains who Marcantonio was, or anything about his record, or the nature of the ALP...
...smoking ban clears air for rest of us...
...Indeed, self-support is looked down on in some quarters...
Vol. 31 • March 1998 • No. 3
