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CORRESPONDENCE Buried Treasure In the process of straightening up a cluttered office last week, I came across the October 2003 issue of your magazine, which I had never read. Ergo this much...
...During the campaign I worked with College Republicans who started great things and then took off for midterms...
...A] Democratic Congress would not have passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments...
...I am unaware of any historical basis for a conclusion that a McClellan coattails would have been so powerful as to carry in Democratic majorities in either House...
...Is that some great cannon fodder or what...
...Immense use is made of the national borrowing power for relieving unemployment which would largely cure itself, if even for a single year the normal conditions of confidence were restored...
...This is what happens when people commit to doing something that they have never done before and don't really know how to do it...
...Churchill Sir Martin Gilbert ("Avoidable Errors," TAS, June 2004) appears to quote a little selectively from Winston Churchill, who was always suspicious of expansive government initiatives...
...I was the Philadelphia area coordinator for the Toomey Campaign...
...They were not much better, and you can be assured they were paid a lot more...
...Reagan attempted to decapitate the head of Libya's government with an unannounced midnight air strike...
...That being said I think Macomber was a bit hard on the Toomey campaign...
...In "The United States and Europe" (August 4, 1938), Churchill expressed a more critical analysis of Roosevelt's actions: "The warfare between big business and the administration continues at a grievous pitch...
...ANDREW GENTSCH Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Here's the Ticket Hello...
...When one measures the prodigious sums which are being expended on various forms of relief, pump-priming and New Deal ideology, it is possible to visualize the innumerable official and semi-official classes or hierarchies inevitably called into being in the process, who will henceforward cherish a vested interest of their own...
...As a Philadelphia area ward leader I was also in contact with the Specter campaign...
...The history of Reagan's reaction to threats is full of his aggressive action towards the enemy...
...The war was over in the West and Sherman waited on the Virginia-North Carolina border for orders, if needed, while Grant held Lee in a death grip outside of Petersburg...
...JIM SHIVER Palm Beach Gardens, Florida...
...The article is entitled, "11 traffic tickets no problem for state attorney's family...
...He blows hot, he blows cold, and confidence does not return...
...Somehow, Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke seemed to miss key points...
...Campaigns are chaotic events where everything goes wrong, and when that doesn't happen what goes right is a disappointment...
...For the most part I would lay the blame on what I call the volunteer syndrome...
...DOUGLAS ALLEN West Chester, Pennsylvania Reconstructing McClellan Michael Barone's speculation ("Changing Presidents During War," TAS, June 2004) on the effect of a McClellan victory in the 1864 election rests on the dubious assumption that the composition of the Congress would have been significantly changed during that same election...
...The president continues blithely now to disturb, now to console, business and high finance...
...Her observation that Sulzberger combines "idiocy and limitless self-regard" pretty well encapsulates right there the outlook of both him and his now departed editor, Howell Raines...
...Nevertheless, had 3,000 died on his watch, somebody would have been turned into a glass parking lot...
...It was written, as you can imagine, in the days when the Palm Beach Post was just a little less liberal than today...
...That was over the death of one soldier, if my memory serves me right...
...JAMES A. JACOBS Major USAF Retired Burlington, Iowa H.L...
...I gave people voterlists and maps and never heard from them again...
...These great forces do not seem to realize how much they are dependent upon one another...
...Now I would like to see him follow it up with a predictive article on the future of the 100 million plus (yes, that is correct, 100 million) excess-military-age males residing on the Asian continent as a result of female infanticide in China, India, and surrounding countries...
...TONY PERCY Southport, North Carolina Ward Healer I very much enjoyed Shawn Macomber's account of the Toomey- Specter primary ("RING Survival Guide," TAS, June 2004...
...This I believe to be true...
...It was an eye-opener for me in '93 and this is one who'd never ever vote for such a person...
...You do the math on a Chinese population of 1.3 billion and an Indian population of over 1 billion...
...WILLIAM R RUDLAND Greensboro, Georgia Hello, Grenada I was disturbed about the discussion about how Reagan would not react the way Bush has on the war on Terror ("Reagan, Iraq, and Neoconservatism: An Exchange," TAS, June 2004...
...I absolutely believe Reagan would have crushed anyone he thought a threat...
...Thanks...
...It really helped me understand how 19 young men in the prime of life came to create the horror of 9/11...
...I believe the ratio in China is 118 males for every 100 females, and the ratio is only slightly better in India...
...CORRESPONDENCE Buried Treasure In the process of straightening up a cluttered office last week, I came across the October 2003 issue of your magazine, which I had never read...
...I called campaign and my requests fell in a crack and came out too many days later...
...As for President McClellan's impact on war policy, Barone correctly notes that by inauguration day in March 1865 the deal was done...
...Grenada, a small island that may have become a Communist base one day was subjected to an invasion...
...Ergo this much belated rave from this reader for Renata Adler's brilliant article on the New York Times and l'affaire Jayson Blair ("The Porch Overlooks No Such Thing...
...I look forward to further dissections in the future by this able lady of numerous greater and lesser fools with which our country seems these days to be so plentifully endowed...
...As a Reconstruction president, McClellan could not have been any less enthusiastic than Johnson proved to be...
...The only time he walked away from an attack was the Marine base in Lebanon, and I believe he was convinced by others he couldn't get to the people responsible...
...How neatly she captures in the very first paragraph the essence of the Timesian ideology by lambasting Sulzberger, Jr.'s complacent statement that there was "no complacency here" (at the Times...
...It took a while, but I was able to put my finger on why I was disturbed...
...While I didn't incur all of his problems I did experience many others...
...RAY WISHER Cape Coral, Florida Excess Males I would like to congratulate William Tucker on a bell ringer of an article in your June issue of TAS ("The Suicide Bachelors of CORRESPONDENCE Polygamous Islam...
...Can you imagine what pain and suffering he would have dealt the people he believed responsible for 9/11...
...Party politics invade every aspect of economic life...
...Krischer's own legal problems in the past¡ªfrom 1984 to 1992...
...Mencken would have been proud of him...
...Without those majorities (or sufficient minority representation) a Republican Congress would have proceeded as it did in passing the amendments on to the state legislatures for final ratification...
...After that they screw up and learn from their mistakes...
...I was just wondering if anyone with ties to the article about how Barry Krischer is going after Rush ("Rush to Prosecute," TAS, May 2004) might be interested in knowing about some of Mr...
...There has always been a fear to engage the Middle East, mostly because of the Israeli issues, but also because the Middle East is truly a tribal snake pit and trying to unravel it would be costly...
...McClellan himself, a non-player in the Amendment process, would have had nothing to say about it...
...I happened to have cut an article out of the Palm Beach Post dated July 30, 1993, and kept it all this time as a good lesson about how even someone with the power of a Barry Krischer could be "corrupt...
Vol. 37 • July 2004 • No. 6
