The Bootblack Stand
Nixon, Richard M.
"The Bootblack Stand" Dr. George Washington/Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has just completed a penetrating study of the last Congolese election. Published...
...And if their society is based on bad ideas it will be a bad society...
...Not long ago one of our associates residing in Washington, D.C...
...Published in August, it focuses on the unique position of minority groups in the Congolese electoral process...
...Perhaps while in Africa he will give himself over to the ways of the land, drop his revs below the red line, watch the water buffaloes at play and spend some time on the piazza, sipping his gin, listening to the guzzling of the fauna at twilight and then he will scrawl a few notes on the sources of our perplexities at home...
...He has been a monument to the way public persons ought to live...
...Then, too, there are his books, his gladiatorial antics on "Firing Line," his numerous appearances on the college Chautauqua circuit and his nationally syndicated column...
...Further, he is very handsome and I believe he was awarded a Ph...
...They have utterly rejected that goal...
...George Washingtor/Plunkitt, our p~ize-winning political analyst, has just completed a penetrating study of the last Congolese election...
...Bucldey is a jaunty and sassy fellow, the cornerstone of his philosophy is duty - - the merest bleep from "the trumpet, and he is on his feet...
...His loss to conservative missionary endeavor will be immeasurable, for he is the whirling axis from which a multimedia assault on liberal orthodoxy derives its energy...
...Whatever the case, he is held in high esteem in academic circles, and his credentials for zero population growth are impeccable...
...Upon losing all of this to Ouagadougou conservatives have reason to speculate if Mr...
...Nixon presides over today...
...became privy to the information that sometime this spring Mr..Buckley is to be designated American Consul to Ouagadougou...
...Of these, Manson is probably most qualified...
...But, lo, it is the call to duty, and though Mr...
...At any rate, the particular specifications and pressures of a thrice weekly newspaper column do not allow the scholarliness, the extended analysis and the occasional philosophical plumbing characteristic of this higher genre...
...Eagerly, Richard M. Nixon President Dear Mr...
...Their reordered priorities constitute the priorities of a different kind of society, not the kind of society that Mr...
...It will be their society...
...He is a thorough gentleman, and one of the few public figures in America who emulates the Christian life without waving his arms Post there are not conservatives in America, only hyphenated conservatives like arch-conservatives and ultraconservatives, and all of these are racists and transgressors of the child labor laws...
...He is confident, thoughtful, good humored and compassionate...
...According to the Washington States Information Service that two of the White House's assistant presidents now desire to slip him into a diplomatic foxhole in that sensitive though uncelebrated spot on the globe...
...it can be purchased in all bookstores...
...In many ways it brings to mind Millard Fillmore, but on to delicious concerns...
...Now, through this column, the distinguished Dr...
...Address all correspondence to The Bootblack Stand, The Establishment, R.R...
...Nor are they simply questioning the means for realizing America's historic national goal...
...He has had considerable experience with the law lately and he has a great deal of that youthful idealism that we hear so much about...
...Have you any suggestions on this score or - - bee hee - - am I in the wrong ball park...
...R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...George Nathan...
...Thanks for your help and next time you are in Washington, do stop by and see me, I shall be out in the back...
...And if he dies before you get thi~ letter nominate him anyway...
...In h i s journal, National Review, conservative intellectuals jump through hoops and otherwise perform their acts of derring-do to the mortification of leftish provincials who have been saying from time out of mind that these creatures were - - if they did indeed exist - - dull pedagogues incapable of such razzle dazzle...
...Let us then hope that Bill Buckley will come home soon and bring with him a fat packet of manuscript...
...Richard Speck and Professor Charles Manson...
...Dear Mr...
...You might find support from the Post by nominating Alf Landon...
...In regard to your conservative choice I am not sure whom you can nominate...
...In these early years of the 1970s most of those who caterwaul about reordered priorities are, consciously or unconsciously, demanding a new kind of society...
...That is, of course, where he belongs, amongst the high journalists Perhaps he is the American Bagehot, though certainly he is more elegant and less banal...
...So brilliantly has he distinguished himself as Commissioner for the Advisory Board of the United Court...
...all he has to do is to pick up his quill...
...In this issue we pause to meditate on William F. Buckley, for one of his most tantalizing books has just appeared and we have now learned that his flashing and sparking across the land is soon to end...
...But I have always been a party man, which is not to say a party boy - - bee hoe, a little levity there -- ahem - - and I must stick with the Republicans, after all there are several of them whom I could nominate for the same reasons, men like Percy and Packwood...
...For he need not give the catastrophe much more cerebration than he has already devoted to it...
...Buckley's departure into journalism is not the result of dark sehemings in high places by men of the bolshevik persuasion...
...Plunkitt has agreed to advise American statesmen in this time of troubles...
...GWP and bellowing...
...HIS appearances on television are generally entertaining and often inspiring...
...The Senate would never know and he could share an office with Thurgood Marshall...
...Plunkitt: It has fallen to me, the President of the United States of America and of all the territories and protectorates, to nominate two men for the Supreme EDrrORIAL I (continued from page 3) ideas...
...President: Ha Ha Ha, "not to say a party boy," oh what a pawky sense of humor you have...
...He might still be on the faculty at UCLA...
...Due to the political pressure from the liberal media, I feel it behooves me to nominate only one strict constructionist advocate of law and order and to mollify the left a man whose position on law and order more reasonable...
...D. in philosophy from The University of California at Santa Barbara...
...Now, I have nominated men in the Past and the affect on two of these men was such that several of my advisers have suggested I now nominate a pair of left liberal Democrats for the boost it might give to their careers...
...Further, he is one of the very few conservative American journalists possessed of the education and disposition to indulge in high journalism...
...They both would have similar work habits...
...Buckley understands what ails us...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U.S.A...
...Now there are men who the Post would consider "conservative in the best sense" but I do not think you would want to nominate John Galbraith or Charles Reich...
...More deeply perhaps than any other American, Mr...
...Kennedy heralded or that Mr...
...But not only conservatives will miss him...
...20 The A l t e r n a t i v e December, 1971 Dr...
...It is true that in his writing he has rarely paused to peer deeply into the gorgeous and troubled con= dition of the Supermarket Republic, but that he is capable of doing it with real genius no one who has heard his speeches or read his interviews doubts...
...As for a man who will appeal to the left liberals on law and order you have two excellent choices in Mr...
...Roosevelt thought he was vonschsafing or that Mr...
...A more suitable setting for such writing and a setting easily within his grasp is his own National Review, which already serves up some very thoughtful essays...
...It is titled Escape' A New Demand Response System...
Vol. 5 • December 1971 • No. 3
