The Continuing Crisis
DEPARTMENTS The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Editorial: R. Emmett Tyrrell, J r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
...August, starring goldenrod, airborne insects, Mr...
...Lionel Trilling saw Gatsby as "America itself...
...Shulsky on Eisenhower and the American Cr,~sades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Pbillip Abbott Luce on Here Comes Immorality . . . . . . . . 20 Wayne H. Valis on The Diffusion o f Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Neil Howe on Inequality: A Reassessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Frederick R. L)mch on Reflections on the Human Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Published remarkably without regard to race, color, creed, or (most redundantly o f all) national o r i g i n - - a n d yes, sex, even E d i t o r in Chief: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...The sixteen-year-old son of the Rt...
...After arresting Mr...
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...Senator Proxmire met with writers from the Washington Post to defend that $2,758 hair transplant that he had tried to pass off as a tax deduction, and the founder and head of the militant poverty organization, the National Welfare Rights Organization, Mr...
...P u b l i s h e r : Baron Von Kannon of the Saturday Evening Club C i r c u l a t i o n and Promotion: Ronald E. Burr Managing E d i t o r : Neil Howe A s s i s t a n t Managing E d i t o r : Joyce Goldberg Senior E d i t o r s : Terry Krieger [] William Kristol Rev...
...Allegedly young Mr...
...Lush verdure of gorgeous variety crawls invincibly over country buildings, fences, signposts, and slowmoving livestock, leaving those strollers who would fain caress them with rashes and open sores...
...The heir to Gatsby has broken up against realities that proved too resistant even for the fires of his dream...
...August...
...Tragedy struck in Detroit where the fifteenyear-old guru and multimillionaire, Maharaj Ji, was assaulted by a maniac wielding a cream-filled pie...
...9 August...
...using serpents in their worship of the Deity, and in Dallas, Texas, an unruly mob of police stormed the apartment of Mr...
...Brian Richards who had just announced t h a t "if every man and woman had as much sex as they wanted, there would be less fighting, cheating, twisting and other forms of evil in the world...
...Henry Kissinger would be nominated to succeed the retiring Secretary of State William Rogers, the President accepted blame for the Watergate misfortune, affirmed his intention to remain President, and voiced his confidence in Vice-President Agnew...
...And his critics would have it no other way, for they were all driven by the American lust for the lurid and the calamitous: Nixon, his assistant presidents, the meathead senators, the media magnificoes...
...It was eerie...
...And Jeb Stuart Magruder, former deputy director of President Nixon's reelection campaign, pleaded guilty to helping plan the Watergate caper...
...His service to it was slavish and fundamental...
...It demanded surrounding himself with that fabulous mob of hollow frauds...
...Charles Winstead, the FBI agent who shot Mr...
...Whensoever he motored through the valley of ashes thither into Manhattan, stones would bounce off his roadster, photographers would assault him, and the scriveners of news would jam their microphones into his face...
...All for the furtherance of a dream...
...John Dillinger, died as did Mr...
...Duggan David Friedman [] J e r r y Gerde [] John Kelly Leslie Lenkowsky [] W. Wesley McDonald Robert McTiernan ~ J e f f r e y M. Nelson [] Gary North Terry O'Rourke [] G.W...
...Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, were alive today, he would be making heavy weather of it...
...Johnson's cronies were uncomplicated boodlers for the most part, and the Kennedys merely absconded with the Department of Justice...
...Any congressman or senator with a shred of experience and decency understood...
...Finally when Air Force M. Sgt...
...Joseph P. Kennedy III had another automobile accident and was convicted of negligent driving...
...9 From Italy comes word that the toothache which was killing Mr...
...But I,BJ and JFK never graduated to anything as extensive and as purely political as "dirty tricks" and the rest of the mysterious argot of the Nixonian Era...
...The Watergate Hearings droned on and on...
...The rootless pragmatism of Nixon was also in control of Gatsby...
...Herbert Mullin, was found guilty of murder, despite his claim that his killings were committed in the public interest...
...Dale Anderson (a Democrat) has been indicted...
...Legal action may ensue...
...Though many members of the press were characteristically garrulous and ill-mannered (prompting some commentators to demand that all traffic in spiritous refreshment cease twenty-four hours before scheduled press conferences) the press conference was surprisingly civilized, leaving both sides with a newlyfound respect for their opposition...
...Vincenzo Malagoni, finally killed him...
...They have both been in "the service of a vast, vulgar, meretricious beauty...
...It was ever meant to be...
...But Nixon's crowd captured the entire executive branch and the Republican Party, and then they began shaking down the nation's great business corporations along with a few unions and assorted lobbyists...
...What Scott Fitzgerald said of the Great Gatsby is said today of the Great Nixon...
...And the reform governor of Illinois, Governor Daniel Walker, came under investigation for campaign improprieties...
...Nevertheless, not one bomber missed a sortie...
...Norman and treating him roughly, they carried off the foundation's supply of novelties, sexual accoutrements, and rare books...
...And Ralph Abernathy, D.D...
...Not since Kellogg hoodwinked Briand had the feat been attempted, and Thurgood Marshall had to be rushed from his hammock to exorcise the mischief...
...Bonnie Blanchard, 55, kept an eighty-five-year-old tenant, Mr...
...The Hon...
...Roosevelt hired a brain trust...
...Charles Osborne, 79, complains that though he has seen ninety-six doctors, he is still at the mercy of continued hiccups, an affliction he has suffered for fifty-one years...
...And the skulduggery that was the work of that mob of rogues and con artists that he allowed to swarm through his mansion is the kind of "tough politics" that has romped in the imaginations of the Republic's adolescent politicoes for years...
...No matter how much optimism they invested in them, they were doomed...
...For Gatsby, the man who "paid a high price for living too long with a single dream," is an identical precursor to Richard M. Nixon, our own great Gatsby...
...But, alas, he never had the magic, and everything his Bright Boys did to spruce him up only left him looking ridiculous...
...They were doomed I suspect because one cannot pursue dreams that bulldoze sensible values---certainly not if those dreams are preposterous...
...Had he settled for being a competent administrator and a bourgeois gentilhomme, his future would have been assured...
...In New York, devotees of nostalgia were given a glimpse at the good old days when a lynch mob demanding the neck of the suspected murderer of a seven-year-old boy gathered on the doorstep of a stationhouse on the lower East Side...
...And their trashy values eventually concealed the vestiges of splendor that remained in their dreams...
...Forest fires threatened in Utah, Oregon, and Montana, and the National Science Foundation awarded Harvard $75,000 to discover why water appears to put out fires...
...The conception was old stuff...
...Not until Wednesday, August 8, did there develop a story that could compete with the Watergate Spectacle for the citizenry's attention...
...His aides were the oddest fish ever to enter the White Ho~se...
...On that day the story of the Houston slaughters broke, and politicoes breathed easier as Americans focused on the homosexual molestation and murder of some twenty-seven children...
...In East Lansing, Michigan, the police firing range had to close down tempor a r i l y because the mink mating season began a month early...
...Carlo Bergamini drove blindfolded through the streets of Cart a r a , Italy, for forty-three minutes, claiming a world record for his achievement...
...Plotting arcanely under his great roof day and night, they brought a kind of efficiency and vengefulness to national politics that had been hitherto unknown even in Gary, Indiana...
...Cooper [] John R. Coyne, Jr...
...9 Every civilized man retreats to a heavily screened saloon, there to hole up in bibulous and congenial anticipation of the first frost...
...here is opportunity...
...After announcing that Mr...
...And Pierre Beltois, the French playboy and adventurer, who, on the early morning of April 23, 1971, set out from Normandy Beach to swim the Atlantic, has yet to appear in New York Harbor a~ pr~)mised---which is probably for the best because the American decay has set in pretty deep...
...So too is Nixon...
...In reaching too far Nixon, like Gatsby, committed the characteristic blunder of the parvenu...
...As Mr...
...Juan Corona and casting doubt on the scientific findings of London's Dr...
...Dean Corll, The Ervin Committee, and President Nixon~ will be a difficult month to surpass, even for Detroit, whose trashy products will go on exhibit in September...
...Malagoni, after an unendurable wait in his dentist's office, leaped through a third story window and passed away...
...George Nathan Americana Editor: C.H...
...Fainthearted mothers would call their children indoors as he drove by...
...And all for what...
...Blanchard's lodgings...
...Archibald Cox for the much-coveted White House tapes...
...Plunkitt D Peter Rusthoven C. Bascom Slemp [] Mark Souder [] David Tudor Wayne H. Valis [] Richard Wheeler [] Timothy Wheeler Alien C o n t r i b u t o r s : Eric Brodin [] Carl Miller Judy Tyl"rell Art D i r e c t o r : Elliott Banfield Art: Gustave Dor6 [] Eric Lohnaas '[he Alternative was tounded m 1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic be~ in McSorley's Old Ate House C~iginally published on restroom walls, only since 1967 has it come under p~rvie' of 1he ~!urday Evening Club which publishes it Jrom October through June S~l~criptions cost $4 00, an nil correspondence (n~nuscripls, subscriptions, threatening letters, federal grants, etc ) should be sent to Th Alternative, c/o The Establishr~nt, R R 11, Box 360, Noomlr~gton, Indiana 47401, Continental U.SA...
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...Nixon visited wfth the heads of the governments of Japan and of Australia, and elections were held in the Philippines and in Greece...
...On August 15, after Ju]ie Nixon Eisenhower had addressed a meeting of deaf-mutes, her father delivered a longo anticipated speech on Watergate to a national television audience, which greeted him with groans and snorts...
...9 Mr...
...John Paul Norman, 45, the impresario of a national homosexual prostitution ring, the Odyssey Foundation...
...Mullin relates it, his victims were merely sacrifices ~to save California from earthquakes...
...California's Senator Tunney has announced that for one week, two dolicontinued on page 31) It is true that all of the elements of Nixon's dream did not spring full-blown from his own imagination...
...Locusts howl in a nocturnal chorus with crickets the size of bullfrogs...
...In Washington the mules retire...
...9 Back in Anthon, Iowa, Mr...
...David Brooks, to entice children to what the press described as "sex p a r t i e s " - - p a r t i e s a t which various eccentric sexual divertissements were practiced and where the participants, while in the throes of voluptuous frenzy, performed a t least twenty-seven murders...
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...Hartman was found at the bottom of a garbage can into which he had fallen while trying to escape Ms...
...He had a fabulous dream, wafting of money, power, and glory...
...Rosseau had refused to allow a trouser-clad woman to testify in his court, and on an earlier occasion he established dubious precedent by refusing a couple named "Trognon" to adopt a child because he thought their name "ridiculous...
...Fulgencio Batista, the Cuban patriot...
...Victor Hartman, on a leash...
...Johnson and Kennedy dabbled a bit with IRS investigations and technological wizardry, and--when one of their colleagues was caught flagrante delicto--a discrete cover-up was applied...
...It forever provoked him to stalk advantages and opportunities...
...Simonds . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Brudnoy's Film Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Current Wisdom: by Assorted Jackasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 THE WATERGATE SPECTACLE Richard Wheeler: The Watergate Triangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.: Watergate: The Cartoon Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ARTICLES Duke J. Armstrong: A View of Child Development . . . . . . 9 Peter Hughes: Wall No Barrier to Memories . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " Q u e e r - B a i t i n g . . . " Reconsidered: John Randolph, E.T...
...His faith in himself and in his dream just did not provide enough puissance to overcome Washington's open jaws, subtle conventionalities of which he never seemed sufficiently aware...
...He seems to have been a competent administrator, but that was not enough...
...It has been his undoing...
...recanted his resignation as head of the Southern Christian Leadership after hearing God whisper a few memorable lines into his ear in colloquial English...
...Vast clouds of moths, mosquitoes, flies, and other of nature's wonders advance in gaudy profusion across the fertile breadth of America...
...Even the indolent bovine of the dairy lands seek refuge from the glorious sun...
...9 In France reformers had their day when they pressured the Superior Council of the Magistrature to relieve judge Maurice Rosseau of his curial functions...
...But one week later he brought the house down with a forceful and persuasive press conference, televised from the western White House...
...Their scrofulous scheming did him in...
...It was a new American record, surpassing the 1971 record set by Mr...
...Not when they tried to steamro}l the realities of Washington and not when their values were even blowzier than the values that presently prevail there...
...In time a madness settled on his house...
...And from Miami comes word that landlady Ms...
...But perhaps the most memorable lines of the month were not uttered by God but by Mr...
...The conceptions of power, of politics, of virtue, and of majesty remain the balmy notions of the hinds who are braying at his door...
...And a jolly sun scorches the hide off America, drying up ponds and small rivers, searing the flora and tormenting the fauna...
...And they were doomed because the world will yield only so much to cleverness, audacity, and obsessive self-interest...
...He became intoxicated by his new position and sacrificed his judgment...
...Perhaps had he been a famous general, a father to his people, a man able to draw on emotional currents other than reverence towards Lincoln's office, he might have triumphed...
...But the irrepressible Bill O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice and naturalist, early in the month outlaws war and plows into the wilds of Washington, to disport with billows of airborne insects, to thrash in the poison sumac and the thorns, and to provide provender for chiggers, lice, and ticks...
...Authorities of the National Soap Box Derby announced in Ohio t h a t this year's champion has been disqualified for stashing a tiny motor in his vehicle...
...Such enormities could not be countenanced, and they should not have been...
...9 Miss Mary Vechio, the famed ~'knee!ing girl" of Kent State now charged witl-, being a common floozy, blamed news coverage of her arrest on t h a t famous picture of her taken in 1970 after four students died in a Kent State campus shoot out...
...But, like Gatsby, Nixon was the man who dared to dream of all of it at once...
...Two men of the cloth were arrested in the Tennessee interior for 2 The Alternative October 1973 The Great Nixon as the Great Gatsby If Mr...
...Nixon could go so far and no further...
...Today, the Great Nixon sits in his vast white mansion enveloped in desolation...
...9 A mysterious contretemps involving Maryland politicoes, construction companies, and financiers reached into the office of the Vice-President, prompting him to break White House custom and hold a press conference...
...Associates: David Brudnoy [] Jameson G. Campaigne, Jr...
...James Grant Peter Hughes [] Joseph A. Morris [] Roger D. Tyrrell C o n t r i b u t o r s : Paul Bernstein [] Frank W. Blatchford III Barry Burr [] Ron Docksai [] J.P...
...Nixon hired bureaucratic psychopaths and sharpsters...
...William N. Walker, the imaginative general counsel of the Cost of Living Council who is recorded to have said in Chicago t h a t 'tan adequate supply of beef is available...you don't see it but it's there...
...Everything has fallen to pieces, and the dream he pursued so resolutely and energetically still dances beyond his grasp, taunting him brazenly...
...DEPARTMENTS The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Editorial: R. Emmett Tyrrell, J r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Public Policy: Peter Rusthoven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Letter from a Whig: C. Bascom Slemp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 The Bootblack Stand: Letters to Plunkitt from Ashly Tamborine and Opel Thorston . . . . . . . . . 26 Tbe Great American Column: C.H...
...Elmer Henley and Mr...
...Ron Dellums (Democratic Representative from California) pleaded guilty to a charge of first-degree armed robbery...
...But he wanted to be a masterpiece, a Kennedy snatched from martyrdom, and that was asking too much...
...George Wiley, perished when he fell from his yacht off Chesapeake Beach, Maryland...
...Veal, and David Brudnoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Gary North: Bentham, Burke, and QWERTY . . . . . . . . . . 16 REVIEWS f i Abram \T...
...Gentle drifts of goldenrod fill the air, convulsing nostrils...
...A president can disregard the courts and The Alternative October 1973 3 CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 3) lars is all he will expend on food---an expense presumably t h a t does not include his liquid refreshment...
...But progressives in Santa Cruz, California, were dismayed when former honor student and ecologist, Mr...
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...The Vice-President denied any wrongdoing, and thus far no dirt has appeared, though his successor as chief executive of Baltimore County, Mr...
...Dean Corll, a homosexual electrician (or gay as they say), had employed two even younger men, Mr...
...And when on August 8 they felt silent, the commentary droned on and on as did the awesome struggle between President Nixon and Mr...
...A. Schulke said he wanted to file court-martial charges against President Nixon in the Watergate case, he was put in a psychiatric ward...
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