The Bootblack Stand: Letters to Plunkitt from Ashly Tamborine and Opel Thorston
Senator Ervin remains in such robust health. Please send your reply to me at the Indiana State Mental Hospital where my wife has installed me after I became emotionally involved with my moth...
...To think that a man of his age can look so young and possess such a sharp mind...
...Please send your reply to me at the Indiana State Mental Hospital where my wife has installed me after I became emotionally involved with my moth collection...
...they are married...
...The sight of Senator Ervin impressed me...
...Objections to what, I cannot imagine: I viewed it once and my wife tuned it in occasionally when I was away at Klonvocations...
...Plunkitt: There is mischief afoot in Washington, and the Ervin committee proves it...
...Opel Thorston Indianapolis, Indiana Dr...
...The series is being dropped because of objections from "the Jewish community...
...There is a difference between the foul play of the Watergate variety and the more traditional boodling of gentlemen like Bobby Baker, and Senator Ervin seems to agree...
...I speak naturally of Senator Kennedy...
...Bridget is a sweet Catholic girl...
...I realize you have many high friends in important places and I would like you to find out for me how Dear Opel: I too share your enthusiasm for Senator Ervin...
...The Jewish parents were portrayed as kindly, earthly-wise, warmhearted and heartwarming, something Sholem Aleichem might have dreamed up in a diabetic stupor...
...or even to the alarming rise of mixed nude bathing in the coastal provinces...
...She is sore beset...
...I hope to chat with you individually over punch and cookies after the lecture...
...One must be careful...
...I am delighted so many of you could make it, what with all this sunspot activity and the price of copra...
...Of course not...
...A television network has, according to the newspapers, canceled a vulgar entertainment called Bridget Loves Bernie...
...I do not refer to the late sordid transactions in Washington, just now undergoing an inquisition every bit as sordid...
...Senator Ervin's recent behavior indicates that this distinguished constitutional expert also adheres to my dichotomy...
...and I take my text from Mr...
...I admire him a lot...
...The notion struck many political scientists as provocative and abhorrent in the extreme...
...What was the Senate up to by putting the most ignorant and lazy man in the United States Senate on such a highly publicized committee...
...Is my beloved morning bagel a grotesque overcompensation...
...My copy of Little Black Sambo (he was the hero of my (continued on page 29) 26 The Alternative October 1973...
...GWP Dear Mr...
...Bernie is a nice Jewish boy...
...According to the story as I have heard it, there was actually only one senator who really wanted to be on the Ervin committee--the others on the committee are serving as punishment for various infractions of the Senate code regarding shooting rubber bands and launching paper airplanes while on the Senate floor...
...They hoodwinked poor Senator Montoya into taking his place by an amusing subterfuge...
...Consider, brethren, the Republic...
...Is this Nixon',~ scheming yet again...
...their respective parents have difficulty adjusting to this and to one another--and thereby hangs a situation comedy than which I would sooner watch Celebrity Bowling...
...I met him in a local saloon the other day and I addressed your question to him...
...Good afternoon...
...GWP No More Minorities...
...we can assure you there was nothing offensive in sight...
...Senator Ervin, like many other redoubtable patriots in the Senate, knows the difference between honest and dishonest graft...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U.S.A...
...Abe Martin of Brown County, Indiana: "Nobody ever fergits where they buried the hatchet...
...Apprehensively, Ashly Tamborine Ex...
...My dear Miss Tamborine: I have had a very difficult time deciding which senator you refer to...
...Senate, never smoke and never take a d r i n k . . , in public...
...They stood in nice contrast to the rigid, chilly, button-arsed Catholic parents...
...Plunkitt expects to earn ten million dollars from sales of his new book, he has agreed to continue to advise public figures through this column...
...Fortunately several astute Democrats finally talked him out of it, for they realized that were his curious daily habits exposed to the public eye, their chances of getting him into the presidency would be slim and none...
...George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, is celebrating the publication of his new book, which is now available at avant-garde bookstores throughout New Jersey...
...Several years ago I authored a small treatise on American politics, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall I believe it was called, in which I drew the distinction between honest and dishonest graft...
...No protests were forthcoming from the Catholic community, preoccupied a s it is with the question whether Father Phil's and Sister Liz's first baby will have a tail, or merely cloven feet., Anyhow, objections there were to something that I, not being of the Hebrew persuasion, must have missed...
...Plunkitt's book is about the importance of altruism in politics and it is titled What's in It for Me...
...It is to the Minorities Explosion that I address myself...
...The great man replies: "If you want to have a long active life in the U.S...
...In 1964 when certain senatorial spoilsports tried to whip up a Senate investigation of the Democratic Administration on the basis of Mr...
...Address all correspondence to The Bootblack Stand, c/o The Establishment, R.R...
...Or am I monstrously insensitive...
...He actually thinks he is participating in a new television show similar to "What's My Line...
...Citizens for Better Government Washington, D.C...
...I shall operate under the assumption that you are referring to New Mexico's Senator Montoya, the Desert Demosthenes, as I am fond of calling him...
...But I wonder how many BLBwatchers have been made to feel just a trifle . . . guilty...
...Plunkitt: I spent the better part of the summer watching the televised Watergate hearings...
...Although Dr...
...Baker's misfortunes, Senator Ervin moved with admirable speed to help stifle the investigation by voting it down in all the protean manifestations that these vicious Republicans wrapped it in on the Senate floor...
...Dear Mr...
...Must I squintingly reexamine my every attirude...
Vol. 7 • October 1973 • No. 1
