The Bootblack Stand
Plunkitt, George Washington
The Bootblack Stand by George Washington Plunkitt Dear Dr. Plunkitt: Have you any idea why the British delegate to the United Nations, Mr. Ivor Richard, went into such a fever when I...
...Sincerely, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Dear Mr...
...was it not you who titled a recent tome Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye...
...GWPDear Dr...
...Enraged and piqued, Kenneth O'Donnell Dear O'Donnell: Be quiet...
...They are a loutishpack...
...I know...
...Moynihan: Britain's Labour Party is nothing more than an epicene Camorra...
...The best response I can think of the next time he harangues you is to dismiss his outburst as but another example of Araditional British bigotry against Irish and Catholics...
...Their policies have already practically turned Great Britain into a Western European equivalent of Ethiopia...
...The Labour Government is in a terrible fix...
...What is Mr...
...Richard up to...
...I have heard your public protestations and I take them with a grain of salt...
...I tired of it...
...You are mistaken to consider its representatives "distinguished...
...But this is not to say that Mr...
...I don't care what William Sabre and the Church Committee imply, when I was President Kennedy's right-hand person I never even heard of a Judith Inmoor Campbell or a Sam Giancana or a Marilyn Monroe...
...I was there...
...Look at it this way: he might not be around to defend himself, but he is also unavailable for any further opportunities to embarrass himself...
...after all, he is a distinguished member of the Labour Party...
...Not until he married his beloved Jacqueline did he ever indulge in prolonged kissing or heavy petting...
...GWP The Alternative: An American Spectator February 1976 35...
...they do not really mind being considered bigots...
...Nothing could be more galling to a Labourite than to be referred to as traditional, though...
...But his outburst was more reminiscent of the garrulous tirades we have come to expect from one of those petty despotisms that live off the sweat of their sorely bullied citizens and the plunder of selected tribes and racial groupings under their dominion...
...John F. Kennedy was the finest example of Catholic morality ever to step into the White House...
...I had always thought this man to be a suave defender of the liberal ideals of equality and freedom...
...That is what Richard is up to...
...British Labour has noted that our State Department treats its enemies with a tender loving care which it never would extend to its friends...
...Ideally they would like us to invade Britain, burn down Parliament and a few other buildings which they consider superannuated, and then rebuild London roughly along the lines of Miami Beach...
...Plunkitt: These cruel rumors regarding possible extramarital pursuits between my President and women of ill-fame are positively nauseating...
...The capos of Labour feel that if they can act truculently enough toward us at the UN we will lavish them with aid...
...Ivor Richard, went into such a fever when I responded to the UN's resolution equating Zionism and racism with my own resolution calling for the freeing of all the world's political prisoners...
...All the time that guy was President he was either going to or coming from high mass...
...When one scrutinizes the tenets of the Labour Party one sees that a "distinguished" member of Labour is no more plausible than a "distinguished" representative of a convention of pickpockets...
...Richard was not without serious design when he assaulted you at the UN...
...But they are a cunning lot, and having studied American foreign policy they now are about to enter upon a dramatic new policy aimed at bilking the American treasury of enough boodle to preserve Britain's medieval economy for years to come...
...It is obscene how they are slandering a dead man who is not even around to defend himself...
Vol. 9 • February 1976 • No. 5
