The Bootblack Stand
Plunkitt, George Washington
by George Washington Plunkitt The Bootblack Stand Dear Dr. Plunkitt: We've got trouble. Time made me the cover story of its May 10 issue. It described me as humorless, ambitious,...
...What can I do to prevent this catastrophe...
...Have you ever considered simply stonewalling it...
...28 The Alternative: An American Spectator June/July 19...
...Your White How enemies list conferred instant celebril on many mediocre nobodies...
...It told of how I fixed my political ambitions years ago, and divulged that three years ago my advisers and I laid out a "careful, detailed, meticulous" plan to capture the Presidency...
...Now I hear that the Committee to Reelect the President is buying prime time TV so "America's greatest living ex-Presidentcan make known the name of the man who most closely approximates his political philosophy and style...
...It mentioned that when angered I become cold and methodical and more ambitious...
...Plunkitt: Since the Watergate hearings I have received many polite inquiries from budding politicians and celebrities wishing toknow if it is possible that I might hav overlooked them when I revealed th White House enemies list...
...Take these individuals up on the offers...
...WP Dear Dr...
...Announce that you have disco, ered an especially hot list behind sour old CREEP memorabilia...
...worth my while were I to discover the] names on a special list that I overlooke in all of the excitement...
...stuff about my listening to Shostakovich, reading Faulkner, and meditating on Kierkegaard...
...by George Washington Plunkitt The Bootblack Stand Dear Dr...
...Can they keep him quiet until the election...
...In the years I come you may be able to make som boodle by publishing yearly lists of pron ising pols whom you would certainly ha` included on your enemies list back in ti salad days of the Nixon Administration Don't let the grass grow under yoi feet...
...Carter: It is a riveting commentary on the horrible perils of American political life when an outsider who has devoted much of his public life to the single-minded, pragmatic pursuit of the Presidency can be blown out of the water by the possible endorsement of an outsider whose single-minded, pragmatic pursuit of the Presidency won him just that...
...But then came the real trouble...
...It described me as humorless, ambitious, religious—but in favor of drink on the Sabbath—single-minded, ambitious, guilty of "occasional self-righteousness," ambitious, rigid, and possessing a sharply intelligent and ambitious mind...
...How much will it cost us...
...Dean: A gold mine, my boy...
...Jimmy Carter Dear Mr...
...On some conferred the modern equivalent of sain hood...
...Several hav let it be known that it might be financial...
...I know they thought it was a favorable job for they think of me as the next JFK...
...On May 8 Ziegler is calling and saying the announcement will come any day...
...ordially, Mr...
...On May 7 Rabbi Korff appears at my campaign headquarters, and announces that I am about to "receive the public endorsement of someone really big...
...What do yo make of these letters...
...If we don't act soon the press won't have Jimmy Carter to kick around anymore...
...incerel) John Dea Dear Mr...
...they even used that P.R...
Vol. 9 • June 1976 • No. 9
