EDITORIALS
CORRESPONDENCE Christian Healing Unadilla, N. Y. To the Editors: I was horrified (to put it mildly) to see healing equated with "spiritualism, and all sorts of 'superstitious beliefs' from...
...Ryan was among the 20 Georgetown Jesuits who had walk-on parts in the film, The Exorcist...
...The irreconcilable differences, which Fr...
...The proposal is totally unlike the parliamentary system...
...Ryan gave the public relations people news almost as fast as they could publish it...
...Ryan's firing is that Fr...
...000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O0 Exorcising a Vice President On April 4, Georgetown University President Robert J. Henle, S.J., issued a verbal ultimatum to Executive Vice President in charge of Educational Affairs, Edmund G. Ryan, S.J., stating that if he did not resign within seven days, he would be dismissed...
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...S14 a year...
...And Nixon promising Haldeman and Ehrlichman future jobs with his foundation (" . . . a hell of a big thing...
...What is significant about Fr...
...Ryan came to Georgetown in July 1972 as the top Vice President of a new University governing structure...
...His "Mandate 81" fund-raising program is nearing the end of its first phase, which has been relatively successful, but the contributions are slowing during the present period of inflation and recession...
...He has simply claimed that his testimony is true...
...They now know more about Nixon than than anyone really wants to know...
...Henle had already agreed to have the film shot on campus...
...If Mr...
...When The Exorcist opened in December 1973 many Catholics wondered out loud why Georgetown had cooperated with the film...
...Before Fr...
...At the most recent Board meeting, on March 15th, Fr...
...and Senators Ervin, Baker and Weicker have reiterated their confiedence in what he has said...
...Thus 1300 pages of cynicism, pettiness, paranoia, indecision, vindictiveness, opportunism and desperation...
...Our Constitution, unlike the Parlia(Continued on page 271) NEWS & VIEWS: 250 CORRESPONDENCE: 251 EDITORIALS: 251 EXORCISING A VICE PRESIDENT: George Behan 252 PLANETARY HUMANITIES: Michael Novak 254 RIGHT-TO-REPLY LAWS: Thomas Powers 225 WASHINGTON REPORT" A City of Two Faces: Sisyphus 258 VERSE: John C. Hanley 257...
...Perhaps the greatest mystery is how any man could have so little objective judgment on the morality of his own behavior to secretly record all his conversations with men he called his friends, claim the records were for historians, refuse to release them because they were "confidential," then read, censor and publish them without realizing what they really said about himself...
...Henle issued a letter of dismissal, and the Georgetown campus erupted in chaos...
...Peter's College in New Jersey in 1972, and Fr...
...Henle will not comment on, can be deduced by merely examining each man's situation...
...Ryan came to Georgetown in July 1972, Fr...
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...One might now ask, Why was he fired...
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...Single copies 50c 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 EXPLETIVES REMOVED Perhaps the most astonishing aspect of President Richard M. Nixon's decision to pull another of his surprise plays and release his own heavily expurgated version of the White House tapes is that somehow he thought that the disclosure would help him...
...Before they had time to read the papers...
...it is personality conflict which, ideally, should not enter into the governing of any corporation, including a university...
...So we have the man who has often reminded us that he is a lawyer Commonweal: 251 approving hush money, preparing to use the Justice Department against his political foes, suggesting that his staff forget what they know when questioned by the grand jury...
...12], in which sixty percent of both houses of Congress can force a new election for a President in office, putting the President on leave in the meantime while the Vice President governs, is a bald bid for Congressional control of the government...
...Ryan to Georgetown from St...
...Admittedly, Fr...
...Home Rule legislation, and was involved in starting new middle-class student aid programs on Capitol Hill...
...The more the public finds out about Richard Nixon the more it realizes he is unworthy of his office...
...And strings of "expletives" removed from the private talk of the man who, in the 1960 Kennedy TV debates, piously lectured us on how Harry Truman shouldn't use bad words...
...He also spoke on 35 radio shows...
...To read what the supposed custodians of the public trust say to one another in time of crisis has made both Nixon defenders and critics sick at heart...
...Horowitz would like to see for himself, I direct him to the next healing service of Kathryn Kuhlman in Pittsburgh so that he may see for himself not only the radical difference between (Christian) healing and "superstitious beliefs" but the results of such healing as well...
...His door was always open, and he meticulously followed up an any problem or question brought to his attention...
...editing...
...Henle brought Fr...
...Henle's fifth year in office, some people began to look for a new face...
...And it still is today...
...There the restraint on a no-confidence vote (besides the party discipline notoriously lacking in our system) is that it brings on new elections for everybody, putting the government and the parties before the country...
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...they reportedly got extra pay for appearing in costume (black suits and Roman collars...
...The GaUup Poll reports that only 17 percent of 700 adults questioned have a more favorable impression of the President...
...What was the problem...
...But, unlike Nixon, he never claimed innocence...
...The White House inner circle has been obsessed with John Dean...
...Ryan was made available to the media...
...This absence is authorized in compliance with a policy whereby the president is obligated to take a leave of absence at least every five years, but no more than every three years...
...He split the House Judiciary Committee along party lines...
...It is good evidence of the extremes to which Watergate can lead us in reaction...
...During the early part of this academic year, Fr...
...CORRESPONDENCE Christian Healing Unadilla, N. Y. To the Editors: I was horrified (to put it mildly) to see healing equated with "spiritualism, and all sorts of 'superstitious beliefs' from palm reading and astrology to devil-worship" in Irving Louis Horowitz's article "The Europeanization of American Politics" [Apr...
...They weep that the chair once occupied by Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt should now belong to so small a man...
...Ryan of any specific charges that warranted the firing with only one week left in the academic year...
...Ryan was given a contract stating that he was the "lst Vice President" and would "automatically assume the duties of the President" during any presidential absence or disability...
...Henle announced a short leave which he is planning to take from June to late August this summer...
...and furthermore, he has yet to inform the public and Fr...
...Henle used the term "irreconcilable differences," but he has never explained or clarified this ambiguous justification...
...He was the answer to Georgetown's public relations dreams regarding the film...
...His ability to toss out one-liners and interact with an audience brought him more and more invitations...
...WILLIAM L. DAY No No.Confidence Syracuse, N.Y...
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...Then--no good...
...The only answer to that mystery is that the man is Nixon...
...Henle, approaching 65, has been Georgetown's president since June 1969...
...He appeared on the "Tomorrow Show," "Mike Douglas Show," "Cross-fire," the "Devil's Advocate" and other national and local television shows...
...Ryan refused to resign, Fr...
...7"0 the Editors: Congressman Reuss' no-confidence amendment [Apr...
...Ryan started a Student Exchange Program (STEP) which received international attention by proposing to bring 500 German students to American colleges...
...In Reuss' proposal, Congress would bring down the President, not itself, and would do so at the discretion of 60 percent of its fractious members...
...Healing was, both in the Old and New Testaments, one of the greatest evidences of God's power and good will being manifested among men...
...It worked...
...He spent almost a year "learning about Georgetown" before shifting into high gear in 1973, and became rather well known on campus for his efficiency and interest in every phase of the University...
...The Georgetown student body and faculty are demanding to know more...
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...He also became active on D.C...
...Around campus he earned the nickname of "Fast Eddie" because of his quick action, and he was one of the few Georgetown administrators who were accessible to almost everyone on campus...
...But, contrary to some reports, Ryan was not an advisor to the film and the film was not an immediate cause of his dismissal...
...These are two strong-willed men involved in a struggle that is not a power conflict...
...The transcripts certainly do not portray John Dean as a saint...
...259 'MORAL CONSISTENCY AND ABORTION': An Exchange of Views: 261 FAITH AND THE AMERICAN EDEN: Robert T. Handy 265 ROOKS: Fred M. Hechinger, Robert Phillips, Mark Taylor 268 ILLUSTRATIONS: Front cover: ULOS/LNS JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Managing Editor RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Associate Editor ANNE ROBERTSON: Editorial Assistant COLIN L. WESTEREECK, JR.: Movies JOHN FANDEL: Poetry BRIAN WICKER: Great Britain ALAIN WOODROW: Paris HENRY TEN KORTENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: Dublin EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Publisher JOHN BRUBAKER: Advertising Manager COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature and the Arts...
...Henle failed to write any reasons for his decision in his April 11 dismissal letter...
...This contract was drawn up to conform to explicit resolutions which the Georgetown Board of Directors passed on May 22, 1972...
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...Thus, just as the TV camera in the 1952 Checkers speech shifted solemnly to the moist-eyed Pat, last week it turned to the two-foot stack of transcripts emblazoned with the Presidential seal--wouldbe symbol of openness and trust...
...In the wake of the Mitchell-Stans acquittal-a case only peripherally related to Watergate--the Nixon team must have guessed that this was the time to land some punches on the credibility of the President's chief accuser, and that the edited transcript--which, they hoped, few citizens would take time to read--introduced by a Nixon TV pitch, would fix Dean the Wheeler-Dealer and Nixon the Victimized Chief in the public mind...
...In his futile attempt to prove that he is not a crook he has proven that he is something worse--the totally amoral person...
...Consequently, he has been a tremendous boost to the Georgetown public relations department, in that instead of their having to think up new ideas about the University, Fr...
...Ryan, at 45, brought with him new energy, new ideas, and a new way of implementing ideas---quick action...
Vol. 100 • May 1974 • No. 11
