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Thomas, Marilyn
tive branch departments, 15 independent agencies and of blame at the inactivity of Congress. By January, the Executive Office of the President involved in some energy czar William...
...Whatever potency an emergency energy bill might cember-the highest rate of increase since 1947...
...Disclosure proposals have Monthly unemployment rose from 4.8 percent in Debeen watered down, and the Nixon's misnomered "wind- cember to 5.2 percent in January...
...Absent was His frail passing into earth...
...the bite of any tax reform...
...We had expected moderate shortages of Of heroes, and sympathy energy this winter, but four weeks ago, when war broke out in the Middle East, most of our tradi- For troubled tional suppliers in that area cut off their shipments Heroes who failed of oil to the United States...
...On November 8, 1973, the President-plagued by Will arise the waves of Watergate and faced with an embroiled Into my soul...
...sive to the consumer instead of the trusts...
...Furhave hinges on the ability to tackle the energy trusts...
...The dark tural gas, and end of the 14-year oil import quota (three Driving chimes that will announce years after his task force's recommendation), the message was long in wind but short in content...
...December's conand added bureaucracy seem to be filtering out of this sumer prices were 8.8 percent above the previous Demess...
...What is needed is energy responmore than a slap on the wrist...
...Their action has now To prosper at an early sharply changed our expectations for coming months...
...Barring a mass consumer revolt, the oil compa- pendence" will produce a country dependent on energy nies should emerge from legislative scrutiny with little monopolies by 1980...
...Labor The likelihood of an "interested person clause" which Department statistics claim that an estimated 100,000 would allow individuals to challenge energy prices be- layoffs occurred in the second week of December from fore a federal Renegotiation Board has been stymied by the energy crunch and recent reports tell of a current stiff Presidential and Congressional resistance as has total of 241,000 job cutbacks resulting from the crisis...
...Age, but who Nevertheless, several weeks later, the President claimed Passed onto consciousness the vivid to have seen "this thing coming" and pointed the finger Memory of bells...
...rise if heating fuel stocks are up 28.5 percent compared For too long a time, government policies have sounded to a mere 5.4 percent increase in its demand by telling a note not unlike those oil ads...
...thermore, unemployment turned sharply upward...
...But despite these fall profits tax" would be nullified by its "plowback" figures, the President, in a January 29 letter to Senator rider...
...any mention of skyrocketing prices, growing monopoli- And then the dust zation of all energy sources and a sense of urgency That inevitably needed to confront the upcoming crisis...
...the everlasting Middle East-told Congress an "energy crisis" beset Memory of him the country: Unfortunately, the energy crisis that once seemed That will stir and stiffen a distant threat to many people is now closing upon Me into memory us quickly...
...Beyond an occasional swipe How shall I ascend from the deep silver at environmentalists, a call for the deregulation of na- Death of my father...
...22 March 1974: 58...
...The axiom that Nixon and the oil majors share the same axis is substantiated by a reading of Nixon's 00000000000000 energy policy statements...
...In addition, 28 Congressional conception that the "public is victimized" and comcommittees have delved one way or another into the plained of the "blame syndrome" sweeping the country...
...However, the year's tally of the effects of the energy Yet, thus far, little more than a stronger executive crisis only added to public cynicism...
...If this marriage between us how warm is the winter and cooperative the con- Big Government and Big Oil continues, "Project Indesumer...
...Last spring, when a shift in refining priorities by the oil companies turned the win- MARILYN THOMAS ter's fuel shortage into a spring gas shortfall, the President's April 18 message called to our attention the HOW SHALL I ASCEND FROM THE DEEP "energy challenge" we all face and hoped we would rally around the Nixon flag...
...issue...
...By January, the Executive Office of the President involved in some energy czar William Simon spoke of the widespread misaspect of the energy crisis...
...While Big Oil has led a successful counterattack Hugh Scott, maintains that "Unemployment cannot be against its critics, the American Petroleum Institute- effectively dealt with by a system that seeks to find a the chief oil lobby-has only replied to Representative tenuous (my italics) connection with the energy criLes Aspin's query why heating oil prices continue to sis...
Vol. 100 • March 1974 • No. 3
