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Westerfield, Nancy G.
money in certain other states, such as New York and California. This difficulty confronts hawks and doves, conservatives and liberals, Democrats and Republicans. No one is exempt. And, in the...
...strange jewels Of stains illuminate the pages like a Duke of Berry's Book of Hours...
...Subsidies have a way of spawning their own problems...
...SISYPHUS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NANCY G. WESTERFIELD AN INHERITANCE OF COOKBOOKS Life, teaching her the tolerance Of its empty intervals, taught her to cook, And bread rose in her house like incense...
...Death, keeping her secrets In its stillest pantries, has kept the best table, While I keep its codebooks and signs...
...On balance, the Senate moved in the proper direction...
...Beyond the equivocal role of money, the efforts to restrain extravagant campaign spending by introducing ceilings will certainly be challenged by one or more court suits...
...Money, in this context, is currency of many colors, depending on the source...
...Schemers, trimmers and thieves sired Watergate...
...3 May 1974:206...
...Senators from oil-producing states have been elected, not because they were "corrupted" by petroleum company officials, but because they were already disposed intellectually to acknowledge that the well-being of these companies was a primary responsibility during their Senatorial service...
...And what is left behind of her sorcery Is disarmed...
...The Watergate scandals are not the direct product of private money financing political campaigns...
...They are mine now...
...Their general opinions and sentiments preceded the "oil money" that flowed into their campaign chests...
...Not to have acted would have been disastrous...
...With these cases I agree . . . but (they did not) even remotely suggest that a law directly aimed at curtailing speech and political persuasion could be saved through a balancing process...
...Furthermore, public financing of campaigns, should it be enacted for Congressional campaigns, will undoubtedly be challenged in the courts...
...More realistically, the money flows only when a putative candidate convinces that he or she believes, for example, in the existing tax structure that smiles upon the extractive industries or, correspondingly, in military disengagement from Indochina...
...In addition, federal funding raises an alert--a Government instrumentality will disburse campaign funds...
...Or as someone once suggested: Caveat Emptor...
...Archibald Cox suggests not, because, in effect, limitations on spending are not really limitations on speech because they are limitations "once removed...
...And, one asks, does "money" itself corrupt...
...But proponents of comprehensive federal financing of elections are obliged to carefully watch their legislative product, should it be enacted into law...
...The question that will be raised is whether limitations are necessarily violative of the First Amendment...
...To argue otherwise is to acknowledge, correspondingly, that "peace money" from the Council for a Livable World or "labor money" from COPE or one of the other political arms of organized labor cdrrupts its favored candidates...
...Yet Mr...
...Moreover, the role of money is frequently misstated, even over-emphasized to a degree...
...Close to the end of her long And spinistered years, she spread her hands Over an apronful of recipes, and said: Some day these will all be yours...
...and the books Fall open flatly to mysterious passages, Where the rubrics of her kitchen witchcraft Are written in with strange juices...
...Justice Black, in his opinion in the case of Barenblatt v. U.S., has said: "There are, of course, cases suggesting that a law which primarily regulates conduct but which might also indirectly affect speech can be upheld if the effect on speech is minor in relation to the need for control of the conduct...
...And, in the process, a candidate is as sinned against as sinning, in seeking to finance a campaign...
...In her whereabouts The great and little hours do not fill themselves Longer with the design of dinners fit for any god...
Vol. 100 • May 1974 • No. 9
