Dear Editor
Dear Editor Mitchell Justice Robert Lekachman rightly observes how little lasting influence Robert Kennedy had on Justice Department standards, "how quickly worse criteria can supplant better."...
...seems the process of selecting a President in this country more resembles an auction than an election...
...Once my foot was in the door, the battle was half over...
...There is not another like him, for he allows no slackness...
...The check enclosed is for a year's subscription...
...For now, he notes, they are "too busy on the fund-raising circuit to give much thought to other aspects of the nation's economy...
...Josef Patrick Timar...
...Life follows art, it seems: Lekachman calls the former Teamsters president Kennedy's "own White Whale...
...It The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Minor H. McLain Professor of History, Salem State College Kudos I was drawn to your magazine this autumn by the agile and piercing mind of the prodigious John Simon...
...From cover to cover you have ????And we get????A singularly outstanding journal...
...Since his review of Victor Navasky's Kennedy Justice appeared in The New Leader ("Flawed Hero," December 13) there has been another, and perhaps the most disheartening, repudiation of Robert Kennedy's efforts...
...We should also take into consideration the fact that early in 1948 President Truman made a posthumous award of the Legion of Merit decoration to the Serbian commander in recognition of his contributions to the Allied victory...
...Mass...
...Missoula, Mont...
...Toronto, Ont...
...I refer, of course, to Richard Nixon's and Attorney General John Mitchell's Christmas present to Jimmy Hoffa...
...These can be found in David Martin's Ally Betrayed and in Colonel Albert Seitz's Mihailovich????hoax or Hero...
...philip livingston Mihailovich May 1 respectfully observe in reference to Richard Galligan's review of F.W.D...
...Harvey Woods Election Economics Jonathan Cottin ("Pocketbook Politics," NL, December 27) points out that it is still unclear what conclusions, if any, the Democratic candidates for the Presidential nomination will draw from the 1971 election results, in which the economic issue was dominant...
...The articles are on the whole first-rate and the design is benignly generous...
...And, as if plotted by Melville, the White Whale has emerged triumphant...
...Portland, Ore...
...Deakin's The Embattled Mountain ("With Tito in the Hills," NL, December 27) that there are different interpretations of the career of General Drazha Mihailovich...
...Salem...
...One of the things they are learning there, according to a widely quoted agent for Edmund Muskie, is that the fat cats who provide the major share of campaign funds "want to make investments, not contributions...
Vol. 55 • January 1972 • No. 2
