Correspondents' Correspondence

...Members of the Manson mob haven't been booked for campus speaking dates yet, but I'm sure they will be if their mouthpieces can get them sprung...

...That way, it will make a whale of a movie even if things never get beyond the plotting stage...

...My problem is coming up with the right crime...

...Franklin D. Roosevelt created a trend and we haven't recovered yet, let's face it...

...Here in the U.S...

...In spite of such harsh criticism, Thomson won reelection last November by a respectable margin, making him the sole Republican governor to survive the off-year election east of Ohio and north of the Mason-Dixon line...

...Secondly, I need a good lawyer who has a proven record of copping pleas for big-time mobsters...

...Kathy Starbuck Where the Money Is New York-I am an Old China Hand...

...Others like to point out that if the Governor were to go national, at least it would get him out of the state...

...To paraphrase that square Emerson, if we can create a bigger nightmare than our neighbor, the mazoola will beat a path to our door...

...But showing the film was quite in keeping with Thomson's new view of himself as Statesman, as benevolent Supreme Executive Magistrate, come home to educate and enlighten his people...

...But Thomson insists the court has "just given us the status of the law, not the outcome of the battle.' One governor who has served with him in the New England Governors' Conference says Thomson is "a real and potential danger who consistently takes the law into his own hands...

...The stridently conservative Republican, no stranger to controversy, could take the heat, and like most politicians, he has no aversion to glory...

...In press reports from Washington, he has called the governor "a conservative standard-bearer who would make a fine President...

...receive $1,500-4,000 per lecture at leading universities...

...The individuals currently making fortunes from books and university lectures have either been convicted of crimes or performed the dirty work for those who committed them...

...So, without further adieu: First, I need an agent who can get me a substantial advance for the book I plan to write after I commit my crime...

...He ought to be impeached...

...I will have to confer with my agent, lawyer and movie producer, to be sure I have come up with the best possible conspiracy...

...I don't want my first offense to be a bungle that will merely result in an admonition from the bench to sin no more...

...is thinking about running for President...

...He has also become chairman of the Conservative Caucus, a group directed by Howard Phillips, who was appointed by Richard Nixon to head and destroy the Office of Economic Opportunity...

...I want the assurance of enough years outside the slammer to be able to enjoy the money he lets me keep after we split the take from the book and the movie...

...John Dean, Ron Ziegler and Joe Bonano Jr...

...Since New Hampshire is often inundated with Presidential hopefuls, many people here feel they might as well have one of their own out there taking a bit of the heat and the glory...

...Because I really don't wish to hurt anyone, perhaps my best bet would be to arrange to get caught conspiring to commit a crime, rather than actually committing one...

...As Walter Cronkite would say, "That's the way it is...

...Reporters who were present are still trying to figure out why it was shown...

...Thomson has exercised a broad and unpredictable power, ranging from defying a state supreme court ruling that his secret search of business tax records was illegal-by announcing he would do it again if the need arose-to threatening to cut off funds for New Hampshire's university system unless on-campus activities of the Gay Students Organization (GSO) were prohibited...

...Once elected he demanded and received undated resignation letters as a precondition to appointment from several prospective department heads, and during the last regular session of the State Legislature in Concord he used his veto an unprecedented 27 times...

...I am trying," he told me in a subsequent interview, "to create a trend through my speaking, writing and decisions that people after me can follow...

...Only agents who can also guarantee a movie contract based on the book need apply...

...That's where publishers and universities are putting their cash these days...

...There is always room in this world for one more smart cookie to make a killing-with the right kind of help...

...Why not...

...Some have concluded that Thomson is an agent of Nationalist China, others that he is merely a travel agent...

...But let's act quickly because, judging by what is going on these days, we are going to have to buck tough competition...

...Now I have decided to finally do a book that will pay me real money and insure a fat lecture tour contract...

...Bruno Shaw...

...I recently devoted a great amount of energy over a period of two years to abridging and annotating Mao Tse-tung's Selected Works...

...No more of that fifty bucks a throw stuff I got many years ago when I was debating on radio and television and also before live audiences with Theodore White, Owen Lattimore and many others who urged the public to believe the Chinese Communists were really just agrarian reformers...

...Phillips is one of Thomson's chief propagandists...

...But it will have to be a bang-up sort of crime, the kind that would have produced a huge disaster had it succeeded...

...While in Taipei, he explained that "I personally loathe Communism," and warned, in his characteristic style, that "any alliance with Communism will inevitably lead to the rape of the intrigued...

...This has been published by Harper & Row in paperback and is as important as Hitler's Mein Kampf should have been, but, alas, was not...

...Try to sell that to subway straphanger paperback readers...

...Applications for these posts may be sent to me directly in care of The New Leader...

...Or maybe trying to get on the GOP ticket in the second slot...

...In his 1972 first-term bid, Thomson polarized the voters: They either feared him or saw him as a kind of god, just the sort of man needed to take charge of permissive and spendthrift trends in government...

...The Trendmaker Milford, N.H.-There are rumblings that Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr...

...When the Governor returned from the Far East he held a press conference that began with an 18-minute promotional film extolling the glories of Taiwan...

...Since I have written articles for The New Leader without pay, I think it is only fair that it should cooperate with me in my endeavor to raise my income to the level of the best-selling authors of our time...

...He went on to praise the Nationalist Chinese: "Here you have demonstrated that you can make democracy work as well if not better than in my country...

...I am trying to create a conservative trend that will have some lasting effects...

...As the founder, publisher and editor of the daily Hankow Herald in central China, and as associate editor of the Shanghai Weekly Review-of which Edgar Snow, on my left, was also an associate editor-I spent a large portion of my life fighting against Communism...

...After a year of litigation, the Federal Court of Appeals ruled not long ago that the university cannot ban the GSO...

...Vowing to spend all his free time traveling around the nation to "enunciate the cause of conservatism," Thomson recently visited Europe and Nationalist China, presumably to beef up his foreign affairs credentials...