Letters
that "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history," but I consider it unfair and misleading to quote it in...
...In the case of Vietnam, a substantial majority (let me hasten to add, nearly all), of the American people wished for an end to the pointless bloodshed, for their sons were dying in vain, dying to sustain an ar rogant leadership within the Pentagon...
...Instead, President Nixon has chosen to put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work, inconvenience the entire population, force the remaining independent oil dealers to raise prices to a non-competitive level which threatens their continued existence, increase petroleum costs to the consumer by fifty to one hundred per cent and more, and take away one-seventh of the income of our nation's gasoline retailers...
...In defense of Russel Nye, he committed nothing illegible...
...Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin recently charged that despite the extremely serious domestic shortages, the U. S. oil producers exported a total of 1,771,215 barrels of gasoline fuel oil and residual fuel oil in October, about the same as in September...
...It must be that at the University of South Florida they teach Wrong history—right...
...By force, by violence, by destroying 'the enemy.' Not by being a good listener, by understanding or cooperation or compromise, by attempting to evolve a community consensus...
...I object solely to your citing Ford's statement as if you want it to haunt him in an entirely different situation...
...According to the Constitution, Article III, Section 1, Supreme Court justices "shall hold their offices during good behavior...
...He is wrong...
...D. B. Lawrence Weaverville, North Carolina Action on Oil This is a condensed version of a letter we have written to Senator Edward M. Kennedy: We are writing to add our voices to the protest over runaway oil and gasoline prices, particularly home heating oil...
...Certainly, during the period of the American Revolution, the colonists struggled under an oppressive, tyrannous rule, a rule indulgent in excess, and united themselves toward violently overthrowing that rule...
...And I would readily agree that the war was largely responsible for the draining from our nation of much of its morale, not to mention our future leadership, our future aspirations...
...Rational policy would dictate a cessation of all petroleum exports that are not obligatory or contractual...
...We would all be far better off if we had never heard of Richard Milhous Nixon...
...True, Nixon himself did not pull the trigger that murdered Allende . . . but winked his eye at the connivance of the ITT and the CIA...
...President Kennedy had the courage to confront successfully the steel industry in the public interest and since President Nixon will not act against the oil companies, Congress must...
...Serving as a paid director of any organization might indeed not be "good behavior" for a judge or for any public official, but surely it does not constitute a crime or misdemeanor unless it violates some law...
...Are the beliefs of those such as Karl Armstrong becoming the standard American ideology...
...James M. Arnold Holden, Massachusetts Refutes Armstrong Theory I was shocked to see Karl Armstrong defended as a martyr for the cause of freedom, defended in the pages of the January issue of your magazine ("A Trapped Generation on Trial," by Henry Schipper...
...David O. Mocine Albuquerque, New Mexico...
...But none of this justifies Armstrong's "immortal deed...
...I refer to the article in the February issue, "Chile: The Dream Bides Time," by Pat Garrett and Adam Schesch...
...And I do not see why a person, by inference, could not imply that Grant did win the Battle of Gettysburg...
...Gentlemen of the House Judiciary Committee and other members of Congress, I beseech you to remove Richard Milhous Nixon from the Presidency...
...In the same issue in which Schipper reviews the Armstrong "trial," film critic Kenneth Turan refers to a cinematic outrage entitled Walking Tall, one of the most brutal and exploitative vehicles ever made, as a "quite fine film .. . a renewed tribute to the emotional power inherent in film...
...Eugene De Santis Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 'Glaring Omission' on Chile It is disappointing to find The Progressive going off "half-cocked...
...Hilmer C. Harris Minneapolis, Minnesota Wrong Is Wrong Regardless of Charles Wrong's criticism of Russel Nye's English in the February "Letters," I want you to know how his criticism of Michigan State University effected me...
...The world will not end if he is impeached...
...The utter ridiculousness of this is apparent when one considers that there is a domestic shortage of this equipment, which is curtailing the effort to produce more crude oil here at home...
...Chile was willing and able to pay for spare parts for machines manufactured in these United States, but the Federal Government prevented this...
...Last winter, gasoline cost 28.9 cents per gallon and home heating oil cost 19.9 cents per gallon...
...If I may paraphrase the remarks of Nicholas Johnson, who was quoted in The Progressive last June: "How do you resolve conflicts [in television...
...In this article it was not brought out strongly enough that President Nixon hastened the downfall of the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende...
...Mr, and Mrs...
...In a related action, U.S...
...MSU English students are most affective in using the English language...
...that "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history," but I consider it unfair and misleading to quote it in connection with possible impeachment of the President (as you did in your lead editorial in the February issue...
...Neruda is not mentioned in the Garrett-Schesch article but as the greatest poet in all of South America, as the poet whose work has been more widely translated than any other poet in the world, as a poet whose works are on the lips of South Americans in all countries, and as a man who was cultural godfather to the Allende government, this omission from the Garrett-Schesch article is glaring...
...As of now regular gasoline is 43.9 cents and home heating oil is 32.6...
...Exxon alone was listed as profiting to the extent of more than $1.6 billion...
...The Armstrong theory, combined with our overall complacency and compatibility with the immoralities of the media, confirms Erich Fromm's recent remark: that if America hasn't entered hell yet, we are coming dangerously close...
...To sacrifice the American public and the American economy with the exception of the oil producing companies raises serious questions about the propriety of their relationship with President Nixon...
...I can well believe that atrocities of a most extraordinarily immoral nature were committed by American soldiers in the heat of the conflict...
...interests continued to sell oil drilling equipment to Arab nations in spite of the Arab oil embargo...
...But there was never a popular mandate urging the overthrow of the Government for its Indochina policy...
...Recently the Worcester Evening Gazette cited the incredible profits of the major oil companies during the first nine months of 1973...
...I have been a staunch admirer of The Progressive for the past several years, impressed by your consistently impassioned defense of our inherent liberties and your humanitarian viewpoint, taking life into account well before property...
...Home oil prices will go to forty cents per gallon soon—and the end is not in sight, according to area dealers...
...All this and not one restriction placed on the major oil companies...
...He has no rating in my book of honorable men...
...Armstrong and those who testified on his behalf in court apparently feel that under America's governmental process, the incendiary device takes precedence over the ballot box, that the end justifies the means...
...Yet when I see the cause of Karl Armstrong taken up by Henry Schipper as a cause of nobility, I cannot help but worry about the mental state of our nation's populace...
...Nixon is head of the Federal Government...
...the greatest domestic struggles were shelved in favor of the dreams of men ignorant in the tragedy they were advocating...
...That language is vague enough so that a case can be made for Ford's statement...
...I would be among the first to concur that America committed her greatest mistake by involving herself in the Vietnam debacle...
...I have held him in low esteem ever since his foul and vicious campaign against the fine, honorable Jerry Voorhis, Congressman from California, in 1946...
...Furthermore, respected economists have predicted a national unemployment rate of eight per cent or more by this spring...
...Frances H. French Baltimore, Maryland Richard Nixon is not an indispensable man...
...But the President "shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors" (Article II, Section 4...
...And only to a lesser extent is the blood of Pablo Neruda on the hands of Nixon...
...Richard Nixon has so badly degraded the office of the Presidency in the eyes of millions of thinking Americans, and to all the world, that it demands firm, decisive action now from our Congress...
...Wrong inferred that MSU's English Department was not alright...
...They are able to communicate verbally, while at the University of Michigan they can only write orally...
...I am not, of course, objecting to your position on impeachment of President Nixon...
...We urge you, Senator Kennedy, to initiate and see to a successful conclusion the imposition of a program of controls over major oil companies to keep more of our resources at home and put an immediate stop to the rampant profiteering currently going on...
...Ambiguous though "misdemeanors" are, this still does not warrant applying Ford's statement...
Vol. 38 • April 1974 • No. 4
