Letters
LETTERS Nixon's Other Misdeeds I have just read Robert L. Leggett's article, "Nixon's Case Against Nixon" in the May issue. One thing comes through crystal clear. Criticism of the President's...
...If Rustin feels so strongly about the question of amnesty, let me call to his attention that there is a campaign going on right here in his country for amnesty for the thousands of young people who have to lead broken lives because they opposed an immoral and illegal war...
...God knows how deserving of indictment is Governor Reagan for his duplicitous and irresponsible conduct concerning welfare...
...It irritates me that a man who believed in the possibility of in-tercultural understanding is often misquoted for the purpose of discouraging that union...
...The President has brought disgrace not only on himself, but on* the office of the presidency, on the executive branch of the Government, and on the nation as a whole, by his conduct in the last year and a half of the Watergate affair...
...We are already getting hints of the problems awaiting Spokane taxpayers at the conclusion of Expo '74...
...Sets USIA Record Straight It was with great dismay that I read the totally unjustified and grossly misleading squib in your May issue—the one pointing out that Richard Nixon and the Press was the third most ordered book on the U.S...
...But to align his position with that of the Elizabethan Poor Law is a misunderstanding of history—one widely held, unfortunately—and pays an undeserved compliment to the Governor...
...Ann V. King Spokane, Washington...
...If the counterculture is indeed anti-commercial, why do its members set up tables to display handicrafted wares seemingly when any opportunity presents itself...
...Dirk De Yoting Cedarburg, Wisconsin Why commission a "Father" to write on "Jesus Freaks, Gurus, and Dissent" in the June issue...
...Hence, there was no "hustling" and not a penny in it for Mr...
...What kind of President will Gerald Ford make...
...And assembly line workers expect and receive only: a paycheck, vacations, and retirement...
...Criticism of the President's wrongdoings seems to be universally held to matters like the Watergate, the Ellsberg break-in, and the subsequent attempts at covering up...
...Abbie is a fugitive right now and cannot defend himself...
...Bertram L. Podell U.S...
...Then we invite him to Florida and Texas and many other places where many innocent men are being held without trial pending deportation just because they sought asylum and wanted to migrate from their own country where they die of hunger and are persecuted in the bargain...
...that the author, James Keogh, is also the director of USIA, and that, to quote you, "As Truman Capote once remarked, 'A boy has to hustle his book.'" The facts are (1) USIA posts and libraries must individually ask for a book and pay for it out of their operating funds...
...2) all USIA authors must forego royalties on copies of their books bought by the Agency...
...Countertrends Superficial While generally sympathetic to Todd Git-lin's May issue review of Heilbroner's An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, I think that the countertrends he identifies as partially vitiating Heilbroner's pessimism are at most superficial: If feminism is anti-hierarchical, how does one account for its overwhelming emphasis on equal opportunities for employment in a hierarchical world and for recent findings indicating that professional women are as exploitative of socio-economic inferiors of their own sex as are men...
...It required local authorities to relieve the poor by levying rates (taxes) in parishes...
...Since the greatest number of these schools were of a religious nature, this represented a promise on Nixon's part to violate our First Amendment, or to devise the means whereby it might be legally violated, such as by an amendment to our Constitution...
...Until 1834, the only restrictive amendment of the 1601 Poor Law was passed during the reign of Charles II...
...Is it tragic ignorance on the part of a learned man, or just plain envy—no American writer of mediocre talent was ever able to amass several million dollars in a Swiss bank just by being "dissident...
...Michael J. Moore Boone, North Carolina The Truth in Spokane "Expo by Edict" by Shirley Hepton in the May issue, exposing Expo 74, was a splendid summary of what many of us in Spokane have suspected for some time but have found difficult to substantiate...
...I don't know whether to laugh or cry...
...Does Rustin want to inspect jails...
...Its massive failure in this century brought the British welfare state...
...In 1834 the demand for efficient welfare reform to eliminate waste and lower costs was met by a totally new Poor Law...
...3) Mr...
...It was this 1834 law with its workhouses and often callous administration popularized by writers such as Charles Dickens which was "demeaning and regressive...
...To what...
...There was nothing "demeaning and regressive" in this Poor Law...
...Fear for Israel is a false issue, and should be laid to rest, so that we can look at the questions of Watergate and impeachment as American citizens concerned for the ultimate welfare of our troubled nation...
...E. Vicente Miami Beach, Florida Reagan and the Poor Larry Agran's denigrating characterization of Governor Reagan's welfare proposals as "throwback(s) to the Elizabethan Poor Laws" ("Reagan's 4Way' to Nowhere," June issue) does injustice to historical fact and destroys the sense of his indictment...
...I firmly believe it would be better for this nation in the long run if he were to be removed from office through the constitutional process of impeachment...
...Information Agency's book list...
...Bayard Rustin, where is your conscience and where is your support when it comes to helping our Haitian brothers...
...This played havoc with the migrated and ambulatory poor...
...Secretary of State Kissinger's efforts have apparently led to a disengagement of Israeli and Syrian forces along Israel's northern frontier...
...The article was muddy, rambling, and dull...
...If Father Richard Woods did research the groups, it did not show in the writing...
...And the working class culture, which puta-tively "resists industrial stupefaction...
...I would still not have written you had he not made his comments about Abbie Hoffman...
...I trust that you will set the record straight with your readers...
...The chief complaint about its operation came to be its cost...
...Thank you for shedding some light on the matter, and keep up the good work...
...Will there be any radical changes in American foreign policy...
...Vern O. Holgate Marquette, Michigan Israel and Impeachment If Nixon is impeached, what then for this country...
...Countertrends...
...I believe also, just as firmly, that such a train of events would not harm our traditional good relations with Israel...
...If we are to believe Newsweek (April 29), even the touted Lordstown rebels were less "alienated" than they were concerned about contract terms...
...The U.S...
...Had I liked the article I'd not question, I suspect...
...The Jewish community, although it generally tends to be liberal and Democratic, is conservative as far as America's relations to Israel are concerned...
...The requirement to spend public funds on relief led to the famous Speenhamland dole at the end of the Eighteenth Century which pegged relief to the fluctuating price of bread...
...They are dissenters, too, and with them it is a question of life and death...
...government says they are not welcome here...
...Frankly, I do not think that Israel's security, or any other aspect of our foreign policy, will be jeopardized in any way if Nixon is impeached...
...The bulk of those copies were ordered by USIA posts prior to Mr...
...Keogh went beyond this and included not only copies bought after he was named director, but all copies of his books bought by USIA at any time...
...Will the impeachment of President Nixon jeopardize our continuing efforts to bring peace to the Middle East...
...It required the poor to be returned to their home parishes for relief...
...They feel that they have a good thing going and want to hang on to it...
...The Poor Law of 1601—there was only one—supplanted Henry VIII's harsher and ultimately ineffective Poor Law...
...Representative from New York Washington, D.C...
...He referred to tax credits or tuition grants to parents, who would merely act as the conduit for funneling this money to the school operators...
...Keogh's confirmation as director of USIA...
...Roger Riske Los Angeles, California Jesus Freaks I was a bit perturbed by the erroneous interpretation of Rudyard Kipling's The Ballad of East and West in Richard J. Woods's recent article, "Jesus Freaks, Gurus, and Dissent...
...The point is, the good thing will still be there even if President Nixon is not...
...The truth on local matters is frequently hard to find in Spokane since our two newspapers are both owned by the same family, a conservative Republican and business interest-oriented clan...
...While he was campaigning for re-election, Nixon made two speeches to important Catholic groups in which he promised that he would "find ways, or make them," whereby public tax money would be provided to religiously oriented schools of which 88 per cent were Catholic...
...Here is Kipling's opening passage in The Ballad of East and West: Oh, east is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet/ Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat/ But there is neither east nor west, border, nor breed, nor birth/ When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth...
...Rita Krich Bayside, New York Amnesty Begins at Home Bayard Rustin's letter in the May issue [calling for help for the Soviet dissidents] left me perplexed...
...Margita E. White Assistant Director, USIA (Public Information) Washington, D.C...
...In it he stated that Kipling had pronounced the meeting of East and West impossible...
...This letter calls up other misdeeds which could have vastly more dangerous implications for Americans...
...Keogh...
Vol. 38 • July 1974 • No. 7
