SMALL FAVORS
Ivins, Molly
SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Thanks for the Memories You may have been a headache, but you never were a bore, How lovely it was. As the Gipper rides slowly into the sunset, let us pause to...
...Those of the handicapped constituency who seek to have others bear their burdens and eliminate their challenges are seeking to avoid the central issues of their lives...
...Sand, in which she claimed that most American blacks "insist on preserving their jungle freedoms, their women, their avoidance of personal responsibility, and their abhorrence of the work ethic...
...Do you agree...
...On Thanksgiving Day, 1982, the Reagan Administration announced plans to tax unemployment benefits...
...There is no injustice in the universe...
...The sum Nancy Reagan spent on her First Inaugural wardrobe...
...None of them was a medical specialist with any experience in treating AIDS...
...My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever...
...During the 1983 debate over whether to establish a national holiday on the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., Senator Jesse Helms charged that King was procommunist and demanded access to King's FBI files, which have been sealed by court order until 2027 and are known to contain the spewing of J. Edgar Hoover's late senility...
...Each of us is responsible for his life situation...
...On January 31, 1984, on Good Morning America, Reagan said, "One problem that we've had...
...Reagan makes a joke while doing a mike check on August 11, 1984...
...Reagan replied, "We'll know in about thirty-five years, won't we...
...As unfair as it may seem, a person's external circumstances do fit his level of inner spiritual development...
...A third charged that homosexuals engage in "blood terrorism" by deliberately donating infected blood...
...Perhaps that explains how Reagan learned, as he said twice before visiting the Bitburg Cemetery, that the Nazi SS soldiers buried there "were victims just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps...
...800 million...
...Marianne Mele Hall, who had been appointed by Reagan to head the Copyright Royalty Tribunal, had to resign after Congress learned she was getting royalties herself from her book, Foundations of Molly Ivins, a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald, appears in this space every month...
...One was a sex therapist who said AIDS could be transmitted on toilet seats...
...And, "North and South Vietnam had been, previous to colonization, two different countries...
...This is not so...
...Nothing comes to an individual that he has not, at some point in his development, summoned...
...The sum Ronald Reagan tried to cut from child nutrition programs in 1985 alone...
...In July 1987, Reagan appointed thirteen members to a commission on AIDS...
...Ed Meese explained they wanted to "make it less attractive to be unemployed...
...And, "I have just had a message from Pope John Paul urging us to continue our efforts in Central America...
...is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, who are homeless, you might say, by choice...
...Guess who said, "South Africa has stood beside us in every war we've ever fought...
...As the Gipper rides slowly into the sunset, let us pause to recollect some of the many magic moments he and his friends have brought us over the years: ¶ In 1981, Secretary of State Alexander Haig accused the Soviet Union of using chemical warfare in Southeast Asia by spraying a lethal "yellow rain" on members of remote tribes...
...Eileen Marie Gardner was ousted as special assistant to Education Secretary William Bennett after she wrote of the handicapped, "They falsely assume that the lottery of life has penalized them at random...
...In 1987, a "confidential memorandum" ordered a policy change that would have cut the Supplemental Social Security payment of any disabled poor person who received private charity—a bag of groceries, some firewood, a night at a shelter...
...We'll have these moments to remember...
...The substance was later identified as bee shit...
...Another, a longtime friend of the President, ran a questionable AIDS-testing clinic out of a van...
...was a communist sympathizer...
...At a press conference, Reagan was asked, "Mr...
...President, Senator Helms has been saying on the Senate floor that Martin Luther King Jr...
...46,000...
...Issues such as Down syndrome, spina bifida, and multiple sclerosis...
...On February 15, 1984, he repeated this claim to Simon Wiesenthal...
...On February 18, 1984, following a half-hour lecture by the Lebanese Foreign Minister on the intricate relations among his country's many political factions, Reagan said, "You know, your nose looks just like Danny Thomas's...
...We begin bombing in five minutes...
...On November 29, 1983, Reagan told Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that he himself had assisted in the liberation of the Nazi death camps...
Vol. 52 • December 1988 • No. 12
