MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
MEMO from the Editor Unanswered Letters When Robert M. LaFoIIette Sr. founded this magazine in 1909, he was a member, more or less in good standing, of the Republican Party. He had been elected to...
...The letter was intended for me, I suppose, though it was addressed to someone bearing one of those newly fashionable hyphenated names—"Mr...
...Wow...
...I'm sure the suspense is killing you, so I'll tell you right now that the "most unusual sacrifice" he and the President have in mind for me is a Task Force Charter Membership contribution of $120 to help elect a Republican majority to the U.S...
...Another triumph of computerized letter-writing, this one addressed to me as "Ed-in-Chief of The Progressive, arrived recently from the St...
...Enclosed with the letter was a copy of a memo ("for your personal records") from Senator Nickles to President Bush...
...It hasn't done a thing for me, so I didn't bother replying...
...Dear Mr...
...He had been elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican...
...You see, the President and I are calling upon you to make a most unusual sacrifice...
...It designates Mr...
...We published an article about St...
...First on the list of "advantages" offered The Progressive by the St...
...Lucia National Development Corporation...
...He's talking about me...
...He had been elected to the U.S...
...Lucia...
...It's not every day you're called upon to serve the President of the United States...
...As soon as the Committee approved your nomination, President Bush directed me to write to you immediately...
...That missive began, "I wish to introduce you to the advantages your company will profit by setting up a data processing/ keystroke operation in St...
...So let me be the first to congratulate you...
...Lucia in the October 1985 issue of The Progressive...
...But it occurs to me that the Republican Presidential Task Force may be getting its data entry done in St...
...That ought to be worth at least an ambassadorship to a temperate-zone country...
...Lucia...
...The letter was signed by the chairman of the Republican Presidential Task Force, Senator Don Nickles of Oklahoma—or, as I would address him if I were to respond, Mr...
...They described wretched wages and miserable working conditions on the island—and I suspect not much has changed in the last four years...
...Lucia National Development Corporation are "wage rates that are one-fifth of U.S...
...That would explain a lot...
...It described St...
...Knoll-Editor, you were nominated by the Executive Committee which includes every Republican member of the U.S...
...Don Nickles-Senator...
...Erwin Knoll-Editor as "Task Force Member #000068...
...He had been elected governor of Wisconsin as a Republican...
...It's in the amount of $120, which seems pretty chintzy considering all the Republican Party has done for him...
...Imagine—the sixty-eighth-ranking Republican in America...
...He went on for some three-and-a-half single-spaced pages...
...Senate and rid the country of "ultra-liberal Senate Democrats...
...4127, drawn on the Bank of America) to the Republican Presidential Task Force...
...Is it conceivable that the Republican Party hasn't cleaned up its mailing lists for eighty years...
...That bit of ancient history is the only explanation I can think of for the letter that arrived here at The Progressive a few weeks ago from the Republican Presidential Task Force...
...Senate as a Republican, though he eventually led his Progressive wing out of the Republican Party and ran for President in 1924 on a third-party ticket...
...Lucia is trying to become the Korea of the Caribbean, the next manufacturing colony for the hightech industry in the United States...
...Lucia as "the Caribbean's newest investment frontier...
...This patriotic American," Senator Nickles tells the President in the memo, "shares our view that our success in building upon the record peace and prosperity sweeping across this nation depends on our ability to capture a Republican Senate Majority in 1990...
...The authors, Deirdre Kelly and David Beers, wrote, "St...
...wages...
...Sorry...
...Knoll-Editor," it began...
...Erwin Knoll-Editor...
...Senate and President Bush, to serve as a member of GEORGE BUSH'S REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL TASK FORCE...
...Much as we need to squeeze every nickel here, we aren't interested...
...Also enclosed was a handsome full-color brochure bearing a life-sized reproduction of Ronald Reagan's own personal check (No...
...I don't know Senator Nickles, and I have no idea why he would lie about me that way to the President of the United States...
Vol. 53 • November 1989 • No. 11
