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It Takes a Rabbi There's a whiff of 1974 in the air—July 1974, to be precise. That's when the National Citizens' Committee for Fairness to the Presidency held a star-studded fund-raiser in defense...
...Besides his many sterling articles that have already appeared in these pages—"The Coming of the Super-predators" was among the most-discussed articles of 1995—Dilulio is the author, with William J. Bennett and John P. Walters, of the recently published Body Count: Moral Poverty...
...Dwight Eisenhower served two terms as president, but the list of generals who failed in politics is quite long: Douglas MacArthur, William Westmoreland, Pete Dawkins, George McClellan, Edwin Walker....Lebed, who chatted about all this over dinner at businessman Fred Bush's house in Chevy Chase, Md., was on firmer ground on social philosophy...
...future failed politicians Pat Buchanan and Bruce Herschensohn...
...Taking Stockman When the dust settles from the remaining runoff elections, Republicans are likely to wind up with 228 House seats, only two fewer than they had after the 1994 election (six more were added later by Democratic defections...
...and Bill Baroody, head of the only Republican think tank that counted in those days of late Nixonism, the American Enterprise Institute...
...Voters know the winning team, says Paxon, "so the question is: Do they want their representative to be on that team...
...That makes an important difference," insists congressman Bill Paxon, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee...
...Yes, in between performing in American Express ads, James Carville is launching a group that will, he announced on Meet the Press, "raise a lot of money" to counter "the right-wing agenda" of independent counsel Kenneth Starr...
...and How to Win America's War Against Crime and Drugs (Simon & Schuster...
...It looks like the answer may be yes...
...Finally, nominations of musician and theme song appropriate for future fund-raisers are solicited...
...Specifically, we think Carville could use an interfaith board of directors for his committee...
...Joining us as a contributing editor is John J. DiIulio, Jr., director of the Brookings Institution's Center for Public Management and a Princeton professor...
...Anne Armstrong, the future ambassador to Great Britain...
...a pre-Group John McLaughlin, S.J...
...We Are Proud To Announce...
...After meeting Colin Powell on his visit to Washington just before Thanksgiving, Lebed declared: "Good generals make good politicians...
...A Baptist minister prayed for deliverance from a "malicious press corps...
...Money makes an even bigger difference...
...Presiding at the fundraiser, he exhorted the faithful to open their wallets and defend the honor of their commander in chief...
...That's where you can help...
...The Democrat who came in third on Election Day, Geraldine Sam, has endorsed Stockman, not his Democratic foe, Nick Lampson, who got 44 percent...
...Your suggestions are encouraged...
...We invite Scrapbook readers to give Carville an assist in his efforts to revive the lost spirit of 1974...
...We welcome your nominations for rabbis, priests, ministers, and, in a nod to 1996, Buddhist monks to serve on this board...
...That's when the National Citizens' Committee for Fairness to the Presidency held a star-studded fund-raiser in defense of the beleaguered Richard Nixon...
...Rabbi Baruch Korff, a Nixon confidant, was the group's founder...
...And details are scant in other respects as well...
...Thus, it spent $500,000 to $600,000 in some races, such as the narrow reelection victory of Rep...
...Please mail your best efforts to Help James Bring Back 1974, at THE Weekly Standard, 1150 17th St., NW, Suite 505, Washington, DC 20036...
...In attendance was a host of reliables: Earl Butz, the secretary of agriculture who later would go one joke over the line...
...But things have turned Stockman's way...
...Moreover, having held the House helps...
...No word yet on whether Barbra Streisand is preparing a new song, "People Who Need Clinton...
...Stockman was heavily targeted by organized labor and failed to reach 50 percent on November 5 (he got 46 percent), which under Texas rules forces a runoff on December 10 in a district that was redrawn by court order earlier this year...
...Alexander Lebed, the man who negotiated peace in Chechnya, fancies himself not only the next president of Russia but also something of a political philosopher...
...You don't remember the Fairness to the Presidency Committee...
...5crapbook A Dobbslan World_ Michael Dobbs, the Washington Post's State Department correspondent, don't know much about history—even recent history...
...We'll spend whatever it takes," says Paxon...
...The latest addition: the much-maligned Steve Stockman of Texas, whose reputation as poster boy for the militias was, according to Beltway wisdom, going to doom him this year...
...Bennett and Walters's latest dispatch from the war on drugs appears on page 12 of this issue...
...He even had a new number: "We Need Nixon...
...his staunch opposition to the regime of Manuel Noriega in Panama...
...He forgets Abrams's role in ousting Haitian dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier...
...While labor pours in money to help Lampson, Paxon says Republicans will match every dime...
...and his support for such moderate reformers as Jose Napoleon Duarte in El Salvador and Vini-cio Cerezo in Guatemala and even for the left-wing Alan Garcia in Peru...
...Of Elliott Abrams, Reagan's assistant secretary of state for human rights and later for Latin American affairs, Dobbs wrote simply that he "was roundly disliked by the human rights community for subordinating their concerns to the fight against communism...
...The only apparent difference is that instead of a rabbi, a political hack will head the effort...
...Dobbs forgets that it was Abrams who inaugurated the policy of pressuring Chile's dictator Augusto Pinochet, a policy that led to the restoration of Chilean democracy in the late 1980s...
...In an editorial masquerading as a news story about the Clinton administration's human rights policy toward China last week, Dobbs badly mangled the Reagan administration's human rights record...
...Virtue," he said, "must be backed by strong fists...
...Carville's committee, it further strikes us, could use a catchy name...
...Lionel Hampton, still a Republican then, played his vibes...
...Now it is 1996, and another such committee is being formed, this time to carry water for a beleaguered Bill Clinton...
...Strong Fists and Coronets Gen...
...About three weeks later, Nixon was winging it back to San Clemente...
...You wish, Alex...
...Among those who remember, Abrams is also noted for his work on behalf of dissidents in some vicious dictatorial regimes in Africa...
...J. D. Hayworth in Arizona...
...We can do whatever we want to hold that seat," says Pax-on...
...Court rulings last summer in effect nullified the $70,000 ceiling on what the committee can spend in a single congressional race...
...Never mind that fighting communism was—and is—an important element of any human rights policy...
Vol. 2 • December 1996 • No. 13
