CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondence EMBRACING CLONING The day we see the first child born through the process of cloning will shatter the myths and hysteria that Adam Wolfson ascribes to this idea ("Liberalism and...
...After all, Nixon revisionism would inevitably lead to Vietnam revisionism—and, as President Nixon always used to say, during that difficult war in that tumultuous time, the neo-cons were "squishy...
...And yet Frum joins Clinton attorney David Kendall—who also recently accused President Nixon of being involved in the Watergate burglary—in making Watergate appear far, far worse than it was...
...Surprisingly, a spirited public outcry ensued, and the college president, Roger Bowen, displayed his sense of proportion by defending his institution's bold intellectual experiment and by contemptuously labeling his critics "philistines...
...Since THE WEEKLY STANDARD also has persistently underrated President Nixon's wartime challenges, its continued attacks on him may well have ideological roots comparable to the Left's...
...Does he really want to follow that closely in the late president's footsteps...
...One clue may be that Frum's analysis, like most from the Left, fails to mention Watergate's sine qua non: Vietnam...
...Rather, Stelzer merely presumes the socialist outlook that all of us have been educated to take—that a fair distribution should be somewhat equal, that there is a serious problem of monopoly prices, and that environmental problems cannot be handled within a legal system that respects private property...
...NANCY JANCOURTZ BROOKLYN, NY UNIMPEACHABLE OFFENSES The editors seem to be indulging in premature glee ("Impeach the Perjurer," Sept...
...A year later, the tax-paying public responds to the subject of academic degeneracy with a surge of apathy...
...W. D. SEYERIED AUSTIN, TX Irwin M. Stelzer addresses the important issue of the need for an economic perspective...
...All the more dishonor to President Nixon for aiding those causes by wrecking his administration with his lawlessness and deceit...
...they are unoffended by universities that grant preferential admission to the offspring of alumni...
...JOHN H. TAYLOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RICHARD NIXON LIBRARY & BIRTHPLACE FOUNDATION YORBA LINDA, CA DAVID FRUM RESPONDS: The first illegal wiretappings by the Nixon administration were ordered as early as 1969...
...This sounds like the class-warfare drivel one finds in ultra-liberal publications, not in a conservative weekly...
...Exactly which illegal break-ins were ordered by Nixon will always be something of a mystery—thanks in very large part to the famous 18-minute erasure in the White House tapes...
...In November of 1997, the women's-studies department of SUNY-New Paltz threw a weekend seminar under the guise of "exploring human sexuality...
...With taxpayers' dollars and facilities, the promoters featured all manner of alternative sexual inclinations, the least objectionable of which was homosexuality...
...Of course he lied...
...I was reminded of the notorious incident at the State University of New York's New Paltz College that was alluded to by Labash...
...Correspondence EMBRACING CLONING The day we see the first child born through the process of cloning will shatter the myths and hysteria that Adam Wolfson ascribes to this idea ("Liberalism and Cloning," Oct...
...Perhaps sage and consensual are applicable, but it's proponents are apparently unaware that the American Psychiatric Association categorizes sadomasochism as a mental illness and that Medicaid will pay for its treatment...
...In certain respects, Watergate began with the commander-in-chief's justifiable anger at Daniel Ellsberg's massive, illegal, wartime leaking...
...And with them will be gone the fear that our technology has outpaced our ethics...
...He aptly demonstrates how the Third Way, which attempts to balance the command and free-market economies, has consistently failed...
...Republicans propose to lower inheritance taxes, to give the sons and daughters of the wealthy an even bigger head start in life...
...It is immoral and economically counterproductive...
...ALLEN WEINGARTEN MORRISTOWN, NJ CORRECTION In an article last week ("The Cabinet He Deserves," Oct...
...It's too bad Clinton got mixed up with these flap-tongued bimbos, who look more and more like mercenary harpies, but I can't believe that he has done any great damage to the presidency or to the country...
...The Starr report reveals Clinton as a philanderer and a liar...
...and that wiretapping and campaign donations rarely, if ever, came up in the White House discussions about the Watergate investigation...
...12), Ms...
...Young minds were exposed to forums about the use of sex toys, and any taxpayer's daughter was welcome to attend a lecture entitled "Sage, Sane, Consensual S&M...
...He says he has sinned, but there is no constitutional punishment for sinning...
...Moreover, he indicates some of the failure mechanisms, such as: Sweden's inability to maintain incentives...
...After the lecture, students were invited to spend their book money on S&M gear sold in the lobby...
...The issue in the SUNY system has completely subsided until the next time the real philistines further test the boundaries of academic freedom...
...NORMAN A. BRITTIN AUBURN, AL SCHOLASTIC PORN Matt Labash does a fine job of skewering the recent phenomenon of academic pandering to the porn industry ("Among the Pornographers," Sept...
...THE EDITORS...
...Finally, John Taylor might want to reflect that the practice of seeking out a personal motive for every criticism was one of the habits that clouded Nixon's judgment and destroyed his presidency...
...I doubt he is aware of the case for the free market made in Human Action by Ludwig von Mises...
...the costs of Germany's worker absentee rate...
...Most conservatives regard the estate tax as the "unfairest of them all," in that it involves double taxation...
...In the penultimate paragraph, he writes: "But the Right is hardly in a position to dismiss the Third Way as an interference with a perfectly functioning allocation of rewards in proportion to merit...
...But there can be no doubt that Nixon ordered, approved, and illegally raised the money to fund a large and illegal scheme to harass and spy on his domestic opponents...
...The silly congressional Republicans ought to forget about their foolish fuss and try to earn their salaries by doing something positive for the nation...
...In such a situation every man, unless he is a poolroom boaster loving cheap display, should lie...
...Yes, of course...
...He was a devoted husband and father, and despite his egregious errors he loved this country and did not put his personal comfort ahead of the well-being of America and his family...
...that he probably did not know about the Ellsberg break-in until the spring of 1973...
...This realization will be accompanied by the knowledge that only a social system based on the principle of protecting freedom of action will yield such benefits...
...and they systematically refuse to recognize that when markets fail to function—as is the case in the presence of monopoly power or environmental degradation— government has a corrective role to play...
...There are very great differences between Nixon and Clinton, notwithstanding the many similarities of their respective scandals...
...Surely Stelzer could have found a better example to make his point, such as corporate welfare (the ethanol subsidy comes to mind...
...But logic shows that there is little doubt that the motivation of reward through merit is a far better provider than that of reward by political means...
...Government has hampered the economy by removing incentives for working while providing incentives for not doing so...
...Of course Bowen weathered the storm and still occupies his esteemed position...
...Inheritance taxation goes one level lower, by attacking part of the framework needed to support civilization...
...and Japan's impoverishment of its consumers...
...In practice, it was an unabashed, celebratory porn-fest with posturing academics indulging their tawdry sexual curiosities under the aegis of serious scholarship...
...The consideration has to be: Who owns one's property (and life), the individual or the state...
...STEPHEN HERUBIN ALBANY, NY NO WAY ON THE THIRD WAY I was dismayed by a statement included in Irwin M. Stelzer's piece "There's No Way Like the Third Way" (Sept...
...He was never a narcissist or "solipsist...
...Of course, it was never intended to be an objective academic study of the subject...
...However, these losses pale in comparison with the social costs of punishing responsibility while rewarding irresponsibility...
...From the massive record about Watergate (including the last batch of Watergate tapes that was released in 1996, thanks to the Nixon family) we know: that the president did not have a role in the Watergate burglary...
...Patricia Dempsey was mistakenly identified as the mother of former Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy's children...
...Thus, Stelzer attacks the free-market system as not distributing rewards fairly and preventing "solutions," such as inheritance taxes, monopoly control, and environmental protection...
...LOVE OF GOD AND COUNTRY Charles Krauthammer has great credibility, but I beg to differ with his psychological analogy of Presidents Nixon and Clinton ("The Solipsist-in-Chief," Sept...
...it ended in the anti-war Left's bacchanal at the president's demise...
...It is indeed a strange and unsettling terrain to negotiate...
...What will be left is the knowledge that the reasoning mind has understood the world around it and has used that understanding to create benefits for everyone...
...WILLIAM VAN NEST WAYNE, NJ NIXON AND CLINTON David Frum writes that "Nixon stonewalled because he knew that full disclosure of his role in the Watergate burglary would lead to the exposure of even more glaring illegalities: the wiretapping of journalists and mistrusted staffers, the illegal campaign donations, the Ellsberg break-in" ("Yes, It Is Like Watergate," Sept...
...However, by not providing a theoretical perspective he gives no insight as to why the Third Way leads us astray, or what the alternative should be...
...We apologize for the error...
...Nixon committed impeachable offenses for which he expressed sincere regret to the nation...
...It looks as if the masses have better judgment about the Clinton matter than Kenneth Starr, who had no warrant to concern himself with Monica Lewinsky in the first place (she admits that she started the "flirting" that initiated the affair...
...Were those opponents serving bad causes...
...I did not vote for Clinton as a Boy Scout or as a role-model for children, and concerning impeachment, Clinton is not guilty of treason, accepting bribes, or high crimes...
Vol. 4 • October 1998 • No. 6
