Correspondence
Correspondence A HERO'S WELCOME NOEMIE EMERY'S "The Use and Abuse of Legends" (May 7) is so misguided that one hardly knows where to begin straightening it out. True, Clark Clifford is dead. But...
...That FDR has lost his piquant cigarette holder and now is stooped in a wheelchair truly diminishes the man and the effect he had on our people...
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...And Eleanor Roosevelt being stripped of her fox tippet—at least that saves the image from bespatterment with red paint...
...And a victim's "participation" in that process, other than as a duly qualified witness with relevant evidence, by definition puts a tilt on "equal justice...
...I did not feel this way until Inauguration Day, 2001...
...Call me an unnatural keeper of the Reagan flame if you must, but I must protest Emery's treatment of the Washington, D.C., National Airport name change...
...Make no mistake, the dairy compact, which raises prices for consumers, incurs unnecessary costs for federal food aid programs, penalizes the nation's most efficient dairy farmers, and is of dubious constitutionality, should have gone long ago...
...JFK, or who enshrined FDR on the dime, thereby effacing an image of Liberty herself...
...I escorted my fair wife to the big city to witness the event firsthand...
...Coolidge may have understood better than any other twentieth-century president proper conduct for the president and the federal government...
...A double standard...
...Bill Hewlett is not (Parody, May 14...
...If Emery thinks that left-wing politicos and writers do not have in mind doing to Ronald Reagan what Schlesinger did to Calvin Coolidge, she is in for quite a surprise...
...If the White House is looking to punish Jeffords in a manner that "won't draw a significant amount of attention," the dairy compact will not qualify...
...Governors who have signed compact legislation at the state level include Bush cabinet member Christine Todd Whitman and RNC chairman Jim Gilmore...
...Perhaps Emery has not heard of Calvin Coolidge...
...The only governor to veto a state compact bill was then-governor Zell Miller, Democrat of Georgia...
...Extending the compact probably was a bigger factor in the loss of Republican senator Rod Grams of Minnesota than it was a factor in saving Jeffords in the 2000 election...
...As an old Reaganite, he ought to know this well...
...JAMES E. HIGGINS New York, NY HAVING JUST READ Noemie Emery's feature piece, I must commend this exposé of political correctness...
...Forget not renaming the Metro stops, the entire airport is invisible if one is looking for Ronald Reagan Airport from the seats of the Metro...
...To date, 25 states have passed legislation to join a regional dairy compact— including several Republican-controlled states...
...ERIC FIELD Denver, CO HEWLETT ON HIGH STANFORD UNIVERSITY may be a proper target for satire...
...But still alive and at work is Strobe Talbott, the man who as early as 1990 began the effort to rubbish Reagan by naming Mikhail Gorbachev Time's "Man of the Decade" for the 1980s...
...ROBERT HASTY Spring, TX DON'T HAVE A COW SAM DEALEY WROTE an interesting article, "Jim Jeffords (R—Sort of)," about Republican plans to punish Republican senator James Jeffords for opposing the Bush tax cut (May 14...
...And the media, of course, play up the "victims' rights" angle, because it makes good copy and good sound bites and good footage—in other words it makes a "good show" out of the process...
...Yet courts are routinely permitting "victims" to tell their stories at trial, especially at the punishment phase...
...Add in ultra-liberal Paul Wellstone, whose Minnesota dairy farmers are also put at a disadvantage by the New England compact, and representative Barney Frank, who's concerned about the impact on consumers, and you get Democrats doing what Republicans should...
...Would that more public voices would speak out to bring people back to their senses in this area...
...The very idea of "victims' rights" in the criminal justice system is hogwash...
...He quietly and calmly counseled Stanford's leaders over half a century, always keeping himself in the background...
...There may not be a solvent defendant to respond in damages, but judgments are not meaningless...
...Yet this humble man refused all opportunities to have his name memorialized on Stanford buildings...
...And the Republican Congress should want to kill it (sadly, they created it five years ago...
...Indeed, the chief opponents of the compact are mostly Democrats, as Dealey hinted by mentioning senator Herb Kohl...
...As he pointed out, we abandoned "eye for an eye" justice centuries ago...
...CHARLES H. FARLEY Greenville, NC JUSTICE AND MCVEIGH TOD LINDBERG'S PIECE about McVeigh and "the triumph of victims' rights" does not make its point strongly enough ("An Execution and Its Witnesses," May 14...
...As the Metro approached the airport, I proudly announced, "Now we will pass through Ronald Reagan National Airport...
...As the tram coach trundled through the complex, not a single sign supported my proclamation...
...We cannot guarantee Ronald Reagan the place in history he deserves...
...As far as witnessing an execution is concerned, there are two appropriate ways to do it...
...if it is not reasonable on this highest moral issue, then we ought not to appease it...
...and other FDR hagiographers blackjacked Coolidge's reputation in order to build up Roosevelt's...
...Perhaps Emery didn't notice that the entire thesis on which the Clintons won the White House was the alleged need to rectify the evils of the "decade of greed...
...Arthur Schlesinger Jr...
...One is public execution in the town square, come one, come all...
...If the Egyptian government is reasonable, it can eventually be satisfied with a nonaggression pact with the south and a water cooperation agreement, both guaranteed by the United States...
...And occasionally there is something to be had in a civil case (for instance, in the O.J...
...Hewlett also must be credited with a major role in establishing "The Hewlett-Packard Way" of treating colleagues and employees in a highly ethical and humane manner, something that today's ruthless CEOs may begin to appreciate as employee loyalty vanishes...
...Representative Bob Barr is completely justified in chiding those transit bureaucrats for their inaction...
...Incidentally, helping southern Sudan liberate itself will also weaken China's Khartoum-based beachhead in Africa...
...On the way back home even more ocular scrutiny was put forth, still to no avail...
...He's now a U.S...
...His tax policies were the blueprint for the successful tax cuts enacted by John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan...
...Like the Bush tax cut bill over which Jeffords is to be punished, it is an issue of restoring Republican principle...
...THOMAS J. MACDONALD Stanford MA '65 Soquel, CA...
...But killing the compact is more than denying a perk to Jeffords...
...Have the Brits similarly scolded "Winnie" and snuffed out his stogie...
...It is supported by such Republican stalwarts in the House as chief deputy whip Roy Blunt and then-candidate George W. Bush's point man in Congress and Clinton impeachment manager Asa Hutchinson...
...Talbott and the Clintons are far from being the only living and active figures who have the desire and who potentially have the stature to put the real history of the 1980s down the memory hole...
...Simpson matter...
...Even more important, it will also ultimately strengthen all black African nations and strengthen America's ties with black Africa...
...It is not picking a fight for fights' sake—this is inarguably an oversight that needs some oversight...
...It is the state's responsibility to enforce law on an equal justice basis— period...
...Coolidge was a fine president and fine man...
...It was decades before historians such as Paul Johnson and Thomas Silver could even write favorably of Coolidge without drawing hoots...
...Godspeed to President Bush's attempt at that important goal...
...Coolidge's reputation has never really recovered...
...Regarding the currency, Emery is all in a huff about the proposal to place President Reagan's picture on the $10 bill...
...I wish Rep...
...The junior senator from New York is even younger...
...Meanwhile, the media consistently fail to point out that "victims" are not lacking in rights at all if limited to their proper role in the criminal system because they have abundant causes of action they can pursue in civil courts in most cases...
...Basic human decency, ethics, and sheer morality compel us to arm the south as much as possible and as soon as possible, so that it can free itself from mad, genocidal Khartoum and, if necessary, bring destruction and devastation back to the Khartoum regime...
...This is politics seeping into the justice system, pure and simple...
...Next to "hate crimes legislation," this "victims' rights" idiocy is, simply, the dumbest idea in the criminal system at present...
...But his stature was never recognized publicly by his supporters the way the Reagan Legacy Project now proposes to do for Reagan's stature...
...Barr the same success that senator Lauch Faircloth finally had when dealing with D.C...
...During his lifetime, Hewlett probably gave as much to Stanford as the $400 million his foundation recently gave to raise the quality of instruction in the humanities...
...Democrats...
...Only equal or greater military counter-force will end Khartoum's monstrous violence against the south...
...And while our politicians, right and left, are all attempting to capitalize on it, we have, seemingly, no judges with enough sense to put a stop to this trend...
...DAVE JUDAY Berryville, VA SAVING SUDAN ELLIOTT ABRAMS IS RIGHT about Sudan but does not go far enough ("What To Do About Sudan," May 7...
...Yes, Palo Alto and Stanford have seen massive increases in wealth, but Stanford's endowment is still half that of Harvard, and numerous cases of graduate students living in their cars for months because of on-campus housing shortages and sky-high off-campus rents means that the university continues to need financial help in building more student housing...
...But we can guarantee that future historians at least have to contend with the fact that President Reagan and his accomplishments were recognized and appreciated by those who lived when he did...
...But she has not a word of objection about the Democratic Congresses and presidents who booted Benjamin Franklin, a far more important figure than Hamilton in defining the American character, off the half-dollar in favor of St...
...And what about the politics of keeping the Senate majority...
...And he left office a popular figure...
...Hewlett, along with his partner Dave Packard, was a titan in the founding and growth of Silicon Valley, and in the development of Stanford from its 1950s country club status to its current place on anyone's top-ten list of world-class universities...
...The GOP platform takes a position against dairy compacts, but there are multitudes of apostate Republicans on that issue...
...Unfortunately he overstates the ease with which the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact can be used as part of that plan...
...Bill Clinton is 54 years old...
...Scuttling the compact would be no mean feat—it's been extended three times by a Republican Congress with majority leader Trent Lott's acquiescence...
...The other is to have witnesses selected at random from the jury pool and summoned to appear for duty...
Vol. 6 • May 2001 • No. 35
