LETTERS
Letters It would be injurious to everyone’s civil rights to protest the Edison Electric Institute ad on the back cover of your April issue. Instead, I’ll suggest to Washington Monthly readers...
...The meeting with Ms...
...Selden can not be expected to make public his every transaction with this or that bureaucracy, I certainly did not mean to impugn his honesty and do, by copy of this letter, apologize if he received that impression...
...I spent much time in the fall of 1968 campaigning for antiwar candidates for the House and Senate...
...We do, however, have one disagreement...
...Selden says the OMB misrepresented his position on the proposed reorganization...
...Coming after a presidential campaign of nine months, with three major opponents, such a vacation could hardly be judged excessive...
...Nor did we ever draft a letter opposing the plan that was killed after EEOC Chair Norton got wind of it and placated us with promises about EEOC plans for enforcement of the Act...
...If Mr...
...EUGENE J. MC CARTHY Washington, D.C...
...Norton did make the commitments to him indicated in the article, a fact which he does not exactly deny in his letter but seems to...
...Contrary to Mr...
...I write to correct the record...
...Letters It would be injurious to everyone’s civil rights to protest the Edison Electric Institute ad on the back cover of your April issue...
...Selden is coordinator of the Age Discrimination Project of the NRTAAARP...
...LAUREN SELDEN Washington, DC Mr...
...OMB solicited our views about reorganization during the summer of 1977...
...Apparently OMB staff told others in the Administration that we endorsed that portion of reorganization that concerns older people...
...We registered our belief that age should be included in Title VI1 of the Civil Rights Act and that when EEOC reform had been completed, age responsibility should be placed there...
...When we learned of this misrepresentation, we, along with other organizations representing older Americans, requested meetings with OMB and Ms...
...Selden...
...Peters checks the record, he will find that I spent only two weeks in France in 1968...
...My reservations about endorsing Hubert Humphrey were related to the war in Vietnam...
...Reed’s assertions, the Labor Department did not lobby me or any of my colleagues to initiate a campaign, grass roots or otherwise, in opposition to transfer of enforcement responsibility for the Age Discrimination in Employment Act from Labor to EEOC...
...According to the notes of my conversation with Mr...
...JANE NOVICK Eugene, Oregon In his April column [“Tilting at Windmills’l, Charles Peters suggested that, “by lolling on the French Riviera” in the fall of 1968, I “contributed more than any other Democrat to Humphrey’s defeat and to the disastrous six years that followed...
...By suggesting that Mr...
...I attributed to a congressional source the sequence of events as recounted and noted the somewhat different emphasis placed on them by Mr...
...The author replies: I have no great quarrel with Lauren Selden...
...Some issues transcend party loyalty, and even personal friendship...
...Norton, held at our initiative, was her first contact with the aging community...
...Vietnam was one...
...Instead, I’ll suggest to Washington Monthly readers that they obtain the other side of the nuclear story (with the missing facts and opposite conclusions) by writing the Union of Concerned Scientists for their brochures, reading the work of Amory Lovins, and/or subscribing to Friends of the Earth’s publication Not Man Apart...
...Leonard Reed’s interesting and illuminating essay on the realities of power in this community (“The Bureaucracy: The Cleverest Lobby of Them Al1,”April) is marred by an inaccurate treatment of civil rights reorganization and the position of NRTA. AARP [National Retired Teachers AssocitionAmerican Association of Retired Persons] on that reorganization...
...The facts are quite different...
...And coming as it did in September, such a vacation could hardly be judged crucial to the outcome of the November election...
...we opposed shifting enforcement authority to EEOC until that agency proves effective in handling its current statutory responsibility...
...Selden, Mrs...
...That may be, but my statement of the OMB’s understanding was accurate...
...In the fall of last year OMB staff briefed us on the details of what emerged as the Executive Order on reorganization...
...Norton...
Vol. 10 • June 1978 • No. 4
