TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
Tidbits and Outrages The Big Dipper Readers of these pages will be aware of our.continuing interest in the government’s “doub1edippers”-those whc receive a military pension whde holding...
...perfectly all right for a reservist to serve in the Congress and I was ready for immediate call...
...more tidbits and outrages Attorneys Still at Law Unfortunately, the Ervin Committee seems to have lost interest in the legal profession’s role in Watergate...
...Also, at that time thc question of double dipping or double service was veq muddled up and it was felt then, as it had been fell throughout our history, that a reservist could serve in the Congress...
...27, 1972, that it was White House domestic affairs adviser John C. Ehrlichman who requested CIA assistance for Howard Hunt Jr...
...Camp David is less scandalous because the Dublic monev is at least being spen...
...Or Gerald Alch, who still practiceslaw in Boston despite evidence that he tried to make James McCord plead guilty as a favor to the Nixon Administration...
...Sixty per cent of the blind vendors reported a net income of less than $3,000 because of the vending machmes operated by employee associations...
...Colby recited his efforts to withhold Ehrlichman’s name in a White House meeting on Dec...
...Here’s the Senator’s answer: What you suggest in your letter is great, but in my case it is not so easily done...
...The name was Ehrlichman...
...To be honest with you, I at one time felt that it wa...
...For those who need an alcoholic beverage, the Army Material Command in Alexandria offers cocktail and lunch at the Commanding General’s Mess for $1.80...
...Colby said he had hoped to withhold Ehrlichman’s name from federal prosecutor Silbert because “there was a reluctance to drop somewhat inflammatory names into the kind of atmosphere that was around us at that time...
...A Success Story The government is fighting inflation...
...The Bureau of Mines can fight underground fires, but only if the9 re buring coal...
...who managed to prevent any damaging evidence in the Democratic National Committee’s Watergate civil suit from coming out before the election...
...By 1977, their salaries will be at least $36,000...
...on public’ property...
...commander, US...
...A year ago we ran an article giving another illustration of these unions’ power...
...They describe Colby’s testimony before a House committee investigating the CIA and Watergate...
...This man, who may well have been the grand paymaster of the conspiracy, continues to practice law as a partner in one of Washington’s more prestigious firms, Hogan and Hartson...
...If the senior officers preferred,’ they could have gone on the same day to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff‘s dining room and had minestrone, baked lasagna, broccoli polonaise, Caesar salad, garlic bread, and beverage for $1.40...
...At six military installations in the Washington area the blind had a net income of $38,000...
...What would happer is that my check would come out regularly each month and then, even if I might refuse them, they would be piling up and some day either I would have to take the accumulatior and then tremendous taxes would have to be paid...
...Tactful Restraint at the CIA The Washington Post has had so much good Watergate material that occasional gems get buried deep in the back pages like these illuminating paragraphs on the new head of the CIA, William Colby...
...CHARLES A. BAKER, Jr...
...I accepted my retiremenl even though I have often said that had I been in the Congress when this was suggested I would have voted against it, because I don’t believe Reserve officers, unles they serve out a full span with the regulars, are entitled tc retire men t . When I first became a Reserve officer it took two day...
...The government inspectors say the dam is moving down the hollow at the rate of 70 feet a year...
...You see, I came up for retiremenl from the Air Force Reserve in 1967 which was the yea before I was reelected to the Senate, and it was during a time when I was unemployed...
...According to John Cramer of the Washington Star-News, the Secretary of the Army’s Mess offered the generals on October 1: vichysoisse and baked half young chicken bordelaise for just $1 .OO...
...It seems that the Bureau of Land Management won’t put it out because it only has jurisdiction to fight surface fires...
...Colby also acknowledged that he sought unsuccessfully to conceal from former Watergate prosecutor Earl Silbert at an interview on Nov...
...The only understanding I had was that my governor had 10 days in which tc appoint a successor...
...The new rule reflects FAA’s determination to quiet the skies as rapidly as advancing technology permits,” said F M Administrator Alexander Butterfield...
...The result, among other things, is that we now have 72,669 civilian government employees making over $24,000 a year...
...Baker, of Taylor Park Road, Sykervllle, recalved a cerllllcata 01 Recognltlon lor not taklng rick leave lor a one year perlod...
...In a “memorandum for the record” on the interview with Silbert, Colby said he “danced around the room several times for 10 minutes to try to avoid becoming specific on this, finally naming the White House, and was then pinned by Silbert with a demand for the name, at which point the name of the individual was given...
...Army Flrrt Recrultlng Dlstrlct, durlng a recent award ceremony...
...Take William 0. Bittman, who seemed to find nothing untoward about picking up his fees in a phone booth...
...If I wrote to the Reserve Commano and told them I did not want my check any more, thir would never get through the computer...
...In fact, the law is pretty clear that he can accepl a retirement check and still be legal, even though there is i question of morality about it...
...However, since looking into it, I realizt that many of the colonels and flag rank officers in tht Congress and the Pentagon and around Washington if callec to active duty would actually be doing a lesser job for theii country than they are doing now...
...His secretary can get the same thing downstairs for $3.61...
...the employee associations, a n e t i n c o m e o f $2,500,000...
...In explaining why it had not bothered to fde an environmental impact statement on the rule, the FAA said it “believes that the amount of noise reductions involved and the limited number of affected aircraft require the conclusion that this amendment will not cause a ‘significant’ reduction in the community impact of averall fleet noise...
...We were intrigued nonetheless by this report from Maxine Cheshire of The Washington Post: Almost $2.4 million has been spent on Camp David since President Nixon took office five years agemore than the facility Cost SO much Was its 10Cacost under all three of hh tion, according to the sumost re cent predecessors combined...
...On October 25 the Federal Aviation Administration announced that “stringent noise certification standards” would apply to certain airplanes that were previously unregulated...
...You are mistaken when you consider me a millionaire I’m not...
...Good Noise and Bad Noise Those who live near airports seemed to have new reason to delay suicide...
...to earn one bogie, but now it is day for day and I don7 think that’s correct...
...Previous Presidents used an existing pool, located a quarter-mile away and reached by golf cart...
...The President wanted it right outside his door...
...It is 500 feet high, and has more water behind it than the one at Buffalo Creek...
...The Navy could permit no blasting or eart h-moving . So the pool was set above ground, like a giant bathtub built of wood and steel and concrete...
...The issue of crucial national importance that brought forth their first successful effort to stand up to the President was a dispute over the effective date of a pay raise for federal employees...
...Or Judge Charles Richey...
...Is congratulated by Colondl Allan J. Engllrh, Jr...
...Since shortly after the disaster, the Department of Interior has been trying to get Eastern Associated Fuel Corporation to stop using the dam...
...The company refuses, contending that it is safe...
...I’m not exactly poor, but I’m a long way from hitting that big figure, and I don’t see any chance of it ever happening in my present employment...
...The new swimming pool, a figureeight design with interlocking circles which measure 40 feet and 25 feet in diameter, was kept a secret until earlier this year...
...Everything makes sense once you get a clear explanation...
...Those who read the fine print in The Federal Register, as Neil McBride of the Aviation Consumer Action Project did, may not be so encouraged...
...It might do some good if all of us, for example insisted that no more checks be sent, but I don’t think really, that it’s going to amount to anything...
...But we continue to be curious, not only about the more prominent players such as Ehrlichman and Mitchell, but about the Herb Kalmbachs as well...
...The General Accounting Office has just completed another investigation showing that the trend continues...
...Although no breakdown on the 1969-73 expenditures has yet been made available by the Defense Department, $150,000 went for a swimming pool built beside the presidential lodge in the summer of 1969...
...15, 1972, with Ehrlichman and then White House counsel John W. Dean 111 in the presence of Helms...
...Not My Department The National Observer reports that an underground fire has been burning on federal land in Alaska since 1969...
...The President wanted to delay it as an anti-inflationary measure, but the vigorous lobbying of the government employee unions won out...
...One reason the pool perintendent on the job at the time, John Hughes...
...This was some six months after Helms and Walters realized, according to their subsequent testimony, that Ehrlichman and Dean were trying to implicate the CIA in the Watergate case...
...Another Success Story The Congress that has lost one veto fight after another to President Nixon finally defeated him in late September...
...It was called “Stealing from the Blind” and showed how the government employee associations had been destroying one of the few government programs that worked-vending stands operated by the blind in federal buildings...
...Sid Taylor of the National Taxpayers Union recently wrote Barry Goldwater suggesting that he set an example for fellow double dippers in Congress by giving ug the $6,650 per year he receives as a retired Air Force Majoi General...
...Unfortunately, the Alaska fire is burning shale...
...But the presidential lodge is located on a hillside, atop an underground bomb shelter...
...A Tale of a Tub Public indignation about government spending on presidential retreats has properly focused on San Clemente and Key Biscayne, where public funds...
...I’m glad you wrote me as you did...
...I suggest you write others in a similai situation...
...It is the same type of dam as the one that broke and destroyed BufJ falo Creek in early 1972, killing 150 people in one of the worst tragedies in coal mine history...
...Dam Shame In a hollow near the town of Wharton in Boone County , West Virginia , there,is a dam built of dirt and debris used to hold back sludge from the mines...
...are being spent on private property...
...in July, 1971, in connection with the break-in of the offices of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist...
...Then a conrete slab was suspended around it like a deck, Because the terrain slopes away there, the camouflaged terrace makes the pool appear to be in the ground and a few steps down from the house...
...Tidbits and Outrages The Big Dipper Readers of these pages will be aware of our.continuing interest in the government’s “doub1edippers”-those whc receive a military pension whde holding another govern ment job...
...Or Judge Matthew Byrne, who twice discussed the FBI directorship with Ehrlichman while presiding over the Ellsberg trial...
Vol. 5 • December 1973 • No. 10
