TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
Tidbits and Outrages Admiral’s Country Stuart Loory, in his brilliant new book Defeated: Inside America’s Military Machine, describes why the military commanders find war so easy to take: In...
...The Wall Street Journal, for example, recently reported: More Nixonites feel free to stray from Administration policy...
...Hiram Fong Sen...
...Lawyers who feel as he did-and most of the White House lawyers seem to feel the same way-are not going to ask what is best for the country, they’re going to ask what is best for the President...
...William Bray Sen...
...The meals were served with painstaking etiquette by white-coated attendants...
...The thought was inescapable that orderlies were ever present, waiting for the tiniest bit of refuse to accumulate, sweeping it up as soon as the admiral left the room...
...Carl Albert Rep...
...The admiral’s desk was set against the opposite wall...
...Louis Wyman A Kind Word for U.S.C...
...The latest news from there is an allegation by a former state FHA director that a former attorney general had asked the director’s brother to murder a former assistant attorney general who was confiding in a grand jury about some of his ex-boss’s less savory activities...
...Hugh Scott Sen...
...The planter rested on thick beige carpeting that helped deaden the bone-shaking noise of aircraft launching and recovery operations...
...It was functional but soft, enveloping a visitor in instant comfort and security...
...Joseph Vigorito Rep...
...On one wall, a walnut credenza held a stereo tape player...
...is to a government workers’ cafeteria-could seat 10 comfortably around an oval table covered with starched white linen...
...Just outside the doorway to the study, a Marine aide stood attentively, if not always at attention, waiting to carry out the admiral’s every wish...
...Barry Goldwater Sen...
...Labor Secretary Brennan lauds the Nixon-opposed Job Corps, declares he’d like to continue or even expand the training project...
...The plumbers must be turning over in their cells...
...Strom Thurmond Rep...
...The admiral’s dining room-it was to a mess what the private dining room in the White House...
...Howard Cannon Sen...
...Robert Dole Sen...
...New antipoverty chief Arnett indicates he feels Nixoncriticized community action projects serve a useful purpose, almost invites Congress to preserve them...
...It was not reviewed by The Atlantic, Harper’s, R e New Republic, The New York Review of Books, Time, or Newsweek...
...Edward Gurney Sen...
...The assistant was in fact shot-although apparently by someone else...
...They took their meals in windowless, low-ceilinged mess spaces that doubled as warehouses for the bombs and rockets the airplanes would Double Dippers We have commented before about the large number of civil servants collecting b 0th their salaries and military retirement pay...
...Frank Moss Rep...
...Olin Teague Sen...
...It was favorably discussed in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Progressive, and The New York Times (where Max Frankel wrote the most insightful of the reviews...
...Tidbits and Outrages Admiral’s Country Stuart Loory, in his brilliant new book Defeated: Inside America’s Military Machine, describes why the military commanders find war so easy to take: In the winter of 1971-72, Rear Admiral James E. Ferris commanded an aircraft carrier task force on Yankee Station in the South China Sea washing the coast of North Vietnam...
...A huge green plant grew against one wall, providing a little life...
...Reporters find that Administration officials are much easier to see and much more willing to talk...
...In fact, of course, the Attorney General’s client is the United States of America...
...It is interesting to note who reviewed it at the time it was published...
...Mass Transit Administrator Herringer contends his operation needs much more money, says he’ll bid for more in the next budget despite the holddown...
...Tell me how I can do it, not why I can’t do it,’ is what the client says...
...The silverware was heavy and glistening...
...A lot of scurrilous things have been written about Richard Nixon’s Southern California background recently, but John Dean and Jeb Magruder should be grateful that he’s not from West Virginia...
...Who Told You About George Reedy...
...Admiral Ferris could witness this spectacle from picture windows in his quarters, or he could tune it all out...
...There was not a stray bit of dust on the glass-topped coffee table nor an ash in any of the heavy glass ashtrays...
...Tune out” means he could retire to his study, a windowless little room obviously appointed by an interior decorator...
...Melvin Laird is leaking at least a story a day from the White House, with apparent impunity...
...Freedom from Haldeman and Ehrlichman The most salutary effect of Watergate thus far has been the loosening up of the executive branch...
...John Sparkman Rep...
...If you don’t give the pragmatic advice, there are plenty of lawyers who wil-and who will walk away with your client in the process...
...Federal Trade Commission Chairman Engman, a former Ehrlichman aide, openly concedes that Phase 3 controls failed, Phase 4 faces serious problems...
...Charles Bennet Rep...
...They lived one atop the other, three bunks high, with no privacy and little storage space, with the constant noise of the ship’s operations jarring them...
...He first talked about the tendency of government lawyers to see the President or their agency head as‘their client...
...In the small galley, two Filipino messmen were preparing a chicken dinner for the evening...
...Since hardly a day goes by without some reference to the imperial court tendencies of the Nixon White House, George Reedy’s The Twilight of the Presidency, which received The Washington Monthly Political Book Award for 1970, is now being recognized as perhaps the most prescient political book of recent years...
...Schell went on to observe, “Most of these lawyers got their experience counseling businessmen and had tended to absorb the pragmatism of business...
...The sofa was covered in a nubby white fabric...
...John Mitchell, while Attorney General, actually said, “Richard Nixon is my client...
...The admiral’s mission was to conduct the bombardment of North Vietnam with the wing of aircraft stationed aboard his flagship CVA-43, the Coral Sea...
...Ferris’ quarters, known as “admiral’s country” aboard ship, were more like a New York Central Park South luxury apartment than the command center of a powerful carrier task force waging war against an enemy nation...
...Tell Me How I Can Do It Concerned about the large number of lawyers involved in Watergate, we recently interviewed Orville H. Schell, Jr., president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York...
...From the flight deck a few stories below, dozens of aircraft took off each morning, their bellies and wings laden, as the expression goes, with death and destruction...
...William Nichols Sen...
...Belowdecks, the crew was jammed together, 150 men to each open, windowless, poorly lighted, ill-ventilated bay...
...The National Taxpayer’s Union now tells us that there are 16 double dippers in Congress: Rep...
Vol. 5 • September 1973 • No. 7
