TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
Tidbits and Outrages “Thank God No Money Was Involved” President Nixon’s remark, “Thank God no money was involved” at his August 22 press conference is all the background needed for...
...We cannot hope that everybody will be as honest as the two men who went to a cemetery in a county in my state to get names from the gravestones...
...At one point, the General expressed concern that his bedroll would get wet in the Inchon landing...
...The chance that this order might actually be given increases our interest in the man who would transmit it...
...How would Alexander Haig react if ordered to get on the phone to his old friends in the Army...
...Philip Roth has written the speech he thinks President Nixon will deliver on the day the Senate votes to remove him from office which says in part: My fellow Americans, I owe it not only to these great American Presidents ‘who preceded me in this high office, but to my family, and to you and your families, to respect and honor that oath to which I swore on the Holy Bible on my Inauguration Day...
...The award was given for a voting record that reflected "a pattern which distinguishes the spenders from the economyminded Members of Congress...
...His latest discovery is that the Russians originally wanted to buy directly from the U.S...
...Haig waded ashore carrying the General's bedroll on his head...
...Palmby’s the One Those who have followed these columns closely know that The Washington Star-News’ John Fialka is one of the more careful students of the exotica surrounding the Russian grain deal...
...One man read, “Sacred to the Memory of Israel Sherinstein...
...But if there has been too little criticism of the Marxist states recently, Arlington House, the publishing firm, is certainly not to blame...
...Tidbits and Outrages “Thank God No Money Was Involved” President Nixon’s remark, “Thank God no money was involved” at his August 22 press conference is all the background needed for this story told by Sam Ervin taken from Bill Wise’s new book, The Wisdom of Sam Ervin : One clear thing about elections is that some men who are not willing to spend a penny of another man’s money are willing to steal elections...
...Gold Bulldog We are indebted to the National Observer for pointing out that former Congressman J. Irving Whalley, who was recently indicted for receiving salary kickbacks from members of his staff, was four times the winner of the National Association of Businessmen's gold Bulldog Award...
...Haig crawled behind enemy lines and demolished the bathtub with a grenade...
...The other man said, “Wait a minute-that’s a long name...
...Among its current titles are: Red Spies in the U. S., Psycho-Chemical Warfare: The Chinese Communist Drug Offensive Against the West, Soviet Conquest from Space, and National Suicide: Militaiy Aid to the Soviet Union...
...Our favorites are The Children of Darkness: Some Heretical Reflections on the Kid Cult and Leftism: From deSade to Marcuse...
...governmentinstead of through commercial grain companies-and make payment in one of two commodities cherished by our government: cash or natural gas...
...Two stories Haig tells about his own experience as a fighting man hint at his likely response...
...And that is why I have decided tonight to remain in this Office...
...But of course, they have the consolation of not having to count all those dollars coming in from taxes on federal employees’ salaries...
...Under one of Congress’ more brilliant schemes, the county government has also received federal aid to the tune of $6.8 million over the last two years to “compensate” for the burden that children of federal employees impose on the school system...
...Will General Haig Give the Order...
...The man who rejected the first Russian proposal was none other than Clarence Palmby...
...One of them was reading off the gravestones and the other was writing them down...
...If I’m going to have anything to do with this, it’s going to have to be honest...
...The other fellow said, “NO, sir...
...More Welfare for the Wealthy Steadily increasing federal salaries have given Montgomery County, a Maryland suburb of Washington, the second highest per capita income in the country...
...Such an arrangement would have meant that the government would have known the true dimensions of the deal and called a halt before the Russians got away with one fourth of the 1972 wheat crop and started what seems to be an unending inflationary spiral in food costs...
...To speak personally, I just couldn’t live with myself if I went ahead and shirked my duty to safeguard the security of the nation...
...Counties without federal employees get nothing...
...In order to discourage those who would resort to violence of any kind, in order to maintain law and order in the nation and to safeguard the welfare and well-being of law-abiding American citizens, I have tonight, in my constitutional role as CommanderinChief, ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to place the Armed Forces on a standby alert around the nation...
...Several days afterwards Palmby resigned his position as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Foreign Trade and took a job with Continental Grain, one of the main beneficiaries of the Russian wheat deal...
...During the Korean War Haig served as an aide to a general...
...In the second incident, during the retreat from the reservoir, the General suddenly realized he had left his bathtub behind and said, "I don't want any goddam Chink taking a bath in my tub...
...Red Centennial It is entirely possible that the spirit of detente may have encouraged some of us to go too far in overlooking Communism’s shortcomings...
...My fellow Americans, though I respect the sincerity and the integrity of those Senators who voted earlier in the day for my removal, I find, after careful study and grave reflection, that to accept their decision would be to betray the trust placed in me by the American people, and to endanger the security and the well-being of this nation...
...We can divide that into two parts and two voters here...
Vol. 5 • October 1973 • No. 8
