TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
Tidbits and Outrages Knight in Tarnished Armor One of the few Republican Party leaders who has come through the Watergate affair with virtue unblemished is George Bush, now chairman of the...
...And if that weren’t enough, he also got his two daughters summer jobs on a related subcommittee...
...His accusation largely depended on an affidavit prepared by John Leon, a Washington private detective who died of a heart attack 11 days before Bush aired his charges...
...Shatten as a “distant niece” because he wasn’t “close to that side of the family...
...Last summer Bush even assumed the role of defender-of-fair-play, publicly rebuking the Ervin Committee for hiring an investigator, Carmen Bellino, who Bush said had bugged Richard Nixon in 1960...
...The directors of the bank during this fleecing of the needy included such people as: Clark Clifford, former Secretary of Defense...
...But we suspect that the ghosts of Tom Dodd and Adam Clayton Powell may have looked up with a smile when Dash asked plaintively, “Why should my daughters be penalized just because I’m chief counsel...
...But for the more paranoid, there is an alternate explanation...
...Joseph Danzansky, president of Giant Foods...
...He has also learned the importance of semantic hair-splitting when cornered...
...And what is a bureaucrat...
...He continues to insist that the new Republican National Committee would never get involved in an operation as “dirty” as Watergate...
...AI1 this can be seen simply as an object lesson in the federal government’s unfailing ability to make everything it touches unbearably complex...
...Unfortunately, for every one of these people there is at least one planner, analyst, or manager who does nothing and gets a larger salary for doing it than do the nurses or fire fighters...
...A Customs Service bordei guard risking his life daily in the war against drugs and contraband...
...His reasoning: The Democrats intended to use the burglary as a campaign issue...
...By the Numbers “Revenue sharing formulas” have become lexicon, but we hadn’t seen one until a copy of the computations used in Pennsylvania to distribute federal funds to local governmental units arrived in the mail...
...The answer to this final question is, of course, none of the above...
...Tidbits and Outrages Knight in Tarnished Armor One of the few Republican Party leaders who has come through the Watergate affair with virtue unblemished is George Bush, now chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...It is disheartening to note that Bush’s accusation did not indicate a renaissance of scruples at the RNC...
...When it comes to trying to explain, it is obvious that Dash has picked up some techniques from the witnesses he has interrogated...
...Crosby N. Boyd, chairman of the Board of the Washington Star-News...
...The Forest Service fire fighter breathing smoke in Oregon and California at this very hour...
...For years we have been trying to identify those government employees whose work contributes directly and in an irreplaceable way to the public well-being, and we are grateful to Mr...
...As for his daughters, they are “independent, bright, and hard working...
...A leading congressional figure is discovered to have placed his niece on his committee’s payroll...
...Taking the “I don’t recollect that at this time” approach, Dash has claimed total ignorance of a 1967 law designed to curb nepotism on Capitol Hill...
...Niece Barbara Shatten is still on the payroll of the Senate Watergate Committee...
...In a recent letter to Time, Nathan T. Wolkomir, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, inswered an article charging that federal bureaucrats were too many and too well paid: . . .wage surveys have repeatedly shown that when viewed alongside his counterparts in private industry, he is on the wrong side of the stick at evlery turn...
...This had the effect of taking money from the widows, orphans, and other beneficiaries of- the pension fund and putting itthrough dividends transformed into salaries-into the pockets of Boyle and other UMW bureaucrats...
...According to Jonathan Kwitny of The Wall Street Journal, who talked with Leon a week before his death, Leon claimed that “Watergate was a frame-up” and the “man behind it all is Edward Kennedy...
...The complexity of the revenue sharing formula was designed as a way of removing the allocation of federal money from the political thicket...
...The Republican National Committee chairman used Leon’s charges against Bellino, even after Kwitny informed Bush’s administrative assistant about Leon’s other bizarre ideas...
...But there has been a happy ending for all sides, as Bellino was completely cleared by a special subcommittee formed by the Ervin Committee, and Bush’s reputation for fairness has remained unscathed...
...Dash described Ms...
...A Veterans Administration nurse laboring tc restore the nation’s Viet Nam wounded to health...
...Following this lead, we offer a small but representative segment of the formula...
...The clerk who dispatches a Social Security payment to a senioi citizen in your own family...
...A Dash of Nepotism The situation sounded like grist for a week of angry Jack Anderson columns...
...Since an expensive computer is needed to complete the calculations, we do not believe that the armchair mathematicians among our readers should feel cheated...
...The FDA technician whose revelations on thalidomide saved untold numbers of unborn babies from hideous disfigurement...
...But since local governments cannot chcck these c o m put at io n s w itho ut blowing their revenue sharing checks on computer time, they themselves are at the mercy of whoever controls the revenue sharing computer...
...The Friends of Tony Boyle’ Now that the full flavor of Tony Boyle’s leadership of the UMW has become apparent to everyone, it is interesting to recall the prominent Washington citizens who lent their names to one of his more charming projects...
...What Is a Bureaucrat...
...and Elwood R. Quesada, former head of the Federal Aviation Administration...
...Which of these bureaucrat: would you trim from the federal payroll...
...Stephen Woodzell, president of Potomac Electric Power Company...
...We refer to the operation under which Boyle kept the miners’ pension fund in a noninterestbearing account at the National Bank of Washington, which was owned by the UMW...
...Liz Carpenter, former aide to Lady Bird Johnson...
...Patricia Roberts Harris, chairman of the Credentials Committee of the 1972 Democratic National Convention...
...Wolkomir for having pointed us in the right direction...
...Both daughters were employed by Sam Ervin’s separation-of-powers subcommittee and the eldest, a Brown University senior, was earning $657 a month...
...A refreshing though remote legal possibility is that each of them could be held personally liable for an $11 -million judgment recently rendered against the bank and the union in behalf of the pension fund...
...The culprit, according to the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, was none other than Sam Dash, chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee...
...A cancer researcher...
...We wish we could reproduce the formula in its entirety, but we are faced with the sort of problem that confronts an art magazine when it has to reproduce a 40-foot fresco on a standard-sized page...
...What Bush failed to mention were some of Leon’s other interesting theories...
Vol. 5 • November 1973 • No. 9
