TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
Tidbits and Outrages The Taxpayers’ Postage Congressman Morris Udall recently admitted in a letter to his colleagues that ‘%hen the new Congressional franking bill was enacted in December,...
...Nixon is always treated at the federal government’s Bethesda National Naval Medical Center in Marvland...
...But of the honor were described in President...
...judges of courts from radioactive cargo...
...Udall reassured his colleagues, “I’m happy to report that the House committee on the Post Office and Civil Service today added a repealer of this unfortunate goof to a Senate-passed bill, S. 2315, and that the bill is expected to be on the next Consent Calendar...
...reducing the period dependent children must spend at post, while on educational travel from 45 to 21 days...
...Miami, F l i A. No...
...Layettes Come First Another illustration of the idealism rampant among government employees comes from the American Foreign Service Association, which describes as one of its two major achievements of the month getting the State Department to agree to (1) A substantial liberalization in the Supplementary Post Allowance, which will permit payment of the allowance to all family members...
...Mayors and mayors’ executhem up a few weeks ago, tive staff, city managers, American Airlines’ accTorhdei ngs taom Te hed Noceuwm Yenotrsk, pmreemsidbeenrst s ooff cCithya mcobuenrsc ilosf , r* had been an ex- Times, identified categories Commerce, officials of airclusive refuge for the power- of eligibles...
...a major general in the Air Force...
...We disagreed, however, on the exact amount of the allowance...
...AFSA had argued that since the overall maximum payment had been increased, and in light of substantial inflation, the subcategory limits should also be raised...
...I tried to obtain the appointment once before and learned that it requires not one but two senators...
...Tidbits and Outrages The Taxpayers’ Postage Congressman Morris Udall recently admitted in a letter to his colleagues that ‘%hen the new Congressional franking bill was enacted in December, a staff error resulted in an unintended change in the printed material appearing on franked envelopes now being produced...
...officials of avia- that steady on-the-job diet route development matters, tion departments or com- of airline food can cause or whose friendship and missions...
...That proved to be pretty good strategy everybody else was shot off and, no use lying about it, I helped to shoot them off...
...Things You Always Wanted to Know The Office of Naval Research recently awarded West Virginia University a grant of $16,032 for a “study about the social relations between mariners and marine scientists on ocean-going research vessels...
...I saw a man-Paul Douglas-who looked as though he might be elected to the Senate...
...Seventy per cent of the respondents said they had been expected to compromise personal principles in order to conform either to organizational standards or standards established by their superiors...
...These post age -free envelopes used to simply bear the Member’s signature...
...It is reassuring to know that our Congress is capable of rapid action in genuine emereencies...
...Members who are concerned about using envelopes with the newlanguage might consider withholding orders for new supplies of franked envelopes for a few days until the repealer can be signed into law...
...Socialized Medicine The Washington Star Vews carries a question and answer feature that recently contained this item: Q. In a recent speech, President Nixon commented (and I copied the words carefully): “When I go to a hospital, or when I call a doctor, I want that doctor to be working for the patient and not for the federal government, and that is what this is all about...
...who we had always assumed invited pests only ‘l’he t Federal government- were the primary beneficiarguests were called ‘‘Admi- Members of Congress and ies of airport lounges, were rals” and those eligible for officials appointed by the far down the list...
...I personally regret this error and any difficulty it might have caused...
...The club maintained and airport.manag6rs...
...Fly Me Until a law suit opened the company...
...ge?eral or appellate stewardess study also found A ~ in ~legis~lative~ or ;junsd iction...
...The Department has already agreed last August in principle to shipment of Americanstyle layettes for newly-born children when these were unavailable locally...
...The President’s doctor is Walter Tkach...
...me &lines assisting American pf...
...Survival of the Fittest In his forthcoming book, Judges, Donald Dale Jackson quotes J. Sam Perry of Illinois on how he got his federal judgeship : “I gambled,” he said...
...Tkach is a salaried government worker and Mr...
...course they can take coman internal An~riCan Air- t State government- fort from a recent study of lines document as: Governors, lieutenant gover- 12 pregnant stewardesses on . . . those who have nors, attorneys general, and one airline which disclosed “demonstrated 0 t h officials on the gover- that ,Sk either suffered misto be consistent friends of nor’s executive staff...
...hypoglycemia, or low blood themsehres cooperation are desired by t Local government- Sugar...
...Everybody’s got his price, what’s yours...
...But Rep...
...Once implemented, this should make transition to life at a new post substantially less costly...
...Gentleman John In a recent interview with the editor of Intellectual Dipest, Clark Mollenhoff, reminiscing about his year in the Nixon White House, recalled this example of John Ehrlichman’s charm: Mollenhoff was trying to warn Ehrlichman about the dangers of getting mixed up with Jimmy Hoffa, and told Ehrlichman about the t h e Hoffa had said: “All right, Clark, they don’t pay newspaper reporters enough for you to be giving me such a bad time...
...3) A substantial liberalization in Educational Travel...
...Another government research project provided $15,800 for a study to find out why fishing boat crews cause conflict in Yugoslavian peasant towns...
...The fjst four: port boards or commissions, ful...
...We have now settled on 160 lbs...
...Following the study, the Department has indicated that it intends to include this question in funding requests for FY-76...
...4) A major increase of roughly 50 percent in the maximum payments for certain categories of property on which there are claims of property losses...
...Does the President, indeed, use a personal II hvsician?-J...
...I learned that everyone shoots at the number-one choice, so I told each of the senators not to make me first...
...The staff error resulted in the phrase “Postage paid by Congress” appearing under the facsimile signature...
...We had indicated that the allowances for inter-zonal transfers were woefully inadequate...
...Like the President, Dr...
...presi- carriages or gave birth to American Airlines by direct- dents, speakers, majority deformed babies because of ing traffic to American Air- and minority leaders, and excessive expowre to leaks lines, influencing others to committee chairmen of use the services of American legislatures...
...The result was I landed on top...
...S. 2315, as amended, passed the House by unanimous consent March 4 and the Senate March 19...
...He was talking about his health insurance proposal...
...The Department also agreed to circularize information notifying employees of the provision of the regulations which permits advanced payment of claims in cases involving substantial personal hardship...
...comfortable lounges at t Military services-fig Frequent passengers, major airports for the Use of and general officers...
...I decided I had better get back into politics, which I did...
...2) Undertake a thoroughgoing study of the wardrobe section of the Foreign Transfer Allowance...
...I backed him, and as a result I had his support...
...Corporate Watergate Another heartening indicator of today’s moral climate comes from a recent survey of 3,000 business executives by the American Management Association...
...5 ) Shipment of layettes...
...Ehrlichman’s response was: “We knoyour price: a White House title and $33,500 a year...
...I was out of politics and they did not need me...
Vol. 6 • May 1974 • No. 3
