TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
Tidbits and Outrages They Done Wright Wrong In April 1973 we published an article by Marjorie Boyd, “Why Congress Didn’t Investigate Watergate Before the Election.” Richard Dudman of The St....
...According to the note, Mr...
...The upshot of Mr...
...He settled on White House aide John D. Ehrlichman as the person who should talk to Mr...
...If we lost Little, Brown, TheNationa1 Review’s steadfast rationality has attracted South African Airways...
...Quotas on Life David Burnham of The New York Times continues his excellent series of articles on our government’s safety agencies with this report: The government official in charge of a federal program to protect the lives and safety of workers in southeastern Ohio has been accused of setting a quota limiting the number of violations his inspectors could impose on delinquent companies...
...The accusation against Peter M. Schmitt, director of Columbus area for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, became known as the agency’s Washington headquarters prepared a reply to a Senate staff committee report charging that the agency nationally “has been shackled by administrative ineptness...
...Ford, “Now, God damn it, get the hell over with this...
...Depending on the Senator’s popularity or the importance of his committee assignment, that fee ranges generally from $500 to $2,500...
...Ford himself but “He’s got to know that it comes from the top...
...Ford replied: “The answer is no, Senator Byrd...
...Ford whether he had been in contact with anyone at the White House indicating that the White House wanted him to lend his efforts as a congressional leader to blocking the investigation...
...Why the measure is needed is explained by Jerry Landauer of The Wall Street Journal: Senate Majority leader Mike Mansfield has been acting lately like a nervous football coach before a big game...
...Ford acknowledged that he called two meetings of the Republican members of the committee at which the Patman inquiry was discussed...
...Mr...
...Once it sent President Nixon a disputed appropriations bill by a vote of 27 to 25...
...We just don’t want Stans up there in front of the cameras with Patman, and Patman asking all these questions,” Dean said...
...That was nearly three times more than the 1969 total, and it was 75 per cent higher than the preceding year...
...Ford and said Ehrlichman should tell Mr...
...Dean suggested that Stans be directed to go to Ford and explain to him the problems that the Patman inquiry would create...
...Nixon picked up the idea and said, “Jerry has really got to lead on this...
...Money Talks There is a move underway in the Senate to limit members to $15,000 per year in speaking fees...
...Mr...
...In 1973, the Senate’s collective income from “honorariums” topped $1 million for the first time...
...Ford could talk to the ranking Republican on the committee, William B. Widnall of New Jersey-“just brace him” and tell him Nixon thought it was time for him to “start behaving...
...Taking Stock The GAO has disclosed that 19 Federal Power Commission officials own stock in companies affected by FPC regulations...
...The same number failed to vote on the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1972...
...Ford said he called the meetings after several members had asked him to do so...
...Schmitt set a negative quota for some inspectors at a meeting on April 8 was made by Joe Velaquez, a special assistant in the Ohio State Department of Industrial Relations...
...The allegation that Mr...
...Patman’s list of proposed witnesses that he wanted to subpeona contained names that later became familiar in the televised Senate Watergate hearings, when the scandal was exposed in full: Sally Harmony, Frederick LaRue, Jeb Stuart Magruder, Robert C. Mardian, John N. Mitchell, Robert Odle, Herbert L. Porter, Hugh W. Sloan, Stms and many others...
...Over and over these days, he is ordering roll-call votes on trivial matters, just to keep his charges from roaming...
...President Nixon’s concern about the Patman inquiry became known in the course of the House impeachment inauirv when Nixon reluctantly made wblic edited transcripts of certain White House tapes iast April 29...
...Louis Post-Dispatch now adds to that story: . . . before the scandal began to unfold, Mr...
...Ford was asked about the episode last November at a Senate hearing on his confirmation as Vice President...
...Tidbits and Outrages They Done Wright Wrong In April 1973 we published an article by Marjorie Boyd, “Why Congress Didn’t Investigate Watergate Before the Election...
...Nixon said he could not talk to Mr...
...Ford denied “categorically” that he had had any such conversations with Haldeman, Ehrlichman or Dean and said he did not recall that the matter had come up in his frequent conversations with William E. Timmons, the President’s liaison officer with Congress...
...That earlier incident involved a [ 19721 investigation by Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee...
...All this absenteeism has many causes...
...Ford’s testimony was that he acknowledged, in effect, that he helped block the inquiry but that he interpreted his action as a proper move in the interest of correct procedures and not as any part of the White House coverup...
...Thirty-seven Senators earned more than $10,000 apiece in speaking fees, 18 pulled in more than $20,000 apiece and three (led by Democrat Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota with $65,650) grossed more in honorariums than from their $42,500 government salaries...
...Mansfield recently explained, after 35 of the 100 Senators from both sides of the aisle had failed to show up for voting on amendments to a controversial bill...
...The Sept...
...It was supported by a note written about the quota by Mike Ypsilantis, one of the four inspectors who attended the session...
...Almost any day of the week, whether the Senate is in session or not, somewhere in the country one or more Senators probably is speaking for a profit-to businessmen, labor leaders, students, trade associations, church-goers, or anybody else who will pay the price...
...15, 1972, tape showed that Dean was briefing Nixon on the various oroblems he faced...
...Byrd asked Mr...
...But one of the biggest, and perhaps least recognized, is the senatorial thirst for speaking fees...
...The real issue, he said was that Patman “was going about the matter in the wrong way...
...The leadership has been forced to use these bed-check votes, so called, to get the members here in ,,sufficient numbers to comprise aquorum, Sen...
...48 Senators didn’t vote...
...On occasion the Senate enacts legislation with more members absent than voting “aye...
...But every cloud has its silver lining...
...Dean broug-~ht UD the Patman investi-g ation...
...WS going to be the whole thing, the press going over and over and over again...
...Ford, as House Republican leader, played a part in suppressing the facts until after President Nixon had won his landslide reelection victory...
...The Ad Game Opinion magazines have a difficult time attracting advertising...
...He said he wasn’t sure he could “turn that off...
...Nixon said Mr...
...Senate Democratic whip Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia asked him to relate “your role, if any, in the blocking of an investigation by the House Banking and Currency Committee into the Watergate break-in...
...Only four Senators gave all their speaking income to charity...
...Seven of the officials were administrative law judges who write major regulatory decisions for the FPC...
...he’s got to get at this and screw this thing up while he can, right...
...We, for example, were somewhat depressed recently when Little, Brown canceled a full-page ad for Kissinger by Marvin and Bernard Kalb after we ran an unfavorable review of the book...
...Senator Byrd asked: “But as I understand you, any efforts that you may have contributed toward the stifling or impeding or blocking of such investigation would be harmful to the President, harmful to his chances of reelection, or harmful to your party...
...Dean testified that “if those hearings had been held, there is a good chance these hearings would not be held today, because I think that would have unraveled the coverun...
...During a round of voting on emergency energy legislation last year the number of absent Senators reached 44...
...Schmitt said that if an employer had ten workers the inspector could cite five violations each visit, if there were 20 workers there could be ten violations, 30 workers up to 15 violations, 100 workers from 15 to 20 violations, 1,000 workers from 25 to 40 violations, and 10,000 workers between 40 and 60 violations...
...The number of missing members sometimes exceeds one-third, even when Senators aren’t running for reelection or for the White House...
...Such a dismal turnout isn’t just an election season phenomenon...
Vol. 6 • November 1974 • No. 9
