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THE PUTNAM COUNTY BANNER-GRAPHIC, FEBRUARY 22/24/1975
(C) 1975 New York Times News Service Washington-At a recent dinner party in the suburb of chevy chase, part of the old foreign policy establishment came together in a moving and courageous display of support for one of its embattled members, former C.I.A. Director Richard Helms. Among those present were Averell Harriman, FDR’s emmissarv to old Joe Stalin; Robert McNamara, LBJ’s Defense Secretary; and Henry Kissinger husband of Nelson Rockefeller’s former foreign policy adviser. Tom Braden columnist and former C.I.A. official, was the host. Everyone there must have known that Helms would soon face public disgrace, as
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Letter to the editor Crime does not pay
To Whom Ever 1 don’t know if you will consider printing this or not, but like all growing cities, you have young people who get themself in truble with the law. I am writing this in hope that some parents will read it and pass it on to there children. There was once a saying that crime does not pay. Will it’s very true. I'm now doing a one year sentence for the crime of theft. No matter what reason you put behind it, it’s all wrong. If it’s done for the fun of it, that’s even worse. I happen to be verylucky in this case because I could have gotten ] to 10 years. What most young people don’t look at is that your away from everthing, I mean your confined to a rather small area and yuu have no freedom. Oh you might get outside once in awhile, but there’s still a fence or a wall and you hadn’t better'get too close to them. You can’t do anything without permission or someone watching you. You have nc privacy at any time. Then there’s
Russell Baker A great man
(C> 1975 New York Times New s Service Here is a series of vignettes attempting to answer that most difficult question, why was George Washington a great man? -0One day in the 1790’s word spread through the Capital that George Washington was sick and tired of Thomas Jefferson's constant bickering with Alexander Hamilton. That afternoon a man named J. Edgar Hoover was admitted to George Washington’s office. “I have been keeping an eye on this Jefferson,” said the visitor, ”and have here ye goods to justify giving him ye heave-ho from ye cabinet.” He offered George Washington a dossier. George Washington recoiled and asked what was in it. “Ye transcripts of Jefferson’s activities while wenching,” said Hoover, “As well as recordings of his dinner-table criticism of ye government.” George Washington took the dossier and deposited it in his fireplace where it burned to ashes while he was having Hoover thrown into the street. “It would have been unworthy of my office,” he told Martha Washington afterwards, “To do ye throwing myself.” -oGeorge Washington’s spelling was terrible. Everybody in the government was laughing about it. Ye President,” went the joke, cannot chew gum and spell at ye same time.”
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Richard Kleindienst did, for lying to the Senate in the line of duty. Yet the old-boy network rallied round, as if to remind itself-and the world-that the old values were not forgotten, and that the new morality would not be applied retroactively by men who had known the burdens of state. Old-boy networks, by their nature fade away. The power vacuum is filled by newboy networks, from a different stratum or society and possessed of a different view of the world, whose members start out in creative competition and end, as an oldboy network, in mutual self-defense. Today’s new-boy network has begun to gain its identity. From the Kennedy office
your family and friends. Well, I lost my wife and daughter by being in here and if you sit dow.. and think about it, it’s nobody fault but your own. Your friends forget about you and keep right on having fun while you sit here. If you’re not married, than you have your Mom and Dad to come visit you, and that just what it is, a visit. They get to leave and go home, while all you can do is go back to your cell and wish you hadn’t done this stuped thing that got you in here If you happen to be married, like myself, then you lose even more because I loved my wife and daughter deeply and all I got to show for it is a broken home and a year out of my life. Then you think about it and you could have earned a lot more money if only you had stayed at a job plus been out to enjoy it. Will, I hope this might stop some young person from breaking the law and have them think about what I said first! John R. Long Inmate Indiana State Farm
One day Alexander Hamilton suggested that he hire a ghost-speller, who would make sure that George Washington didn’t spell anything indiscreet. George Washington had Hamilton thrown out of his office with orders not to show his face there for a week. In his explanation to Hamilton, he wrote, “If I begin by hirring a gost to spel for me, I shai next higher gosts to rite my speches, and then gosts to do my thinkkeng, and then gosts to construck an immidge for me, and I shal end up with nuthing to do but t.ravl around ye contry makynge foollish speches and eating chiken diners.” -oEarly in his presidency George Washington was told that he should get out of the office and exercise more. James Madison urged him to take up golf and buy a summer house on Martha’s Vineyard, where he could go on summer weekends and a winter housq in South Carolina where he could goon winter weekends. “One could be called ye summer White House and ye other ye winter White House, and you could pay for them by taking a loan from—.” George Washington had Madison thrown into the street before the sentence was completed. -0All through his later years George Washington was afflicted with a nagging mother. She would go around Virginia telling neighbors that George Washington was a merciless tightwad who never came to visit his old mother and wouldn’t send her enough money to live on. On day a man passionately devoted to George Washington came to see him. His name was Charles Colson. He had heard the stories told by George Washington’s mother and thought something should be done to shut the old lady up. George Washington recoiled. “For you,” Colson told him, “I would walk over your mother,” George Washington had Colson thrown out of the country.
William Satire Old-boy networks fade away
on the Hill to foundationville on the Potomac, an iron bond has been forged through the corridors of power. The members are mostly in their thirties; they go to each other’s parties and attend each other’s symposia; they steal each other’s ideas, write for each other’s outlets, tout each other’s bosses, and play musical chairs with each other’s jobs. Who are the new “they”? In the halls of Congress, Richard Moose operates from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (while his old sidekick, James Lowenstein, now testifies for the State Department) and the levers of Senators Humphrey, Kennedy, Javits and Mondale are worked by Don Speigel, Bob Hunter, Peter Lakeland and David Aaron. The Capitol Hill segment of the new-boy network is envious of the sudden eminence of member William Mileler, now Executive Director of the Senate C.I.A. Investigation, and worries most about the possible emergence of nonmember Richard Pearl, a maverick who works on strategic matters for Scoop Jackson. At the council on foreign relations, where the old boys try desperately to shape the new boys in the old image, Richard Ullman, Alton Frye and Roger Hansen resist the molding. At the Brookings Institution, international economist Fred Bergsten pauses between government stints. Also orbiting outside government are former National Security Council staffers Mort Halperin (at a Stewart Mott-Financed Project) Anthony Lake (running a private peace corps) and Roger Morris. In the academic branch of the network, Harvard is still predominant, with professors Graham Allison and Joseph Nye closely cued in; Yale is represented by Richard Cooper, an economistinternational economics is now a part of the strategic combine-and Robert Keohane of Stanford stays in touch. Like the old boys, the new boys admire girls but not as professional associates. One woman who has broken through is Doris Kearns, professor of Government at Harvard; Jessica Einhorn, at the Treasury Department, and Sally Shelton,
James Reston How Kissinger runs the State Department
(c) 1975 New York Times News Service Washington-There are three popular theories about how Henry A. Kissinger runs the State Department. The first is that he does it all by himself, having fired anybody intellectually inferior to himself, which means almost everybody. The second is that he still has a few staff members around, but devours them, one by one, usually at breakfast time. And the third is that he doesn’t run the State Department at all but leaves the whole thing to his principal administrative assistant, a patient and driven man named Larry Fagelburger. There is some truth in all this, but like most of the Kissinger myths, not much. Actually, the more he is away, concentrating on one problem at a time, the more work the State Department has to do on all the other problems that pile up in his absence. State is not a one-man flying band, but probably the youngest and most talented foreign office in the world today. Kissinger has been so much in the limelight that he has obscured the achievements he has made in the dark. He is often an outrageous man, but he has brought exceptional talent into the department. He has set a personal example of hard work and severe intellectual standards into the analysis of policy that have not been seen in foggy bottom since the days of Dean Acheson. He has not been kind or even considerate, but he has restored the pride of the department and the foreign service, and has even intimidated some members into writing plain and understandable English sentences, an astonishing achievement! The Kissinger Policy Planning Staff illustrates the point, maybe it distorts the point, for this is where he has cut across the State Department establishment, brought i:s a young, given them the task of defining me problems and concepts of the future, and-a new note for Policy Planning-making the first drafts of his speeches. In the process, the policyplanning staff has been restored, without anybody here knowing it, to the prominence it had when it was directed by George Kennan, Paul Nitze and writers like Louis Halle in the critical days immediately after the second world war. The director of policy planning now is Winston Lord, who was Kissinger’s special assistant at the National Security Council in the White House, ’69-73. At age 37, Yale, policy planning at defense, ’67-69, foreign service officer, senior adviser on China, adviser on Kissinger’s public statements, married to a lovely intelligent Iron Butterfly, who was born in China. Senior deputy director on policy planning is Samuel W. Lewis,44, also Yale, also Foreign Service Officer and former assistant to Kissinger on the N.S.C. staff
aid to Senator Bentsen are good bets in the future. A great difference between the old and new networks is in the way the members move in and out of government. The McCloys, Lovetts, Dulleses and Achesons would take their sabbaticals in the canyons of finance or corporate law, staking out fortunes in the “real” world. Despite some exceptions-Ed Hamilton, Budget Director of California, and Barry Carter and Walter Slocombe, Washington attorneys—the new boys only leave government for government-lie foundations or universities. Such academic shelter keeps the mind
at the White House, Special responsibilities: South Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Africa. Deputy Director, Reginald Bartholomew, age 38, Darthmouth, former lecturer Wesleyan University and University of Chicago, former director Policy Plans and N.S.C. affairs department of defense. Special responsibilities: Europe, East Asia, Political and Militaryaffairs. Staff Director, N.S.C. under secretaries committee: Wreatham E. Gathright, 49, Vanderbilt University, Special Assistant to Kissinger for Atomic Energy and outer space affairs, science and technology in general, including technological relations with other countries. Also, Peter B. Swiers, age 36, Fordham University, Foreign Service Officer, former chief consular section Moscow Embassy, former staff assistant to AverelJ Harriman. Also, staff assistant to Winston Lord, Daniel T. Hickey, age 34, St. Joseph’s Foreign Serive Officer, Former Economic Officer in U.S. Embassy in Venezuela and Mexico. There are, in addition to these, 24, other members of the policy planning staff, ranging in age from Lawrence M. Mead, 28, from Amherst, who helps write Kissinger’s speeches, poor maybe (they often go through more than 20 drafts before Kissinger re-writes the whole thing) to Richard B. Finn, age 57, an expert on East Asia, out of Harvard. This is quite a different policy planning staff from the days of George Kennan.
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focussed on foreign policy issues, perhaps too parochially. Much perspective can be gained by hustling for a buck with dignity and panache, and no power studies are as revealing as the practice of high-stakes finance pursued by a David Rockefeller or the corporate representation of a Clark Clifford. The old network was fused by World War 11. The new network was fused by the Vietnam War and often service in a wiretapped N.S.C., which helps explain its members’ cynicism. The difference in character between age and youth shapes network attitudes as well: There is plenty of room just past the top, and hardly room
Like everything else now, it is much bigger-around 30 members as compared with Kennan’s eight or ten-and dealing with many more things. It has experts on air power (Lt. Col. B. Conn Anderson. Jr., West Point, age 41, professor at the Air Force Academy and the National War College); advisors on Science: (Harry C. Blaney, age 36, Allegheny College, London School of Economics, former assistant to Pat Moynihan in the White House); information officers (Douglas Pike, age 50,
Turning back the clock
60 years ago Horse thieves stole a mare valued at $150.00 from the Joe Cromwell farm near Putnam ville. “The Coon and the Schoolmaster” was showing at the Greencastle Opera House. Residents of College avenue had asked the City Council to spare trees. 20 years ago Pfc. Fred P. son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed had completed his basic training in Missouri. Abe Walton had been named to the Greencastle Advisory Board. liOuis Armstrong had been scheduled for a concert at Greencastle High School.
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enough for a foothold halfway up. The new boys have not yet suffered the pangs of compromise, and yet are disillusioned; the old boys have frequently felt the pain of selling out, yet hold fast to their illusions. In its way, each network helps its members, a generation from now, we can expect the new boys to assemble-perhaps in the home of Foreign Policy Magazine editor Dick Holbrooke—to toast a member who continued to zig when the rest of the world zagged. We can hope that the comradeship of shared experience will in the end take the jagged edge of cynicism off what is now the coming foreign policy establishment.
California, Former P.R. Officer in Vietnam). You name it, and policy planning now has it, and it’ so large that Kissinger, who hates big meetings, seldom meets with it. But he has changed in the last few months. He now has breakfast at the State Department at 7:30 in the morning, and has a staff meeting once or twice a week, when he’s around, with his under secretaries, and assistant secretaries, and Winston Lord, his policy planning director.
10 years ago Amy Michael, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perry R. Michael, was on the first semester honor roll at Millkin University. Miss Sara Borden was a patient to Culver Hospital in Crawfordsville. Mrs. Bruce Shannon was hostess in the Needlecraft club. 5 years ago Damage had been estimated at $500,000 in a fire at Lone Star Industries. Mrs. Virginia Sweet had been dismissed from the Putnam County Hospital. Mrs. Garnet Patrick and Mrs. Mary Bailey were co-hostesses to the Missionary Society of the New Providence Baptist Church.
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