Please return fvr my Nixon file. While this duplicates muc of what was in 'undance and other sources, which are cited it has some different content and has different perspectiv es. One of the things that you may find of interest is the inference of homosexuality in both Nixon and Rebozo. l do think it is past time for the major media to be making some mention of and investigating the crookedness with which Nixon has been associated all his political life. I am certain that despite what this eems to say, personal financial crookedness much larger than the slush fund will surface, especially with his homes. IN 4/27/73 The World Behind Watergate

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The bedfellow, notelet makes are America's Southern rim, the "sunbelt" and therefore to be connected more investment houaes and the family "Yet Waft.; it only seem that way that rune from Southern California, than earlier money would have thought banks and the well-established holding to thaw who have not watched the through Arizona and Texas, down to wise, with shady apeculations politial and insurance companies stilt have courtship. In Richard Nixon's came, the Florida ken_ They are for the influence-peddling, corrupt unions, and influence throughout local and federal notwithstanding his presence in na- moo part new-money people, without even organized mime. government. No one would want to tional politica for the last twenty-five the family fortunes and background' The political ascendancy of these suggest that David Rockefeller or the years, those courtslups have remained of Eastern wealth (Rockefeller', Du- Southern-rim people-those whom Cul First National City Bank was incon- remarkably unexamined-or, when ex- Pont., etc.). people whole fortunes Oglesby once called "the oawboys," as sequential in guiding the affairs of amined, remarkably misunderstood- have been made orris, in the postwar distinct from "the yankees" of old state-and the important position of and as a result the bedfellows he ha, decades, mostly in new industries such Eastern money-haa taken place coinci- Henry Kissinger, a man with authentic acquired have remained unusually ob- as aerospace and defense contracting, dentally with their economic growth in yankee ties (Harvard, Rockefeller scure both to the public and to the in oil. natural gun, and allied busi- the last generation. Their power on a Brethren Fund, Council on Foreign political pundits who are supposed to nese', usually domestic rather than state level was solidified a decade or so Relations) attests to their continuing conjure with such things Certain ob- international, and in real-estate opera- ago, and they made certain inroads to influence. What il important to note, vious relationships, to be sure, have tion, during the postwar sunbelt popu- national Influence with Johnson's as- however, is the relative decline of the beer, Poni attention-the back-scratch- lation boom. sumption of the presidency in 1963.' yankees in recent years and their ing of Nixon and his old friend and They are "aelf-made" men and But it was not until the election of relinquishment of important powers to Pepsiro chairman Donald Kendall, for women, in the tense that they did not Richard Nixon in 1968-and even more cowboy hands Moreover, u the eco- example.' the Weal evidence of which generally Inherit peat riches (though now during a second term in which he nomic importance of the Southern rim Wuhington's gift of the Soviet of course in another sense they are teems far beyond mediating pressure has increased, New York bank, and soft-drink franchise to Pepsi-Cola. But government-nude. depending, .5 in all from the press, Congress, and public- investment houses (notably Loeb the wider pattern of ha associations and aerospace, on large favors from that the Southern-rim bedfellows were Rhoades and Lehman Brother') have the character of his power base, re- Washington, but they hardly like to firmly installed In the bedroom of bought into its businesses, with the mains ementially obscure. This seems think of it that way), and they tend to political power in Washington. It is a result that to a greater extent than particularly dangerous In view of the a notable degree to be politically fitting symbol of this that Nixon ha. before the interests and wishes of the evidence that these people will be conserved-se, even retrograde, usually established White Houses at the two cowboys have become of 7CTIO“s con- Influential In American government not anti-union, unit:dark, enticonsumer, extremes of the Southern rim, San cern to the moguls of Wall Street. only for the net four years but for and antiregulation. and quite often Clemente and Key Biscayne . One rough meas.= of the political the foreseeable future. associated with professional "anti- ascendancy of the cowboys is the communist" organizations. Whether be- number of them who actually occupy ow it it certainly true that the cause of the newness of their position, N high positions in Washington. Of the The Nixontan bedfellows the people yankee. retain considerable power in then frontier heritage, or there tack of four member. of what Nixon likes to whose creed the President expreesca old-school tine, they tend to be with- national politics, that the WaU Street and whose interest. he guard', are, to call his "super-super cabinet," three of out particular concern, about the ni- generalize, the economic sovereigns of 'Johnson's assumption of power investigations, the exercise of American ceties of business ethics and morel,. had several consequence, beyond the prewar to forestall a threatened na- Evidence of their cozy relationship enthronement of a man heavily in tionalization of American oil interest, may be found in Leonard Lurie, The Earl Mato and Stephen Hess, NOon political debt to conservative Texas oil, in Argentina. and the reversal_ of Running of Richard NaOlf (Coward, (Harper & Row; Popular Library, among them the squelching of the Kennedy's announced plans to begin McCann, and Geoghegan, 1912), and 1968). Bobby Baker and TFX-Convair (Dallas) withdrawing tram; from Vietnam. them-the three with the highest author- National Committee have all been from Defense William Clement. (Texas: oil unions, rich conservative businessmen, ity in domestic affairs the fourth ix t he Sou thern-rim co-chairperson. millionaire). Assistant Agriculture Secs and various Sourhern-rim manufac- Kaseinger)-are from the Southern rim: George Bush (Texas: oil company retary Robert Long (California. Bank turer. This does not mean, of course, Roy Ash (California: millionaire de- so-founder) and Janet Johnston (Cali- of America executive), Undersecretary that the more traditional sources of fense contractor), John Elulichman fornia: rancher) and general counsel of State William Casey (a New Yorker, Republican money, such as the old- ICilifornia, out of Seattle: lawyer. Merry Dent (South Carolina: lawyer, but director and counsel of a South- money families and yankees now and politico), and Bob Haldeman (Califor- en-GOP state head). The rim influence ern-rim agribusiness corporation). old throughout the financial world, nia: PR man). On the cabinet level is here so strong that there have even And on and on, scores more through- have been thoroughly displaced or no there are Anne Armstrong (Texas: been published complaints from Mid- out the top levels of the Administra- longer make big contributions, but Republican politico), Claude Brinepr western Republicans about a "South- tion, not even balanced this term by only that their position is being stead- (California: Limon Oil executive), Fred- ern Mafia."' very many liberals and Easterners. ily narrowed and their Importance erick Dent (South Carolina: textile And peppered throughout the gov- therefore steadily decreased. millionaire', Richard Kleindlemit (AN- ernment are each key cowboys u preu A second measure of cowboy pene- Oil money, for example, has always zone: Goldwater crony). and Caspar secretary Ronald Ziegler (California: tration is their preponderance among found its way into politic', as much Weinberger (California: Republican public relations), Frederic Male., sec- Nixon's major financial supporters from the old corporations with chiefly politico and ex-Reagan side). ond-in-command of the budget (South Though the loopholed campaign-spend- international Interests as from the new Of the five Nixon nominees to the Carolina: toolsmenufacturtng ing laws permit only partial identifIca- independents who have sprung up Supreme Court. three (Rehnquist, Cars Commissioner of Education John lion of the top money men, it seems along the Southern rim_" But It has well, and Hayneeworthl were wool-died Ottlna (California: defense industry clear at least that the chief sources of been the latter who have been most Southern-rim oonservetiVel and one consultant), Director of Communica- Nixon'. campaign finances-and there- important in Nixon's career, from (Powell) was a right-was' V2110011E1 tions Herbert Klein (California' Copley fore presumably the people whose such supporters as Union Oil, Superior who was also a director of oil and gas Press executive), Deputy Secretary of interests the President will try to keep Oil, and Texas ultraconservative H. L. corporatist). The key appointment. to 'New York Timer. March 27, 1973, p. dominant-are independent oil pro- Hunt, who helped finance his early the Increasingly powerful Republican 27. ducers, defense contractors, right-wing campaigns, through California right- winger Henry Salvatori, the Texas Murchison family, and at least a third of the backer' in the 1952 "slush fund," In this last campaign there were NAL fiction — in the words of 's topflight critics from some large contributions from old such publications as , Newsweek, Chicago oil-Rieherd Mellon Scaife (Gulf Oil, Tribune, and Harper's Magazine. among other Interests) gave $1 million, NAL fiction — Impressive reading that brings the genius of Ima- the Phipps family )Texaco among oth- ginative writing into the classroom — to expand and enrich the ers) gave at least $55,000-but the minds of your students. striking fact is the number of domestic nit donors, ornate." or with rim inter- carrot's Here Is same of the best, end bestselling. of recent fiction: est, people like Kent Smith (Lubrizol, Maurice E M Forster $1.50, The Book of Daniel E. L. Doctorow $244,000), Francis Cappeart (Southern $1.50, The Ecstasy of Owen Muir Ring Lardner. Jr. $1 95; Omen- oil and agribusiness, 5174,000), John beautiful, seller's Luck William H. Gass Si 95, Birds of America Mary Paul Getty (Getty Oil, 597,0001. John McCarthy Si 50: Edsel Karl Shapiro $1.25; Krumnagel Peter J. Shaheen (Shaheen Natural Re- !Alma,/ 81.25, To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler 95e; The Wan- sources, $100,000), Elisha Walker (Pe- daring, and derer Alain-Fournier Si 25; The White Dawn James Houston troleum Corporation of America, $1.25; Fiflh Business Robertson Davies $1.25, The French lieu- $100,000), Max Fisher (Marathon 011, tenant's Woman John Fowles $1.50. 560.0001, the O'Connor family (Texaa Oil. $60.000), and the Ora Wyatt painfully Write for our free catalog of college-level paperbacks. You'll find lamitY (Coastal States Gas, 541,0001.5 more fiction by such authors as Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Other major sources of support Ayer Rand, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Katherine Angst the last campaign can be traced, too, funny Porter. Julio Codazar, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm Lowry. and they follow the mine general —• pattern: some sizable donors from the old-money families and new-money Easterners, but surprising strength from the Southern rim. Among the largest donors with defense interests last year were yankee.s like Arthur Watson (IBM, $303,000) and Saul Steinberg (Leasco. $250,000), but they were matched by the rimsters. people like Charles and Sam Wyly (Dallas computer company, $172,1)00), Thomas Marquee (Elec- tronic Data Systems, Deltas. 588,0001, Howard Hughes (Hughes Tool, etc , Houston. 5100,0001, Ling-Temeo- 'There have been several valuable sur- veys of the effect of oil on politic, among the best of which are Ronald bugger, Arldkrfc, September, 1969; Robert Engler, The Polities of 011 (Macmillan, 1961): Erwin Knott, New York tones Wagoner, March 8, 1970: Morton Mintz and Jerry S. Cohen, Americo. free., Chapter. 4 and 5 (Dist 19711; Robert Sherrill, The Aectelental President (Grossman, 1967, Pyramid, 1968); and Michael Tenzer, The Politi- cal Economy of International Oil and the Underdeeeloped Countries (Beacon, 1969), 'These figures are from the Citizens Research Foundation of Princeton, New Jersey, a group that tries to keep track of all the sources of campaign New AMERICAN LIIIRARY aucmoon Npsnm.M money. They are generally only esti- Wealalex SInn, EIM571105. Nem 'sissy eras mates and often represent only a small part of what was actually given. Other NAL major oil donors and fund raisers on NAAmm ammNiOn the CRF lists include Arthur E. John- INMMAI1M 01 ion (Midwest 0111, Thomas Pappas smAM. VAMee Ieee' Cats,. (Esso-Pappas). the Pew family (Sun P.1.1.• .40.1,0 vaewn100 0111, William Liedtke (Pennzoil), J. A. Vickers (Vickers Petroleum), and H. W McCollum, Philip Kramer, and J. D. Callender (Amerada Hess).

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by admitting he intervened with himself had some Interesting banking President. But Nixon seem not to who was the convicted payoff min for Ehrliehman and others in the White experience as a duector in 1964 of the mind. In fact he has even gone in with the Watergate operation last yeas." House to get the prim increase for the Miami National Bank, cited by the Reborn on at least one of his deals, • It is not surprising that Newsday, milk ptoducers and subsequently ar- New York Timer Decembct I, 1969, Florida real-estate venture called among many others, ban concluded, ranged the channeling of their con- p. 42] as a conduit for the Meyer Fisher'. Island Inc., in which Nixon "The deals made by Bebe Re- tributions to the Nixon iampaigzil* Landry syndicate's "shady money" inverted some 5185.891 around 1962, born lure tarnished the Presi- Whatever else you want to say about from 1963 to 1967. King decided and which he sold for exactly twice dency.'. r 4 them presidential pals, they hardly against the insurance company, but the the value, $371,782, in 1969. It seems mem to be the kind that Billy Graham, case is now being appealed to a higher to have been a peculiarly shrewd deal, eet's sly, should Approve of. court-) since the going rate for Fisher's Island Mention of Bernard Barker brings up At about the same time as the stolen stock had not in fact increased by a the Watergate scandal. perhaps even M Rebozo, the Inscrutable man who ie stocks episode came the shopping- penny doting those years and oar- more interesting became it is so com- closest of all to Nixon-the Latest center deal. Reborn. by now a very tainly hadn't doubled for anyone else plicated and revealing of the interlock- example of his Intimacy being the rich man, will managed to get a loan -but Moody for the stockholders ing relations along the Southern rim. donation of his 5100.000 Bethesda out of the federal Small Business Nixon shortly thereafter signed a We are far from knowing all the details home to Julie Nixon Eisenhower- Administration-one of fire which he bill paving the way for 57 million as yet, but an examination of the demises a somewhat closer cumin.- somehow was lucky enough to secure worth of federal funds foe the im- people known to have been involved don bare, for in some ways he personi- in the 19601. perhaps became of his provement of the Port of Miami, in does provide a clear window on the flee the cowboy type.tt Reborn, friendship with ex-Senator George which Fisher Island just happens to be Nixon milieu. Cuban-born of American parents, grew Smothers (who had been on the Senate located. ' 5 In any case, that's email Watergate, and at least some of the up in relative poverty. end at the start Small Business Committee and who enough potatoes for a nun in Nixon's other operations against the DeMOCIES wrote the SBA to help Rebozo get of World War II he was a gas-station position, and seems to reflect the fact and radical politico] groups lest Year, another loan), or perhaps because the that, no matter how many rich operator in Florida. With the wartime was paid for by cowboy money. Most ihief Miami officer of the SBA star wheeler-dealers he ha. around him, tire shortage Reborn got it into his of It came from Teas oil, channeled head to expand his properties and start through Nixon fund-raiser Robert Al- • recapping business. .0 he got a loan len (Gulf Resources),:' "laundered" in from a fined who happened to be on a Mexican bank, end then carried to the local OPA tire board (a clear Republican flounce chairman Maurice conflict of intennt)" and before long Stan. by an executive of Penzoil.''' The rest came from a Minneapolis was the Larsen remover in Florida. In 1951- he met It[thud Nixon on one of "soybean king," Dwayne Andreu," the iuttei s trim to Miami and the two with a home and investments in Flor- seem to have hit it off: both the ante Ida and tree to Southern money, and age, both quiet, withdrawn. and hu- was delivered to Suns by a crony of mor lea, both aggressive success. Andreu's with Florida investment, of hi. own." The money stayed humeri. both part or the new South- for a ern-rim milieu. lime in Stens', sere and then was deposited in a Miami bank for Bernard Rebore, later expanded into land dens and in the early 1960s este], Barker, Rebozo's boldness associate, a Inhed the Key Biscayne Bank, of man who had worked for the CIA, had which he is president and whose tint been paymaster of the Bay of Pigs sanitise-account customer was Nixon. operation, was close to the anti-Castro- This bank in 1968 was the repository pro-Batista Cuban community in of stolen stocks, originally taken and Miami, and masterminded at leant three channeled to the bank by organtzed- Lanaky syndicate conduit. Nixon !et crime sources. Rebazo clearly sus- this property go unrecorded in the pected there was something dubious Dade County Clerk's office for four about these mocks the even told an yearn, until the mortgages were paid off FBI agent that he had called up in March 1971, presumably because he Nixon'. brother Donald to check on wanted no public record of his connec- tion with s man hke Denser their vain:111SL but he subsequently (Sum Dance, p. 64). sold them for cash, even after an inaurance company circular was "See Jack Anderson's Washington col- mailed out to every bank listing them umn for weekly newspapers, United as littalen) 7 Small wonder that the Features Syndicate, lune 26, 1972. bank was thereupon sued by the company which had insured those 1.Newsday, "Special Report," p. 43. stocks, (The cue was eventually tried happened to be a close friend of Nixon hintself is not out to make a "Which the Nixon re-election com- before a Nixon-appointed federal Reborn's end a stockholder in his vast personal fortune as his predecesso mittee acknowledged March 9, 1973, judge, lames Lawrence King, who bank_ This, coupled with the fact that did, In returning 5100,000 to Allen; New York Times, March 10, 1973, p. 1. Rebozo never fully disclosed his busi- But the umavorineas surrounding "New York Times, January 28, 1973, "New York Times, ibid., and Time, p. 12. ness dealings in making applications to Bebe Rebozo does not stop there. For the SBA, led Newsday, in a prominent in the mid-19601 Rebozo was also a October 23, 1972, pp. 23-30. " Rebozo'• career has been examined editorial, to denounce the SBA for Rattner in n Florida real-estate com- "See "Report of the General Office in at lean three recent studies which "wheeling and dealing ...on Reboro's of Federal Elections to the Comp- also well out other unsavory aspects of pany with one Donald Berg, an ad troller General of the , Nose In the Nixon circle and mat behalf,"" and it led Representative quaintance of Nixon's and the man Audit of the Finance Committee to doubt upon the President's own be- Wright Palman to accuse the SBA from whom Noma bought property in Re-elect the President," bound by the havior. Newsday published a series of publicly of wren/doing in making Key Biscayne less than a mile from the US General Accounting Office, August articles on Nixon's Florida connections Reborn a "preferred customer."59 Florida White House. This same Don- 26, 1972. in the fall of 1971 (*.liable at a With one of the SBA grants Reborn ald Berg, who Du been linked with at "Special Report" from Newsday, 550 proceeded to build an elaborate shop- least one associate of mobster Meyer "To get an idea of how complicated Stewart Avenue, Garden City, New ping center, to be leased to member. Lansky, has a background so question- Southern-rim contacts can be, try this. York 115301. a New Lettish magazine Andrean's crony, Kenneth Dahlberg. a of the right-wing Cuban exile commu- • ble that after Nixon became President called &maws.. (1913 Fillmore Street, Nixon fund-raiser, was also s director nity, and he let out the contracting bid the Secret Service asked him to stop San Francisco, Californle 94115) ran of a Florida bank whose co-chairman for that to one "Big Al" Polizzi, • eating at Berg's Kay Biscayne testis. In article by journalist Jeff Gerth in its was a major stockholder in an invest- issue of November-December, 1972; convicted black marketeer and a run rant." Finally, according to Jock ment group called Penphil and who has and the North American Congress on named by the Federal Bureau of Anderson, Robozo was "involved" in benefitted enormously from Penphil's Latin America (Box 57, Cathedral Narcotics as "one of the mort influen- some of the real-estate deals of Bet- fsvors. Penphil has since been accused Station, New York, New York 10025) tial members of the underworld in the nerd Barker-the former CIA operative by a congressional committee of help- published a booklet on Nixon'. links United States."" ing to bankrupt the Penn Central "Fisher's Island details are to be to organized crime and the Watergate Rather unsavory, all that, if not Railroad, and two of its organizers and found In Lurie, The Running of Rich- affair in October, 1972. In construct- precisely criminal, and a rather odd one of its key shareholders have been ard Nixon, pp. 305.308; Newsday, ing this portrait of Rebores, as in other indicted for criminal conspiracy In career for an intimate of our moralistic "Special Report," pp. 42-43; and sections in this article, 1 have also used Sun- manipulating more than $85 million of Dance, p. 64. the coplouri and careful researches of "The expose of Rebozo's dealings Penn Central investments for their Own Peter Dale Scott. with the SBA was in Newsday. "Spe- ''Newritay, "Special Report," pp. personal profit (New York Times, 40-42. Two mortgages on a part of the 5° A violation of OPA guideline cial Report," pp. 9-15; the editorial, p. January 5, 1972, p. property Nixon bought from Berg were 3C-I18; SunDance, November-Decem- 43. Among Penphil'a major investments held, from 1967 to 1971, by Arthur were a Florida gas company. two ber. 1972, p. 35. 55'Ciuoted in Newsday. "Special Re- Desser, a Florida real-estate operator port," p. 10. Florid. banks, and a Dallas investment I'M...day. "Special Report." pp. who was another director of the Miami corporation, which also owned a Cali- 16-20. "Ibid.. p. la. National Bank during the time it _was a fornia reel-estate operation-a rather

The New YorkReulew Vought (Tess.. 360.01701. and Litton examples: rich Texas oilmen Industries (511,000). has been well docu- 1952 he handled some 221 pm- Herbert Kalmbach has been identi- mented, was attorney for Texas mil- Southern-net new-money business- bier-bookmaker cases in Los An- fied as one of the five people in charge Ronaire men included Walter T. Duncan Sid Richardson when he engi- geles; n he was instrumental in getting of funds for the million-dollar Republi- neered a million-dollar payment to (Team real estate. 5305,0001, Sam can operation to sabotage the Demo- a deportation order rescinded for Phila- Schulman (California National General Tens. oilman Robert Anderson in the delphia mobster Marco Reginelli in the cratic campaign last ymtr.v and accord- mid-Fifties;' and while governor of conglomerate. $257,000), John and ing to the FBI he personally gave 1950s; 7 in 1456 the McClellan Senate Texas he trickily denied the fact that Charles Williams (Oklahoma manufac- eommittee investigated his role as at- Republican funds to Donald Segretti, he had received at least 3225,000 from turers, $96,000), M. B. Seretean and the California lawyer who by all torney (or a convicted clothing rack- the multimillion-dollar Richardson es- Eugene Barwick (Southern textile accounts 'none denied) was the West eteer and exposed .(but did not fully tate." a payment that was possibly manufacturers. 1200,000), Anthony Coast leader of that operation;' Kalm- in explore) his Influence-peddling activi- violation of the Texas constitution, Rossi (Florida, Tropicana 1100.000), bach has also been identified in sworn ties in Washington.' 3 and most re- Chotiner has arm had a career C. Arnholt Smith (California financier, court papers as the strong-man in the of cently he has acknowledged in court slimy dealings over since he first in- $50,0001, and L. B. Maytag (Florida, Republicans' efforts to squeeze some papers his own role in the milk scandal vented the Pink-Lady attack on Helen National Airlines, S50,000). Donors S700,000 out of the large milk pro- Galmgan Douglas: between 1949 and I' Drew Pearson's column, May I. among the major organizations include ducer, in return for a government- 1956, distributed by Bell Syndicate: three with extensive lint contracts. the approved price raise s 'Sharrt11, The Accidental' Preridenr Cad.' Second Class Power. by Drew Texawbased Associated Milk Producers Connally, whose service on behalf of (Pyramid edition), pp. 122. 236. The Pearson and Jack Anderson (Simon 13782.0001, and two right-wing unions. payment was to compensate Anderson and Schauer, 1958), p. 281. the Seafarers (with direct oil and for en anticipated salary cut he would "New York Times. February 11, 1973. "Jeff Garth, SunDance, November- agribustnen Ilnks, 5100.000) and the take as Vice President on the 1956 'Senate hearings, March 7, 1973; December 1972, p. 66. Teamster, (with heavy investments New ticket, for which his Texas oil friends York Times, March 8, 1973, p. I. "McClellan Committee hearings, May from Southern California and Las were then pushing. 3, 1956, Textile Procurement 'New York Timer. January II, in the Vegas to Idiom, an estimated. 1973, 'New York Times, February I, 1971, Mtlitary Serums. p. . Vol 21, pp. S100,0001. 1 p. 1; February 3, 1971, p. I . 1563-1602.

Perhaps an even more revealing measure of the nmeters' influence Is their dononsece of the Nixon inner circle. Now their numbers are hardly CHANGING WOMEN IN A CHANGING SOCIETY beesuse this President is an Edited by loan Huber essentially friendless man. a distrustful "Can sociology transcend sex?" asks one of the contributors to this bright new person with few close cronies, but the collection of writings on woman's place in today's society. TIE now, most of few that exist are, almost to a men (no the questions about society have been asked by men. Here venous female women), from the sunbelt states, The sociologists do the asking. but—transcending sex—there are a few males. too. only visible exceptions are Donald "An important step forward in exploring deep social implications of the Kendall and Secretery of State William Women's Movement; in recognizing it for the revolution It really is."— Rogers, both solid Easterners, end men Gloria Steinem $7.95. paper $2.95 they are new-money, up-from-poverty

The rest nee people like Southern FEMINISM AND ART Celiforni, bunnosarnen Jack Drown, A Study of Virginia Woolf Ray Arbuthnot and C Arnbolt Herbert Mardar Smith. California politicien Robert Merder shows how this writer's work relates to her belief that the ideal mind Finch (a friend, apparently. even after is one in which feminine and masculine !mils are perfectly balanced. -Should his fall from office), end four men lake prominent place on the burgeoning shelves of literature by, for. and about who seem to be closest of all to the women and the movement to liberate themselves."—Publishes Weekly President: Herbert Kalmbach, a rich 8.511, paper $1.95 Los Angeles lawyer who is the Presi- dent's personal counsel and was him chief fund raiser during 1971; John THE SOUTHERN LADY Connally, the oil-tied Texas politician From Pedestal to Politics. 1830-1930 who is Nixon's financial guru and Anne Finn. Scott reportedly !IAA choice u successor, The author shows, using contemporary letters and diaries, how the supposedly Murray Chotiner, the California lawyer "fragile" Southern lady dealt with the hank reality of her hardworking life who rata been with Nixon since the and how she found her way, ever well-mannered and white-gloved. into beginning and dorms 1971 end 1972 politics. $5 95. paper $2.45 was with hint In the White Houle: and Bebe Rebova, the Florida millInnalre who Is reckoned to be the most CRUSADE FOR JUSTICE intimate of all with the President. All The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells of these are fairly typical Southern Edited by Alfredo M. Duster rimsters, all are new-money people. all are well-off, and all of them (except "A great black woman who is one of the unsung heroines of American history. ..Her moving autobiography abould also inspire many to help her cause, maybe Finch) are poetically conserva- the cause of humanity."—Librery tive. Most disturbing of all, several of Journal $14.50, paper S3.95 these people have had the taint, and sometimes the full Sterna, of scandal THE LADY around them. Studies of Certain Significant Phases of Her History Emily fames Putnam This law attribute deserves somewhat Foreword by Jeannette Mirky more attention, for It is inevitably one "In the age-long battle between men end women, she of the most striking feature' of the III the hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not Hee and fall with theme of women but with political cowboys and one with very those of men." Acute observations on "the lady" from the brilliant woman who serious implications for our national at twenty-nine became first dean of Barnard College. $5.95, paper $1.95 life. Without going into a full portrait of the noisome character of ao much of the Southern rim-home of well- ESSAYS ON SEX EQUALITY established organized-crime centers in John Stuart MW and Harriet Taylor Mill such places as Las Vegas, New Orleans, Edited and with an Introductory Essay by Alice S. Rossi and Miami, the last having lately The classic. The Subjection become a veritable Marseilles- one an of Women, together with other essays, some hither° unpublished. Rossi discusses Ibe long personal and intellectual Mill note that many of Nixon's closest relationship between the Mills. $8.75, paper $1.95 friends from this region are, to remarkable end unhealthy degree, guilty of improprieties in business. certain disregard for public trust, University of Chicago Press general lack of ethical sophistication, Chicago 013037 01 In some cases direct association with criminal figures To cite a few

May 3, 1972 tempt to foresteg Allende makes clear. The Adauribtration, disregarding its re- ■ Who know. what other schemes ITT cent setback by the Supreme Court. will t may be hatching right now in some step up pressure in Congress to pass other part of the world? Who 10104/11 laws permitting the Alaskan pipe-line NEW bARpER what other secret plans the Republican favored by oilmen and damned by party has ready to 'arm its own (one source has al- narrow purposes? ready mid the latter are fighting a lost TORCMOORS On a somewhat less sordid level, we aunt. It is likely to open up the an also get ■ glimpse of how the Eastern seaboard's continental shelf to second government operates by looking oil explorers and exploiters. It will William Barrett TIME OF NEED: at the recent "energy crisis" furor. press for the no-control strip-mining Now the fuel resource, of this country bill already in Congress on the grounds Forms of imagination eco- are quite possibly being dangerously that quick coal-gathering, even if in the Twentieth Century meet depleted-though, as lames Ridgeway disastrous, u necessary to TB Pita/ Saus hal pointed out. since few independent energy needs, a conclusion that chiefly surveys have been made, it's almost benefits the Western and Southwestern impomilfie to tell"-but the evidence coal operators. And it is more than indicates that the recent "crisis" was likely to postpone enforcement of the sealed not so much by diminishing federal pollution standards which. supplies as by the all interests, both much to the dismay of the fuel those with international tics who corporation., were supposed to have wanted to increase shipments from gone into effect in 1975. abroad and domestic producers along the Southern rim. With winter coming on and the refineries having concen- Other examples of the influence of trated on gasoline rather than beating the Southern rim, operating through fuel over the summer, the industry last this shadowy second government, are sure to emerge to the coaling months year launched a 53 million PR cam- more money for detrain induetrim, for paign'" to create panic buying at higher rate, and force s relaxation of example, following the 14.1 billion unwanted pollution standards Choy 1110...0 in the new budget even after dirty or freeze"). As a Ford Rumde- the Vietnam ceasefire. support for nim energy consultant, S. David Free- road building over man transportation, man, recently put it, 'The 'energy satisfying boom-area industry, right-

crua could well serve as a smoke wing construction unions, Detroit, oil screen for a massive exercise in picking interests. and the Teamsters all at the pocket of the American consumer once; continued encouragement for TV to the tune of billions of dollars a and radio licensing challenges from con yeas i° s servative cowboys against yankee- The Nixon Administration, as might owned stations; expansion of American be expected, considering its enormous influence in the Caribbean, where so debt to oil, bought the "energy crisis" many of Nixon', friends have heavy line and pushed it upon the public investments (Connally, Rebozo. Robert with all the skill of the Petroleum Almlanelp, the Murchison, etc.). Institute itself. It has made provision Other scandals-whether called by in the new budget for conaiderable that name in the prem or not, as with money to be green to domestic pro- the Watergate "caper"-are also lure to ducera for "technical assistance"- follow, for it seems ohyloul that the especially to develop oil-from-coal ex- kind of milieu in which the President traction-and this is likely to increase has chosen to immerse himself will in future-budgets. It permitted a hefty continue to produce policies self- ■ 8 percent rise in heating-oil costa in tenting t beat, shady at average, and the middle of imuery. right after price downright illegal at worst, and that at controls were tilted (thus making Its lean some of this will break through ballyhooed I percent price freeze in to public attention. It also seems March almost peintlena And it has probable that the American public will just proposed a new energy program continue to pay it all not much which, while allowing more foreign oil mind, despite worries from some imports, to the benefit of the larger Republicans now, and indeed that mternational Concerns, LI explicitly de- many people in the land identify signed for the advantage of domestic themselves with-or at least dream producers through the imposition of a themselves ea-the new-money set of tariff-like "fees" on imports and wheeler-dealeri and seen, to regard the official encouragement of domestic influence-peddling and back-scratching resource development and refinery con- as the true stuff of the Amerian struction. Its net effect is to increase dream. But that', another story, the value of in-around resources in this country, which will be vital in case of The real trouble with such oil mans, forum international troubles or even- not to mention spots of fetid din, is tual shortages. that they are very hard to wash off More of the same governmental your heeds. Some liberate, clucking bargeese can be expected in the future. with glee over the new Watergate disclosures, might like lo believe that as Viltege Voter, February I, 1973. the power of the Southern rimsters is "Washington Port, February 4. 1973. going to vanish after Nixon and his "Manors. February 19, 1973. p. 229. immediate friends leave office. As I

May 3. 1973 reed it, hrittreVer, this power is not culture and textile manufacturing, What is at work here is nothing latra increased paten: popuhition of the likely to ho washed away with a new mom trade (legal and illegal) across its than Kevin Phillips's fend Richard new-money ruhurtis, the galloping dr enntinisotation, no matter whet party wide-open borders to Latin America. Nikerre) Southern strategy, the crea- nations from the ever-blackening It mites from, for the entrenched There will Ilea continue to be more tion of a coalition of conservative Democratic party in the South, the position of the Southern rim in the popuiarion growth m its undeveloped fences :Made the Republican party 30 rampant I'm-all-right-jackism of the American economy Is not likely to areas, automatically shifting political sa to make it, for the first time since established nonurbeit unions, and of diminish-indeed, seem: most likely to power (as with the House of Rome- 1932, the majority pert), in the coun- course the financial wealth and shady increase-in the decades to come, sentativesl, Ind more growth especially try.4° It is built OA the populetton dealings of the ccothrlys. If that strat- There will certainly be more exploi- In its suburbs, where the Supreme growth of the Southern nite. the egy is correct. end every indicatlen titian of Its untapped energy re- Court's one-man-One-vote decision has 4°For an interesting analysis of this from the last two elections suggests sources, on .hare nod Off. mots de- in far had the largest effect cod where ammo, with en-far spot-on predic- that It is, the reversal of power that It pendence upon Its defense expertise. political power has already been trans- tions from Phillips himself. we Gary has brought is likely to nu just as long There will be more reliance upon its ferred to a considerable degree to Wills, Nixon Agonuter (Houghton Miff- as the one that brought Roosevelt to (often) union-free labor, both in Agri- Repot:beans and cornermilims, lin, 1969), Signet edition, pp. 246-251. power. ❑

Sante Barbers, Pike spoke to his mid Fletcher, "... wants you to under discarnate son_ His account of these stand that you, oar any other member 'lances, in his book The Other Side, of your family, have any right to feel was a Willey bonanza. The medium that you failed him in any way," moved from a tiny shade to l 570.000 Pike was deeply moved. "Thank house, now the headquarters of his you, hm," be said. Three months later Hallowed Grounds Fellowship for Spir- he had I private séance with Ford that itual Healing and Prayer. Lest year his moved him even more. In The Other fee for i sitting was 330, and there Side he goes into detail about its was a six-month wilting list. "flevideritiod" material. The ESP theory Oh dear to parapsychologists who In 1967 Pike had his most dramatic cannot buy the spirit world) that Ford encounter with Jim. At Lily Dale Ives picking Pike's mind Is ruled out; Spraggett had met Arthur Ford, en too much evidential data was unknown almost forgotten American medium to Pike himself at the time. In 19611, divorced from his second wife, Pike married Mena Kennedy, his secretary who had helped him write The Other Side. The following year, when he and Diane were touring the Holy Land, they became Mat in the Dead Sea deter and Pike died of a fall while Diane was seeking help. Spreg gen last no rime dashing off The Birhop Pike Story 419701. Diane lost no time dashing off Search 11910), her . account of Pike's death In the dames. Ford died in Miami on January 4, , 1911. On rho day of his death, his spirit instantly began dictating II book on the afterlife to Ruth Montgomery. It was published later in the year as A World Beyond. Ford had willed his papers to William V. Rioacher, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Woodbury. New Jersey, a convinced Spiritualist and long-time friend. Rsuscber deliv- ered Ford's funeral eulogy. He FM- posed to Spraggett that the two c011eb- orate on whet the book's Jacket calls the "authoritative biography of the world's greatest medium." World's greatest? Perhaps Ford was the beat-known native medium of re- cent decades, but modem mediums are scrubby lot compered to the earlier giants. One thinks of the Davenport end had been overwhelmed by Ford' brothers, with their marvelous stage slairroyessi powers. Why not bring Pike show: Daniel Dune's Home. who and Ford together for a stance end floated out one window and bark televise it1 The sitting was videotaped through another; Rumple Palladino, the in Torontoon September 3. Two fat little Italian lady who hoisted weeks later, ao halehour portion of the henry tables; Henry Slade, the slate two-hour session was shown on Cane- writer; Margery, the "blonde witch of than prime time. It was the biggest Beaton", And scums of others. Those psychic news story since Bridey Mur- Were mediums who really did things! phy. Compared to the great mediums of Ford's dreary history begins with his the pest, with their jangling tarnbou- birth in 1897 II Titusville. Florida. At rhaes, floalling trumpets, and glowing seventeen he was studying to be a ectoplasm, Ford put On I dull perform- minister in the Disciples of Christ anon. Au Wan his custom. he covered Church, at their Transylvania (Shades his eyes with s black silk cloth, felt Of Count Dractital) College, Lexington, Into a trance, and was immediately Kentucky. He dropped out to enlist in liken ever by Fletcher, his spirit Ike army. In his autobloglaphy, Noth- Control since 1924 After into:ductile ing So Strange, and his later book of several discamate churchmen Pike had memoirs, Unknown bur Known, Ford known, Fletcher presented a "boy" said flatly that he never got overseas, who turned out to be Jim. "This boy," but Spraegstt cites four published The New York Review running she CRP and according re and agricultural middlemen, oddly McCord wan the -.overall boa" of the enough with Republican ties_ Or the operation.'' cost-plus banditry which such defense Stens, who stayed on, has ante been giants. as Litton and Lingl-emco, shown to be directly involved In at Vaught have been allowed to get sway least Ono other piece of Chicanery with. Or the funny dealings of Under New CORNELL having to do with a secret 5200,000 Secretary of State and former SEC campaign gift he accepted in cash chairman William Casey, who it one of PAPERBACKS from Arthur Vete° of Investors Over- seventeen defendant' in a 52.1 million seas Service (heavily invested, Inciden- federal damage suit, charged, in the tally, in the Behereasl. a man thee words of the court-appointed trustee, land now) being sued by the SEC for with "self-dealings among themselves healing "spirited away" some 3224 for their own personal but to MARXIST ESTHETICS million from four mutual funds.' the utmost detriment and damage" to By HENRI ARVON, translated by Helen Lane, with There can be little doubt finally that A Southern "rim agribusiness corpora- an Introduction by Fredric Jameson. This civilized the entire sabotage Conpaian was at tion which went bankrupt a week after teem tacitly approved. if not serially Casey was nominated for the SEC.' and Sensible book provides an introduction to the orchestrated, by the President him- Or the charges against California potentialities—and problems—o1 an esthetic com- self-a conclusion which subsequent nessman and former Assistant Attorney mitted to political relevance, It examinee the ideo- presidential actions stem only to con- General Robert Mardian, a leader of logical impatience of art end presents a capsule firm, from the hasty attempt at a Nixon'. CRP whom McCord has linked history of socialist art end criticism, from the time "no-onearasitiveNed" coverup to the to Watergate and whom the New York of Marx to the perversions of the Stalinist era and testy erection of "executive privilege" Timer has accused of getting confiden- beyond. The ideas of BertoIt Brecht are treated at barriers. And so there it iB' from the tial information from the Justice De- length; of especial interest is the discussion of the top level of the government, through pa.mrt$37.iglin.enl to use in the Republican two of Nittorl'a cloleal tidy-biers and the "California Mafia" in the White House, Or the findings of "profound immor- through CtA career men and right-wing ality and comiptinn" by a nonpartisan Miami exiles, down to Florida bueineSs investigating committee of the Argen- men and Tenn oil millionaires. This is tine legislature against Texan William the 'mild of the thirty-seventh Neg. Clemente, now Deputy Secretary of dent. Defense, for lus very profitable role in Maybe Nixon." Quaker brethren a multimillion dollar ail deal, a deal in were right all along. One leader of the which he was partners with one man Whittier, California, Quaker meeting- who is suing hem for fraudulent con- a which Richard Nixon is still a spiracy mid two other, who have member-has gone on record NB being skipped the US to avoid paying taxes "quite concerned personally for the On their profile." Or the neat little spiritual Life of Richard Nixon". the deal by which Director of the Budget entire body Once debated "the removal Roy Asti and a partner in 1969 traded of Richard Nixon from membership" twenty-two acres of lend le California for his en-Quakerly prosecution of the with the Federal Bureau of land. for ; and his own mother, 14.141 acme of government-owned Hannah Pinhole' Nixon, a member of land en Nevada a. or his even neater the committee ctuirged with member,' dumping of some 32_4 Million worth "spiritual health." even had senous of Litton stock in 1970, nor long enough doubts about her son to advise before it became public that Litton's him "not to run for President."" stunbuifiling program wan in deep trouble and the price of the stock Ise purpose of examining alt of this dropped by half, the implications of is not, of course, to sling more mud on which are now being looked into by a figure already as splattered as a the SEC.33 Or, ... but just wait unto happy hippopotamus, but to try to tomorrow morning's paper. clarify the shadowy world of Nixon., All of these glimpses into the world bedfellows and to examine the extent of the second government-and they of what is almost a second govern- are obviously only tip-of-the-Iceberg ment, an unofficial but very important glimpses-suggest that there are iMpOr- nestle of power behind the acknowl- rant operations going on beyond the edged civics-textbook institutions. This reach of ordinary citizens or of piety second government, a, ere have begun politics, in many ways beyond even to see, is a combination of vast and the control of Congress. And though complicated interlocking forces, pulling these operations involve Men It the in the CIA here and organized crime top levels of government, they do not there, using politician, one time and seem to indicate any great enrichment ernigrd thugs the next, which seems to to democratic processes, as the ac- regard government as a tool for finan- cial enrichment, and is to a large knowledged campaign to sabotage one extent financed by and-working to the major political party bears witness, or benefit of the newer exploitative Ishii- to the constitutional exercise of for• newer, chiefly le the Southern rim. sign policy, as the acknowledged at. Perhaps because they are new to the which has been quietly cosy with the game, perhaps because they just feel CIA since World War 11, recently had they can get away with it, the more to acknowledge its attempt to pay a recent operatives of this second govern- million dosses to the White Houle and ment seem to have been a little the CIA to prevent Allende's election in Chas, and this followed not long clumsy. inadvertently supplying several after its public embarrassment in being revealing glimpses into their world, " caught bribing and arentwisting to pave Take the Soviet wheat deal, I the way for it, multibillion dollar bonanza for certain American strippers Hertford.Fire Insurance merge:. "New York Times, March 30, 1973, "New York Timex January 18, 1973; p. Wail Sneer Journal, January 16, P. I. 1973, p. 1. "New York Times, 28, 29, February '"New York Timer, 1973, p. I, end March 2, 1973, p. 15. October 13, 1972. "New York Timer, 21, s"Minsirer and Proceeding: of the December 275th Session of the New York Yearly 1972. Meeting of the Religious Society of "New York Times. December 4, Friends, Silver Bay, New York, July 1912. 26-August 2, 1970, p. 37. "Representative Let Aspin, Nation, ..Even one of the old operators of February 26. 1973; New York Timer. this type has recently mitstepped ITT. January 24, 1973, p. 6.

The New York RC rif TIOL forays by Cuban emigres to attest agent tether operations officer for the an FBI file) was the chief link to the have known "what was going on" at antiwar ',Weems in Washington Ian Bay of Pigsl and tormer White House reported California saboteur, Donald CRP I The second step leads to two men spring 3 ' Lensultant who became a CRP opera- Segretri. and according to the P.ew close to Nixon, personally and profes- Barker Wes paymaster this utne tive in 1471. Having spooks right in York Times was the White House sionally, CRP treasuter Steno and CRP around. too, and personally recruited me White House seems had enough, contact for the Watergate people."' chairman John Mitchell. Though thing, three others. ail of whom subsequently but the sorry trail goes en--in fact goes and Dwight Chapin. another White get pretty shadowy st this point- pleaded guilty at the Watergate trial: on for two more steps. House Californian and Haldeman aide partly because Nixon's FBI hasn't Eugenio Martinez. another old CIA who, according to L. Patrick Gray III, college investigated much here-it seems oh- operative. end a real-estate bustncss he first step involves at least three transmitted funda to his aid T rious that both men condoned the partner of Barker's, and also vice other men besides Dean who were friend Segretti. mostly through-here anti-Democratic operations, and trial president of another real-estate firm White House aides to Nixon. Charles he is agam-Herbert Kembach.3' (In testimony indicates that both men with whom both Nixon and Rebozo Colson, Hunt's supervisor at the White the recent hearsay testimony of Mc- approved specific payments to spy- have done business.' e Frank Sturgis a Howe and head of • White House Cord to the Senate Watergate Com- matter Liddy out of Stens'. own office CIA operative, who lost his citizenship anti-Democrat committee known is the mittee Heideman himself is said to safe," In addition, Mitchell as CRP - at one time for his Caribbean gun- .tuck group"'" Gordon Strachan, a - chairman was so Implicated in the running ectivities trust for Castro in Haldeman assistant who laccordmg to image and disruption that was re- scandal-not least by his loquacious 1958, then against him in 1962), and portedly directed from the White wife, who complained of John's "dirty organizer of a -Cubans for Nixon" ''Werhinkron Pori, February 8. 1973, House. ." (April 7). p. 1. Colson has produced his own thinga"-thai he resigned his CRP posi- demonstration at Miami Beach last file, Time, October 23, 1972; private lie detector test claiming that, tion in July; it has since emerged that year." and Virallio Gonzalez, also a New York Time,t, February 7, 1973, p. In spite of McCord's impression, he he met daily With McCord while CIA operative in on the Bay of Pip, f. was not Involved specifically in Water- and a member of a right-wing anti- seta. The New York Times reported, "FBI testimony, reported by Gray. Cabo organization run by the same howevet. that. "The examination did New York Timer, Much 8, 1973; '"New York Timer. January 24, 1973, people who ran the 'Tobin, for not deal with the campaign of espi- Kalmbach. supta p I. March 18, 1973, Section 4. p. 1. Nixon" operation both last year and in 1968 These four men were guided in their operations by at least three others with close connections to the Nixon inner Han Social Structure circle, all of whom hare been con. sacred for their part in Watergate: 7LNG-ISO CH - L1 Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent Edited by JACK L. DULL who had worked on espionage matters A wide-ranging exploration of in the White House under Ehrlichman, 50Ciely during the important Hon who was assigned by White House dynasty. including the first English counsel John Dean to Nixon's Commit- translations of passages from tee to Re-elect the President (CRP). classical texts.' An unprecedentedly and who thereupon. according to trial rich and authoritative collection of tegtitnony, set up the Republican sabo- focte and interpretations of interest tage campaign. James McCord. a to scholors on many fields:.—Chooce. riventy-year CIA agent with eatensive "The footnotes and research contacts among the anti-Castro corn. apparatus both testify to the labor of munily, who was "security coordi- the author and editor, and give the 1:;,. nator" for the CRP and who says that reader the feeling of eavesdropping Dean cleared him for the job." and across the ages. —Library Journal rol; Howard Hunt. another career CIA 917.50.

neat sweep of the Southern rim. This last outfit, Macco Corporation, had- are you ready^-Herbert Kalmbach as in vice-president, and Maurice Suns as an investor with stock options that turned out to be worth 5570.000. How's that for full click? film Penphil story is told in full in lotaph R. Daughen and Peter Baum The Wreck of the Penn Central (Little, Brown. 19711 pp. 148-175. For the rote of the congressional committee, we House Committee on Banking and Currency, The Penn Central Failure and the Role of Financial Instirotioni, Staff Report, January 3, 1972.)

'" New York Times, March 19, 1973; Time, October 23. 1972; NACLA book- let, p. 24 (see footnote 151.

"StinDence, p. 36. Senate COrrollillail of the Judiciary, Communist Threat to the United Starer through the Caribbean, Hearings, 1965, pp. 918-920, 946, 951, 963-964; New York Times, June 28, 1972; NACLA, p. 24; Washington Port. June The Gs IS, 1972. Sturgis (then .tong the name Studios op Ftortrill was dao involved in a scheme -aborted by the Miami police-to Mompown supply arm, for a Nicaragua rebellion TSI.AN in 1959, using planes bought in his Preface name originally for Castro (Senate by C T Hearings, pp. 963-9641: that same year ha also flew • plane over Havana to "Halo hos drop anti-tam° leaflets, provoking • history, Kit major diplomatic incident (New York more—p5;: '. Timer, Octotim 3, 1959, p. 12). emerges ;; ''Dean's *alignment of Liddy emerged ponroyob..k. from testimony at the Gray hearings 1930e...kor:p New York Timer, March 10, which he 1973, p. 1 and Newrweak, March 19, —Journal 1973, p. 21.) Trial testimony was reported in the New York Timer, January 34, 1973, p. 1 The New York Times., April 7, 1973, reported his -clearing. McCord.