Vol. 4, No. 6 Box 618, ALTON, ILLINO IS 62002 JANUARY, 1971 Democrat Scandals in the Closet On New Year’s Eve newspapers all over Illinois philanderings of the Kennedys until the death of Mary proclaim ed in eight-column banner headlines a Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick forced the truth into sensational story. $800,000 in cash had been found the open. hidden in the closet of the Springfield apartment of a A Greater Scandal top Democrat office-holder in Illinois, Secretary of There is another Democrat scandal in the closet State Paul Powell, who died on October 10. The which has not received a fraction of the news coverage money was in all denominations from coins to $1,000 given to “ Powell’s Closet.” Yet, in this other scandal, bills. It was stuffed in shoe boxes, briefcases and strong certain corrupt Democrats made hundreds of times the boxes, hidden under old clothing and behind empty $800,000 found in Powell’s Closet. This other whisky cases, all in a locked wooden closet in D em ocrat scandal affects the security and the apartment 546 of the St. Nicholas Hotel in Springfield. pocketbook of every American and may be the most The money was discovered by the executor on im portant news story of our time. It involves October 11 and 13, but the news was suppressed for corruption, waste of tax dollars, high Democrat two and a half months, or until the Internal Revenue officials lining their own pockets with our money, Service began an investigation. The delay in political payoffs, election frauds, and the betrayal of announcing the discovery accomplished two very American security. important purposes. It prevented the voters from This other Democrat scandal was largely ignored or expressing their displeasure with the Democrats in the suppressed by the communications media for eight November election. It gave the bank the time to years. It received one important news story on disperse the cash so that it would be impossible to December 19, 1970 when an official Report on it was determine the date of the money, or trace the serial issued -- and then it was dropped back into silence numbers, and perhaps ascertain the source of the bills. again. It is a scandal which should be told and retold Powell was on the public payroll for 36 years, and examined in the greatest detail until every voter receiving only modest salaries, but he left an estate of knows the extent of the corruption, and demands $2 million. It was well known that he sold political punishment for the guilty. influence for cash and shook down many who crossed This other Democrat scandal is the TFX plane, his path. As the Chicago newspapers tactfully stated, otherwise known as the F - lll, about which the Senate “ Persons who knew Powell in politics or worked for Government Operations Committee on December 18, him showed little surprise over the hoard.” But the 1970 issued a 93-page Report called TFX CONTRACT Democrats and the press had worked together as a INVESTIGATION. It is a most important and most team to keep the corruption of this top Illinois fascinating document. It is must reading for all Democrat a secret from the voters—until the discovery Americans who care about their country and its future, of the cache made it impossible to hide any longer. not to speak of the way our money is being spent. There is a good lesson for Americans in the story In releasing this Report on the eight-year of what is now known as “ Powell’s Closet.” It is a investigation, Chairman John McClellan called the TFX dramatic example of how the Democrats can keep the a “ fiscal blunder of the greatest magnitude,” and laid corruption of their highest officials hidden from the the blame directly on former Secretary of Defense voters over a period of years and even decades, and R ob ert McNamara, former Deputy Secretary of how they can by hook or by crook suppress a scandal Defense Roswell Gilpatric, and former Navy Secretary as an election issue and evade retribution at the polls. Fred Korth. Gilpatric was judged “ guilty o f a flagrant “ Powell’s Closet” is also a striking example of how the conflict of interest” in awarding the contract to his law press cooperates in the news blackout over a period of firm’s client, General Dynamics of Fort Worth, Texas, many years in order to protect the power and instead of to Boeing, the low bidder. reputation of its favorites -- unless a death or some Until this Report was issued, the only account of unexpected event forces the scandal into the open. the TFX scandal available to the general public in Another example was how the press suppressed the condensed form was my book Safe N ot Sorry, published in 1967. The McClellan Report completely Shocking as is this sordid scandal, it is more corroborates the facts and charges I made therein three shocking that, apart from my two books Strike from years ago, as well as the later statement I prepared on Space (1965) and Safe N ot Sorry (1967), and my the TFX which was published in the Congressional numerous speeches and public statements on the Record of July 21, 1970 and in the August 1970 subject, the TFX corruption has been largely ignored Phyllis Schlafly Report. by the communications media. The one shining The record proves beyond a shadow of a doubt exception is the fine work of Clark Mollenhoff. For that there was not a single sound technical reason for eight years, the news media effectively suppressed the the McNamara-Gilpatric decision to award the TFX TFX scandal and kept it from being the issue it should contract to General Dynamics, instead of to Boeing, have been in the 1964, 1966, 1968 and 1970 elections. which every expert unanimously recommended. This Yet, the McClellan Report reveals that the 1963 largest single contract in the history of Federal Hearings proved that the original decision was a spending was given - not to the low bidder, but to the corrupt award to the high bidder for an inferior plane high bidder - not for the better plane, but for the which could never meet its specifications, that the poorer plane. “ inevitability” of the failure of the Navy TFX was The Navy TFX was completely canceled in 1968 clear by February 1964, and that by May 1967 the because it could not meet specifications, was admitted evidence of the failure of the entire TFX project “ was by everyone to be a total failure, and was inferior to overwhelming and irrefutable.” the plane the Navy already had, the McDonnell Where w ere the crusading newspapers, the Phantom. The Air Force version, the F-111A, has energetic reporters, and the television cameramen? suffered 15 crashes and has had every kind of technical Every other scandal in our history pales into deficiency. The last fatal crash in December 1969, insignificance beside the TFX scandal in amount of which killed two highly experienced Air Force combat money and damage to our country. Add together veterans, was caused by a wing breaking o ff in flight! Teapot Dome, Dixon Yates, Sherman Adams’ vicuna $312 Million Profit coat, and all other alleged Republican scandals and Yet, because of the crooked contract signed by they constitute only a tiny fraction of the misused M cNam ara and Gilpatric, General Dynamics is public funds involved in the TFX. How were the guilty guaranteed a profit of about $312.7 million and “ is able to cover up such a monstrous waste of public insulated from any loss” no matter how many are the money? deficiencies of its planes. Directive to Lie In December 1965, McNamara announced from Of course, the communications media had a great the LBJ Ranch in Texas that he intended to phase out deal of help from McNamara’s staff in this coverup. the B-52s and replace them with a bomber version of The McClellan Report gives chapter and verse on the the TFX called the FB-111. In speeches and public lies and misrepresentations about the TFX put out by statements, I immediately went on record as saying M cNam ara’ s p u b licity hirelings. The McClellan that the TFX bomber would not be as good a plane as Committee unearthed a directive issued by Assistant the B-52s we already have. The McClellan Report now Secretary o f Defense Arthur Sylvester on March 5, proves this, stating that the range of the FB-111 and its 1964 which was “ a clear directive from the payload are much less than the B-52’s. Department of Defense to the Air Force and to the The consequences of the TFX multi-billion dollar Navy to practice deliberate deception on the press and scandal are tragic to behold. The American taxpayers the public by reporting untruthfully so as to conceal have had to foot the bill for the most costly single the known glaring deficiencies in the airplanes.” This is mistake Congress ever voted. Far more disastrous than the same Arthur Sylvester who earlier had said, “ It’s an the money lost, is the eight years of precious time lost inherent government right, if necessary, to lie to save - time which can never be regained. While McNamara itself.” and Gilpatric were spending billions on the TFX, and The McClellan Committee sets forth instance after devoting enormous time and manpower to concealing instance of how McNamara and Gilpatric lied and its defects, the planes and weapons we need to stay deceived the Senate Committee, the press and the ahead of the Soviet Union were not built. The result is public. The reason why the McClellan Committee was that we have been cheated out of the defense we have able to document so many lies was that, after the paid for. Nixon Administration went into office in January Guilty Not Punished 1969, the Laird Defense Department cooperated with No one defends the TFX contract any more the McClellan Committee instead of concealing its files because the proof of its fraud on the American as the Democratic Defense Department had done. taxpayers is so overwhelming. Unfortunately, none of When the McClellan Committee examined the the guilty men has been punished. President Lyndon minutes of the secret meetings which were called Johnson p rom oted R ob ert McNamara to the “ P ro ject Icarus,” it became obvious that what presidency of the World Bank where he is spending McNamara and Gilpatric and General Dynamics were U.S. tax money in foreign countries with the same saying in private was totally different from what they wastefulness that he spent our funds on the TFX, and were saying to the press and to the Committee. where he cannot be fired by President Nixon. Gilpatric Why Did They Do It? went back to his New York law firm and Korth to his The question that fascinates anyone who reads the Texas bank, where both reaped a financial profit from TFX story is why did they do it? Why did McNamara their part in the TFX contract. The Congressmen who and his civilian pals in the Pentagon override the voted the $312.7 million TFX profit to General unanimous judgment of every expert and give the Dynamics have been reelected to office. contract to General Dynamics instead o f to Boeing? New York Times was candid enough to refer in its news story on December 19 to “ the widely held suspicions that the decision to give the F - l l l contract to General Dynamics had been a political decision dictated by the Kennedy Administration.” The McClellan Report confirms that the TFX contract decision was apparently nailed down at a White House conference at 4:30 P.M. on November 13, 1962 attended only by President Kennedy, Secretary McNamara, and Deputy Secretary Gilpatric. Delivering The Vote Take a good hard look at the political factors. The General Dynamics bid said that the TFX would be built in Fort Worth, Texas, the home state of Vice President Lyndon Johnson (24 electoral votes), with the Navy version to be built in New York (45 electoral votes). The largest single stockholder and chairman of the Executive Committee of General Dynamics was Henry Crown of Chicago, the moneybags of the Democratic machine in Cook County, Illinois (then 27 electoral votes). The Boeing Company, on the other hand, had the Why did they persist year after year in pouring billions misfortune to be headquartered in Seattle, Washington into a deficient plane which could never perform its (only 9 electoral votes), and would have built the plane mission? in Wichita, Kansas (only 8 electoral votes). There is a The McClellan Report makes it very clear what the big political difference between 96 electoral votes and motive was in the cases of Gilpatric and Korth. They 17. were making money on the side out of General In the very close presidential election of 1960, Dynamics. While Gilpatric was Deputy Secretary of Washington and Kansas had voted for Richard Nixon -- Defense, he was receiving $21,000 per year from his so obviously they were not eligible for Federal favors. New York law firm which was the general counsel for Texas, Illinois and New York, however, had all voted General Dynamics at a retainer fee of $100,000 per for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. Even more important, year. Gilpatric’s social life was such that he needed Illinois and Texas were the locales of the shocking extra cash to live in the high style he enjoyed. He is election frauds in the 1960 presidential election which supporting four wives, he escorted Jackie Kennedy put those states in the Kennedy-Johnson column by (whose tastes are never inexpensive) to exotic places the narrowest of margins. such as the Mayan temples in Mexico, and he received The TFX contract to General Dynamics was the love letters from her which made front page news last political payoff to the machines which had delivered year. the vote to the Kennedy-Johnson ticket in 1960. In a The McClellan Committee showed that Fred Korth contract the immense size of the TFX (the cost is now was the president of the Continental Bank in Fort estim ated by the McClellan Committee to be Worth, Texas, which had made a $400,000 loan to $9,174,900,000), there was enough money to take General Dynamics. Korth owned $160,000 in this care of everyone who needed to be paid off and to bank’s stock, so it was personally important to him keep the bodies buried. It was a down payment also to that General Dynamics have enough money to pay off these important political machines to do likewise in its large loan and keep a large deposit in his bank. 1964. But what about McNamara’s motive? The principal Everyone who cares about the security * the reason he gave in sworn testimony was that the honesty, or the solvency o f our Government should General Dynamics plane would be cheaper than w rite to the Senate G overnm ent Operations Boeing. It is obvious from the McClellan Committee Committee, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. Report that the Senators knew this was a lie. and ask for a copy of TFX CONTRACT In order to get the Democrats on the McClellan INVESTIGATION. For a fuller explanation of the Committee to sign the Report, it had to refrain from political motives, read Chapters 6 and 7 of Safe N ot giving any opinion as to McNamara’s real motive. The Sorry by Phyllis Schlafly. 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Ex- tra copies available: 15c each; 8 copies conclude that they are too timid or too indifferent to $1; 50 copies $4. corruption to hold national office. Even the Democrat 1. Which Soviet boss recently described the 1962 Cuban Missile (a) General William Westmoreland referring to the Crisis like this: “ We had installed enough missiles already to Vietnam War destroy New York, Chicago and the other industrial cities, not (b) General Douglas MacArthur referring to the Korean to mention a little village like Washington.” War (a) Joseph Stalin (c) General George Patton referring to World War II (b) Nikita Khrushchev (d) General John Pershing referring to World War I (c) Leonid Brezhnev (d) Alexei Kosygin 9. What Democrat Ambassador to Soviet Russia was so taken in by Soviet propaganda that he said this: “ The word o f honor of 2. What high Democrat official in the Pentagon said on the Soviet Government is as safe as the December 6, 1962: “ It’s an inherent government right, if Bible .. . [Communism] is protecting the Christian world of necessary, to lie to save itself.” free men . . . The Soviet Union stands staunchly for (a) Secretary o f Defense Robert McNamara international morality.” (b) Deputy Secretary o f Defense Roswell Gilpatric (a) Ambassador Foy Kohler (c) Secretary o f the Air Force Harold Brown (b) Ambassador Charles Bohlen (d) Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester (c) Ambassador Averell Harriman (d) Ambassador Joseph P. Davies 3. Which extremely influential Presidential adviser, who lived in the White House and pretended to be a friend of the “ common 10. Which Democrat President said this about the Soviet dictator man,” justified the Democrat “ tax and tax, spend and spend, who murdered more people than any man in history: “ I like elect and elect” policies in this famous expression: “ The old Joe Stalin. He’s a decent fellow.” public is too damned dumb to understand.” (a) President Franklin D. 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What important labor leader, who has spent huge sums to ious that his friends used this campaign slogan to elect defeat Republicans and elect Democrat candidates, was him: “Send to Congress; the wife you quoted as having said in a speech in Flint, Michigan on March save may be your own.” 18, 1933: “ We do not believe in God but that man is God,” (a) Congressman Adam Clayton Powell and, while on a pilgrimage to Russia in 1934 with his brother (b) Congressman James Roosevelt wrote home to friends in the United States:“ Carry on the fight (c) Congressman Vito Marcantonio fora Soviet America.” (d) Senator Edward Kennedy (a) James Hoffa (b) Harry Bridges 12. Which convicted criminal made this candid admission as to (c) Walter Reuther how the New Left finances its movement on college (d) George Meany campuses: “ We raise most o f the money for our movement through speaking engagements.” 5. 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