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MAZO DOCUMENTED KENNEDY THEFT OF 1960 ELECTION
In 1959, at age 18, I took a trip to visit Earl Mazo at his
news office in Washington, D.C.
An acolyte of Richard Milhous Nixon since age 11, in 1952, I
was greatly impressed by Mazo’s biography of Nixon.
As the years went by, my high regard for Mazo increased as I
saw the integrity and courage he manifested in documenting the fact that
Richard Nixon was elected President in 1960, and that John F. Kennedy and
his family stole the election.
"Earl Mazo, 87, a biographer of Richard Nixon and former
political correspondent for the old New York Herald Tribune and the New York
Times, died Feb. 17 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda of complications from a
fall at this Chevy Chase home.
Mr. Mazo wrote ‘Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal
Portrait’ (1959, reissued and updated with Stephen Hess in 1968), which a
Washington Post reviewer called ‘a respectable overture’ and the Times
deemed ‘far and away the best Nixon study to date — the most detailed and
most penetrating.’
"Mr. Mazo knew Nixon in the 1950s from when he covered the
White House as chief political correspondent for the Herald Tribune. He
accompanied Nixon on his 1958 trip to Venezuela and wrote a vivid account of
how the Secretary Service saved the then-vice president from a mob intent on
dragging Nixon from his car and killing him. …
"Born in Warsaw, Mr. Mazo immigrated to the United States as
a toddler. He grew up in Charleston, S.C., graduated from Clemson University
and served in the Army Air Corps. During World War II, he was a reporter for
Stars and Stripes newspaper in Europe. After the war, he worked at
newspapers in New Jersey and served one year in the Truman administration as
deputy assistant secretary of defense. …
"When John F. Kennedy won the 1960 presidential race, Mr.
Mazo felt strongly that the Democrats had stolen the election, telling The
Post in 2000: ‘There’s no question in my mind that it was stolen. It was
stolen like mad. It was stolen in Chicago and in Texas.
"Tipped off by reporters in Chicago, Mr. Mazo went to the
Windy City, obtained lists of voters in precincts that seemed suspicious and
started checking their addresses.
" ‘There was a cemetery where the names on the tombstones
were registered and voted,’ he recalled. ‘I remember a house. It was
completely gutted. There was nobody there. But there were 56 votes for
Kennedy in that house.’
"At the urging of Chicago Democrats, Mr. Mazo went to
Republican areas downstate and looked for fraud there. He found it but on a
smaller scale than in Chicago. He then headed to Texas, where he documented
similar Democratic electoral shenanigans. Mr. Mazo began writing what he and
his editors envisioned as a 12-part series on election fraud. By
mid-December 1960, he had published four of the parts, which were reprinted
in papers across the country, including The Post.
"Nixon called and asked Mr. Mazo to stop writing his
series because the country couldn’t afford a constitutional crisis at the
height of the Cold War.
" ‘I thought he was kidding, but he was serious,’ Mr. Mazo
told The Post. ‘I looked at him and thought, "He’s a goddamn fool."’
"Failing to convince Mr. Mazo, Nixon called the reporter’s
bosses at the Herald Tribune and implored them to stop running the series.
The editors pulled him off the story.
" ‘Nobody told me why,’ he said. ‘I know I was terribly
disappointed. I envisioned the Pulitzer Prize, for chrissakes.’
"Mr. Mazo joined the Times in 1964 as national political
editor but after a year switched to the Reader’s Digest, where he was a
roving correspondent. He also appeared on WTOP-TV as a commentator in 1969.
"A fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, he worked for the congressional Joint Committee on Printing during
the 1970s and retired in 1981 to become a ‘professional grandfather,’ his
daughter Judith Mazo said.
"His wife of 62 years, Rita Vane Mazo, died in 2003."
[Source: The Washington Post, 1/18/07, p. C7]
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Ralph de Toledano |
February 15, 2007
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RALPH DE TOLEDANO WAS AN ANTI-COMMUNIST HERO
It was my great privilege to know Ralph de Toledano, who died recently at
the age of 90.
I first encountered Ralph when I was a 15-year-old high school student,
via his book, Nixon. Both he and I were big fans of the then Vice
President Nixon and each of us even, for a variety of reasons, preferred
Nixon to Goldwater in 1964.
Ralph was a close friend of Whittaker Chambers and helped expose the
insidious influence in the United States of the Frankfort School based at
Columbia University.
"Ralph de Toledano, 90, a prolific author and journalist and a
passionate partisan for the cause of conservatism, died Feb. 3 of cancer at
Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. He was a longtime resident of the District.
"Mr. de Toledano was a former editor for Newsweek and National Review.
His political views migrated steadily rightward through the decades, a
political path trodden by a number of leftist intellectuals from the 1930s
and 1940s. Ardent anti-Communism was the impetus, Mr. de Toledano said in
his books, articles and interviews. …
"Mr. de Toledano’s disillusionment with the left became irrevocable when
Newsweek assigned him to cover the 1950 trial of Alger Hiss, a State
Department official accused of perjury in a case involving charges that he
was a Soviet spy. Mr. de Toledano came to believe in the veracity of
Whittaker Chambers, a former managing editor at Time and Hiss’s chief
accuser.
" ‘Whittaker Chambers became like a surrogate grandfather,’ his son said.
…
"Mr. de Toledano was close to Richard Nixon over the years, having
written a number of columns in support of his 1950 Senate campaign. He
remained a Nixon supporter, even when his National Review colleagues backed
Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater for the Republican presidential nomination in
1960.
"Interviewed on MSNBC’s "Hardball with Chris Matthews" in 2005, Mr. de
Toledano said that during the Watergate crisis, he advised Nixon to burn the
White House tapes on the White House lawn.
" ‘They haven’t been subpoenaed, so they can’t do anything to you,
because, otherwise, you’re going to be dead,’ he said he told Nixon. ‘And he
said, "Oh, no they’re history and they’ll never be able to get them." And
that’s what killed him.’
"He wrote 26 books, including ‘Seeds of Treason’ (1950), ‘Nixon’ (1956),
‘The Goldwater Story’ (1964), ‘Lament for a Generation’ (1960) and ‘Cry
Havoc: The Great American Bring-down and How It Happened’ (2006). He also
wrote several books on jazz, two volumes of poetry and two novels.
"Mr. de Toledano, of Sephardic Jewish heritage with roots in Toledo,
Spain, was born in Tangier, Morocco, to American parents. When he was 5, the
family moved to New York City, where he studied at the Society for Ethical
Culture’s Fieldston School. A violin prodigy, he also studied at the
Juilliard School.
"He received an undergraduate degree in 1938 from Columbia University,
where he majored in literature and philosophy and edited the Jester, named
the best college humor magazine in the nation during his tenure.
"In 1940, he became editor of the New Leader, founded in 1924 by the
American Socialist Party. By the time Mr. de Toledano took over, the
magazine had broken with the Socialists over the issue of Stalinism and was
becoming an outspoken voice of liberal anti-Communism.
"Mr. de Toledano served in the Army during World War II, initially as an
antiaircraft gunner. He was proficient in Spanish and French, and the Office
of Strategic Services, predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency, sent
him to Cornell University for a crash course in Italian with plans to use
him in Italy for undercover operations. He was dropped from the program
after being deemed too anti-Communist to work with Italian leftists.
"After the war, he was publicity director for the International Ladies’
Garment Workers’ Union before joining Newsweek in 1948.
"For National Review, founded in 1955, he wrote ‘National Review
Bulletin,’ a twice-monthly column from Washington. Later, he was the
magazine’s music critic. He also wrote a column syndicated nationally by
King Features.
"In 1975, consumer activist Ralph Nader filed a lawsuit against Mr. de
Toledano in connection with a de Toledano suggestion — denied by Nader —
that Nader had ‘falsified and distorted’ evidence about the Corvair. The
case lingered in court for years and cost Mr. de Toledano his life savings.
Paul Toledano said it was settled out of court. …
"His marriage to Nora Romaine de Toledano ended in divorce.
"His second wife, Eunice Godbold de Toledano, died in 1999.
"In addition to his son Paul, of Brooklyn, from his first marriage,
survivors include another son from that marriage, James Toledano of Costa
Mesa, Calif.; a brother; a sister; and two grandchildren." [Source:
The Washington Post, 2/7/07, p. B7]
ACTIVIST PROJECT TO EXPAND CONSERVATIVE INFLUENCE
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FAREWELL TO DORIS ELLIOTT
A good friend of longstanding, Doris Elliott, died of heart
failure on January 12th at age 82. She was a faithful friend of
The Conservative Caucus for many years.
"Doris June Elliott, 82, passed away Friday, January 12,
2007 of heart failure. There will be a memorial service on January 28, 2007
at 12:30 p.m. at the All Saints Episcopal Church, 209 S. Iowa Avenue in
Lakeland. Doris was born June 21, 1924 in Topeka, Kansas and grew up in
Casper, Wyoming. She graduated from Natron County High School. Doris studied
to be a nurse, and entered the United States Air Force where she received
her nurse anesthetist training. She was stationed in South Dakota,
California, and Alaska. Her career in the medical field took her to
Colorado, Texas and South Dakota. She worked for the University of Missouri
Hospital, Columbia, MO before moving to Mulberry in 1992. She worked for
Anesthesia Associates, Winter Haven before her retirement in Mulberry. Doris
was an active member in the Taxpayer’s Party. She is survived by her two
children, Clyde Andrus Elliott Jr. of Hollywood, FL, daughter Mary Ruth
Elliott of Amarillo, Texas, and one grandson Shaun Michael Clark of Kent,
OH, two brothers, Raymond Fritts of Thermopolis, WY, Darrell Fritts of
Orange County, CA and 10 nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers, donations
can be made to the John Birch Society at www.jbs.org."
(Source: The Ledger, 1/21/07)
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More on Gerald Ford |
February 7, 2007
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PRESIDENT FORD WAS HENRY KISSINGER’S ACOLYTE
Gerald Ford (nee Leslie Lynch King Jr.) was a "New World
Order" liberal, dating back to his support of Wendell "One World" Willkie’s
Presidential campaign in 1940.
Ford relied heavily on Henry Kissinger in formulating his
foreign policy, which included outrageous appeasement of the Soviet Union in
such matters as the Helsinki Accords and in other ways as well.
One of the most disgraceful days in American history came in
April, 1975 when President Ford presided over the tragic evacuation of
Saigon and the victory of Ho Chi Minh’s Communists.
Ford supported amnesty for draft dodgers and embraced the
vast expansion of "Great Society" programs against which he had voted as a
member of Congress.
Here are some excerpts from a Washington Post (12/27/07)
obituary:
"Born Leslie Lynch
King Jr. on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Neb., the future president was the
offspring of a brief, failed marriage between Leslie King, a wealthy Wyoming
wool merchant, and Dorothy Gardner King. The Kings divorced the following
January, and she returned to her parents’ home in Grand Rapids. …
"…Ford was drawn to politics. He had become active in Grand
Rapids the previous summer in the campaign of Republican presidential
candidate Wendell Willkie, who went down under Franklin Roosevelt’s
third-term candidacy, but who carried Michigan. Ford’s interest in Willkie
revealed a consistent ‘internationalist’ bent that was evident in all of his
succeeding political conflicts. …
"The year of 1948, when President Harry S. Truman was
confounding pollsters by winning an upset victory over Thomas Dewey, was a
time of decision for Gerald Ford. He ran for the U.S. House of
Representatives in what seemed to be a hopeless battle against the
entrenched Republican conservative, Bartel J. Jonkman, of western Michigan’s
5th congressional district.
"Jonkman was of Dutch descent, and the Dutch were the
largest single ethnic group in the district. He was considered an
isolationist who opposed American involvement overseas in general and aid to
Europe as proposed by President Truman under the European Recovery Plan in
particular.
"In retrospect, Ford seems to have been in tune with the
changing times. American involvement in World War II had dissipated
isolationist sentiment in the nation’s heartland. The internationalist
Willkie had done well in Michigan as early as 1940, and Sen. Arthur
Vandenberg of Michigan, the senior Republican on the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, had dramatically shifted from an isolationist to an
internationalist position during the war.
"Vandenberg was a political opponent of Jonkman, the senior
Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and he encouraged Ford’s
seemingly hopeless candidacy. Jonkman also was considered by some local
Republicans to be spending too little time in his home district. Ford waged
a vigorous handshaking campaign, aided by members of the reform group he
sided with before the war. He had the support of the largest daily newspaper
in the district, the pro-Vandenberg and anti-isolationist Grand Rapids
Press.
"In the September primary, Ford defeated Jonkman, 23,632
votes to 14,341. He won the general election with more than 50 percent of
the votes, a feat he repeated in each of the following 12 elections.
"Ford had proposed marriage on February, 1948, to Elizabeth
Bloomer Warren, a dancer and former model. And she had accepted. But the
couple kept their plans secret out of concern that her background as a
dancer and a divorced woman would have an adverse effect in the Republican
primary among Dutch Calvinist voters in the district.
"They were married Oct. 15, 1948, in Grace Episcopal Church,
which Ford attended. They had four children, Michael Gerald Ford, John
Gardner Ford, Steven Meigs Ford and Susan Ford Vance. …
"He surprised many Americans by unveiling, in a speech to a
Veterans of Foreign Wars convention, a conditional-amnesty plan for
Vietnam-era draft evaders and deserters. The proposal drew a swarm of
critics. Veterans groups opposed any amnesty program at all while
organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union called for
unconditional amnesty. Of the estimated 100,000 draft evaders, only about
20,000 took advantage of the program. …
"The communist offensive began in April 1975, and Ford
ordered the small remaining contingent of U.S. embassy and security
personnel to leave. The final evacuation produced painful pictures of
Americans in retreat —officials scrambling to get aboard helicopters while
Marines held back crowds of Vietnamese who had loyally supported the United
States.
"On April 23, 1975, in a speech at Tulane University, Ford
announced that the war in Vietnam was ‘finished as far as America is
concerned.’
"A week later, Saigon fell to the communists and the long
war was over.
"…Ford had traveled to Helsinki to sign an accord that
recognized the existing frontiers between states, including the border
between East and West Germany. This implicitly recognized Soviet domination
of Eastern Europe. …
"Ford was criticized for signing the Helsinki Accords at a
time when the press was reporting numerous human rights violations in the
Soviet Union. But the president said in his autobiography, ‘A Time to Heal"
(1979), he regarded the agreement as ‘a real victory for our foreign policy"
because the Soviets had conceded that national borders could be changed by
peaceful means."
"Ford as president was burdened by a White House divided
into feuding factions and by bad advice. He seemed more like Nixon than Ford
in snubbing Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn because Henry Kissinger
contended that the great Russian novelist threatened U.S.-Soviet détente.
Ford never connected with the anti-communist, tax-cutting and religious
conservative ideology that soon was to make Republicans the majority party
for a generation." (Source: The Washington Post, 12/28/06, p.
A27)
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Samuel Dickens |
February 6, 2007
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SAMUEL DICKENS
More than 100 people
gathered to pay their last respects to Colonel Sam Dickens, who died
at the age of 80 after a long bout with prostate cancer. Colonel Dickens was
a great American patriot, as set forth in his obituary as recorded in
the Washington Post.
During the 1970’s and 80’s, I worked cooperatively with
Colonel Dickens in battling the rise of Communism in Central America.
At the viewing I was able to spend several minutes with
Colonel Dickens’ widow who urged me to attend the funeral at Arlington
National Cemetery on February 5. Also present was Colonel Dickens’
son-in-law, Duncan Sellars, a former Executive Director of The Conservative
Caucus FTimwell as Dave Sanders and his wife, Kathy, Dave having
once served as Field Director for The Conservative Caucus (TCC).
"Samuel T. Dickens, 80, a retired Air Force colonel who
became an authority on national security policy, died Dec. 29 at his
daughter’s home in Oakton. He had prostate cancer.
"Col. Dickens, a Falls Church resident, graduated in 1951
from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and became an Air Force
pilot.
"He flew 12 combat missions in Korea and later flew
top-secret reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union. Decades afterward,
he urged the declassification of secret missions over the Soviet Union,
China and North Korea and helped to organize a symposium in Washington in
2002 about the flights.
"During the Vietnam War, he commanded a tactical fighter
squadron and flew 225 combat missions.
"He later served as base commander of Torrejon Air Base in
Spain, coordinator of U.S.-Spanish negotiations on the U.S. military
presence in Spain and chief of plans and policy for the Western Hemisphere
on the Pentagon’s Air Staff.
"After his military retirement in 1979, Col. Dickens spent
most of the 1980s as director of inter-American affairs at the American
Security Council Foundation, a pro-military organization. He was an
outspoken supporter of U.S. military involvement in Central America, noting
its strategic importance to U.S. interests. He was an adviser to the
Kissinger commission on Central America in 1984.
"He was secretary of the James Monroe Memorial Foundation
and was on the board of the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library in
Fredericksburg. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
"His military decorations included the Legion of Merit, two
awards of the Distinguished Flying Cross and 12 awards of the Air Medal.
(Source: The Washington Post, 1/2/07, p. B6)
DRINAN IS DEAD
One of the most wretched, malignant Left-wingers ever to
serve in Congress was Father Robert F. Drinan, whose death was reported this
week.
It had been my intention to be the Republican nominee for
Congress against Father Drinan in 1968. However, financial challenges
required that I drop that plan.
In the alternative, on the recommendation of Ray Bliss, the
Chairman of the Republican National Committee, I agreed to serve as campaign
manager for Pennsylvania Congressman Dick Schweiker in a successful campaign
to oust liberal Democrat Joe Clark from his seat in the U.S. Senate.
In the opinion of key Massachusetts GOP leaders, I would
likely have been elected had I been a candidate against Drinan that year in
the Newton district which neighbored my home of Brighton and had been the
place of residence for my wife and her parents.
I enjoyed solid personal relationships with key political
writers for the Boston Herald (Thomas Gallagher) and the
Boston Globe (Martin Nolan).
AIM EXPOSES GWB’S HEALTH INSURANCE TAX HIKE PLAN
Cliff Kincaid does a terrific job at Accuracy in Media
(AIM). He points out that the media, in general, has ignored the tax hike
recommendation which President Bush included in his State of the Union
message.
Here is what Cliff Kincaid has to say about that:
"Are the media capable of providing accurate and complete
coverage of issues of public importance? Consider the coverage of President
Bush’s State of the Union address. Forget the endless commentaries about the
President’s demeanor and the congressional reaction.
"What did the President actually say? Did journalists
recognize and report that President Bush, in an unprecedented development
and break with previous policy, had proposed a tax increase on the middle
class? …
"Reuters quoted a White House official as saying that about
30 million Americans could face a tax hike under the Bush plan.
"However, in an official document, the Bush White House
disguised the proposed tax increase, saying that the President was proposing
that health insurance be treated as ‘taxable income’ and that ‘This is a
change for those who now have health insurance through their jobs.’ Yes, a
‘change’ that would hike their taxes. …
"To their credit, Jonathan Weisman and Michael A. Fletcher
of the Washington Post noted that Bush had proposed ‘the first real tax
increase of his presidency’ in the health care measure. Their story ran
under the headline, ‘Bush Adopts Some Priorities Of Congressional
Democrats.’ …
"The Heritage Foundation defends the Bush plan, arguing that
those affected ‘do not really need a tax break.’ This is another way of
saying their taxes will go up. The proposed Bush tax increase will affect at
least 20 percent of Americans. …
"Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) inexplicably argued that the
Bush proposal was ‘not a tax increase on American workers.’ It said that the
Bush measure would ‘eliminate the discrimination of tax benefits for
healthcare’ and is ‘exactly what is needed for lower healthcare costs and
improve [sic] benefits.’
"Of course, by eliminating so-called ‘discrimination’ in the
provision of ‘tax benefits for healthcare,’ the proposal will raise taxes,
by the White House’s own admission. That means the proposal runs counter to
ATR’s concrete opposition to any tax increase. Indeed, ATR wants Bush to
veto any bill with a tax increase. So ATR cannot have it both ways, either.
"There comes a time when supporters of the President have to
put their pro-Republican bias aside and be honest and straightforward about
the tax-raising provisions of his proposal."
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