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...peace ploy-and contempt...
...those policies were not enough for Mr. Watt to hang his hat on, he has, of late, taken to tangling with Congress. His adamant refusal to turn over a number of subpoenaed documents to the House Energy and Commerce Committee has resulted in that committee citing him for contempt of Congress. Watt has stonewalled the committee by declaring that the documents--which concern Canadian energy and investment policies and Administration responses to those policies--are sensitive, he claims that he can retain them under the powers of executive privilege. Barring the negotiation of solution between the Administration and the committee...
...another imbroglio, Mr. Watt has proven that House committee's assessment of him accurate: he does have contempt for Congress. The secretary, who last December used some $9000 of government funds to hold parties in mansion owned by the government, has made it abundantly clear that he does not care at all if the General Accounting Office (GAO) finds he misused the funds. Dismissing the suggestion that he reimburse the government, Watt says tersely it is the GAO that "is in error." Indeed, the Secretary does not even deign to appear at the Congressional hearing into the matter, sending instead...
Protested one prominent Washington black leader: "Of all the blacks they might have selected, they picked out a right-wing religious nut. It shows this Administration's complete contempt for civil rights and for the commission." Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women: "I feel almost speechless. He is hostile to all the groups the commission is supposed to serve...
...Wall Street adage has it that if a person has not made his first million dollars by the time he is 30, he is never going to make it. In 1776 Adam Smith wrote that it was young people who had "the contempt of risk and the presumptuous hope of success," precisely the skills needed to found new businesses. Indeed, a large number of entrepreneurs have achieved success at a very early age. One of many examples: William Gates, 26, dropped out of Harvard in 1975 during his sophomore year to form Microsoft, which makes software for personal computers...