Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot allow your statements regarding Professional Standards Review Organizations [Dec. 17] to go unchallenged. As a practicing physician for 15 years, I feel that I am the better judge of what is good for medicine than some Washington bureaucrat. Your article leads one to think that Americans are dying by the thousands because of the incompetency of the American doctor. Nothing is farther from the truth. American medicine is recognized worldwide as being the best...
...result of the careful screening of Gerald Ford [Dec. 17] by Congress, we probably have the best Vice President in years. Consideration was given only to his fitness for the office and not whether he could deliver the vote of a certain section of the country. Perhaps we should pick future Presidents in a similar manner. The country is so large that we have outgrown our original method of choosing a man to lead the nation. Some way must be found to choose men of merit...
...truckers' demonstrations [Dec. 17] are base blackmail. There are dozens of other professional groups and thousands of industrial workers who have had their income cut off entirely, instead of just reduced a bit, as a result of the energy crunch. Most have clenched their teeth, pulled in their belts, put on sweaters, and are working a little harder...
...Nixon is going to let Congress decide if he should pay additional back taxes [Dec. 17]. Why not prosecute him as I would be prosecuted? The way I see it, if Congress lets him get by with this, they might just as well go home...
...your article "The Great Slap Flap" [Dec. 3]: I am disgusted and angered by the press and its apparent personal feud with President Nixon. What gall TIME has to say that the White House attempt to use this story to discredit press criticism seems heavyhanded to most newsmen...