Word: earle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leadership capacity was again being debated because of his hesitation in firing Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz for making an obscene, racist remark...
...route to help dedicate a screwworm eradication plant in Mexico, Earl Butz took a plane to California just after the Republican National Convention in Kansas City. He could have flown either Continental or TWA, but his aide, Roger Knapp, chose TWA. In the first-class compartment, the Agriculture Secretary spied Singers Pat Boone and Sonny Bono, and John Dean, the former White House counsel who had blown the whistle on Richard Nixon and had just worked the convention as a writer for Rolling Stone. A gregarious man who likes to flaunt his snappy country-and often barnyard-sense of humor...
...eyed, Butz emerged to tell newsmen that the use of a racial jibe did not reflect his real attitude. Resigning, said Butz, "is the price I pay for a gross indiscretion in a private conversation." Half an hour later, Ford said that "Earl Butz has been and continues to be a close personal friend and a man who loves his country and all it represents." Accepting the resignation of "this good and decent man," Ford declared, had been "one of the saddest decisions of my presidency...
...Dapper" hanging on his office wall. A friend of YAF "When they were kids," O'Neill says he dislikes the John Birch Society although "a lot of the things they said are coming true." During the day I spent with him his only unsolicited comment on national politics concerned Earl Butz: "He shouldn't have resigned, he was only telling the truth...
...always interesting to see what government officials say when they think the American people aren't listening. One good example is the recently-published racist remark of Earl Butz. Many others came out during the Vietnam War--for instance, presidential advisor McGeorge Bundy's 1965 statement that "the imperium must first and foremost go to war to support its imperial representatives. Such tautological reasoning lies at the foundation of the imperial role." (reprinted in The Chicago Sun-Times, 7/11/71). What those in power say in private often contrasts sharply with the public image they would like to create...