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Next day, the Budget Director was still undecided. He talked to Congressman John Flynt Jr., dean of Georgia's delegation in the House. "Hang in there!" Flynt implored Lance. Reassuringly, Bert replied: "I didn't come to Washington to resign before I completed my work...
...courts interpreted the First Amendment literally? If a prankster has no constitutional right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, then certainly Nazi goons have no right to march in Skokie, Ill. If freedom of speech and of the press does not apply to Deep Throat or Larry Flynt's Hustler, then it should not apply to the hate-mongering literature and rabble of the Ku Klux Klan or their Nazi comrades...
Jaworski, asked by House Speaker Tip O'Neill to take over the foundering Koreagate probe in July, remained confident that he could get the facts. O'Neill made it clear to Georgia's crusty John Flynt, chairman of the ethics committee, that neither he nor Jaworski would tolerate any obstructionism. "If Jack Flynt gets in our way, we'll go around him," said one investigator, "or maybe we'll just run right over him." At Jaworski's first appearance before the committee last week, Flynt and other committee members indicated that such tactics would...
...getting tape recordings from the White House. The key figure, South Korean Entrepreneur Tongsun Park, hastily moved from Washington to London last year after the first published reports that he had given some Congressmen up to $10,000 each. The ethics committee, headed by Georgia's John J. Flynt Jr., has been looking into Koreagate for almost ten months without noticeable progress. Further tarnishing the House's image, the committee's counsel, Philip Lacovara, 33, who was Jaworski's Watergate assistant, quit two weeks ago, claiming that Flynt was not fully cooperating...
...important to point out that the rights of a community to decide what is obscene is the law laid down by the Supreme Court. This law applies not only to conservative Cincinnati but also to every community in our nation. No one in Cincinnati has forbidden Larry Flynt to publish Hustler or burned any of his magazines. But while Flynt has a right to publish Hustler magazine, every community also has the right to declare it obscene. This may seem like a paradox, but obscenity, if left unrestricted, will produce a free society of smut peddlers...