Word: nader
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Despits confusion, a heavy workload and near physical abuse, the five Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates who wrote profiles this summer for Ralph Nader appear to be satisfied with their work...
Whether Ralph Nader's much heralded study of the Congress will accomplish similar and much needed congressional overhauls remains to be seen, but the first segment of the study, published last week as a $1.95 paperback titled Who Runs Congress (Bantam Books), bears a distressing resemblance in its tone and quality of research to Phillips' tirade. The tract revels in recounting every instance of bribery, influence peddling and even criminality in the congressional history books, but it is neither explicit nor persuasive in presenting its view of the problems that short-circuit congressional progress...
Nearly everything but Nader's intent is wrong about this book, the first of several to come out of the study (the next: profiles of every Senator and Congressman). It is tendentious, hostile and superficial, and contains nary a footnote to indicate its sources. Hastily edited, the book is flawed by a number of factual errors and incorrect data. Examples: the book refers to "former Congressman Clem Long"; presumably Maryland Democratic Congressman Clarence Long. It cites Missouri Congressman Richard Boiling for putting his wife on the congressional payroll; she works in his office but is an unpaid volunteer. Senator...
...Nader stoutly defends the project, on which he has spent $200,000 and employed 1,000 paid writers and volunteers. His hope is that the effort will spur Congress to hold a special session next year specifically devoted to its own reform. Congress, he says accurately enough, has abdicated its constitutional power to the Executive Branch, and the process is quickening at a "geometric rate." He asserts that the U.S. is in the throes of a "devolution of the three-part system of Government" as a consequence. He admits that it will be hard to rally wide public support...
Given these statistics and endorsements, even Ralph Nader would have to agree with Governor Nelson Rockefeller's dictum: "No candidate for any office can hope to get elected in this country without being photographed eating a hot dog." (Indeed, F.D.R. went so far as to serve franks to King George VI.) One of those candidates, a consumer named Richard Nixon, once announced, "I come from humble origins. Why, we were raised on hot dogs and hamburgers. We've got to look after...