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...mindless and abusive rhetoric of their pamphlet manifests some of the most insidious tactics of demogoguery: they use the Shockley position as a jumping off place for uneducated polemic on IQ tests, presenting ethnic groups as victims of IQ test discrimination. This is a blatantly politick ruse to gain the sympathy of the reader through his ethnic loyalties...
Buchanan readily termed the Watergate wiretapping "wrong" and "a crime." He found the distribution of a pamphlet during the Florida primary, charging Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson with sexual misconduct, to be an act that "crosses the line" into impropriety; he viewed electronic surveillance in politics as wrong (it is also a crime); and he considered the diversion of campaign contributions given for one candidate to the campaign of another to be illegal...
...committee failed dismally in trying to pin down this elastic concept of political ethics. Buchanan admitted editing a pamphlet that he agreed had grossly misrepresented Muskie's position on why it would be impractical to run a black as Vice President in 1972. His glib explanation: "This is exaggerated, hyperbolic, political rhetoric...
Shortly after President Nixon entered the White House in 1969, he asked John Ehrlichman, then White House counsel, to issue an 87-page pamphlet titled A Reference Booklet on Conflict of Interest. The pamphlet advised all Cabinet members to liquidate their investments and put the proceeds into blind trusts or diversified mutual funds. "We don't want any whiff of questions," said Ehrlichman. "No member of the Cabinet is going to know what he owns...
...number of cases which can be tried by Federal courts of administrative tribunals is small compared to the pervasive nature of employment discrimination," says a government pamphlet explaining the importance of the affirmative action program...