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Secret Yen. But the military is only one of Pike's many interests. Says an official biographical memo he wrote about himself: "He can fly a plane, navigate a boat, play a piano (or a ukulele) . . . swing an ax, sing a song . . ." The son of a Republican Long Island banker, Pike grew to admire Franklin Roosevelt during the New Deal and joined the Democratic Party at 21. A Princeton graduate who finished Columbia Law School in 1948, Pike was first elected to Congress from his conservative Long Island district in 1960 ("I've always been surrounded on three...
...House Intelligence Committee was stalled in mid-September when President Ford objected to its release of material that he deemed vital to national security. Since then, the White House has refused all requests for more documents or more high-level witnesses from the Administration. In turn, Committee Chairman Otis Pike of New York threatened last week to ask the House to cite Administration officials for contempt of Congress...
Tempers cooled off a bit at week's end as Pike and the committee's ranking Republican, Robert McClory of Illinois, tried to work out a compromise with the White House. One possible agreement would allow the Administration to delete the names of agents and foreign collaborators from any documents supplied to the committee. The committee would also give the Administration 24 hours' notice if it planned to publish classified material. Should the Administration object to the release, it would be given more time to explain its position. In some instances, the President might be granted final...
...strongest action the House of Bishops had taken against any of its members since 1966, when it assailed the late Bishop James A. Pike of California for "irresponsible" doctrinal statements. In the Portland discussions, some prelates fumed about the "total lawlessness" of their three colleagues. Retired Bishop William Moody of Lexington, Ky., a traditionalist, remarked that if any more women receive illegal ordinations, he would seek permission to bestow holy orders on Secretariat. "We already have parts of the horse," he allowed. "Why not the whole thing?" Before the vote, one of the two rebel prelates present, retired Bishop Edward...
According to Pike, the intelligence community's "mania for secrecy" was also partly responsible for the Yom Kippur War catching the U.S. by surprise in 1973. He said that U.S. intelligence agencies refused to let Pentagon and State Department officials see intercepted communications between the Soviets and Egyptians that "should have alerted us that a war was about to break...