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Author West, professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and a Southerner himself, was not attracted to Butler by hero worship. "I wanted to take on the meanest damned rascal I could find," West explains. But in sorting through the myths, West discovered that beneath the Beast's rapacious exterior dwelt a man of wit, large ideas and generous humanitarianism...
such as TSHOMBE, THOU ART A DOWNRIGHT RASCAL, BEST YANKEE IS A DEAD YANKEE, GO HOME TO BLOODY AMERICA, PEACE CORPS SPIES, AMERICA UNDER JOHNSON IS WORSE THAN GERMANY...
Down the Barrel. As for Salinger, Murphy harbors only dark suspicions. "I think this guy is really vulnerable," says he. "He's a chubby little rascal who looks and sounds sly and disrespectful. If this guy was doing such an important job in Washington, how come he quit on an hour's notice? My cook would give me more notice than that! He was a pressagent! I'd like to ask him what he did for the President during the Cuban missile crisis. Did he hold his coat? Did he get a fresh supply of paper clips...
Goldwater dickering to assure Dirksen's support. After his vote against the civil rights bill, Goldwater assiduously worked on Dirksen, visited the minority leader's office often, had drinks and dinner with him. Said one top Goldwater aide of Dirksen: "You never quite know what the old rascal is going to do, and it doesn't do to press him. But we were pretty sure he'd be with us when it came time to vote...
...Mason Rascal's Heaven...