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When the controversy over busing began, Gregory said, he sent George Wallace a telegram: "Why don't you do what you did before--stand in front...
This awareness that he is unfit for communal life may be one reason that Skinner has never tried to start a real Walden Two, never sent a Dear-President-Mittelbach telegram to the president of Harvard. In addition, he likes his own kind of life too well to give it up even for an ideal in which he believes so intensely, and even if he felt otherwise, his wife is opposed to the idea...
...Irish Republic's Prime Minister John Lynch warned the British government that, unless it stopped trying to achieve a "military solution," he would back the passive-resistance policy of Northern Ireland's Catholics. Retorted British Prime Minister Edward Heath: "Your telegram is unjustified in its content, unacceptable in its attempt to interfere in the affairs of the United Kingdom," and calculated "to do the maximum damage to the cooperation between the communities in Northern Ireland...
...seemed a profitable political stroke, for it would surely please Southerners reluctant to desegregate. But he left an opening to the right, and inevitably Alabama Governor George Wallace-the man Nixon hoped to undercut-was quick to take full advantage of it. Wallace pounced last week, sending Nixon a telegram designed to aggravate the already tricky situation in which the President had put himself. Wired Wallace: "The conflicts between your recent statements opposing the busing of schoolchildren and the action of federal departments directly under your control have left our people in a dilemma." Nixon took the bait...
...after the steel settlement, Pierre Rinfret, a windy but influential business economist who sometimes advises Nixon, told his clients by telegram not to hesitate to raise their own prices. The steel deal, he said, "locks in inflation." More important, he advised clients to give the unions what they want, and then increase prices still more to pay the bill. Says Rinfret: "There is no point in taking the heat if the Government won't stand behind...