The Notes (28 page)
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he story of a play must be the story of what happens within the mind or heart of a man or woman. It cannot deal primarily with external events. The external events are only symbols of what goes on within . . . Excellence on stage is always moral excellence. A struggle on the part of a hero to better his material circumstances is of not interest in a play unless his character is somehow tried in the fire, & unless he comes out of his trial a better man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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oving means to love that which is unlovable or it is not virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable or it is no virtue at all; faith means believing in the unbelievable or it is no virtue at all. And to hope means hoping when things are hopeless or it is no virtue at all.
Judge Learned Hand
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harity is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.
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othing which is morally wrong can ever be politically right.
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ne way to settle a disagreement is on the basis of what is right not who is right.
Seneca
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e who knows no ports to sail for finds no winds favorable.
George Washington
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et us raise a standard to which the wise & honest can repair.
Wendell Willkie
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et us not tear it asunder. For no man knows when it is destroyed where or when man will find its protective warmth again.
Marie Montessori
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hen asked why she didn’t reply to her critics replied that if she were climbing a ladder & a dog came yapping at her heels she would have 2 choices. Either she could stop & kick the dog or she could continue to climb the ladder. She preferred to climb.
Rene Wormser, Council for House Spec. Committee on Tax Exempt Foundation
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esearch & experimental stations were established at selected U’s, notably Columbia, Stanford, & Chi. Here some of the worst mischief in recent ed. was born. In these Rockefeller & Carnegies established vineyards worked many of the principal characters in the story of suborning or Am. ed. Here foundations nurtured some of the most ardent academic advocates of upsetting the Am. system & supplanting it with a Socialist state. Whatever its earlier origins or manifestations there is little doubt that the radical movement in ed. was accelerated by an organized Socialist movement in the U.S.
Jack Henning, Exec. California AFL-CIO, Re. R.R.CGOV
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ithin the past 2 yrs. Gov R. has signed bills increasing soc. insurance benefits for injured and unemployed Calif. workers by more than $266 mil. No Gov. R or D in the history of Calif. has ever done anything like that.
Sen. McGovern, Inconsistencies of A Liberal
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ash. Post 5/17/72—I have sought not to whip up emotions. There is plenty of anger & tension without our leaders adding to it. I think a conciliatory approach is needed.
Cand. for Pres. McGovern
Wash. Riots—May ’71—Well if I were Pres. there wouldn’t be demonstrating like that. Those people would be having dinner in the W.H. instead of protesting outside.
N.Y. Times—3/19/72—But Henry Jackson destroyed whatever chance he had of becoming the Dem. nominee by embracing racialism in the anti-bussing campaign.
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nited Press 4/7/72—Thieu is a corrupt dictator who jails opponents. A despicable creature who doesn’t merit the life of a single Am. soldier or for that matter a simple Vietnamese.
Sen. McGovern—When It Was LBJ’s War
I support the strafing ordered by Pres. Johnson because I agree when our forces are attacked & our interests are under fire we have to respond with appropriate retaliation.
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. Vietnam can’t benefit anymore than S. Vietnam from a prolonged conflict. I would hope that we would wage such a conflict rather than surrender the area to communism.
A.P. 4/16/72
Pres. Nixon has descended to a new level of barbarism & foolhardiness to save his own face and prop up the corrupt regime of Thieu.
Speech Cath. U. 4/20/72
I think the re-election of Pres. Nixon would be an open hunting right for this man to give in to all his impulses for a major war against the people of Indo-China.
6/29/72 Interview with A.P. Gregg Herrington
I’ve said many times that the Nixon bombing policy on Indo-China is the most barbaric action that any country has committed since Hitler’s efforts to exterminate the Jews in Germany in the 30s.
L.A. Times 8/30/72—Re: Reducing Our U.N. Forces by 12,000
Mr. Nixon’s policy threatens the men we have remaining there with a grave & growing threat of annihilation. I want to be blunt about it—Nixon’s playing pols. with the lives of Am. soldiers & with Am. prisoners rotting in their cells in Hanoi. He’s putting his own pol. selfish interests ahead of the W.F. of those young Ams. & of the taxpayers of this country who are bearing the burden.
“Life” 7/7/72 On Death Of J. Edgar Hoover
I could feel nothing but relief that he was no longer a pub. servant.
P. 93 Mcgovern’s Biog.
I don’t know how Karl Mundt felt about me but I know I hated his guts. I hated him so much I lost my balance.
Cong. Record Sept. 8 1964—P. 21690
I regard Mr. Goldwater as the most unstable, radical & extremist ever to run for the presidency in either pol. party.
Tax Law
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ec. 351(e)(1) Internal Revenue Code—deals with collapsible corps.—The 1st sentence contains 551 words (Since ’76 tax reform act).
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ast sentence of sec. 509(a)(5) of the Code—“For purposes of paragraph 3 an org. described in par. 2 shall be deemed to include an org. described in Section 501(c) 4, 5, or 6 which would be described in par. 2 if it were an org. described in sec. 501(c)(3).