Adler taped?
Sir: In your issue of the September 21 your readers, under guise of a review of Professor Arthur J. Schlesinger Jr.'s book The Imperial Presidency, are treated to yet another virulent attack upon ex-President Nixon and, through this, on the Constitution of the United States itself.
Mr Larry Adler, the author of this piece, first achieved fame and fortune by playing the mouth-organ. I am told by those who enjoy this instrument that he played it well. He was believed, many years ago, to be a Communist, and was therefore summoned before the deplorable Congressional Committee over which Senator Fifth M Amendment, c Carthy presided. which H e pleaded the meant in effect that he could not state the truth since his . answer would or amdivgohctaitnincgrimthienaotveerthihmrowonoaf tchheaurgneiteodf States Constitution by force. It was and is generally believed in the United States that persons who plead the Fifth Amendment. are probably anxious to hide something, at that time and in such cases a desire to overthrow the United States Constitution by force. However, he was released, but found it rather hard to find work in the United States that would bring him the income he had previously enjoyed. He took his 'or Ervin, who m oHuet hnnow g apnr at los eEsn sg el annadt
has never on a single occasion failed to vote against any anti-racist bill in the Senate,
for that attacks On aonn'sexd-rperaerysidaenndt curmudgeanlY. Nixon and his aides in a series or Congressional Committee sittings at least as futile as McCarthy's. One would be surpnsed it Larry Adler did not kick a man who is down for the count, particularly a man such as Nixon who never spared his own political enemies, Fifth AmendmntorsnligohFtliyfthsurriesnindgment. It is, however,
that he should . simultaneously praise American constitutional procedures, if used to confound Adler's political enemies, when denigrating the Constitution as such. It is even more surprising, sir, that you should publish the muddled thoughts of an inferior and
vin bought my small daughter anRdeeiwecetinmouth mind.n-clorgan. Despite inflation, they are not particularly expensive. And there is no need for me to remind you lnottin e FitzGibbon that newsprint ccoosntsstaa
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