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The Culture of Bureaucracy

The President's Asylum:The Secret Service's Preventive Detention

The easiest way to get commited to a mental hospital is to show up at the gates of 1600 Pennsylva...

by Timothy Ingram

The Washington Monthly, October 1972, pp. 35-44

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    January 1972 Issue = 10 Articles
    1. The Folding of Fred Harris by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 4-13
    2. Memo of the Month, p. 14
    3. Finding the Facts Bureaucrats Hide by John Rothchild, pp. 15-27
    4. Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 28-29
    5. The Political Puzzle, p. 30
    6. Nothing Fails Like Success by Eric Lax, pp. 31-35
    7. The Billions in The White House Basement by Timothy Ingram, pp. 36-51
    8. Jobs: Get 'Em Where They Ain't by Michael Rappeport, pp. 52-54
    9. Why Mayors Go Nowhere by Theodore J. Lowi, pp. 55-61
    10. [+]
      Political Book Notes, pp. 62-66 - 21 Reviews
      1. America Encounters India, 1941-1947 by Gary R. Hess
      2. American City Planning Since 1890 by Mellier Goodin Scott
      3. The Atrocity of Education by Arthur Pearl
      4. Cold War and Counterrevolution by Richard J. Walton
      5. The Ecology of the Public Schools by Leonard J. Fein
      6. Economic Imperialism by Kenneth E. Boulding and Tapan Mukerjee
      7. Equal Justice by Arthur J. Goldberg
      8. Essence of Decision by Graham T. Allison
      9. The Forging of the American Empire by Sidney Lens
      10. The Future of Indochina by Joseph Zasloff and Allan Goodman
      11. Games Nations Play by John W. Spanier
      12. Letters From Attica by Samuel Melville
      13. The Politics of Consumer Protection by Mark V. Nadel
      14. Professor Reinhold Niebuhr by Ronald H. Stone
      15. Report From Engine Company 82 by Dennis Smith
      16. The Rise of Teamster Power in the West by Donald Garnel
      17. Student Activism by Alexander DeConde
      18. The Theory of Public Choice by James M. Buchanan and Robert D. Tollison
      19. Transnational Relations and World Politics by Robert Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
      20. The Young Die Quietly by Whitney North Seymour
      21. Your Money or Your Life by Richard Kunnes
  2. [+]
    February 1972 Issue = 12 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-7
    2. Introduction by John Rothchild, pp. 8-12
    3. West Virginia:The Governor Tooketh by Mary Walton, pp. 13-23
    4. Political Puzzle, p. 24
    5. Maryland:The Governor Raiseth by Thomas B. Edsall, pp. 25-35
    6. Memo of the Month, p. 36
    7. New Jersey: The People Close Their Eyes by Michael Rappeport, pp. 37-38
    8. Working Up to Killing by Oriana Fallaci, pp. 39-46
    9. Tidbits and Outrages, p. 47
    10. Rehnquist, Powell, and the Cult of the Pro by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 48-56
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      An Irresistible General, an Immovable Justice by Theodore J. Lowi, pp. 57-62 - 1 Review
      1. Kennedy Justice by Victor S. Navasky
    12. [+]
      Political Book Notes, pp. 63-66 - 11 Reviews
      1. Ideology in America by Everett Carll Ladd, Jr.
      2. The Megastates of America by Neal R. Peirce
      3. The New Left Today by Phillip Abbott Luce
      4. Nine Lies about America by Arnold Beichman
      5. Political Brokers by Judith G. Smith
      6. Politics in the Post Welfare State by M. Donald Hancock and Gideon Sjoberg
      7. The Politics of Belleville by Daniel Judah Elazar
      8. Politics, Poker and Piety by Wallace E. Fisher
      9. The Science of War and Peace by Robin Clarke
      10. Truth and Untruth by Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
      11. The United States Vs. William Laite by William E. Laite
  3. [+]
    March 1972 Issue = 13 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-8
    2. Government Subsidies: Who Gets the $63 Billion? by Taylor Branch, pp. 9-27
    3. Tidbits and Outrages, p. 28
    4. The Cities Turn a Corner by Michael Rappeport, pp. 29-30
    5. Political Book Award, p. 31
    6. The Red Badge of Literature by William Styron, pp. 32-34
    7. The Imaginary Insider by John Rothchild, pp. 35-39
    8. Memo of the Month, p. 40
    9. What Do People Do All Day by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 41-50
    10. An Unlikely Oracle by Russell Baker, pp. 51-53
    11. Political Puzzle, p. 54
    12. [+]
      From Crusade to Collusion: A Story of Union Decay by James Boyd, pp. 55-60 - 1 Review
      1. Death and the Mines by Brit Hume
    13. [+]
      Political Book Notes, pp. 61-66 - 19 Reviews
      1. Almost to the Presidency by Albert Eisele
      2. The Bear at the Gate by Harold C. Hinton
      3. A Certain Democrat: Senator Henry M. Jackson by William W. Prochnau and Richard W. Larsen
      4. Citizen Nader by Charles McCarry
      5. Cover-Up by Seymour M. Hersh
      6. Dead End by Ronald A. Buel
      7. Elections for Sale by Richard Dean "Max" McCarthy
      8. The Ethical Investor by John G. Simon, Charles W. Powers, and Jon P. Gunnemann, ...
      9. An Evening With Richard Nixon by Gore Vidal
      10. Get These Men Out of the Hot Sun by Herbert Mitgang
      11. Imperial Republic by Gerald W. Johnson
      12. The Kennedy Doctrine by Louise FitzSimons
      13. McGovern by Robert Sam Anson
      14. The Multinationals by Christopher Tugendhat
      15. Muskie of Maine by David Nevin
      16. A Populist Manifesto by Jack Newfield and Jeff Greenfield
      17. So Help me God by Robert S. Alley
      18. The Ticket-Splitters by Walter DeVries and V. Lance Tarrance
      19. Ward Number Six by David Lebedoff
  4. [+]
    April 1972 Issue = 9 Articles
    1. Letters, p. 4
    2. Let Those Hillbillies Go Get Shot by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 5-14
    3. Speak Up, There's a Lobbyist in My Ear by Joseph Spear, pp. 15-19
    4. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Bribing by James Boyd, pp. 20-40
    5. Memo of the Month, p. 41
    6. The Political Puzzle, p. 42
    7. Why Lindsay Failed as Mayor by Steven R. Weisman, pp. 43-54
    8. [+]
      The Ugly American and The Flexible Response by Taylor Branch, pp. 55-62 - 2 Reviews
      1. In the Midst of Wars by Edward G. Lansdale
      2. Swords and Plowshares by Maxwell D. Taylor
    9. [+]
      Political Book Notes, pp. 63-66 - 10 Reviews
      1. An American Death by Gerold Frank
      2. The Closed Enterprise System by Mark J. Green, Beverly C. Moore, Jr., and Bruce Wasserman, ...
      3. Crises of the Republic by Hannah Arendt
      4. The Election Game and How to Win It by Joseph Napolitan
      5. In Search of Nixon by Bruce Mazlish
      6. Police in Trouble by James F. Ahern
      7. President Nixon and the Press by James Keogh
      8. A Question of Judgment by Robert Shogan
      9. Roots of War by Richard J. Barnet
      10. Ted Kennedy by Lester David
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    May 1972 Issue = 12 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-7
    2. Our Bombs Fall on People by George Wald, pp. 8-10
    3. Social Security: The Poor Man's Welfare Payment to the Middle Class by Milton Friedman, pp. 11-17
    4. Memo of the Month, p. 18
    5. The Pittston Mentality: Manslaughter on Buffalo Creek by Thomas N. Bethell and Davitt McAteer, pp. 19-28
    6. The Macleish Memorandum on the National Debt by Taylor Branch, pp. 29-39
    7. Tidbits and Outrages, p. 40
    8. The Day They Shut Down Birmingham by Patrick J. Sloyan, pp. 41-51
    9. The Emerging Mcgovern Majority by Michael Rappeport, p. 52
    10. Nixon and His Staff: The View from Their Own Mirror by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 53-59
    11. The Political Puzzle, p. 60
    12. [+]
      Political Book Notes, pp. 61-66 - 13 Reviews
      1. Afternoon on the Potomac? by Roy Jenkins
      2. Concentration Camps USA by Roger Daniels
      3. The Death of the Army by Edward L. King
      4. The Drug Hang-up by Rufus King
      5. The Education of Edward Kennedy by Burton Hersh
      6. The Fifth World of Forster Bennett by Vincent Crapanzano
      7. The Great Drug Deception by Ralph Adam Fine
      8. In Defense of Earth by Lynton K. Caldwell
      9. The Papers and the Papers by Sanford J. Ungar
      10. The Party of Eros by Richard King
      11. Paternalistic Capitalism by Andreas G. Papandreou
      12. Things To Come by Herman Kahn and Barry Bruce-Briggs
      13. What Makes Spiro Run? by Joseph Albright
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    June 1972 Issue = 10 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-5
    2. What's Wrong With Mcgovern by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 6-17
    3. Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 18-19
    4. The Political Puzzle, p. 20
    5. The Environmental RightsYou Don't Have (and Aren'tLikely to Get) by Daniel Zwerdling, pp. 21-29
    6. Memo of the Month, pp. 30-32
    7. The American Connection by John Rothchild and Tom Ricketts, pp. 33-44
    8. The Empty Seat War Or The Folly of Airline Competition by Frederick C. Thayer, pp. 45-52
    9. The Bigotry of Liberal Magazines by Eunice Corfman, pp. 53-60
    10. [+]
      Political Book Notes, pp. 61-66 - 11 Reviews
      1. Citizen Power by Mike Gravel
      2. Counsel for the Deceived by Philip G. Schrag
      3. Dark Horse by Fletcher Knebel
      4. In Critical Condition by Edward Moore Kennedy
      5. The Investigation of Ralph Nader by Thomas Whiteside
      6. A New Isolationism by Robert W. Tucker
      7. O Congress by Donald Riegle and Trevor Armbrister
      8. A Political Education by Harry McPherson
      9. The Presidential Character by James David Barber
      10. A Sense of the Senate by Seymour K. Freidin
      11. Walter Reuther by Jean Gould and Lorena Hickok
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    July 1972 Issue = 7 Articles
    1. Following the Rules With Dita and Dick by James Boyd, pp. 5-26
    2. Memo of the Month, pp. 27-28
    3. Why the Rich Shouldn't Worry About Tax Reform by V.O. French, pp. 29-36
    4. How the Dirty Thirty Cleaned Up Texas by Harvey Katz, pp. 37-52
    5. Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 53-55
    6. [+]
      The Perfect Little Setup by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 56-62 - 1 Review
      1. The Coming of Age by Simone de Beauvoir
    7. [+]
      Political Book Notes, pp. 63-66 - 16 Reviews
      1. American-East Asian Relations by Ernest R. May and James C. Thomson, Jr.
      2. Army in Anguish by Haynes Johnson and George C. Wilson
      3. Attica Diary by William R. Coons
      4. Drugs and the Public by Norman E. Zinberg and John A. Robertson
      5. Eleanor: The Years Alone by Joseph P. Lash
      6. The Flower of the Dragon by Richard Boyle
      7. The Nixon Theology by Charles P. Henderson
      8. Papers On the War by Daniel Ellsberg
      9. The Peter Prescription by Laurence J. Peter
      10. The Reform of Power by Leonard Beaton
      11. The Running of Richard Nixon by Leonard Lurie
      12. Sappho Was a Right-On Woman by Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love
      13. The Shame of the Prisons by Ben H. Bagdikian and Leon Dash
      14. Strike! by Jeremy Brecher
      15. Toothing Stones by Robert E. Meagher
      16. Winning Elections by Dick Simpson
  8. [+]
    August 1972 Issue = 9 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-6
    2. Inside a Major Strike: Woodcock's UAW Vs.General Motors by William Serrin, pp. 7-25
    3. Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 26-28
    4. Aborting a Fetus: The Legal Right, the Personal Choice by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 29-37
    5. The Political Puzzle, p. 38
    6. Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace by Taylor Branch, pp. 39-54
    7. Memo of the Month, pp. 55-56
    8. The Brookings Budget: One Schultz is Like Another(e) by Charles Peters and John Rothchild, pp. 57-61
    9. [+]
      Political Book Notes, pp. 62-66 - 6 Reviews
      1. The Eloquence of Protest by Harrison Evans Salisbury
      2. From the Diary of a Counter-Revolutionary by Pavel Kohout
      3. Ling by Stanley H. Brown
      4. The Making of Black Revolutionaries by James Forman#2
      5. P.O.W. by George E. Smith
      6. The Strange Case of Richard Milhous Nixon by Jerry Voorhis and Paul S. Eriksson
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    September 1972 Issue = 10 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 5-9
    2. Let Them Eat Bombs by John Everingham, pp. 10-16
    3. Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 17-18
    4. The Space Shuttle: Who Needs It? by Les Aspin, pp. 19-23
    5. The FBI's Big Brother Computer by Michael Sorkin, pp. 24-30
    6. Memo of the Month, p. 31
    7. Why Lowenstein Lost: Ethnics, Crooks, and Carpetbaggers by Lanny J. Davis, pp. 32-38
    8. [+]
      The Dark Side of Two American Dreams by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 39-42 - 2 Reviews
      1. A Nation of Strangers by Vance Packard
      2. Family Matters by Lawrence H. Fuchs
    9. The Political Puzzle, pp. 43-44
    10. [+]
      Political Book Notes, pp. 45-50 - 22 Reviews
      1. America is Hard to Find by Daniel Berrigan
      2. Both Your Houses by Warren Weaver
      3. Civil Disobedience by William S. Coffin, Jr. and Morris I. Leibman
      4. A Continuous Harmony by Wendell Berry
      5. The Darkening Land by William F. Longgood
      6. The Dream and the Deal by Jerre Mangione
      7. The Economics of Environmental Quality by James C. Hite, Hugh H. Macaulay, and James M. Stepp, ...
      8. The Education of a Congressman by Morris K. Udall
      9. The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb
      10. Inside America by Fred Kwesi Hayford
      11. The Kidner Report by John Kidner
      12. Lippmann, Liberty and the Press by John Luskin
      13. The Making of a Slum by Michael Dorman
      14. George F. Kennan by George Frost Kennan
      15. New Era in the Pacific by John Hohenberg
      16. Political Power and the Press by William J. Small
      17. Prison by Leonard J. Berry
      18. This Way Out by John Coyne and Tom Hebert
      19. U.S. Health Care by Stephen P. Strickland
      20. When in Doubt, Mumble by James H. Boren
      21. Working Through by Leonard Kriegel
      22. When Parochial Schools Close by Martin Alfred Larson
  10. [+]
    October 1972 Issue = 11 Articles
    1. How Ralph Nader, Tricia Nixon, the Aba, and Jamie Whitten Helped Turn The FTC Around by Harrison Wellford, pp. 5-13
    2. Cuban Missiles and Kennedy Macho: New Evidence to Dispel the Myth by Graham Allison, pp. 14-19
    3. Tidbits and Outrages, p. 20
    4. Up the Down Coattails: Mcgovern and the Congressional Candidates by Michael Rappeport, pp. 21-22
    5. Dumping $2.6 Million on Bakersfield by Michael Aron, pp. 23-32
    6. Memo of the Month, p. 33
    7. The Political Puzzle, p. 34
    8. The President's Asylum:The Secret Service's Preventive Detention by Timothy Ingram, pp. 35-44
    9. An Ulsterman's Irishman, an Arab's Jew by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 45-55
    10. Why Presidents Like to Play With Planes Instead of Houses by James Fallows, pp. 56-60
    11. [+]
      Political Book Notes, pp. 61-66 - 17 Reviews
      1. Attica--My Story by Russell G. Oswald
      2. The Big Buck and the New Business Breed by David Butler
      3. Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals by Charles Levinson
      4. CIA: The Myth and the Madness by Patrick J. McGarvey
      5. The Diffusion of Power: 1957-1972 by W.W. Rostow
      6. The Doomsday Syndrome by John Royden Maddox
      7. Economic Philosophy of the Twentieth Century by Theo Suranyi-Unger
      8. Eisenhower and the American Crusades by Herbert S. Parmet
      9. The FBI and the Berrigans by Jack Nelson and Ronald J. Ostrow
      10. The High Priests of Waste by A. Ernest Fitzgerald
      11. The Improbable Triumvirate by Norman Cousins
      12. The Politics of the Ocean by Edward Wenk, Jr.
      13. Power Along the Hudson by Allan R. Talbot
      14. South Africa: Civilizations in Conflict by Jim Hoagland
      15. 200,000,000 Guinea Pigs by John Grant Fuller
      16. Where Have All the Robots Gone? by Harold L. Sheppard and Neal Q. Herrick
      17. A World to Care For by Howard A. Rusk
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    November 1972 Issue = 10 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 5-6
    2. You Can't Buy Safety at the Company Store by Davitt Mcateer, pp. 7-18
    3. Memo of the Month, p. 19
    4. Picking Up the Tab by James Fallows, pp. 20-29
    5. Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 30-31
    6. The Shriver Prescription: How the Government Can Find Out What It's Doing by Jack Gonzales and John Rothchild, pp. 32-40
    7. The Political Puzzle, pp. 41-42
    8. Boise Cascade: The One That Didn't Get Away by William H. Rodgers, Jr., pp. 43-54
    9. Class Action: A Way to Beat the Bureaucracies Without Increasing Them by Philip Schrag and Michael Meltsner, pp. 55-62
    10. [+]
      Political Book Notes, pp. 63-66 - 7 Reviews
      1. The American Heroin Empire by Richard Kunnes
      2. The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
      3. The Cashless Society by Robert A. Hendrickson
      4. For the President, Personal and Secret by Orville H. Bullitt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William C. Bullitt, ...
      5. Mr. Republican by James T. Patterson
      6. Trial by Fury by Aaron E. Klein
      7. Utopia or Oblivion by R. Buckminster Fuller
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    December 1972 Issue = 11 Articles
    1. Letters, p. 4
    2. Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 5-6
    3. One Who Lost by Walter Shapiro, pp. 7-15
    4. Political Puzzle, pp. 16-17
    5. One Who Won by Daniel Epstein, pp. 18-24
    6. Memo of the Month, pp. 25-26
    7. Stealing from the Blind by Marjorie Boyd, pp. 27-36
    8. Fair Employment: The Machinery Continues to Rust by Timothy H. Ingram, pp. 37-45
    9. Whizzer White and the Fearsome Foursome by Robert Zelnick, pp. 46-54
    10. Do Entrepreneurs Have More Fun? by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 55-62
    11. [+]
      Political Book Notes, pp. 63-66 - 11 Reviews
      1. The Conduct and Misconduct of Foreign Affairs by Charles W. Yost
      2. FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882-1928 by Kenneth S. Davis
      3. "God Save This Honorable Court!" by Louis M. Kohlmeier, Jr.
      4. Homage to Daniel Shays by Gore Vidal
      5. Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye by Kenneth P. O'Donnell, David Powers, and Joe McCarthy, ...
      6. Notes From China by Barbara Tuchman
      7. The Polaris System Development by Harvey M. Sapolsky
      8. President Kennedy and Britain by David Nunnerley
      9. The Semblance of Peace by John Wheeler-Bennett and Anthony James Nicholls, ...
      10. State of the Nation by William Watts
      11. The United States and India and Pakistan by W. Norman Brown
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