Joan Mellen Lecture from 2007; Still Apt

[Tom Scully]

I am unmoved by the question of who prayerman was or particularly curious about Harvey, Lee, or two Marguerites, and I am surprised at the intensity of emotion related to those
controversies. The real time information stream reaching me, indicates strongly that we are screwed......

Lemme distill my last post to one sentence. I discovered in the dim dawn light this A.M. that the Reader's Digest editor, Henry Hurt, who Billy Lord wrote a letter to President Carter complaining about,

in the same month that DeMohrenschildt interrupted the recording of a soap opera being recorded by the widow of the first cousin of Nelson Rockefeller's first wife, Nancy Sands Tilton, first cousin of the mother of DeMohrenschildt's daughter, Alexandra,

was married to the niece of the chairman of Freeport Sulphur, Langbourne Williams, Jr.

(Jim Beamiss, described in Billy Lord's 1977 letter, was Gerry Bemiss, the best friend of GHW Bush, and his father, Sam Bemiss, was the first cousin of both Langbourne Williams, Jr. and Langbourne's brother George Dandridge Williams, the father-in-law of Reader's Digest editor, Henry Hurt!)

Time - Volume 71, Issues 14-26 - Page i
...Testified Freeport Sulphur's President Langbourne Williams (Jr.): "Mr. Beynon began to call us names, to threaten us with congressional investigations. He said, 'You reduce [the ore price] or I'll shut this plant down.....

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=88905107
Langbourne Meade Williams, Jr......

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http://articles.latimes.com/1989-09-23/n..._drug-bust

Bush Defends Drug Purchase Set Up to Aid His Speech

September 23, 1989|JAMES GERSTENZANG and RONALD J. OSTROW | Times Staff Writers



KENNEBUNKPORT, Me. President Bush acknowledged Friday that the government set up a drug purchase in a park across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to get a prop for his televised speech on the Administration's anti-drug strategy.
"I think it was great," the President said, responding to questions about the sting operation. "It sent a message to the United States that, even across from the White House, they can sell drugs. It sends a powerful message to the American people."
Despite the White House enthusiasm, some federal law enforcement officials said they were bothered by the prearranged purchase.
"It was a stupid thing to do," said an official in a federal agency involved in the drug war.
"I agree that the place (of the purchase) doesn't make that much difference, but the idea it was contrived all the way down the line of authority adds up to involving the political process in objective law enforcement," the official said. "We shouldn't be doing that."
White House Disagrees
But White House officials argued that the maneuver was justified, noting that it allowed Bush to dramatize his claim that illegal drugs are available throughout the nation and not just in inner-city ghettos.....

Drug Buy Set Up For Bush Speech http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/loc...shdrug.htm

DEA Lured Seller to Lafayette Park

By Michael Isikoff
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, Sept. 22, 1989; Page A01 White House speech-writers thought it was the perfect visual for President Bush's first prime-time address to the nation -- a dramatic prop that would show how the drug trade had spread to the president's own neighborhood.
"This is crack cocaine," Bush solemnly announced, holding up a plastic bag filled with a white chunky substance in his Sept. 5 speech on drug policy. It was "seized a few days ago in a park across the street from the White House . . . . It could easily have been heroin or PCP."
But obtaining the crack was no easy feat. To match the words crafted by the speech-writers, Drug Enforcement Administration agents lured a suspected District drug dealer to Lafayette Park four days before the speech so they could make what appears to have been the agency's first undercover crack buy in a park better known for its location across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House than for illegal drug activity, according to officials familiar with the case.
In fact, when first contacted by an undercover DEA agent posing as a drug buyer, the teenage suspect seemed baffled by the agent's request.
"Where the {expletive} is the White House?" he replied in a conversation that was secretly tape-recorded by the DEA.
"We had to manipulate him to get him down there," said William McMullan, assistant special agent in charge of DEA's Washington field office. "It wasn't easy."
White House and DEA officials said they did nothing improper in their efforts to help Bush illustrate how widespread the local trade is. A senior White House official said the DEA was never asked to manufacture an arrest for the president's speech.
According to DEA officials, the suspect had been the target of a three-month undercover investigation before the White House request and had sold crack to agents on three previous occasions in other parts of the city.
DEA officials said yesterday they have held off on arresting the suspect in hopes that he would sell a larger amount of crack to undercover agents and could be charged with a more serious offense. .....