Posted on 06/02/2005 11:18:04 AM PDT by ken5050
Much has been written about the need and desire of Felt's family to cash in on his 15 minutes of fame. I have no problem with this, but we're also hearing about how he is living in a converted garage at his daughter's house, and that she has taken care of him for 20 years. Before designating her for sainthood. I 'd like to point out that he has been receiving a federal pension all this time, and he retired at the top of the federal pay system I know very little about the federal system, but assume there are many here who can estimate what his salary was at the time he retired, and what his pension is, even assuming that he elected a reduced benefit option to provide a survivor benefitfor his wife.
Using hero in this kind of context is merely in the eyes of the beholder. Did you think Linda Tripp is a hero?
Context? Eyes of the beholder? Your relativist response is meaningless.
Felt was a law breaker. Tripp was not. Felt was not a hero because he was a law breaker. Tripp was a hero at the very least when she testified before the grand jury about travel gate and about Clinton's sexual advances toward Kathleen Willey.
Do you disagree with that?
Why would he care? Felt was a man with high connections. He had all kinds of ways to redeem his own "history" (or control of his "character" as you say). Aliases serve very well. Just ask Bernstein. "The True Story of Deep Throat"... by Deep Throat. If that isn't a perfect 70s title, I don't know what is.
Perhaps, and I do have a copy somewhere, when Bernstein came out with his latest "media event" claiming he'd name DT WHEN DT died.. the family began their plans, right then. But why bother?
If you listen to the left, the left adores Bernstein. They worship at his alter. Just check out this site: Into The Buzz Saw: 18 Tales of Media Censorship if you think even the left was going to permit a "real, documented first-hand account of "deep Throat" without Bernstein's or the Left's "approval". And everyone here thinks the "family" and Bernstein are working "separately"? I don't.
My niece just graduated from a Catholic college and they are still spouting the same old stuff. Just the speakers they invite to the campus are enough to make your skin crawl.
Episcopalian here and hoping Benedict will help shape up our church too.
btw, Jane Fonda came to Kent every May 4th when I attended. Just like the Vietnam Vets: I will never forget what she did.
I don't know the details of his health. But, IMHO, whatever comes out will carry more weight while he's alive than after his death. I think it's smart for him with his family to come out from hiding.
Having said that, I don't respect Felt for what he did. I learned my distrust for the press through my father during Watergate. We even got to show our support for Nixon as he flew out from Andrews during all that turmoil. Nixon will always be loved by my family.
The history is being reviewed 30 years later on the internet. :)
Why in the world does he need $6000 in care a month. I'm getting along in years and I would gladly let my son-in-law convert his garage into a bedroom for me. To be near loved ones is far better than to stagnate in a nursing home. Not even a question as far as I am concerned.
Are you planning on spending all your retirement on health care? I certainly hope that I don't have to and can leave some of it to help my kids out along the way. If they had to pay $6000 a month for my care, I'd just as soon not be around.
It may be expecting too much to expect honor among theives. We don't know all the facts and what the understanding was between them.
At this point, W&B would have benefited more if Felt had taken his secret to the grave. W&B would have written another book revealing his identity and harvested another ton of money in book sales and speaking fees. Felt would have received nothing except a pat on the back.
His daughter would receive a few invitations to the Today Show, Larry King, et. al., to talk about what a hero her father was. She would show some family photos and her 15 minutes of fame would be finished except for her appearance before some Leftist groups to accept awards on behalf of her father.
Well, now we know just WHY Nixon was so paranoid. Hopefully, after all these years the truth will come out.
Well she might be on Social Security Disablity.This due to the fact she is a democrat and 99% of them are suffering some type of mental disorder. She can always take up acting again. The celluloid purveyors of the hollywood left, love mentally impaired people. NSNR
The dems never counted on the Internet! Thank you, Al!!
My point is that there are those who believe Ms. Tripp is a hero and those who believe she is a traitor. Hero is not the right word for either of them.
The reporters concealed the truth because the father had asked them to.
You act like they made him stay anonymous all these years.
In this way he at least has a little control over how he'll be characterized by this knowledge.
He has ALWAYS had that power.
for argument sake, let's say that he does get 6K a month, and it is used by his daughter to live on...and when he dies, it is gone...all the more reason why he'd want to make the money for her now, while he's alive. What don't you get about that?
Hell, now we see people say it all the time that the press is the enemy. Nixon was ahead of his time in that regard. He was the right person during his time as President.
You grew up rich and the rest of us didn't. Folks like you are always looking for a way to "cash in."
lol. Ahhhhh... we must be around the same age.. "The Way" and "guitar singing in the church". YEP. Jesus Freaks were on the move. I never quite fit in with these ones. They struck me as a bit "spooky". "Who's leaping out from under a ....everyone knows its "spooky".
That's a personal attack.
Knock it off.
LOL
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"Who's leaping out from under a ....everyone knows its "spooky".
Hey, I LOVE that song!!
And btw, we haven't come that far.....that "Eagles' Wings" song is as gaggy as all the guitar masses were! :)
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