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| 14 August 1992 |
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| Cheryl B. Horton Criminal District Court, Section "A" 2700 Tulane Ave. New Orleans, LA 70118 |
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| Re: Current Events |
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| Dear Cheri: |
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| CAMPAIGN NEWS |
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There is the danger that Bill and Al's excellent adventure will become The Dream Team, with the resultant dunking of the incumbents as Magic and Mike and the other millionaire round- ballers did to all comers in Barcelona. This is somewhat distressing since it's evermore entertaining to watch a cliffhanger. I, for one, couldn't watch an entire massacre in Barcelona, always succumbing, enmeshed in ennui.
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| There is the sense that the White House is being served up on a silver platter -- an heirloom of the Quayle, or Bush, family. Of incumbents, it is often said, "It is their's to lose." Those holding the keys to the White House are advantaged like leaders in the closing moments of great sporting events. Victory should be more easily attained by them than by opponents, but often the thought of losing the high ground, the edge, interferes with the ability to maintain it. Sometimes this phenomenon is referred to as "choking like a big dog."
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| It may well be that Bush was standing over a two-foot putt to win the Masters, and pushed it just enough to lip-it out. The resignation of James A. Baker 3d as Secretary of State to become Chief of Staff at the White House and to run Bush's campaign was announced recently. Many will argue that this is an untimely move which puts politics ahead of foreign policy interests since Baker is in the midsts of sticky talks in several gummy areas of the world which sorely need his attention and expertise. Well, desperate times, desperate measures. Bush needs help taking it back low and slow and keeping his head still through the ball.
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| Then there is the matter of the note written by C. Boyden Gray, Attorney at Law, Bush's mouthpiece, or one of them, written in November of 1991, wherein he warned that it was a violation of Federal Law for staffers to campaign at Camp David or to politick on Pennsylvania Avenue. How then can Baker and a covey of pinstriped staffers run the campaign from the Chief of Staff's offices at the White House? The reply from the Republicans: No problem; other people have done it; Boyden's memo was never meant to apply to the Chief of Staff, and (get this) Baker is not going to do it no matter what it looks like.
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| Worse yet -- the fumble on their own five-yard line with thirty seconds on the clock -- is the albatross necklace of abortion. The party line is to amend the constitution to prohibit abortion without exception. It is a warped and wobbly plank in the platform of the Grand Old Party.
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| Soon, in Houston, this party will nominate two candidates who showed less conviction on the issue than those who will second and shout, "Aye." Quayle allowed that he would support his daughter in whatever choice she made, and Bush, when asked about a granddaughter's hypothetical pregnancy and if he would leave the choice to her, said: Who else's could it be? The very point of those who are pro-choice is made.
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| It almost seems as if that scrappy little running back, Quayle, was the only player to listen to the play being called in the huddle. The team heard another, and the ball was dropped in the hand-off, on the five-yard line, between Bush and Quayle. What a choke!
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| More Later, |
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| David J. L'Hoste |
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| DJL/djl |
| cc: Bernard A. Horton Russell B. Ramsey Denise F. L'Hoste |