NOTES

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

1. Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, Doubleday and Co., N.Y., 1913, pp. 57-58. Demagogue though Wilson was, these speeches of his first presidential campaign were an accurate portrayal of the state of affairs in the United States, then and now.

2. Robert Engeler, The Politics of Oil, Macmillan, N.Y., 1961, pp. 403-7, 412-15. This book is a treasure trove on political skulduggery by the oil industry.

3. Congressional Record, April 4, 1967, p. S4582.

4. Ibid., p. S4586.

5. Ibid., p. S4577.

6. New York Times, May 5, 1967; 22:2-5.

7. Municipal Year Book, 1966, The International City Managers' Association, Chicago, 1966, p. 95.

8. Wall Street Journal, May 10, 1967; 1:6.

9. Marya Mannes, "I, Mary, Take Thee, John, as . . . What?", New York Times Magazine, November 14, 1965, p. 52.

10. Herman P. Miller, "Millionaires Are a Dime a Dozen," New York Times Magazine, November 28, 1965, p. 50.

11. The report of the court's decision is in the New York Times, May 26, 1967; 1:2. The actions leading to the reopening of the case are reported in the Times, August 10, 1967; 39:8, and August 11, 1967; 29:6.

12. Robert L. Heilbroner, The Limits of American Capitalism, Harper and Row, N.Y., 1965, p. 26.

13. Newsweek, March 20, 1967; 60:3.

14. New York Post, August 15, 1966; 7:1-2.

15. Lane, Political Life, pp. 233-34. For an extended factual inquiry into the political deficiencies of the general public, see Ferdinand Lundberg, The Treason of the People, Harper & Bros., N.Y., 1954.

16. Lane, pp. 35-36.

17. For a beginning consult Paul B. Horton and Gerald R. Leslie, The Sociology of Social Problems, Appleton-Century-Crofts, N.Y., 1955.

18. This book is strongly recommended to the serious reader.

19. Heilbroner, pp. 8-11.

20. Wall Street Journal, April 6, 1967; 1.

21. Heilbroner, p. 11.

22. Ibid., p. 26. In America's Sixty Families, 1937, p. 3, the top plutocracy was set forth as consisting of three asset/income layers of 60, 90 and 350 families, or approximately 500 families in all.

23. Heilbroner, pp. 59-60.

24. Ibid., p. 72.

25. William H. Honan, "Meet the Generals (Yes, Sir!)," New York Times Magazine, December 18, 1966, p. 50.

26. Heilbroner, p. 133.