Colgate? Didn't a Hughes teach there long ago?
That is my toothpaste brand, when I am not being tortured and disrespected.
Where?
USA! USA! USA!
08.28.2016
Pennsylvania
Humanities Council –
I
do not see any name on your webpage like the one Mel Goodman suggested could be
found. Mr. Goodman was referred to me by the Center for International Policy in my ongoing search to determine
what happened to my former college mentor and Dean, Dr. Craig Eisendrath. The
search first took me to the Friends for a Nonviolent World (FNVW) where he had
been a guest speaker. I was given some information by the Executive Director, and
then rudely treated by an Administrative Assistant.
Could
we not repeat that, please? I have been consistently referred to as a “straight
shooter,” but this fails to pay the rent. A book deal or movie deal would. If
you read the attached, presumably free of “malware” letter I thought was going
to Craig, I was seeking a hopefully favorable book jacket “blurb” for my second
nonfiction effort on national security issues. (Do not replicate this if you
desire a “normal” life).
First,
I find it odd that Dr. Eisengrath omitted the name of my school, LINDENWOOD
COLLEGE, from his bio. Secondly, when he was offering friendly suggestions as a
Dean and sitting in the same room as a famous politician from Minnesota, I did
not know he had worked for the State Department. (Not that it would have
mattered regarding my political opinions or expression of them in 1975, 1976,
or 1977).
Thirdly,
I did not know Craig had a hand in the first and to my knowledge only treaty
banning weapons in space. He was, in my remembrance, a man so possessed with
ideas, he could not express them fast enough, so let’s all yell “Bipolar
Disorder!” as was done with my former PhD spouse and myself. I’d like you to
know I told Medieval Studies scholar Gayle Margherita, “I’m not paying for
lithium” in the early 1980’s, and by the end of Reagan’s “Star Wars” decade,
mine was headed down the toilet too. “Feels kind of Russian” is one of my
expressions for USA’s rapid spike in violence and commensurate decrease in
common social courtesy. Apparently, for dissenters the Gulag is back in style,
and it can skillfully be made to be your own home, apartment, or in my case,
substandard motel room.
A
fourth and newsworthy point about this Harvard man is that the worst
nuclear command and control screw-up in history took place while he was a liberal
arts college Dean and I was the calm Third Class FCC licensee at our 1,500 watt
campus radio station, still on the air as KCLC. I think Communication Arts Department
Chair and former KSDK Channel 5 employee Gene Uram is deceased, but for the
record, he was the one who said, “Turn the radio station back on” with a news
wire sheet on my desk that said: THIS IS
NOT A TEST.
Did
I mention I’m looking a lot like Howard Hughes’ son? The theory I’ve freely
shared for many years alleges that Nevada nuclear test opponent Howard, “Took a
shot at a Pentagon satellite.” His people did not miss, and they came to me as elderly
Hughes Aircraft retirees. So did actress Terry Moore, who did not marry
Howard, and still had a very high opinion of him. “I stayed in love with
Howard,” she said. I thought a Hollywood trick had been played, as she made her
way to an ADA van on a walker. No, it was Ms. Moore, who was still taking an
acting class at the public building where I was “stuck.”
A
fifth point is, given I do not commit crimes or “harass” people, I may have
left my last message for super-liberal Minnesotan’s, and it ended with, “They
sure need a new treaty.” No weapons in space? I submit to you and anyone who
knew Dr. Eisendrath that a World War III fought faster than your teenager’s
video game may take place when the next evil satellite can’t find a parking spot.
This is why Boeing executives call me back, yet I still have no lawyer willing
to represent me. If you don’t know Craig’s whereabouts, how about a referral to
the Hollywood stereotype “Crusading liberal lawyer?” He or she is pure fiction?
That would disappoint a man who subscribed to The Nation for too long. (National
Review I read in the library).
Thanks,
William
C. Hughes
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