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Sir / A man to keep an eye on as a national figure in the future is South Carolina's Charles ("Pug") Ravenel, who has caused thousands of citizens to take a new look at politics in this state.
"Pug" stands for "pugnacious."
TIMOTHY CLEVELAND
Columbia, S.C.
Impeachment, Not Indictment
Sir / Your July 22 article, "The Tide Turns Back Toward Impeachment," seems to contain one wrong word, an apparent slip of the typewriter. Unfortunately this undermines your well-taken argument that a President can and should be impeached for certain wrongdoings for which he cannot be criminally indicted. Citing William Buckley, you say that in his column he "imagined a number of fanciful actions for which a President should be indicted," such as commuting the sentences of all federal prisoners or taking a six-month vacation. Surely, Buckley's point, like yours, was that for those fanciful actions the President should be "impeached" not "indicted." Am I right?
WILLIAM L. SCHECTER
New York City
∙ Unfortunately, yes.
TIME Examines the Press
Sir / If the Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches of Government, the business and financial communities—and the church —were to undergo the same kind of self-examination TIME applies to the function of the press [July 8] we would be well along the road to realizing the ideal of democracy of which our founders dreamed.
JACK H. CAMPBELL
Morganton, N.C.
Sir / Like the Government, the press should be difficult to live with at times. If the people become so outraged as to pull the watchdog's teeth and silence its bark or do away with it altogether, they may awake some night only to find that they slept too long.
FRANK B. KYLE
Dimmitt, Texas
Sir / It is obvious why the press does not get along with President Nixon: they are too much alike. Both display arrogance; both are incapable of accepting criticism; and both abuse their powers.
WILLIAM O. CRANE
West Vancouver, B.C.
Sir / The bull, having run amuck in the china shop, returns to repair the damage? No way!
BOB QUIGLEY
Saratoga, Calif.