Wednesday, October 12, 1977
daily nebraskan
page 5
Dick and Pat at their seaside home:
dishonorable thieves, innocent leaders
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Good Morning, housewives
another stroll down Memory Lane to visit with Dick and
Pat in their little summer white house overlooking the
blue Pacific where they dwell in humble luxury.
, As you know, Dick modestly retired from the public
spotlight in order to devote his declining years to putter
ing about earning $5 million by explaining to a grateful
nation why he didn't do it.
As we join them today, Pat is excitedly reading Dick an
item from the newspaper.
Pat: Listen to thisdear! Judge Sirica has cut the
sentences of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell in half
and they'll soon be eligible for parole.
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innocent bystander
Dick: That's wonderful, Pat. I have always said they
were three of the finest public convicts I have ever known.
Pat : I think you said "public servants".
Dick: Yes, that, too. But I have always stoutly main
tained their innocence and quietly supported in my heart
their defiant struggle for justice.
Quiet support
Pat: No one's supported them more quietly than you,
dear.
Dick: I am therefore gratified that hard-hearted Judge
Sirica at last has seen the error of his ways and is cor
recting his grave miscarriage of justice. Did he say he was
sorry?
Pat: No, they did.
Dick: They were sorry for being innocent?
Pat: No; for being guilty as charged. As Bob Halde-,
man told the Judge, "In effect, I abdicated my moral
judgment and turned it over to someone else,"
Dick: Good heavens! Did he say who?
Pat: Not yet.
No honor
Dick: He will when he comes up before the parole
board. You can bet on it. All three of them will. There's
no honor among thieves. These snivelling rats will say
anything td eet out. What can that hleedine-heart Jiidee
Sirica be thinking of-freeing confessed criminals to prey
once again on society?
Pat: But, dear, you said ...
Dick: No wonder our streets aren't safe when this
revolving-door system of criminal justice turns these hard
ened ex-convicts loose to commit the same old crimes
over and over. We should lock them up and throw away
the key.
Pat: But they said they were very, very sorry and they
promised never ever to do anything wrong again.
Old haunts
Dick: That's what they all say. But I know criminals.
As soon as they're out, theyU go back to their old haunts.
TheyH hang around Mexican laundries, hire plumbers and
dupe any innocent president who passes by.
Pat: Maybe so, dear. But IH bet they feel a lot better
for having said they were sorry, (hesitantly) I don't sup
pose you ever consider ...
Dick: Never This whole episode shows there's a world
of difference between them and me.
Pat: What's that dear?
Dick: A pardon means never having to say you're
.sorry.
Copyright 1977, Chronicle Publishing Co.
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