A n i m a l W r i t
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The official
ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com Issue # 04/02/00
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ PrkStRangr@aol.com
~ MRivera008@aol.com
~ SavingLife@aol.com
THE NINE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
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~ The Word Is Querencia! by MRivera008@aol.com
2
~ Groundbreaking Legislation
3
~ HOPE World Petition
4
~ Animal Sacrifice In Christian Churches
by
HumaneReligion@compuserve.com
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~ A Dog's Bill of Rights
6
~ Website of Note
7
~ Help Laboratory Animals
8
~ Prairie Dog And Buffalo by tapster@mindspring.com
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~ Quote To Remember
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The Word Is Querencia!
by
MRivera008@aol.com - Michelle Rivera
There
is a word in Spanish that is used to describe the affection one feels for being
in their own place. The word is querencia.
What a beautiful word!
It
is the feeling of satisfaction one gets for being truly at home. There are many ways to experience
querencia. But it is much more than
that. I will try to explain.
How
many of us have felt this sense when returning from a long road trip? As our journey comes to an end, the
landmarks become somewhat familiar, and then more familiar, and so on until we
reach our own street.
Or
how about when you go to work in the morning and see that nothing has changed. The feeling of querencia at work is much
more acute when a new employee is present and we can sense and understand their
lack of querencia in this new place and that makes our sense of the familiar so
much more acute by comparison. We are
settled in, we know the routine. We
know we are where we should be at the time.
And
the feeling we get when we come home from an entire day away from home. We aren’t quite completely settled, don’t
quite have that sense of “querencia” until after the dog has finished leaping
in excitement, has been let out and let back in again, and the cats have been
greeted and their food bowls full. Even
though we may be home, there are still these small familiar routines that must
be followed before we can feel secure that all is right with the world.
Animals
have a sense of querencia too. Witness
a pride of felines, be they lions or housecats, who are content to groom each
other, dozing peacefully, limbs intertwined.
Or chimpanzees within the safety of their families, being together,
being where they belong. Contrast this
sense with the look on a stray dog’s face while he races through traffic, or a
kitten up a tree who cannot come down.
The panic, the sense of not being where they feel safe, where they feel
understood, where they feel at home.
Sometimes
we see birds in migration winging their way south for the winter. We can see them as they situate themselves
on telephone poles and wires, and they seem content. They are not home, but
they’re with their frequent flying friends!
Together, they experience querencia.
Late
at night people gather to play basketball at a park near my home. I can see people of all ages and shapes and
colors playing together. They know that
they are expected on these nights, they know they will be missed if they don’t
come to play. This too, is
querencia. Hanging with the homeboys
late at night playing basketball, it just doesn’t get more familiar than that.
The
most profound sense of querencia that I have ever experienced was during the
1997 Animal Rights Convention in Washington D.C. The first night at the hotel,
I joined some other activists poolside.
We introduced ourselves and talked about what brought us to the
movement. One activist described a
physical pain she felt upon seeing or hearing a case of animal abuse. She indicated an area just below her
sternum. “Right here”, she said, “I
feel a deep, physical pain, right here”.
Yes! Yes! I knew exactly what
she meant! I thought I was the only one
who felt that exact pain, exactly “there”, and here was a complete stranger
describing for me the acute pain that I myself had felt so many times.
During
the next five days I was to learn just how many others there were who felt that
pain, and thought that, they too, were the “only ones.”
The
hotel restaurants had gone cruelty free for the convention! We could order whatever we wanted from a
specialized bill of fare and knew that it was a vegan meal!
And
on one cold, rainy, bitter D.C. morning, PeTA sent three chartered buses to the
hotel to transport us to the United States Capital where we held a
demonstration to protest the U.S. subsidy of fur farmers. There, surrounded by three-hundred activists
standing in the pouring rain, I felt a sense of querencia.
There
were workshops too. There was such a
variety of workshops that it was hard to choose from the many topics and
learned speakers. After the workshops,
we would get together and chat about what we learned. I attended a workshop sponsored by the Jains, a religion that doesn’t
believe in killing even the smallest of insects, and I felt that I was in a
nurturing place. I learned about Alley
Cat Allies, and the Farm Animal Reform Movement, Performing Animal Welfare
Society and United Poultry Concerns.
All wide and varied agendas...... all making me feel completely at home,
at peace, querencia!
During
a dinner reception, we had the privilege of hearing firsthand Alex Pacheco’s
account of rescuing doomed horses in Texas, Howard Lyman’s story of rebirth,
Naomi Rose’s unfailing efforts to save the dolphins, and the ever-humble
“father of the animal rights movement” himself, Peter Singer, discussing his
thoughts on “How Are We To Live”. The
late Cleveland Amory was there too, sharing his memories of his famous white
cat, Snowball and of the activities at the Black Beauty Ranch.
The
true bragging rights came at the Celebrity Gala where I got to meet James
Cromwell, Rue McClanahan, Elaine Boosler, Linda Blair and, oh my stars, the
inimitable Jane Goodall! But did I feel
inadequate in the company of these wonderful and exciting icons of our
movement? No, I felt a sense of
belonging, I felt a sense of the familiar.
Querencia.
Our
very last day brought us to the streets of Washington D.C. for an animal-rights
march that began at the White House lawn and proceeded down Pennsylvania Avenue
to the steps of the U. S. Capitol. Two
thousand or more strong, we marched defiantly shouting animal-rights slogans
and experiencing the sheer and boundless joy of being a part of something
historical, something big, something important. (I often think of the million-man march and wonder what a
“million animal march” would be like!)
When
the convention was over and my traveling companions and I had to make our way
home, we had layovers in two airports, and I distinctly remember when my sense
of querencia came to an abrupt and discourteous halt.
We
had gone to Starbucks coffee shop in the Atlanta airport. There, sitting at the counter, I watched as
the server poured whole milk from a gallon jug to make a fancy coffee
drink. At that moment, my warm, fuzzy
sense of insulation and isolation from the cruel truths of the outside world
ceased to exist. Querencia had left me
cold and alone.
In
the years since that moment, I have thought many times about the warm,
wonderful feeling I had while with the people who make up the animal rights
movement. And whether they were
celebrated people or ordinary, everyday people just like me, I was secure in
the presence of kindred spirits. I have
come to liken it to the Alcoholics Anonymous slogan of “learning to live life
on life’s terms” because, like us, alcoholics must live in a society where they
are surrounded by that which breaks their hearts, spirits and bodies.
I
write this in the hopes that you, dear reader, will make every effort to attend
this year’s Animal Rights 2000 conference.
Your resolve will be set in stone from the moment you set foot in the
hotel, your senses surrounded by acceptance, understanding and love, you will
make new best-friends, and meet old, online friends. You may learn how to argue your points, you may share a thing or
two with someone new to the movement. But I promise you this, you will really,
truly know, once and for all, what the Spanish mean when they say Querencia.
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Groundbreaking Legislation
The
Los Angeles City Council, with a vote of 10-3, passed groundbreaking
legislation to implement the nation's strongest spay/neuter ordinance. The
landmark legislation, designed to help reduce the 60,000 animals killed
annually by LA's six city-run shelters, was fashioned by the Coalition to End
Pet Overpopulation -- an alliance of 12 Los Angeles area animal protection
organizations.
The
new ordinance would increase the current licensing fee for unaltered dogs from
$30 per year to $100 per year. The licensing fee for spayed/neutered dogs would
remain $10 per year. The fee to obtain a dog or cat breeders license would
increase from $50 per year to $100 per year, and allow for only one litter per
year. All outside cats must now be
fixed.
"I
have to applaud the LA City Council for boldly and progressively trying to end
the tragic pet overpopulation dilemma that is plaguing our society," said
Bill Dyer, Los Angeles area field representative for In Defense of
Animals. "Council member Mark
Ridley-Thomas is to be commended for his compassion for both humans and
animals. Hopefully LA will now be the model for other communities to
follow."
In
addition to helping create the legislation, the Coalition to End Pet
Overpopulation has developed means to guarantee that the new ordinance will
provide for education and enforcement, as well as resources for free and low
cost spay/neutering. Two mobile spay/neuter units will be utilized citywide and
250,000 resource directories, in 9 languages, will be distributed.
"In
addition to decreasing the number of homeless animals, the new legislation will
also help to educate people that companion animals are individuals with needs
and interests of their own, and not just disposable commodities to be bought,
sold and discarded at their 'owners' whim," said Dyer. "Gradually, as
more communities follow the progressive lead of the LA City Council, we will
see a reduction in the number of animals being so callously and tragically
killed in our nation's shelters."
Source:
ida@idausa.org
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HOPE World Petition
* 1 million names needed worldwide by Dec. 31, 2000 *
[We,
the people of Earth, in view of its global environmental crisis, hereby
petition the UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY to vote towards a U.N. RESOLUTION
for all nations to each reduce its own annual military budget by 10% of its 1999
spending, thus collectively reducing the $1.6-trillion annual global arms
expenditure by $160-billion per annum.
The funds thus liberated shall be placed into a U.N.-administered Global
HOPE Fund - to heal our planet Earth.]
To
sign this petition and/or download the petition forms, please or go to:
http://www.HOPE-GEO.org
.
To
distribute this petition, please forward this invitation-letter to your friends
and colleagues worldwide, and link
http://www.HOPE-GEO.org to your
website, thank you. HOPE-GEO will do
likewise.
So,
why the HOPE World Petition?
For
a deep philosophical view, please read “Earth’s Shining Destiny – a New
Millennium Vision” (see http://www.HOPE-GEO.org - New Articles section). This article has been published in
newspapers globally.
For
a short, direct answer, please read on.
This
is a crucial time for our Earth. The
term “Global Environmental Crisis” is serious, true and real. 1500 of the world’s leading scientists are
giving us 10 years “before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will
be lost and the prospects for humanity are immeasurably diminished.” (The World Scientist - Warning to Humanity)
And yet, how many worthy and needed environmental projects are gathering dust
on shelves due to lack of funding? How
many people in shopping malls, who vote and ultimately determine the future
course of history, are not walking in a state of blissful denial? Tell us that our loved ones have fallen
seriously ill, and we’d rush to their aid, but tell us that our beloved Earth
has not one, not two, not three, but six serious illnesses, and what would we
do?
Consider
the following analogy of the Six Planetary Ailments:
1. Planetary Fever - global warming, caused by
excessive emission of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
2. Planetary Auto-Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(P-AIDS) - damage to the ozone shield - Earth's own auto-immune system
(protecting her biosphere from harmful solar UV radiation) - caused by
releasing CFCs and other
ozone-depleting gasses into the atmosphere.
3. Planetary Cancer - human and cattle
populations multiplying unchecked, corrupting and destroying natural
ecosystems. (Some say that the only difference between us humans and cancer cells
is that we have a choice.)
4. Planetary Wasting Disease - unsustainable
consumption of Earth's resources, resulting in rapid loss of biomass (trees,
fish, etc.), biodiversity (extinction of 6 species per hour) and soil (50,000
super-tanker-loads per year from India alone).
5. Planetary Blood-Poisoning - no aliens are
dumping pollutants and toxic waste into our atmosphere, hydrosphere and
biosphere; we are doing a good enough job ourselves.
6. Planetary Suicidal Tendency - no aliens are
going to nuke us, but we may nuke ourselves.
Those
who are still with us will begin to ponder the “planetary medical bill” - How
much? - which basically is to calculate the incalculable. To save just one species, say the tiger,
will cost millions, and this is but one tiny part of just one out of six
planetary ailments - the Wasting Disease.
To research and develop alternative energies enough to replace
fossil-fuels technology - to just alleviate the Planetary Fever a little - will
cost billions. To cure all six
Planetary Ailments simultaneously - trillions, just for starters.
When
must we pay? The Global Environmental
Crisis says, “Now or never.”
What
with? THIS is the question. One thing we do know. Our Earth has no medical insurance, and
full-scale treatment must commence without delay. Grants and donation are needed and always appreciated, but they
are but a spoonful in the bucket, enough perhaps to barely keep the dedicated
planet-healers from starvation. So,
does this planet-healing fund exist at all?
Thankfully,
yes. Where is it? Finally, we’re in a little luck, for there
is a clue, and this clue, ironically, is in one of the planetary ailments.
While
doing recent tiger conservation work in India (see the Tigers Forever Campaign
section of http://www.HOPE-GEO.org ), I
found at least 6 tigers poached in one year at Bandhavgarh National Park from a
supposed population of only 40, and witnessed what little left of wild India
besieged on all sides, losing ground on most fronts. At the same time, I saw desperately needed work, such as
anti-poaching, anti-smuggling, anti-poverty, species preservation, habitat
protection, birth control and techno-change (e.g. solar cooking and biogas to
displace wood burning) not being done or done inadequately due to shortage of
government funding, while reportedly, the government was spending US$1.8
billion (Times of India, March 1997) to develop a new Star Wars system, in
addition to their nuclear weapons program.
In India at least, the answer is glaringly obvious: her tiger
conservation funds should come from a reduction of her military budget.
Look
to other nations and what do we see?
Parallel scenarios in various ways, to various degrees. The result is that worldwide, the global
military expenditure stands at an atrocious $1.6 TRILLION PER ANNUM, and to
what civilized end? Just 10% of this
colossal waste can fund thousands of much needed environmental projects
worldwide, towards the healing of our Earth.
To
facilitate this Third Millennium swords-to-ploughshares process – to free two
birds with one key, as it were - a possible first step is for all concerned
citizens of the world to exert their collective will by means of an
international, multilingual petition.
The HOPE World Petition is the realization of this possibility:
To
answer several main objections:
1. No nation will suffer any weakening of
military strength relative to any other, since all will be set back by the same
proportion. There will be no
significant disturbance of the current balance of power. Rather, the resulting multilateral
international treaty will be a document of trust amongst nations, by which
global security will be strengthened.
2. No nation need suffer financial drain since
all nations (their GOs and NGOs) can reclaim their portion of the HOPE Fund to
solve their own environmen tal
problems.
3. No military personnel need be laid off,
since they can be retrained for environmental projects and conservation
operations, such as anti-poach ing,
anti-smuggling, reforestation, remediation and restoration.
4. No arms manufacturers need lose business,
since their technical capabilities can be channeled towards making high-tech
conservation tools and environmental instruments.
5. Some say that the arms race spurs
technological advancement. But we say,
a “peace race” can do the same or better.
6. Regarding the UN's internal workings as well
as those of the various national governments, the HOPE World Petition will
doubtless encounter a bureaucratic nightmare of unprecedented proportions. But all dreams, good and bad, big and small,
must end each in its new dawn.
A
petition is worth little more than its weight in paper, unless it can generate
a media wave in its wake. The HOPE
World Petition has the potential to generate a global media tsunami. To achieve
this, HOPE-GEO will deliver the first million signatures by means of a 5-month,
70-city, media-oriented road tour from Vancouver via California and the Great
Lakes to the UN HQ in New York for formal presentation (see Road Tour Itinerary
section of
http://www.HOPE-GEO.org). Meanwhile, the HOPE World Petition will keep
on growing, until its critical mass is surpassed, and its aim achieved.
Some
say, “It is possible, but difficult.”
We say, “It is difficult, but possible.” And further, that given blood, sweat and tears, and global
solidarity and commitment, and time, it is inevitable.
Again,
please sign the petition, link our websites, and forward this letter to your
friends worldwide. Together, speaking
out in diverse languages yet in one voice, we can make it happen.
For
Earth’s sake,
Anthony
Marr, Founding Director
Heal
Our Planet Earth Global Environmental Organization (HOPE-GEO)
4118
West 11th Ave., Vancouver, BC, Canada V6R 2L6
tel:
(604) 222-1169, fax: 604-682-4107, Anthony_Marr@HOPE-GEO.org
http://www.HOPE-GEO.org,
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Animal Sacrifice In Christian Churches
by Rev.J.R.
Hyland - HumaneReligion@compuserve.com
It
really didn't seem possible. Although the information sent to HUMANE RELIGION
regarding animal sacrifice claimed to be factual, it didn't give a source for
the article it quoted. The story was well-written and names of the priests and
bishops involved proved to be accurate. Still, the events being reported were
so bizarre that the possibility of a hoax had to be considered. And there was
the lingering hope that the article was a hoax -- that animals were not really
being sacrificed in South Africa's Christian churches.
But
it turned out to be a legitimate story. And not only was it true, the London
DAILY TELEGRAPH which reported these events, as well as spokesmen for the Roman
Catholic church in which the killings are taking place, do not see these events
as a story about the introduction of animal sacrifice into Christianity. Both secular and religious observers view it
simply as another instance of racial strife.
For them, the story is newsworthy only because the claim of racism has
been made by a group of native, black priests, who support sacrificial worship.
A
coalition of these priests claims that the hesitancy of Catholic leaders to
give their blessing to animal sacrifices is simply another instance of the
white colonial mentality that refuses to give proper respect to native
practices. These priests are supported in their demand for sacrifices by
Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Bloemfontein who asserts that "Animal
sacrifice has a special place in the scheme of things and is celebrated in
almost all African families. We have kept it out of God's Church for too
long."
But
faced with recalcitrant parish priests like Father Kevin Reynolds, who argues
that animal sacrifice is "foreign to traditional Catholic theology
regarding the Mass," the archbishop has offered a compromise. Although
Catholic theology does say that since the sacrificial death of Jesus 2,000
years ago, there is no longer any need to offer animal sacrifices to God, the
killing can still be carried out. But instead of offering the blood of the
victims to God, it can be offered in honor of the African ancestors of participating
Catholics. (Ancestor worship is seen by the archbishop, and others, as the
native equivalent of the Catholic practice of honoring its canonized
saints.) Archbishop Buti proposes that
the blood of the slain animal -- be it goat, chicken, sheep or cow -- can be
presented during the Mass as "a gift to the ancestors, not to God."
And
what does the "Euro-centric" hierarchy in South Africa think about
the sacrifice of animals in Catholic churches? Well, Archbishop George Daniel,
head of the Pretoria archdiocese for the past 25 years, doesn't seem to be
overly concerned about it. He allows
that it could become a problem at some future date -- if the tenor of the
debate escalates -- but says "we will have to cross that bridge when we
come to it."
For
him, killing animals in the churches is not sacrilegious, it is just another
facet of the "incultration process." This process takes place when
the Roman Church and Catholics in a given country try to find a suitable
accommodation between church requirements and traditional practices of the
native culture. The incorporation of
African music is presented as another example of incultration. There were
dissenters who fought against having native instruments and hymns as the
background to their church services, but eventually people on both sides of the
debate were accommodated.
But
why does Archbishop Daniel treat the slaughter of animals in the churches as
just another problem of incultration? Why does he allow both priests and media
to make this an issue of racial strife instead of declaring it a moral issue
that has to do with the introduction of blasphemous worship into the
churches? Probably because he has no
foundation on which to take such a stand: traditional Christianity has never
rejected the animal sacrifice that is part of its biblical heritage.
Although
prophets like Isaiah, Amos, Hosea, and Jeremiah denounced animal sacrifices as
abominations, those condemnations did not have an affect on either orthodox
Jewish or traditional Christian attitudes. Judaism continued sacrifices until
the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 A.D. and Christianity validated
sacrificial religion in retrospect, saying that because Jesus was the ultimate
sacrificial victim, killing animals on the altars of God was no longer
"necessary."
Faced
with an act that is considered theologically unnecessary rather than
blasphemous, Archbishop Daniel would be hard-pressed to make animal sacrifice a
moral issue even if he were inclined to do so. But the only problem he seems to
have with this travesty of Christian worship is the discord that might erupt in
his diocese if he decided to put a stop to sacrificial religious rites. He
wonders "what would happen to those priests who decide to continue with
the practice of animal sacrifice IF we ultimately ruled against incorporating
this activity into any services."
We
may never know what would happen if the archbishop decided to put a stop to the
"activity" of animal sacrifices, because so far he has shown no
inclination to do so. And unless there is an outcry from Christian people of
every persuasion against this violent and blasphemous worship, it will
continue.
copyright
2000 Humane Religion
WEB
SITE: http://www.all-creatures.org/hr/hrm.htm
E-MAIL:
HumaneReligion@compuserve.com
FAX:
941-925-9636
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A Dog's Bill of Rights
The 10
commandments of dog stewardship
1. My life is likely to last 10 to 15 years.
Any separation from you will be painful for me. Remember that before you adopt
me.
2. Give me time to understand what you want of
me.
3. Place your trust in me -- it's crucial to my
well-being.
4. Don't be angry at me for long, and don't
lock me up as punishment. You have your
work, your entertainment, and your friends. I have only you.
5. Talk to me sometimes. Even if I don't
understand your words, I do understand your
voice when it's speaking to me.
6. Be aware that however you treat me, I'll
never forget it.
7. Remember before you hit me that I have teeth
that could easily crush the bones of your hand but I choose not to bite you.
8. Before you scold me for being uncooperative,
obstinate, or lazy, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps
I'm not getting the right food, or I've been out in the sun too long, or my
heart is getting old and weak.
9. Take care of me when I get old; you too will
grow old.
10. Go with me on difficult journeys. Never say
I can't bear to watch it or let it happen in my absence. Everything is easier
for me if you are there. Remember - I love you!
Contributed
by: Mlwspider@aol.com
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Website of Note
Lest
we forget that the seal hunt still goes on, please visit the following website:
Welcome to
www.canadasealhunt.ca
http://www.canadasealhunt.ca/
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Help Laboratory Animals
The
Humane Society of the United States would like to inform everyone that we have
a great publication, "42 Ways to Help Animals in Laboratories" that
is now available. The booklet guides
the reader through helpful and pro-active steps designed to help advocate for
animals in research. The booklet cost
$4.50 (booklet is $3 and shipping and handling is $1.50).
In
addition, we are also asking college students and advocates to help us spread
these words by giving out promotional cards for the booklet at school events
(demonstration tables, etc). We believe
the promo cards will help reach more interested parties and will let them know
about "42 Ways to Help Animals in Laboratories."
If
you are interested in buying the booklet and/or interested in distributing
promo cards, please contact me. As an
incentive, we are offering a free copy of our booklet to those who distribute
our promo cards.
Please
help us get the word out!
Daniel E. Kossow
Research Assistant
Animal Research Issues
The Humane Society of the United States
E-mail: <dkossow@hsus.org>
Ph: 301-258-3042
Fx: 301-258-7760
Source:
dkossow@hsus.org
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Prairie Dog And Buffalo
by
tapster@mindspring.com
Prairie dog
and buffalo roamed northern plains
tiny and large
enjoy days in copious innocence
until poison,
arrows, and bullets took control
more animals
forced to lose sanctified knoll
Faint smiles,
funny faces and mounds kiss sun
inhaling
what's left of their home as they wait
for more men
in government uniforms to rush in
those we vote
for, murder indiscriminately
Insurrection
comes as we lie down peacefully
near satiated
buffalo on large lonesome plain
horns curved
and ready, fat prairie dog paw
nibbles on the
grain of sweet Mother Earth
Staring back
at atrocities they have no power
they are more
victims, more innocents
ready to
withstand onslaught of modern man
waiting to
disappear like those before them
2000 By Diana
Moreton.
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Quote To Remember
"These dairymen are organized; they're
adamant, they're militant...And they,
they're massing an enormous amount of money
that they're going to put into
political activities, very frankly."
~~ Secretary
of the Treasury John Connally to President Richard
Nixon,
from The Watergate Tapes, March 23, 1971
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