Reverse Periscope
by Walter Lippmann

Spiro Agnew was heard calling the current crop of living politicians "a bunch of over-stuffed windbags." Pretty tepid stuff considering the source. Too bad speechwriter Bill Safire hasn’t kicked the bucket yet.

Strange bedfellows: Estes Kefauver and Everett Dirksen joined forces with Eugene V. Debs asking for a little more attention to details around here. Just last week Former House Speaker Carl Albert slipped on a banana peel and John Foster Dulles found a piece of glass in his soup.

Meanwhile, an "ambassadorial mission" to the living by Sen. Albert Gore, Sr. (D-Tenn.- Deceased) and Sen. Prescott Bush (R-Conn.- Deceased) has been quashed. As Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine- Deceased) said, "the whole idea seems pretty ghoulish."

Finally, whatever became of perennial presidential candidate Harold Stassen? Until he dies, I guess we’ll never know.