GRIDIRON PROVIDES A BIPARTISAN ROAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100120038-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: March 13, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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crisply grilled last night at'the Gridiron Club's "'wizard with words," which led intoa Let's
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annual dinner and satirical revue. of the na-":+
,?!o the tune of "The Wizard of Oz."? p. Wti ve been too rural. Now we need t0tl
tional Political scene. {.',, ' get plural.
Attended by more than 500 guests, some of ? We're here to see the wizard ; ~? ?%~'f~ ?- We can do a job DOWNTOWN! , t 1
them targets of the playful gibes, the newspa- The wonderful wizard of ooze: `?r?.~;,'i.r Computers show less voters grow in
per organization's frolic at the Statler Hilton For he's a whiz with words, he is. .:'i'! * suburbs than in the city.
I'm Hotel impartially lampooned the administra 1 He knows how to-make the news: 'K;'We can sweep those urban creeps and win tion's far-reaching ambitions and the solt}e; We follow old Ev and we seldom bee.. with Walter Mitty. '
times futile countermoves of the opposition There isn't an issue he can't con e. How can we lose?
In the -all-male audience were President`'l' Confuse, confuse, confuse, confuse, p t The lights are brighter there, and Mitty is,;
rey, cabinet officers, supreme Court justices Oh, he is the kind of leader to'choose., In case you care.
and other high-ranking personalities: - a We'll go DOWNTOWN!
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The club also welcomed as new members gg Y a couple
Clark R. Mollenhoff of the Minneapolis Star ). of roustabouts-_taken, its was said, off tho The stage was then lit up with the en. :
and Tribune, Philip Potter of The, Baltimore' Merry-Go-Round where he had been "going: trance of a spectacularly clad Hollywood
Sun, John R. Cauley of the Kansas City Star,. 'round and 'round ever ice 1960.' The Dirk' cowboy who took bow as Ronald Reagan, the;
David Wise of the New York Herald Tribune, movie and television actor seeking the Repub-
lien character asked the Nixon character his
Henry Gemmill of the Wall Street Journal and llcan nomination for governor of California.
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Warren Rogers of the Hearst Newspapers. plans for 1968 and "Nixon" sang, to the tune of , Asked if he was doing all right in his cam-
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Furnishing music for. the dinner and the , ?;,~Takiag a Chance on LoveI1,, ; + ,;;:.;}~~;~;,?;+K E paign, Reagan shuddered at the word
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1.Y "d ight" and, to the tune of "People Will Say
revue was the United-States Marine Band,..?;
Orchestra led by Lt. Col: Albert Schoepper. ,v,-Lei` me go again.. ru!',~Ve re in Love," appealed to the John l3itcL }
. The skits' were produced Wilder the dlrectioll of 'I hear the trumpet blow u,~,y+; i i 6ociety:
p again.