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which occurred in the 1976 general elections which
resulted in Carter's election. Steinberg presented hisexpert testimony as a chief investigator of fraud in thestate of Ohio after the elections and reported that the use

Frenzl the magnitude of the resulting investigations
would make the Watergate affair small in comparison,making impeachment proceedings virtually inevitable.
The fear of many Congressmen who already haveof "easy registration" laws had been used by the Carter

thought

campaign to wilfully change the outcome of the election.

ministration, that of being left with Walter Mondale as

Steinberg's testimony had been preceded by that of the
Ohio Assistant Secretary of State who reported that thethe next U.S. President is overcome by pursuing the vote

Ohio Senate on May 5 passed an on-site registration bill;
he stated that its passage would increase the "danger offraud".

in terms of"watergating" the Carter Ad­

fraud issue. Mondale was the prime author of theUniversal Voter Registration bill and engineered thecampaign to "vote early and often" on November 2; hewould thus be subjected to both impeachment andWere the Congress to undertake the measures outlined
hy Steinberg, Senators Griffin

and Allen,criminal proceedings.

and Rep.

The Impeachment Of Jimmy Carter
The following statement was reJeased May 3, 1.977 byu.s.

Labor

PartyNational

Chairman

L yndonH.

into swamp Quicksand. As the drive continues, theswamp is closing in on the narrowing strip of dry land on
which the crooked road is located.

.
There is a way in which the party might avoid falling

LaRouche. Jr.

Unless the Carter Administration puts across its
fascist "energy policy," which is now improbable, orunless a thermonuclear showdown with the Warsaw Pact
erupts this spring or summer, which is still a grave
possibility, the impeachment of the Administration of
Jimmy Carter should begin no later than the autumn of1977.

into the swamp. There is one very dangerous side road,running over a broken-down bridge. The weight of thecar and its besotted passengers is more than enough tobreak that bridge. Below the rotting bridge is Quicksand.
It is barely possible that a skilled driver might negotiatethat side .,road, and might negotiate the bridge also so as
to reach the opposite side before the bridge's collapse

Admittedly, for the m oment many of the U.S.
congressmen who will be pushing that impeachment
would deny such a possibility at this moment. Some ofoccurs.

impeachment. Others, especially among Democratic
Party congressmen, simply have not thought through theparty might get over the bridge - which is virtually animpossibility. It can run off the end of the road it is

impeachment camp.' The Congress is not prepared tobegin the impeachment o � the Carter Administration at

into the swamp at the side. The driver is irresponsible,

those congressmen are discreetly studying the idea ofchain of circumstances which will lead them into the pro­this moment. Under the conditions we have indicated, it

will be prepared to undertake impeachment by no later
than this fall.
The past

weekend's news

story

reporting

Jimmy

Carter's claim to have sighted a UFO should be seen as,an advance warning of events to come. Some forces in'the USA are committed to building an "Impeach Carter"
movement.

Othersareusing

thegrowingcorridor

rumors about 'impeachment as a threat, attempting tointimidate the Carter Administration into making cer­tain adjustments in its policies and performances. The
thought of impeachment is accelerating within the USA.
It has not yet reached the "threshhold" at which actual
impeachment

efforts

will

belaunchedwithintheCongress.

We have the following alternatives to consider. The

traveling, into the Quicksand. That is the point it willreach no later than this fall. It might also run off the roadand the party is d runken. The dilapidated vehicle mightlose a wheel - the maintenance is horrible - and run off
the road into the swamp. The wreck they are driving
might simply break down. Chase Manhattan is bankrupt
and the IMF is non-functional.
That image emphasizes the point: although no exact
predictions can be made, the situation itself determines arange of alternatives, a situation which is predictable asa whole in that way. Every alternative but general war
brings an impeachment to the Carter Administration.
There is a formerly famous American tale, "The
Deacon's One Shorse Shay, Built to Last for One HundredYears

andnineteenthaDay... "century,That"value

miracleofanalysis"

apocryphal,
methods

ofcarriage production engineering .-.:.. according to the tale
- collapsed on schedule. If the deacon had been drunken,

The Geometry of the Issueor a UFO sighter, a catastrophe might have occurred

Imagine David Rockefeller's Carter Administration as
like a drunken crowd of revelers driving a rattletrap

span built into the design of the Carter Administration is

automobile down a backwoods road in Georgia swamp
country. As the party careens forward, mile by niile, it is, approaching a place where the road suddenly drops off
2

That side road and bridge are thermonuclear con­
frontation with the Warsaw Pact.

before the end of the allotted span of time. The allottedmuch, much shorter than the deacon's pride and joy.
About nine months, barring earlier abortions, should,deliver the U.S. from the Carter misconception.

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Watergate and Cartergate.

It is most useful to compare the "Watergatillg" ofNixon with the looming Cartergating.
nections, parallels, and differences.
Accordingto

thiswriter's

here are con­T.

knowledge,the"Watergating" of Richard Nixon was projected by

1970, at the time theRockefeller circles no later than"Pentagon Papers" hoax was cooked up. The front end ofthat frame-up of Nixon was conducted by the "liberal­
radical" neo-Fabian aparatus of the Rockefellers andtheir Rothschild-linked allies, with the aid of insiders in
the White House(e.g.

HenryKissinger)and other

aspects of the executive branch.
Nixon was not "Watergated" so much because ofanything he did after 1970, except as his administrationwas "profiled" and manipulated into postures and ac­months,beforethemajorityoftheelectorateisassembled into a striking force to effect the Cartergating.
and install a new executive.

The difference between "Watergate" and Carter gatingis that President Ni:\c:on was set up to be ousted. The
Carter Administration itself has alreadY provided thenecessary grounds for its impeachment.
In reality, Jimmy Carter himself will be impeachedbecause of the American electorate's perception of
Carter's psychological history and condition. The Carter
Administration - as distinct from Jimmy Carter as such
-will be impeached becaus e it is worse than in­competent in dealing with the present world depression.
These issues may not figure prominently in the for­malities of the Cartergating proceedings. but they will betions advantageous to the Watergaters.
In the course of this Rockefeller-linked operation
against the Nixon Administration, two results were ef­
fected of decisive . importance for the coming Car­tergating. First, the ordering of the presidential suc­cession was altered, and that ordering institutionalized
in the course of the resignation of Vice-President Spiro
Agnew and President Nixon's resignation. Second, theinstitutionalization of the machinery for impeaching apresident in this new way, "Watergate," is today theinstitutionalized model by which the Congress (mainly)
ousts an unwanted president. 'therefore, one should think"The Question isn't so much if
Carter should be impeached but when and how he should beimpeached
Aide to a leading Eastern
Democratic Congressman. . . "

not so much of the kind of impeachment process which

would have been thought of before 1972', but of some sortof "replay" of the "Watergate" process. Hence, one
should think of· Cartergating.
There is one other feature of! the "Watergating" ofNixon which must be kept in mind·. At the outset of theelaborate neo-Fabian frame up of Nixon, beginnillg 1970
(or, perhaps earlier), the Rockefellers and their alliesknew

andwerededicatedtotheirobjective.

TheRockefellers and their allies wished to have Nixon out of
the way, in order to make a cold coup d'etat against U.S.
constitutional

government-towhichNelsonRockefeller contributed his personal desire to becomepresident.
One cannot impeach an existing government· of theUnited States unless one is committed to the goal ofestablishing a replacement government of some definite
character and policy objectives.

That

was the neo·

Fabians' advantage over the conservative ("Whig")alliance behind the Nixon Administration� The con­servatives resorted, from1968 onwards. to defensive,

parliamentary

countermaneuvers"Maginot"tacticalpolicy,ratherthansighting-aenemy

vulnerable strategic targets and going for them with acounteroffensive. Rockefeller was willing to wipe out the"Whigs," but the Whigs were unwilling to go beyond a
few forays against Rockefeller's neo-Fabian auxiliaries.
refusing to counterattack against Ro�kefeller itself.
This latter point is crucial

tounderstanding theelement of time in the Cartergating process. What causes
the American "Whig" coalition to hesitate to assemble
itself and act is the lack of agreement on positive
alternatives. They have not agreed upon a leadership.

the key issues in the minds of the electorate out in thestreets.
The electorate will approach the Cartergating in thisway. They will say. "we wish to be rid of Jimmy Carterand the Carter Administration. What are proper. legal
grounds for accomplishing this?" There are ample legal
grounds for

impeaching

theCarterAdministration.

Those legal grounds will be pursued because the leadingindustrialist, trade union, and allied forces representing
a majority of the electorate wish to be rid of the Ad­
ministration.

The LaRouche Candidacy
At the moment - apart from certain leading figures inthe U�S. Congress - there are the following mentionablecandidates for the president to serve out the 1978-1980
remainderofJimmy

Carter'sterm.

Conservative

Republican Ronald Reagan, former Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld, this writer - and, former President
Gerald Ford. Former President Nixon will also be afactor in the situation. although not a candidate. It will be
the growing discussion of the LaRouche candidacy which
will shape the Cartergating process as a whole.
The Cartergating will be based on an "AmericanWhig" coalition of the following elements. Sociologically,
it will be composed of industrialists. trade union forces,farmers. and scientific and engineering professionals.

with a certain section of the U.S. banking community in­cluded. In terms of political parties. it will include theThey have not agreed yet upon the ABCs of a program.

majority of Republicans, conservative ("Whig") Demo­crats. a majority of independent conservatives, and theThat deficiency will need a process,U.S. Labor Party.

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The program of this American Whig coalition will be1) the U.S. Labor Party's energy program. (2) (At leastin essentials) the u.s. Labor Party's Third National
Bank and related economic and financial refor m s.

(3)

The Carter people deployed around Pittsburgh were. most conscious of this, denouncing the Pittsburgh con­ference - among other things - as an effort to launch
the impeachment of Carter. Although that was not theRestoration of constitutional republicanism according to
the intent of the u.s. Consittution as defined during thegoal of the Pittsburgh conference, the Carter people's ob­

American Revolution over the 1763-1828 period.

dacy showed in their exhibited paranoia concerning the(4) AU.S. foreign policy based fundamentally on U.S. self-session with their fear of a developing LaRouche candi­
Pittsburgh affair.
In any case, small but increasing numbers of informed
persons within the U.S. are thinking of LaRouche as U.S.

president for 1978, 1981, or 1985, or at least the stalKing
horse for whoever becomes president on those occasions.

For the present, a growing number of people are pro­"Wh en you see a duck and you

nouncing asee th e eggs, you can assume

What weighs increasingly on the minds of those think­th e duck laid th e eggs."- aLaRouche presidency as "unthinkable."

They find it necessary to assert that more frequently.
ing things through is not whether they would give thefar west Republican Senatoron the relationship between

theCarter Administration and the Mid­dle East war threat

U.S. presidency to LaRouche, but whether they canreach their U.S. policy objectives without LaRouche. The
Nixon and Ford cases are on some minds in this connect­
ion. Nixon blundered and Ford capitulated under circum­
stancesinwhichLaRouche

wouldhavemassively

counterattacked. An army must sometimes choose be­tween a leader it personally prefers and a leader who will
give them victory. They are afraid that Reagan lacks cer­tain of the qualities needed and might be manipulated

interests as a major technological power in global indus­

into tactical and strategic errors as Nixon and Ford

trial progress.

were.

be posed: "How can we obtain the benefits of a LaRouchesome.

Among the conservatives generally, the question will

presidency without LaRouche as President?" Ronald
Reagan and Donald Rumsfeld will come prominently
into view as the two foremost alternatives ou�side theCongress. If the Whig Democrats and trade uniOns "buy"Reagan, the effort would be made to build a U.S. Labor

That, consideration"Halowe'enisthebasisfor

DonaldMassacre" Rumsfeld's attractiveness toFor the moment, the growing idea of the LaRouche
candidacy is itself the stalking horse for whoever be­comes president in fact in 1978. How this process wUl un­
fold remains to be seen.

For

What American Whigs would find most agreeable is areasons obvious to U.S. insiders, Donald Rumsfeld ismore easily "sold" to trade unionists and Whig Demo­

new global arrangement in which LaRouche heads up acrats than Ronald Reagan - fewer old issues to fight out.

frightening figure occupies the U.S. presidency.

Party

programaroundaReaganpresidency.

newinternational monetarysystemands ome

less

However, if Reagan were significant arid prominent in

If the International Development Bank were under theridding California of Governor "Zen nuddhist" Brown,

direction of a political-policymaking team of persons

Reagan would have a bit of a political steamroller in his

such as Mexico's Luis Echeverria, LaRouche, and per­favor.
For various reasons, some will still think of President

al bankers, scientists and engineers staffing the bank'sIFord. Most notably, development of the facts of themassive 1976 vote fraud - showing Ford the legitimate'winner - coincides with the fact that very few people dis­

like Gerry Ford.

As the pattern of the recent Pittsburgh conference heldby the Fusion Energy Foundation and others shows, theLaRouche candidacy is being kept below the threshold ofbroader public attention so far by a massive armtwisting

haps Hungary's Fekete, with a strong team of profession­
operations, the alternate American Whig in the WhiteHouse would view himself as having the best of alterna­
tive possibilities.
Such matters wiH develop as they develop.
In the meantime, provided we contain the Middle East
problem and neutralize the Africa mess, Carter's side­road to global hell is cut off, and the Cartergating willthen proceed painfully but agreeably in effect. Underand outright blackmailing campaign against industrial­

those circumstances, whichever American Whig occu­

ists, trade unionists and others. Once the Rockefeller
machine's ability to terrorize is reduced. the LaRouche

and we shall get out of the present damned world de­candidacy will begin to come very much into the open.

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pies the White House next year, the world will be safe,pression.