Mr. Rifkin's organization was pressing for the continuation of the American Revolution via the complete socialization of the United States; as WFB puts it, "Probably the most publicized maneuver of the People's Bicentennial Commission is the offering of huge cash awards--$25,000 is the posted figure--to any wife of a major corporation executive, or any employee, who can produce evidence sufficient to put major corporation executives in jail for violating something or other."

The day before this taping, Jimmy Carter had defeated Gerald Ford for the Presidency; furthermore, in Congress, most of the Democratic freshmen originally elected in the Watergate year of 1974 had been re-elected. These three old pros give us a tour, rich in detail, of the policies and personalities.

Mao Tse-tung had died in September, and his widow, Chiang Ching, had been denounced as one of the Gang of Four and imprisoned. "As we sit here," WFB begins, "it is not absolutely known even whether the widow of Mao Tse-tung is alive or dead. Every manner of crime is imputed to her, and it is even whispered that she permitted the music of Beethoven into the death chamber of her husband." What will the incoming Carter Administration do about it all? What should it do?