r Wqll America be the death of English? I m glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will. The outlook is dire; it is a later point in time i than you think. The evidence is all around us: In March， 1974， the White House press secretary， Ron Ziegler， explained a request for a four-day extension of a ~:ub- poena from the Watergate prosecutor for certain files. The exten- sion was needed， Ziegler said， so that James St. Clair， President ，， Nixon s attorney， could "evaluate and make a iudgment in terms of a response." We are all of us ready to man the barricades for the right to evaluate and make a judgment in terms of a response， but Ziegler could have said that St. Clair wanted more time to think