The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 October 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Monday, October 21, 1968

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Nixon tops in poll by Farm Journal

PHILADELPHIA — Richard Nixon as of right now will easily win the farm vote, according to a current poll by Farm Journal, the nation’s largest farm magazine. The sample was selected by a computer from a list of over 5,000,000 farm owners and operators. When Farm Journal asked: "How would you vote if the election were today?” Nixon came out on top, getting 52 per cent of the vote, with both Wallace and Humphrey trailing substantially. The survey results, which appear in the November issue of Farm Journal, (out Oct. 12th), show Nixon’s greatest strength among the under 30 voters and

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those over 50. Wallace’s strength, greatest in the South, trailed off appreciably in other regions. The great majority of the farmers polled rated Johnson’s performance as either fair or poor. Among this group, very few indicated they’d vote for Humphrey. FFA members initiated The North Putnam Chapter of Future Farmers of America opened its third meeting. President Larry Wilson called the meeting to order with the opening ceremonies. The chapter then initiated ten new members, they are as follows: Larry App, Max Davasher, Rex Jackson, Ronnie Lambermont, Eddie MeBride, Bob Miller, Carl Norman, Gary Richards, Paul Sanders, Mike Stone. After the initiation the meeting was thenadjournedwith closing ceremonies.

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Nixon: An old fashioned lawyer who couldn’t be bought

This is the third in a series of articles delving into the formative years of Richard M. Nixon, the man most likely to become the next President of the United States.

"I will be an old fashioned kind of lawyer, a lawyer who can’t be bought.” The statement was made to his mother, who had always hoped her son would become either a preacher or a musician. The boy was twelve years old. His brother Donald said later that this was the beginning of Richard Nixon’s political career, whether or not he knew it then. Until he made his decision to go into law, Nixon had dreamed of railroading as a career. The great joy of his early childhood had centered on a spurline of the Sante Fe Railroad. He had studied the comings and goings of the trains in and out of the valley each day, conjured trips to be made, places to be seen. "The train’s whistle was the sweetest music I ever heard," he recalls. He had never seen a real lawyer when he switched ambitions. But lawyers seemed to be involved In all the intriguing doings of government. In elementary school he became a star debater and orator. Once or twice he had

overheard an adult say, "Dick was a born lawyer." Nixon was an avid newspaper reader from early childhood on. The political arena and its go-ings-on were of special interest to him. Then too, he had been on the receiving end of many a conversation in which his father railed at the activities of crooked politicians, particularly during the Teapot Dome scandal, which erupted during Nixon’s youth. It had its effect on his thinking and attitudes. Another brother says, "Dick was the studious one of the bunch, always doing more reading when the rest of us were out having more fun." His mind was orderly, absorp. tive and scholarly—qualities which make for good lawyers.

With his use of argument and logic as a means of reaching the solution to a problem or the answer to a difficult question, it is not surprising that eventually he would turn to law as a career. Outside jobs had put him through college. When the time came, he knew he couldn’t afford to go to law school. The next step was to find a way, and in storybook fashion, a door was opened. He had graduated with honors from Whittier College. That same year (1937) Trinity, a Methodist college In Durham,N.C., received a large endowment from James Buchanan Duke, the tobacco multimilllonalre. After accepting the grant, the institution changed its name to Duke University. With its coffers boosted substantially,

the university’s largesse increased. Nixon entered the law school at Duke University on one of the scholarships available to highhonor men throughout the country. Among other things, his let. ter of recommendation from Whittier’s president, Dr. Walter F. Baxter, stated, "I believe Nixon will become one of America’s important, if not great leaders." They proved to be prophetic words. Along with a full scholarship Nixon got a National Youth Administration job paying 35 cents an hour. In his law class there were 44 students from 37 states, and in this depression period, most of the entire class was composed of scholarship students. Few families in those years were able to find money for tuition. The pressure of studies and money problems rested heavily on him, but Nixon didn’t complain. He knew what he wanted. That was a law degree, and he knew the only possible way to attain one was by maintaining his scholarship and working outside, and in the summers. He worked one very hot sum. mer for a law professor, handcranking an ink-filled mimeograph machine, eight hours a day in a room without windows. Keendured the discomfort and the tedious work because he needed the money to complete law school. "Then and thereafter,’’ one biographer writes, "The end justified the means.” Nixon later cited "the importance of fighting hard all the time and working hard all the time" as being major influences in his life. In order to get the highest quality students, Duke had adhered to the practive of offering just a few scholarships to second and third year law students. Nixon held his scholarship for the entire three years he was at Duke’s law school, which is a demonstration of his superior legal ability. He also became a member of the Order of the Coif, the national scholastic fraternity for honor law students. He would worry about his grades, even as he made honors. He knew his average had to be high enough to keep him on the scholarship, because a scholar, ship was the only means of seeing him through law school.

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His big ambition was to join a "great" law firm after graduation. In 1936, during the Christ, mas holidays, Nixon and two other soon-to-graduate law students went to New York City to try their luck with several wellknown law offices. Two of the boys were successful; Nixon got no definite response. He was particularly attracted to one of the law offices, with its luxurious carpeting and fine appointments. "If they had given me a job," he said in 1958, recalling the incident, "I’m sure I would have been there today, a corporation lawyer , instead of Vice President."

Back on May 29, it may be recalled, the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution imposing new and harsher sanctions on Rhodesia. None of the earlier resolutions of sanction had succeeded, but the U.N. has its own rule in such matters, the rule that nothing succeeds like failure. So the Council adopted new sanctions, stopping just short of war. Two months later, on July 29, President Johnson issued an executive order intended to implement the U.N. resolution. Oddly enough, scarcely a word of this executive order appeared in the American press. The silence was especially curious inasmuch as the Johnsonian edict has no peacetime parallel. It was

designed to throttle all commerce, of any sort, between the United States and Rhodesia. The order of July 29 was drastic, but apparently not drastic enough. On August 13, the Treasury Department issued still further prohibitions having to do with Rhodesia. With these maledictions, it was thought, every trace of Rhodesia at last had been rooted out. But aha! The keen eye of the Treasury preceived that a flicker of life remained. The spunky little Rhode sian Infer mation Service was still in operation out at 2852 McGill Terrace in Washington. The government of Lyndon Johnson deemed it intolerable, in a society dedicated to freedom of opinion, that any

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Rhodesian should remain free to voice an opinion. Therefore, though you may find this difficult to believe, on Saturday, September 28, still further regulations were imposed; and the ink was scarcely dry upon these before a lady in the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, Mrs. Margaret Schwartz by name, fired off a letter to Washington’s Riggs National Bank. On the morning of Monday, September 30, an officer of the bank telephoned Kenneth Towsey, director of the Rhodesian InContinued on Page 5

It was 1937, and the Depression was still on. He decided to apply for a job with the FBI. "The FBI looked very good to a young lawyer looking for work that year," he remembers. Nixon submitted his application, accompanied by a letter of recommendation from DeanH. Claude Horack to J. Edgar Hoover, describing him, among other things, as "one of the finest young men, both in character and ability, that I have ever had the opportunity of having in my classes.

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He is a superior student, alert, aggressive, a fine speaker and one who can do an exceptionally good piece of research when called upon to do so. His position with his fellows is shown by the fact that he is this year president of the Duke Bar Association. . ." In June, when time came to graduate, Nixon still had not heard from J. Edgar Hoover or the FBI. He decided to forget it and return to Whittier, his home town. Nixon had to cram five months of California law into two months of study. This he did, and did it successfully. When he had begun his law studies at Duke there were 44 students in the class. In June, 1937, when the class was graduated, only 25 were left to receive the law degree. Nixon was third, scholastically, in his class. Several months later, never having heard from the FBI, he discovered that a cut in manpower had curtailed his chances of becoming an agent, just as his papers were being okayed. He returned to Whittier to practice law with Winger and Bewley, the city’s oldest law firm. Cases began to come Nixon’s way. With characteristic diligence and application, he studied them carefully. Almost too carefully, it seemed. His first cases were most often confined to divorce suits. Here his strong Quaker background and his logic took over. He would spend hours mediating with his clients, trying to find a way out of the divorce courts, not through them. Eventually he managed to keep more couples together than apart. Fine for the client, but not so fine for the law firm’s budget. As time went on, Nixon was given more opportunity to take on the kind of law he liked best. He became the firm’s chief trial lawyer and a specialist in legal and real estate affairs, then set up a branch office in a nearby community, and his practice grew. Nixon also had the job of town prosecutor in the town police court. One of his most memorable acts in this capacity was ridding the town of the town drunks. This he did by posting extra policemen outside the cafe and having them immediately arrest the drunks who came out. Within a week the cafe had closed and the owner moved to another place of operation. Nixon turned out to be a thorough prosecutor. He was also an excellent corporation and tax lawyer. His courtroom manner was impressive because of its thorough and legalistic approach. He didn’t rely on dramatics, often used by lawyers to make a point. Instead he relied on thorough knowledge, gained by endless hours of probing into every con-

ceivable area of the subject to be treated, looking for loopholes, plugging them then presenting his case, point by point, jabbing at his opponent’s weaknesses. The weapons used by the suecessful debater, and used by Nixon as a lawyer and later, as a politician. Nixon hadn’t had time for much of a social life since his struggle for an education began. Pressure of studies, jobs and career had kept him from being able to relax and indulge in much of an outside life. But his law practice was established and assured and now he could relax. One of his interests was dramatics. Whittier had a little theatre group. He wanted an outlet. He decided to go to the tryouts. It was at the tryouts for a play that he met his future wife, Pat Ryan.

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