The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 November 1968 — Page 2
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$5.00. Outside Indiana 1 year. $18.00-6 months. $10.00-3 months, $7.00. All Mail Subscriptions payable in advance. Motor Routes $2 15 per one month. TODAY’S EDITORIAL A Minority President? W^HATEVER the outcome of the election, one thing »» now appears highly possible: the man elected may receive less than a majority of the votes cast. If the present distribution of votes for the three candidates. as indicated by the polls, holds firm on election day. the winner will probably attract only a plurality of popular votes and thus become a minority president. If Richard Nixon wins, the combined vote for Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace could easily add up to a majority. If Humphrey wins, the combined vote for Nixon and Wallace could exceed the vice president’s support. If Wallace wins, the Nixon-Humphrey total could represent a majority. This does not necessarily mean that any candidate would be denied a majority in the Electoral College and that the election would go to the House of Representatives. Depending upon where his support is located, the candidate winning only a plurality of popular votes could receive an electoral-vote majority. Seeking his first term, Abraham Lincoln attracted only 40 per cent of the vote but won a decisive majority in the Electoral
College.
The current prospect of a minority president emerging from the election, of course, could be altered in the final days of the campaign, but only if Wallace’s strength dwindles or one of the candidates succeeds in igniting the electorate. There is the possibility, too,
that the polls are wrong.
A minority president faces special problems and special obligations. By word and deed, he must move swiftly and decisively to create a majority of confidence
that will enable him to govern effectively.
This means, in essence, satisfying the supporters of one of his defeated opponents. It is most difficult to govern strictly on the basis of a popular-vote plurality. The prospect of a minority president is nothing particularly new and might not be too disturbing in normal times. But while the nation is engaged in a foreign war and faces unprecedented domestic strife, it is a dis-
quieting possibility.
Nixon defends LBJ’s decision on Viet bombing halt
By GORDON JOSELOFF LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Richard M. Nixon said Sunday that if he is elected President he would be willing to go to Paris or Saigon before his inauguration to help get the Vietnam peace talks “off dead center.” The GOP presidential candidate, appearing on a nationally televised panel program, said he wanted to cooperate with President Johnson in any helpful way and that he was not making the suggestion as a “grand stand stunt.” Nixon was winding up his campaign in California whose 40 electoral votes could swing the election. The former vice president will remain in Los Angeles until Tuesday morning when he flies to New York. Answering newsmen’s questions on the NBC program, “Meet the Press,” Nixon also said that despite contrary opinions of some of his aides he did not believe President Johnson was playing politics with the Vietnam bombing halt. Vietnam War
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He added that he did not think Johnson would have ended the bombing of North Vietnam if he had expected a “backlash” from South Vietnam. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu said Saturday his government would not join expanded Paris peace talks if it meant sitting across from representatives of the Viet Cong. Most of the questions revolved around Vietnam and Nixon replied to one query by saying: “I stand wdth the President in trying to get the Paris negotiations off dead center. “If I am elected President I will be willing to cooperate in any way they (The Administration) consider helpful. If they consider it helpful for me to go to Paris or Saigon, I will. “I am not suggesting this as a grand stand stunt.” Called Johnson The offer recalled the statement of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 campaign when he said that he, if elected, would go to Korea to try to stop the war there. The promise was later widely construed as a major factor in Eisenhower’s victory. A spokesman for Nixon said the former vice president telephoned Johnson at the LBJ ranch shortly after the broadcast to emphasize the points he made on the program. The spokesman said the conversation lasted 12 to 15 minutes and that Nixon told the President he would cooperate fully on anything that would further the Paris talks. Nixon spent much of the Continued on Page 3
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The heat is on. And, as one would expect, it is mostly on Richard Nixon. Not because he is the front-runner, but because he is the conservative alternative. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has weighed in with an endorsement of Hubert Humphrey. One would think that, after a while, Mr. Schlesinger’s endorsements would depreciate, so numerous are they becoming. First he was for Senator McCarthy. But then when Senator Kennedy announced, Mr. Schlesinger simply abandoned McCarthy in favor of the Jacobite Restoration. Then when tragedy struck Kennedy down, Schlesinger went -- not back home to McCarthy as one would have supposed, but to Senator McGovern. During that period Mr. Schlesinger made a number of cracks about Mr. Humphrey’s disqualifications, based on his support of the Vietnam War, but now he says that “people change their minds,” and concerning no one else is it more eagerly hoped he will continue to change his mind. Mr. Humphrey, says Mr. Schlesinger, has personally reassured him that if he is elected, he will drastically alter our Vietnam position. And anyway, said Mr. Schlesinger the historian, Mr. Nixon’s campaign is “an intellectual and moral disgrace, to such a point that no one knows what he would do about anything as president.” Therefore, Mr. Schlesinger concludes, “he cannot make a good president of the United States.” Students of logic will recognize the enthymematic problem here. If it isn’t known what Mr. Nixon will do as president, how is it predictable that he will make a poor presidents Suppose he named Arthur Schlesinger as Secretary of State, John Kenneth Galbraith as Secretary of Commerce, and Benjamin Spock as Secretary of Defense? Wouldn’t he make a marvelous president then? And how does Mr. Schlesinger know that
that isn’t exactly what old Tricky Dick lias in mind, if Mr. Schlesinger says that he doesn’t in fact know just what lie does have in mind° And we hear from James Reston, the Duns Scotus of the world of journalism He goes through an entire column criticizing Richard Nixon for declining to debate with Humphrey, drawing verbose moral conclusions concerning the bad character of Mr. Nixon — without once mentioning, not even in the late city editions, that Mr. Hubert Humphrey was in the forefront of the movement four years ago to prevent a debate between Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson. Now it is one tiling to point out, simply, that Mr. Nixon’s switched position on debates did not embellish his prestige, but it is altogether something else to draw from that decision, which was obviously a tactical decision, dark invidious inferences concerning his character. Unless he had been willing to draw similar decisions concerning Mr. Humphrey, on account of his own switcheroo. Never mind, the partisans are riding their horses nowadays at full gallop, and reason is a detour. And while we are in search of political hygiene, how about the extra-ordinary exemptions that are being granted to Senator Jacob Javits? The polls in New York State show that Mr. Nixon is leading by a bare 2 r c. Mr. Javits conspired two months ago to prevent the Conservative Party from endorsing Mr. Nixon, with the altogether possible result that Mr. Nixon will for that reason alone lose the state of New York and possibly the national election. Mr. Javits took the position, as one would expect, as a matter of principle -- his prin-
cipled opposition to third parties. However, that principle did not prevent him from accepting the designation of the Liberal Party, and in the past few days, huge newspaper ads have been appearing urging the voters to go for Humphrey and Javits. Very confusing to New York State Republicans; on the other hand they thrive on confusion, as witness the perpetuation of the myth of Mr. Javits’ Republicanism, which myth the voters have certified year after year. Talking of debates, the most competent, the most exciting, the most tense that could possibly be staged, is one between Mr. Javits when speaking downstate and Mr. Javits when speaking upstate. I cannot imagine which of them would win. Perhaps, as someone predicted about a previous presidential election, they would both surely lose.
Foreign news commentary
By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Since praising President Johnson’s March 31 decision to limit the bombing of North Vietnam as a “courageous” act, French President Charles de Gaulle largely has refrained from his previous bitter criticism of the United States on the Vietnam issue. But on his state visit to Turkey he could not resist one more dig. He described the occupation of Czechoslovakia, the ArabIsraeli conflict and the war in Vietnam as “all tragedies that threaten the peace of the world because the right of the peoples Continued on Page 3
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Richard Nixon has said, in recollecting how he got into politics, that originally he never harlxired any ambitions in that area. ‘I wanted to enter law,’ he has said, ‘but I wasn’t a youngster who wanted to be President of the United States. Even in College, political battles as such never appealed to me, but I always seemed to get dragged into them to run for some office or another.’ He became a registered voter in 1938, at the age of 25. In 1940 his only campaign venture in the Presidential elections was some local sppech-making for the late Wendell Willkie, the Republican nominee. His first real endeavor in the realm of politics came in 1945, when he ran for Congressman from the then 12th Congressional District of Whittier, Cal. At the time he was waiting to receive his release papers from the Navy. On Dec. 4, 1945, he officially accepted the endorsement. He was released from the Navy in January, and immediately began an active campaign. The Nixons’first daughter, Patricia, now 22, was born shortly thereafter. Mrs. Nixon left tier baby with her mother-in-law and joined her husband on the campaign trail, establishing a routine she has followed ever since. He was launched on a political career which would demand the major portion of his time for the next two decades. As to how well his wife accepted her rise to national prominence and her almost continuous appearances in the public eye, from that time to the present, much is known. Pat Nixon lias said repeatedly that what Dick wants is whatslie wants, and she lias remained at his side through all of it, from the beginning. ‘I never could be content to sit around and play cards and lead the life of luxury: I need to lie doing something.’ In this short, recent statement the wife of Richard Nixon obliquely gave evidence of why she is an ideal partner for a Presidential candidate, and the perfect candidate in her own right for First Lady. Asked how she feels about constant exposure, petite blonde Tricia, 22, Nixon’s elder daughter, admits, ‘Being op display all the time does present some problems, but it’s really a small sacrifice when you think of what we’re working for.’ ‘Trisli’ describes her father as a compassionate man. ‘He’s so dedicated and sincere; it upsets me that sometimes his true warmth doesn’t come through to the public.’ When she isn’t traveling across
Richard M. Nixon the country campaigning for her favorite candidate, Tricia can be found at Nixon headquarters in New York City. Working with her uncle, Ed Nixon, she helps to answer the thousands of letters addressed to the candidate each week. Having a Presidential candidate for a father could pose some dating problems, his daughter says, but ‘I don’t get the same feeling that Lynda Bird Johnson described of wondering whether a lioy is dating me simply to meet my father.’ Tricia says she has dated Democrats, ‘but I’ve tried to convert them all.’ Tricia Nixon has shown a marked, personal interest in politics in the last few years. Last summer, she worked on the staff of California’s Sen. George Murphy in Washington. In the future, she plans to do more legislative work in the Capitol as assistnat to a Congressman. A June, 1968 graduate of Finch College in New York City, Tricia was a Modern European History major. She wrote her senior thesis on L‘Action Francaise, a French conservative political movement in the 1920’s. At Finch. Tricia was a member
of Inearnus Melora, an honor society, and class president in her junior year. She was also an active member ol the International Relations club. Personally, Julie Nixon, the younger of the two daughters, thinks politics is ‘too brutal, too hard, too much a ruthless game to go into unless a man really wants to. ‘You have to have a program or some goal you want to accomplish. I don’t think Dad would have run unless he had. He’s had the glory as Vice President and Senator. So now it really has to tie something he wants to do.’ Slim and gregarious Julie knows what she wants to do, after helping to elect her father President of the United States and marrying David Eisenhower, grandson of the former President. She says, ‘I feel all young women, married or single, should work for a few years before settling down to a full-time domestic role. ‘The trouble is all my friends at Smith (College, in Northhampton, Mass.) who have graduated have had to go to secreContinued on page 3
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