CLIAlfER

CHAPTER 1

Liberals Get The Action,
Conservatives Get The Rhetoric

While in a particularly expansive mood one day, Richard Nixon's Senate floor leader, the very Liberal Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, boasted to a reporter; ''We Liberals get the action and the Conservatives get the rhetoric-"¹This yeasty admission of the Nixon Administration's Liberalism in action doubtless would have come as a distinct shock to most of the 32 million citizens who voted for Richard Milhous Nixon for President or the United States in I 968 They expected Conservative actions to fallow the laudable Conservative rhetoric of the campaign The Nixon campaign landed many a strong verbal clout on the snout of squishy-soft Liberalism, whose permissive policies. at home and abroad had brought lie country to the brink of a nervous breakdown from frustration. if not financial, moral, and military collapse. while stumping the hustings, candidate Nixon promised again and again ''new leadership'' that would restore law and order, stop aid and trade with our Communist enemies, terminate the ceaseless war in Vietnam, scuttle unworkable socialist spending programs, dash virulent inflation. restore fiscal sanity, stuff the genie of big government back into the bottle, and, in general, ''throw the rascals out-"

Liberal columnists, widely believed to be Mr. Nixon's implacable enemies. have seemed both surprised and highly pleased at the ''New Nixon,'' who gives the Conservatives the rhetoric and the Liberals the action. One of the tip-offs came even before the election in an amazing column by the late Ralph McGill, formerly a statinch enemy of Richard Nixon. McGill, editor of the Atlanta Consti/u~n and a nationally syndicated columnist, was a member of the semi-secret Council on Foreign Relations, Called "the CFR," otherwise know' as ''tie invisible government'' or the 'Pattern Liberal Estab)lishment.'' (~~e C~R will he dealt with it greater detail in Chapter Tliree~) McGill, one of America's most vocal anti-anti-Communists, wrote in a column titled ''All Civilized Persons Are Indebted To Nixon";

A' important charge has come to Richard Nixon. ~ir nation, and, for that matter, civilized persons everywhere, &are in his debt

Nixon has clanged his once rigid views about the neces4tv to maintain relations and a dialogue with tic Communist world, including Red China, when that now chaotic country has a government that can be responsive He did so because the facts have clar~ed

Nixon built his political career oil opposition to Communism He had fluids himself the darling ₀r the Birch-typo mentalities, and of all [he various extreme right.win'}g out organ' atioi~s that carry on witch hunts and character assassination in tile name or anti-Communism.

The New Nixon policy was made public before his nomination at Miami. tie said in a pros cc,nte~n~ flint he lad ~revised''

} his earlier views, largely because the Communist world itself has shifted in new directions

Nixon suggested further that the era of "confrontation' with the Communist world has ended it has been replaced, lie believes. with alt era of negotiations.

Whoever is Presideot he said, in the 'text four and eight years, 'most proceed or fir assumption that negotiations with the Soviet world, negotiations eventually with the leaders of tile next superpower, Communist Cl~ina, must take place. This is a change that huts conic about and therefore, your, policy most change."

Nixon said, with admirable candor, that his 1960 acceptance speech, with it₅inflexible position against any talks with die Communist world, "would be irrelevant 0 the problems of ts'day~~'

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Liberals Get The Acn~~ -

'As the rents change," he said. ~ary intelligent man &)does change his approaches to the problems It does not mean that he Is an oportuni~t It means only that he is a pragmatist."

The "New Communists" proceeded to embarrass the "New

Nixon" by shortly thereafter breaking their non-aggression

treaty with Czech&slovakia and invading that country to brut~ly crush an apparent move toward independence.

Shortly after the election, Liberal columnists were gloating that Nixon could do more for L~berali~.~rn simply because he was a Republican who was widely believed to he a Conservative Robert J. Donovan of the Los Angeles Times observed In an article titled "Nixon Will Protect rite Center Pro', the Left and Right"

~e knows he cannot mike strides at home until he gets rid of the burden 0f lie war. He 'as promised to end the war. Its associates say lie is aware that ii order 0 do so lie flay have to make unpopular concee~ons that only a new President and oily one who, like himself, feel: safe against charges of being ''soft on communism'' would tisk making.

As one of Id closest mends explained recently-. "The American people know Dick Nixon wouldn't set the country out to the (.'ointnun~rs.' Or as Sen. Jacob K- Javits (ft-~~Y.) was quoted as having sa-id the other day, '~I'm confident that Nixon will end the war - - if Humphrey would do what Nixon is going to do on Vietnam, Humphrey would be shot or impeached Nixon will end the war''

widely syndicated Liberal columnist Sydney Harris was not exactly downcast at the thought of a Nixon Adninistration:It it probably better for the na-hell that Nixon was elected than

Humphrey, for social realities will force \'ixon to do pretty much The tame tlrm~s- Humphrey would ha~ done, but Nixon will encounter lest bitterness and opposition than Humphrey would have-⁴

Richard Nixo}n

Look mag seine's Washington correspondent Richard Wilson wrote in his newspaper column

A rather impressive li~t has at£--umulated of things that are not going to be done lithe Nixon administration:

The ofr~e of Economic Opportunity (poverty program) is not to be ahnli~~edThe 10 per cent income surtax is not to be dropped

The Johnson budget is not to be cut substantially

Southern public schools are not to be permitted to squirm nut of ending segregation throng freedom or choice plans-

A significant rise in the rate of unemployment is nut [0 be encouraged as a concomitan- of arresting inflation

Consumer-protection activities are nut to hr abandoned. The '~~cunty tap'' in rational defen~ is not round to hr as wide as it appeared last October.

If such policy decisions seem d-t variance with Nixon's stance in the presidential campaign, it is because so many people 'lad formed a different idea of what the Nixon administration would be like. there is to be no significant change in budgetary policy, no

significant chan~ in tax policy, no significant change in economic policy. then much of what Wd~5 said during the campaign can be classified as the usual political-l bombast~⁵

Columnist Wilson noted that ''the a~ony in Nixon>- early days is among Republicans who think their legitimate interests aren't being protected, while the ecstasy is among Liberals and Democrats who have d1tcovetcd that Richard Nixon isn't half as had as they expected-"⁶

Stewart Alsop, old warhorse of the Fabian Socialist Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), told his Newsweek readers in a column titled '~The Demonsterization- don of Nixon'':

srnet~ng yen' important has happened during Ri chard Nixon's first month as President: a teat many people who supposed or at least suspected that Mr.- Nixo,n was a sort of. human monster have discovered that Ire isn't-⁷

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An these ato~ed ~ixonophn6et now find thtriselv~ puzzled and discomfited For where is the Richard Nixon they so happily hated?

not ~hey may find him again, of course - honeyma~t.t always end Yet ~ ni~r, ~trp~fidrng Ot~ito~₉hoiis seems to be

hot moore than a function of the usual Presidential honeymoon. It could be a basic and perhaps even a permanent change in public attitudes toward the new President . . . .

It is interesting to speculate on the reasons for the charge. For one thing, President Nixon, as a suspected monster, gets a lot of credit for not being a rnonster. He gets credit for not doing all sorts of things that a President Humphrey for exareple, would have got no credit at all for not doiitg -. not abandorung the cause of scho~ integralion; not Initituting a witch-handing "ie~-out'' or the State Depertinient; not demanding clearCut eupen~ority"

nuocir weapons as a condtton of aego~tin~ with Ire

R~~rc^tanir;seden^tNixart, in Short, get credit for itot doing N~tonhcnted he roght do.

Later, AEsop was to joyou~y crown ~ &iton "The Great ?~pmptor";

The President's basic political tefinilne it now etttirely olsiout He appeases the d~t with reasturing rhetoric, contervetive &-pprnoLtn~tt and such gtsturet is the unleashing of Vite he~ident Spiro T- Agnew and the veto of the FmW bin- At the sane time, he husidy pre~ennpts, porltlins, or filches all the rnajor issues a(it~ natund enemies the ti~erst feinocrats

There ate plenty of exatiples of thr ~esident in action in di

The Great Pne-Emptor- A natioriaf ~ t~mo najust lburgeoni~ forth at a major hbet~ Democratic l~ue neten Ac heilent araie~el 2$ swa)'- Jhe draft Joii~? hore Ac Kennedy brand before the Presldu~it otptuted it, and tc did tat ref~ The '~llew Pe&'ttis~" vat the brainchild of Robert F Kennedy tnt it hae 'io~ been leisll~ napted by the Ptesidtttt. And Sn On-⁵

Since Mt Alsop is ~ibarij, jite naturally found ~ hit ittitly praiseworthy at itc continued;

Richard Nkon

- - In abort Mr- Nixon has turned out In ho a far better polirician Than most folitical .rntvtah~sti (sgin, includlitg Ida one) thought ltkn Lobe a year ago- he may turn out n be a better President no. To be a gool hesident it is first nece~arv to be a good politician Moneuver, the issies that Mr- Nixon has preempted from The liberals are good issues - they involve doir~ things that badly riced to be done- Perhaps tn be flir, tat ii alsu a tea~}n 'vhy ~te OTeat Pre-Eniptor has preempted them.

Alsop was also pleastll that Conservatives are neutralIzed through this policy of giving the rherchc to them whfle the Left gels the acion; ''~lhe rhetorit has had a Inaivelously soothing eft~ect on Ihe Republican flglit; thete hi-a been hardly a peep from Senators Collwater, Tower, Thurmond and cornpany-" After -ill, what cart these men say? They went far out Cr a limb to support Mr- Nixon in 1968 and they am now in a higlily emb~nasaing position

Few have gushed over the New Nixon as has the rattonally syndicated coltamnist Roscoc Drurrsnond, a member or the Council on Foreign Relations TZstahlishmeot Drummond began even before President-elect Nixon took office, hy declaring RMN to he a secret liberal''

Tic mo~ signifirarat political fart of the hour is onW so evident it can't be seriou4y dnpoted

President Richard N Ntxton isa '~secret liberal.''

He may not welcoire ~c de~ription He resitta labels and errs himself as a pragmatist, a problem-solyca neiTher liberal ncr conservative - who wants to do what needs to be door

Eur Nixon is already pro~nl himself a liberal-in-action if not a libera,-io-theo~' - and this is what counts

The ~ilence:

lyndoit John~ro initiated arid Congnese appro~ed the Parge~ volume of tc~ial le~i4atiori uf any pmsident in history Aid Nixon pncperea to carry forward every niajor Johinstrn measure

During the eight Fiernlhuwer years 45 new welfare programs wcre passed Utiong the tive Johnson years some 435 welfare programs were pai~d and Nixon is riot proposiulg to dismantle

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Find- ily, Nixoit has rolotnitted Isis admiin~stratiisr to open-ended iTirrease in Social security bensfiLl by advocating haL They be boosted rcgulsely to match higher living costs-

But hr fact remains thar Nrx~on is not going to disrupt, decrease or dismande rile vast, help-people. TheIp-the-Itates pro-grams he inherited frc,nn the Crest Society any more tion Dwight hisenhower did those he itilierited from the New Deal.

IIke accepted the ref{}nrn of the New fleal as part ofihe fabrtr If modern s{tt-icLy ~td cites as his proudest pnesidential aclievemen the extension of Social Security to cover more than 12 million niore petple~⁹

Six months later, after Mn Nixon announced his Famijy Assistance Plan, a thinly cLi~ui~ed Ouarantced Annual Income, which he had opposed during the campaign, the dumbfounded Drummond was predicting that Richard Nixon, of ill people might go down n history as the PDR or the 1970s--

~tever happened is conservative Richard ~ixonrhere lie is in the lead for the most far-ranging, voundbrea- king, dating social-welfare reform since the early years. of the NewDeal

The Pnrsideitt has sei,ed the ititiative on the moe cinctally needed domestic reform and ha': stolen the best clothe of the Demorratic lihera- Is.

Strange to contemplak' but tile ume may come when people will titink of Ricitard M Nixon as the Repub~ican Frarlin D Roosevelt of the !970s1

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nut nonr of tlr~ alters the fact that conservative Richard NLxuI' 0 actirt to carry- out an irennenecly liberal concept and liberal program-

How liburad? If you detine modern iiberalt~n as a wfllingoesi to use the federal government to achieve ntajor socia ends, The President's new Program is very libend - - - - to

R~hard Nixon

Drommond also told his sophisticated Liberal readers in such papers as the notoriously Leftist Washi~rroyt Post to ignore the fact that fletnocrats have to denounce Ntxoti as a Conservanve for political purroses:

fluapil epithets torn liberals, the record ot the ~ixon adininistration thus far is in the StOittesive side in both pohay and actionIt is nrnch more midroad thsn cnijaerea-tive and terbap veil a

little left Of center

The labds dos matter- what does is whether the Preildent arting wisely and errectivelyIt is dosilitiol if Nixon~s Demnctstic critics are dt)ing Itemselves much good politienily- It doesn't do site adminstra-tion any harm to Ibe ralied conservative by its opponents, particularly when it isn~t very conir~tive And the conservatives have no place to go except to Nixon It

Dmmmond al~ bulldo~tlly noted that Mr. Nixon on

Viet'tin~, contrary to all past promises, has seized the Icugent

Mccarthy plank out of the I 96S Democratte National

Convention:

Ihe Meas (A agseeoteitt between the responsible dovt't sstd Pte~idcnt Nixon are far greater titan many SaiL C

This is reve£-ed by two actsAll the leading IlIlemorsatic doves voted for the minority

Vietnam tIrt at the I9~t Ikinocratic Na- tiunad ConventionTolay Nison is carrying out sve~ provision ot that tlank and

at loin'~ - mote-

The dovesupponed Democratic plank advocated +ptaeed withdrawa!~ or ~l foreign trt}ups from Vietnam- Richard Nixon has~one funher - - - 5

Mary Mccrory, Liheradl femme fatale of the Washington Star noted early in the game (in the Pebruaryr II, 1969 issue) that loyal Republican Congressmen were in or short shrfl:

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Innocently. [tepublicansI a'. ulned liar they would have their pick of choice jub for hick friends and instant access tu Ire Whir House- They are getting rewer plums sold fewer cMls-~· The Republican members [of Congress ha~e tot yet sddreiwd themselves to the first puticy moves of tIne President wIAch seem likely to please the Amercans for Dennocratic Artion more that Strom rhurmosid

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Miss Mcorory was iso all itwttter 2 the fact ihat a Reputlican had done the unthinkable and appointed all officer of the ultra-Lertist Americans for Democratic Action, Daniel Patrick Mpynihan, as a P~siiential advisor She wrote: · ~v:oyflfllan - knows that lit hasic idea about rho poor money work and family is now on its way, respectable Republican ioetnne at last-~' I

It was the Family Asss~stance. Plan, drafted la~ely by Moynihan, that evoked The greatest sorprise and the loudest

cheets iryrn the ponside pontificators- The Washington Star's Carl I Rowan a Corirer JFK appointee, wrote

t~gnc someone teltiog you 20 ~eats ago 15 Republican preudent woald ask the federal government to goatantee -d m!mmum annual int-onte to every family-

You would have iau~ed your informant out of town E~ecially ir he told you that thi. Republican would advocate

a we!Care pr{~am ha covered 25 tttillion Americans instca-d of If million and cost 510 billion insread of $-5 b~~ionYet, aftet months 0f debate within flu- administration,

Pretident Nixon went on nationwide iclevisirm to makejust such m~olutionary panpuisl to the American people~¹⁴

Earlier Rowan had pointed out; 'Richal M. Nixon is

clearly not what he said he was, not what Democrats feared he was, nor even what Republtcans hoped he was during the -presidential catnipaign- a

Even the New Republic, or fifty years the voice or mtelleetual socialism, was leaful to welcome Nixon and his

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Family Assistance Plan to the ranks of the cireefing socialists;

- - - rrtsident Nixo' informed tic Nosndcrtha-l men tl)at lie had accepted ai}d would assort crccping scicralpen, the plincitle of the Federal Coveitmont guararteetii~ a minililuin iriconic to all deadeantagLd Arnencare. 6

Even joseph Xrnft, piobably the most smut lefflst among syndicated coltimnisri. ha ha-d wools of praisu for RNfN's Liheralism Knift, a member of the [-stnblishnicnCs Council on Fernign Roladons and a- man who recently praised Lenin as having Arausnatted to e Communist ward the ideals of equality ind ptoigrtcs and pea- ce,''¹⁷was pattictiL-irly imp*><e~d by the President's hypocrisy in repudiating can)radar promises;

- - - (~Le Admirritratieto's slow start list tad it possible to fob gently ~ff mm ishlivioti one or tilt least cnlishteiied thin~e said and drine driring lie Lu-npaigr'- Attaining ouclear stipertoriiv o~-cr the Russians list bccr 'eplaceil by ~oistt for ~nuclesr sethCieItCV-' Crude notions oftradin~ a little Inure uiicmpl'iyirnent for a littlc Icas intlatino are only an ct-ho Sn is iai'~-etifoe~snenr of he aws a~5iust segre~stio'i- And law and otdoe~' sounds lik a qiujot 4ogast of the same vintage as or I'ighL'' and ~Tippecaooe and Tyler, Too-'

Rank and file RenubliQ%-tns would hc most [tacked At lie consistent rake heaped upon Mr. Nixon bv ttc Ni'. Yore

house -savant, James Reston Reston also a- tneml)er or the CFR, is rcganted as the ofroisl ~ttnofficial spokesman'' for the East&irn Liberal Estnhlislittty-nt now hat ~Valtcr [-ippinatin has relired aftcr fifty years of laundenog the ititrids of the American public R~ston pta- iced the President

fat ~ out tIle old flOl~tiO~td stereotypes of Richard Nixon the partisan politician, ti'e darling or the professional anti-eommenists~" 19

Reston later wrote a coltinti congralulating the President

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President Fisenliower acquiesced lit all [I] New flbsl rerorins the Republicans opposed in [bc SOs a-nd 4ft'-, and [so did Nixon as his deputy lIe came to nilic a lulnority president, a-ccu~d rf bring a war-monger who was indiffeirni in the inLenial M[cial and ecoitnaic problem of [tic cities and the races, but he is [ow arguing. for peace-. and :tscial justice - talking l~c a conservatiw buL acting like a pro~ress[vc

Arthur Selilesinger Sr- make the same point in his study of '~il[c · tidca ot ~atitsnst Palitics ' The chief liberal ga-in: of the past, he snys, generally renoin on the La-tote books when the conservatiws recover pewer - - . liberalism grows constantly otore libcrj-, aid by [he ssrne taken, conses~atisin grova coortantly less clinservaLive

This nay not be true of tiLe coitsrrva-tive': like Geor~e Waflice we are OtiL of power, but it seems to be troe or Nixon- I

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If Libtirals like. Restun can convince Con~rvah*es that it is soirehow utig~ntle~tnly (~'yut' can't tt'rti lie cloak back'') to undo lie damage dooc. by previous Lertist atittirtistrations. then the Rortiblictitis arc doomed to meekly flromsM-ng to administer socialIsm tore efficiently- This~ of course, is exactly what is happening j- rid the Liberals love it Observed

Kestoti:

All the Presidein's ainbiguisus and even eonttadic[ory taLc inetits of foreign and disroestic policy have beeti snalyrid here with [he greatest ears- One day he is saying thc Virinam war nia be one of tuor fittest Iloore," and the next he is wididrawing ~neriran troop from [he battlenela. One day lie is submitting tti trio con~rvative instincts [Ir lie Anierican liediej- Aseeriation (Ir placa-ting the satititerit senators on the acbnnt irtegnitirit guidelines, and the next [cia supporting welrare state ~olicica be had oppuscd ever the as 20 ye~~

Like oUter Liberals Reston was cestan> over Nixon> geumntecil annual income p~an:

The rnaLti thing about Prcaiden[ Nixtin's proposals for dealisig

LiberaL Ge' The Action - - -

with priveitry Ill America is that hc eccognizes thc goveranteofe

r~pflsihilily for removing it me list been denouncing the

'~lCase s~ste' foe 20 years- but be i' now sayhig thai poverky in America in the midil ot. spectacular tm~prrity is ~~tOlerahie and rnust tee wiped out

A Repubflcan president has condemned thc word 'weltate, empha-ized '~work" and "training" as condkiorts of pubtic ass~tancr- suggested that the state 5 'id tht cities be givcn Incrc

federal motley to deal wit heir social and roonoine prubirois but ill conies rut in the end with a to!tcy of spending snore rsonev Cur relief of moic pour People than the weltarc state ~rnocrsta ever da red to ~topose in the pastTija is beginning to be the sti)ry ofAmerican poliTic - - - -

- - - Alid nuw on ilie nioct controversial question ordornestir polict, Ire charges die rteLuric. tIs pliiti,sophy aud the adrninisirstion, but propoart more welfare, more people no public assistailce which will Lake mote federal finds thai soy utile presidetit in iii history cat the Republic - -

Nevenlieless, Nixon has taken a grear atep foevard- He ha':

cloaked a remarkably progrcsdve welfare policy t conservssive language - - -

Restoti concluded this column bv clairnirg that Nixoti

believes that Americans favor tl~e Marxiatt concept of redistributIng thy wealti'-tie tas repudiated hi own pa~ys record on social policy at

loin and even his own haw~eh attitudes abroad, and this tells us someLbiog buIlt about the President and the country

For Ire Itas obvinudy concluded that the Anterican people are fur peace abrisad sod tot a metre decent distribution of wealth at home, and cite chances are that this wilt prove to be both good policy and good politics.

Actually tnost Aincricant reaht-o that by 'peace abroad,'' Mr. Reston meal's firther a-ppettscment of the c;omrnunists glelnal power sraly, and that the poor c411t coly be helped titrough gainful o~rlcy~ent! which lie ptatt promises, but which nobody seriously thinks it will deliver- The otiter side

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of thc ~wclfare state'' coil ~t tome is the acceptance of a softer attrtud~ roward C⁷ot~ntUnU~ abroad on he basis that Ir is somehow chin~ng and has mellowed- Reston wrote in the Aug's 6 969 Lc*ng Pear? Press- Telegron

The tide is going uut The President is Irmileg aronid, wasing ti the tie ane day aud to [tic felt the next - bar

overwhtqrni'ig impres~on in [lie capito is that he is cinsciotuly

zigiagging toward peaot- in Vietiunt ~id 0 accareniodatioti wi[b

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Waslhington is more ~risiLivc [han New York Ut &}iher places to the general direction is ~e5idents -old politics- [t is noir interested in the over-afl [endencies of Presidents than in tIle day to day White Hoqise statritients, and it seems to fetl [hat Nixnn is now engaged a] a dcticj-te retreat Pram hie hawkiti and siiti.Coimnu'tist reccird orthe paCt

Dy Seplemlier 30, 1970, Mm Restoit, in what may have been an eriort to get Liberals to look at wha \ixofl does and

tot what he says, w[~ tetling i-cadets of lie J*es-~Te?egratu that Mr- Nixon was desperately attempting to ~li.bctate himself Iron) his consenaLive and aetri-Comniunist past~~:

- It is true titat Nixon rose to powcr as an anti~~nmunis[, hawk on Vietnam, and an ottoncTiL ifehe \>w UC~, hut Circe

he asgumed the re~}nsibilities of [hc presidency, lie began linilving toward psate in Vietnam, cocxiCttnce wib the Coinmuni world of Moer&}w and Pekiteg, and despite all his political

rcacrvatic}ne, even toward advocacy of the welfare state at home

Nixon's police toward Socel ~tunty, wettare payinente-. attn contra and coexisferece with [tie Cnn'itsnnist world are quite ditfcrent rem cite tolicie he supported when The was a txingresslnan, a sesiator and vice president utile Liwnhower lie has been struggling between Isis political prepudices of the past and hit resmintihitities at President, and lie less ittovod tithe last two years toward snaccatnttrttdatitin with his old adversaries both at hones atid abroad.

Ties has tat heen easy- He is stilt ton between his old

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anti£-omn!uttisi cold wsr instincts and iii new presidentint duties He Itat hors arguing for arms control, Its bias been suiportLos be ionprtttf~erattu'i of itircIesi weapons, lie las been suppotting The rcconciliation }f tie WcSL Cen~ani sod hr Soviets, be has Iteeci tnpniilig nt{}rc trade betweeji the western sod the Communist worlds - tuost of The time t~ainst the prejudices of moat of the conaervative tepubboans who supponed Ins hid fot the presideicy in the frst plact

The likelihood is that Nixon is ~ring to be Vvca.deitt for the real six years. lie is St a critical point lit his career- lie huts hers' trying to liberate Itiloset from ha conteryntiss and antCommunist pitt, and work toward a progressive policy at hoot and policy- of recorciliation with lie comniuntata abroad... -

AlthcuJ't hew were hints drrir~g the 968 carnraign tint

this wa'- what Mr Nixon was up to, only the most sophisticated ~onsenatives, who were Pamiliar with Mr-Nixon's background at a sometime 't~c'ttber of the Eastern Liberal Estabiislti~enl~t erR. could inteirtet the mess-age.. Most of the campaign ritetoric dealt with strengthening

America in its dealings witlt the Communists and a cashgtticn of the politics or past inadequate leadership which had led us Croto one disaster to a,iother- But itt 1970 Reston was telling us; - - it would probably Inc wise to chow the adyninistratiun~s slu~ai'; wa-Id what we do rather than what we say.'''

Even David Broder of the Washingeo~r Pc,st, just about tite must leftwint' daily this side or the ion curtain, has had praise for Nixon- Brude'- who describes himself as a ''radical liberal," chastises Mr. Nixon icr not itaving brought order to die federal govcr!Imeflt's chaotic bureaucracy;

- . - if we are fated to be goverired by co'iservati'eS, this isn't the worst set we could have, by long thot.

They are sather swffy and tweasinnafly sort, but on the substantive qtlestittns they're not nearly as bad as they nigh be. We could have conseteauves who are heilbent on fattening the erlitary; These men have pot he Pent~on on its leaneet ratlom Sn

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yesr~. We rtigbt havc ct}n9.eFVatives determined to reitiove cc)mnuIIisni from every vrlta~ in Vietnam; Mr Nixon want mainly to get ouL! thoij~i he sometimes 9-cares you on of y{}or wits with a c;ambi}dian operation in the process.

Tile han~est sqista~bie indictoent of their Republics's is that [hey tick tie one virtue contervatives are suppoted to be born with: competence 55 managers. Despite three mat-c) l~orgaoii~stinns and a nasive increate iii tie White Rouse staff, tisis Administration is stilt a ~pitiCui-. helpless ~ant!~' siuinbtin~ vs its uwn feet. Its record in handling Congreis, Lie economy. the ran~utes and the other trouble spots is coiisist~idy Ore , srnving breathless! silonly atter the crisis has i,ccqirred

Those whom we 'ave quoted (with the exeention of Mary Nlc(;rory) represent the elite, lie (meflie d8 to c~intc cc the Easter', Liberal ZstabIishment~s cotene or 'itelloctital oemtoenL,-itors. They obviously approve of NIt-- Nixon and are trying to toll flick readers to forget what Mr. Nixon says in

order to pacify those 'yltu voted for hint and pay attention to what Ite does i~is is arso good advice for Censei~atives.

While lie Washington press corps or hack cortuspondents have traditionally neither liked nor ti-tisted Richard Nixon, thev ite blinded by pas-se' stereotypes atid their own kitee-jerk Libetalism. The Dnitnmonds-. Alsops, Kri-frs, Erectors arid Restons are in an entirely different class. They sen'c as a transmission belt for the Lilbet-al elite in and out or the

government, the foundations, the contirtinicotions industryr and tile academy. The fact flint foam- ing-at-the-mouth college radicals psychoLic black nulitarts. nettrotie professors! and politically tnotivatcd r,iberai Detnocrats conrinne to dairti Mr Nixon as what thev consider a ~rid1t-wing-capitalist-phg-expioirinr-iniperialist'' senes only to enhance and protect Mn Nixon~s rerutatioti with the sn-called men majority. It doesn't hurt bUn, it is a necessity to keep those who voted for flie President from realiz.in~ that candidate Nixon and President Nixon are as different as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. hyde

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LiberaL- Ge. The Ac~iorr . . - 17

It is not only the. philosophcr-king intellcchtals or the

Estabii~nent who l,ive noted Lila ~Shirty Dick'' has altifted Leit Evtn the publications in the ~rnttdle of tht road~ (a

position whicit has been shiftitig Left~v'-trl Cur goin~ on four

decades have taken notice- An eye-opening rticle iT the

ao~ Jones CoiToratiun's --Vaticina! 06set-rt'.r of July 21, 1)69, titled 'Two IPosit~ons; l.lbera-l anrL Less Liberal - The Conservatives Find Themselves Boted ln~" stared that all file

Coraetvjrive£ coifld e.-xpect from the Njxon Adjjii,~istration was ~rnt'aningless baubles~" Na~ionat OIuer~ap correspondent Jude Wannivrt conIlnaci

The raoit innpc4tnt thii~ to underetand about the ideoLogical churn~~ in he Capitol i that is l [akhng &acc witbiii an extremeLy narrlt%~ ranie if dtbate And that rangc has been circwnacn~bcl by u-orgrt~aionaI '\berah of both partiesUnlike earlier conflict ofidettogy in Wasltiagttiit! there now

so ftinda'iqentnl di~apt~te user coitiniirtLeitia! only a iitttl~w higglin~ o'er Lechnique There arc artiflelil ~tiberat' posilion~.

azid its liberal" ~goaps, i~th be pol!ir'~ ani haulirt (17gev between Sciate ~~ncratt a ud tie White ~oese hilt the coraetlva-Lives liave bee~ iorechu~d front dubate~ Bectuic the liberAs have beeii sotptisin~y etiteitri in orgaiti/-ing the Loyal ntposi[ion, Congressional enntotwatives Ilaic no citoice but to ]~fl IlL itipport of the oniewbit 'Icas ltbail~' Wiijte Huose - - -Ucie we haic Sen. Stunt Tlkurl~l)nd, vIto voold like at, abrupt hall to at Cederat deseitegatiori mover. lidrtly ap~laudin~ the nest apprrach to seb&inl-decagregat'on guiddinca because t~ci' ~ojd g~ea Scwstt&&) ajaineri IttIc extra Pete- lIe-c ire othcr conservitivet, Suit- .~tahn Tower If -[.e~aa -among them a~proving tIne '&.~i,.oc voting-rib Ut ~an bicattie it appijes U the anon a elvil-oglits famous that tow afpfles- only to the South. If ~r. Ilarit lately ha beet seen lithe company I) ronse.rvaltvca it

u~y becanie thcy have roved nnro lhberai terr~~ in order to

support hil~

(:ottservattves who tooted titwatdl to albn.litklittg the ot~~ee or

Economic Oniportunity have foitmi tlienistlv-es in the tidul ~tt.itton

oCpnuolisiin~ cinais~n~~ ofehe agcncy akiog new flies.. die riherek defending the status quo Old ~ttard Reljtlbteani who lit rat

Richard N/ra,

Thought rasing was too good for be Jrb Corps camp t~s vrsr

pa~innttely defend [he Administration's derision to keep half the camps oprn - - - The coI]screative want ci merely doitbic the federal c{}i~jtiltment to feeding the poor- The hers] want to [nrc the coitiraitinent. On the entire range of dnntestir issues there is scarcely one on which cottsrrej-tivei are rot orcilpying ideologyat ground that was herd by liberals only a year or two ago - - ~)¹ie conacrvati\-e~ rtittpusllntesl bit lid- was blocked in the louse Educatitit a-nd labor Conurtitree last n,ontlt

mid ~ be oteaningless but as mild as it was the lessiation was opposcd by the President - . . - Ott foreign-policy SSUCS, no the debate tills ~tNn a narrow range, rIse old ~iard rt)nservatives rnnving to traditisnal libcrs! terrain to support Mr- Nixon- The Presiden will ~isit Comrnuiiist Ruman~a in lie kind of east-west bridgebuilding that liresidentKcnnedv and Piesidenrjohnson talk.

ed about. Rut hen are the liberals rrticizine the trip because it might ilp~t Moictiw. Mtdkherecoineetfte()ldiiiard the llordts, Towers. Hruskas, Dirksros - giliriping Co Mr. Nixon~sderen~.

The cotiservitiver eeeni rtii~fortabte enor~l arguing for Mr. Nixon's Sefe~sard anti-ballistic 'tussle system but even here the grousid loss shifted. A year ago the Richard Russell ~id Stroiri Titurmondi wauted rii}ttu~ttg le~ tILan sit AflM net to protect American cities against attack white nutty liberals would hsve enotidered the Safeguard defrtt~ i}t the tt~S. nuclear deterrests a triumph of russo soil peace.. - INtiwliere. it seems. has the storiruni ~itted mt}re tItan in the Viettiani debate. Senators who two years ago were stilt talking abotit bonibing Hanoi acid Itaiphojig re pushing di~n~g'inecit. Sen John Sienois of Mississippi. rhain~aii of the Armed Sen'ioes Coisittittec, only tight inrinths agri was antI tot ruflog isut the possibility or eniploying nuclear weapons in Vietnam. Mow tie is ecidrirsing tic etrls~-c theory if Con- Jatties Gavin theory which seined a rand- rca to doves i'll 9Ca7.~..

Perhaps the Fik<a!s shotild be hsppi~er with this erinditioji thin they ace Rut in ra-ct they seen more frustrated than the>- ever were in the Jokiristia era As itituch ground as they cover in ~ekitig an '55115, Mn Nixon foltriws, yanking Eli Old Cusrd with him

Rut at least lie liberal Airitild feel pride oCaotltorshilp, seriin~ the nation well tn leading the loyal optositiott ae vigorriusly as they have. [f they had been iii dis~rray, unable tea bring fiarceftil l)re~ures on the White Hour or Itecessaty policy chatiges at

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