VOL. VII No. 18 ·DEC. 15,1972 FORUM 25 CENTS The $9 Million Question

WASHINGTON - As the The party is now seeking secret Democrats privately debate how to fundraising operatives who do not exploit Republican fundraising as dabble in newsletter punditry. an issue in the coming Presidential Despite wide speculation of race, Jack A. Gleason, the con­ scandal, however, the only evi­ troversial keeper of the Republican dence so far presented came in secret books under Maurice Stans Frank Wright's stories on the at in 1968 and 1970, is being ex­ least $85,000 of 1972 campaign cluded against his will from fund­ contributions given by dairy lobby­ raising plans for 1972. ists in conjunction with the Presi­ Gleason's supposedly clandestine dents reversal of an earlier decision operation has been jeopardized by to oppose increases in milk price increasing newspaper coverage by supports. reporters like the AP's Richard will go for Presidential or lower Because Gleason's role was never Polk, the New Yorker's Richard level races and whether it will be official and the techniques of con­ Harris, the Los An~les Times' restricted to GOP candidates this cealment remain nearly impenetra­ Jules Witcover, and the Minnea­ time. ble, it is unlikely that any further polis Tribune's Frank Wright. Gleason, whose activities are be­ scandal can be uncovered unless Gleason indiscreetly had indi­ ing criticized by Jeremiah Milbank, the Gleason-Milbank dispute gets cated to Witcover and others that Chairman of the Republican Fi­ publicly out of han~; . he had raised $12 million for nance Committee, probably ended The Gleason operation, together Senate candidates in 1970. Since his own prospects for an important .with its Democratic counterpart, not more than $3 million of secret 1972 role by attacking Milbank in evaded - at least for the time be­ GOP funds were funnelled from a recent issue of Kevin Phillips' ing - an. attempt two months Washington into 1970 campaigns American Political Report. Gleason, ago by ·Common Cause to have (including Conservative candidate who moved to the Department of its books divulged. The continu­ Buckley's) , the remainder is as­ Commerce after the campaign but ing Democratic interest 'in secrecy, sumed to be on unreported deposit resigned after failing to find a role in fact, illustrates the problems in Washington banks, and avail­ suitable to his special talents, at facing any candidate from that able for 1972. present heads a political consulting party who wants. to make an issue At issue is whether the money firm called the Washington Group. of campaign financing in 1972. RNC Responds Next Month Ashbrook in New Timetable Set in Suit Lonely~ Late . WASHINGTON - The Ripon RNC is to answer the motion for Society and the Republican National the injunction and the complaint WASHINGTON - Congress­ Committee, through their lawyers, by January 24, 1972. man John Ashbrook's incipient right wing insurgency against the have agreed on a procedure to ex­ Howard Gillette Jr., Ripon's pedite a decision in Ripon's pend­ President is currently floating, on President, said, "The agreement the turgid editorial ink of New ing suit against the RNC over the represents a constructive step to­ nominating convention delegate al­ Hampshire publisher William "Loeb ward resolving the constitutional of the M'l!nchester Union Leade,. location formula. question before the 1972 Conven­ It is being opposed,' however, by In a stipulation worked out by tion." the parties and acce}>ted by the every important elected right wing court on December 3; Ripon agreed leader, including Ronald Reagan, to withdraw its request for an in­ Barry Goldwater, organizer Clif junction barring use of the current Ripon Dinner White, and James Buckley (whose formula for the 1972 Convention MINNEAPOLIS - The Ripon party, the New York Conservatives, and to substitute a request for an Society celebrated nine years of has endorsed the Ohioan). injunction affecting the apportion­ activity and launched an expanded Ashbrook's career of omnibus ment of delegates to the 1976 con­ 10th year program at its anniver­ right wing militancy - touching vention. The formula for 1976 will sary dinner here last month, attend­ all bases from the American Con­ be determined by the 1972 Con­ ed by over 200 Ripon members servative Union to HUAC - has vention. and friends, including the leaders been foundering in Ohio as of late; In return for this, the RNC of the state's Republican organiza­ the obvious perversity. of his move agreed "to proceed with dispatch tion, and saluted in telegrams from to the national scene confirms the by answering the complaint" and President Nixon and other lead­ fact it is designed to confute: Right to set a timetable for further pro­ ing Republicans. Senator Mathias' wing Republicans have nowhere else ceedings. Under the timetable, the speech will be in the next FORUM. to go in 1972. that happens, it will be seen that his reelection de­ pends on his ability to reach the progressive Repub­ lican constituency. Is it too much to expect that he now pay public heed to the advice of its elected representatives, in an effort to help key GOP officials around the country to get the message in time; and that the President emphatically repudiate subordinates who entertain reporters with colorful tales about his SENATOR ROBERT TAFT (II) rage against some progressive Republican leader. In introducing the first Senate bill providing amnesty for draft resisters now in exile or prison, The Checkers Club In recent months, for example, Wednesday Club Robert Taft Jr. took a courageous step from the Republicans have been angered by repeated stories, shadowy retreats in which Senators have long evaded originating with the White Ho~se staff, that one the moral responsibilities of Vietnam. It is a step or another of their number is becoming "another in the tradition of the greatest of Republicans; Goodell," subject to a purge backed by the Admin­ 4-braham Lincoln, who gave amnesty to Southern istration. Among early victims were Senators 'Mark s(lldiers, and in the spirit of the man once known Hatfield and Richard Schweiker. 'Then there came Mr. Republican himself, Robert Taft, Sr., who as' Senator Clifford Case, whom White House aides now' almost' alone. among Americans attacked the vindic­ ludicrously depict as undergoing a severe loyalty· test tive justice of the Nuremburg trials. It is a step before the Administration decides' whether to support prepared bya bold Republican contemporary, Charles his renomination (as if it was Senator case, rather' Goodell, who introduced the first bill to set a dead­ than the President, who had the problems in win- line to end the war and who interceded for the Ber­ ning New Jersey). . rigan brothers in prison. It is a step which sets a Now we have Senator Charles Mathias, who Republican standard to which Democratic doves are received the Goodell anathema in an Evans-Novak now likely to flock but from which even John lind­ column after he voted for final passage of the Pastore say, with all his Republican training, has to date re­ campaign financing· bill, as amended by himself to· coiled. And for Robert Taft Jr., it is a first step reduce the extra-party incentives 'in the original to fulfill a heritage of greatness from which his name. will never aIlow him . amnesty. .. proposal. He led the Senate fight for the Administration against the initial Pastore bill, kept the White House DOG HOUSE ENLIGHTENMENT informed about his' ownamencinleht, and surprising~ . As he reminded the GOP at Ripon's Annual ly was told· to go ahead with it. As for the potential Dinnet in Chicago last January, the new Chairman 1974 primary threat from Spiro Agnew, mentioned of tlie· . Republican Governors Associati~n, William by the columnists, we suspect that .the Senator might G.Milliken of· Michigan, reminded his fellow Re­ not view without some small relish such an opportU­ publican Governors assembled last month that to .re­ nity to prove the appeal of progressive RepubliCanism main viable the party must truly be an "open party." - and in the process emerge as a national house­ "Republicans," he said, "sometimes tend to represent hold name. ttte satisfied side of America. As a party we cannot It should· be understood that in the end it is isolat.e ourselves from the poor, the young and the going 'to be "progressi'ves who will reelect President' black." Nixon, not some coalition of disaffectedWallace . Nor, .he .might have added, is the President like­ voters, unionists and urban Catholics, who ·areun­ ly, .to. win if he isolates himself from the moderate likely' to' regard an . establishment Republican Presi­ suburban constituency of progressive Republicanism dent as an appropriate vehicle': for their· rebellion WOI). by Governors like Milliken and Linwood Holton regardless of' his posturing on the barricades of the and .by Senators like Charles Mathias and Richard social issue. They will tend to vote for one· of. his Schweiker, now allegedly in the White House dog­ potential opponents, probably Senator Muskie. Yet· house (which, of course, is closer than they usually appealing to such embittered. Democrats, the P~~sident get to the President). will estrange his own natural supporters, the increas­ Yet there is little evidence that within the White ingly educated and influential voters, dominantly House, as opposed to its admittedly enlightened canine located in the suburbs, who will be most impressed 4 quarter", these political realities have gotten through. by his record in foreign ,po.licy and domestic manage- While Jndividual 'candidates - such as Mayor Rich­ ment, if he does not discredit it with crude. or polar- ard Lugar in Indianapolis, who this year attracted izing rhetoric that affronts their essential moderation.' nearly· a third of black voters and a. majority of Just as he did successfully during an earlier. crisis youth -.-. demonstrate the possibilities,' the commit­ in his ca:reer, therefore, Richard Nixon should look ment of the party as a whole remains ambivalent. for aid to his doghouse. In ass.embling his essential The' recent Gallup poll, showing potential party 1972 support, he may find 'the current occupants even registration figures at 68 million for the Democrats, more useful to him than his beloved' Checkers of the 38 million for the GOP and 25 million for in­ past. dependents further illustrates the problem, as does is a RepUblican research and the poll showing an ominous and unprecedented Dem­ THE RIPON SOCIETY. . '. INC • policy organization whose members are young business, academic and profesSional men and ocratic lead among businessmen and professionals. women. It has national headquarters .in 'Cambridge, Massachusetts, chapters In thirteen cities, National Associate members throughout Without influential urban and issue oriented the fifty states and several affiliated groUps of subchapter status. The Socletv u: supported by chapter dues •. indlvidual. contribu­ backers,Richard Nixon cannot carry such states as tions cind revenues from its publications and Contraot work. Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York, and THE RIPON FORUM is publisl;ed semi-monthly by the Ripon Society, Inc.• 14a Eliot Street California - indeed, any major Northern industrial Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. Second class pos!Qge rates paid at Boston, Massachusetts. Contents are copyrighted (C) 1971 by the state. Without at least some of these states, more­ Ripon Society, Inc. Correspondence addressed to the Editor Is over, reelection will be an uphill battle, even if the welcomed. In publishing this magaZIne the RiPon Society seeks to provide President should be endorsed by the ghost of Jeffer­ a forum for fresh Ideas, well-resedrched proposals and for a spirit . of criticism. Innovation, and Independent thinking within the Re­ son Davis himself. 'Publican Party. SUBSCRIPTION RATES are $10 a: year, $5 for students. service­ We would like to think that Mr., Nixon real­ men, and for Peace Corps, ~Vlsta and o.ther volunteers. Overseas air mall, $10 extra. Adv!lrtislng rates on request. Please allow izes this fact, and we hope that with the dawning five weeks for address chariges. . of the Presidential year, the facts of national demog­ Editors: George GUder, Evelyn ·Ellts. Co~trlbutiDq Ecliton How~d L. R';lter. raphy will dawn on the President's strategists. When .. MONTANA - Incumbeiit: senator Lee· Metcaif who had publicly contemplated rctirement,·has ·decided­ PeoDle in PoRtia. to run and is favored to win.

This month's People in Politics sectiolz is devoted • NE~ fl:'\MPSHIRE - Recent Becker polls show to an update of our preview of the 1972 Senate races Democratic mcumbent Thomas McIntyre with un­ published in the September FORUM magazine. The otler­ e;cpected st~ngth against all comers, daunt.ing ·pos­ all progllosis remains unfatlorable to the Republicans, Sible Republican entrants· Governor Walter Peterson . who hatle 19 incumbents up, mostly in contestable seats, and Representative Louis Wyman imd leaVing the compared to 14 Democrats, severat from safe Southern field at least temporarily open for William Loeb's can­ states. None the less the President's increasingly aclitle didate, the vainglorious former Governor Wesley Powell. progressitlism in foreign ana economic policy - together witb some fatlorable tocal detlelopments - inspire hopes '*. *... that major setbacks can be atlerted: in particular that the • NEW MEXICO - No ·patternhas yet emerged precarious seats of incumbents Griffin, Pearson, Milter from the welter. of potential Republjcancandida(;ies.· alld Cooper (if he runs after all) can be retained. 1970 Gubernatonal candidate Pete Domenici and for­ mer Gover~or David Cargo are. the leading rnoderat('s;· • DELAWARE - Popular Senator Caleb Boggs, ~anuel LUJan, allegedly favored by the White House, ruinored to be considering retirement, has decided to will not run; former state chairman Bob Davidson run, thus ending prospects of a primary shoo tout is a more likely entry; among right. wing. prospects between Congressman Pete duPont and Wilmington are former Congressman :Ed forman, alld th~ wealthy Mayor Henry Haskell and assuring continued Repub­ Anderson ~arter, loser to Democratic incumbent Joseph lican control of the seat. Monto>:a 10 .1970. The Democratic choice is equally uncertam, Wlth banker Jack Daniels the currentlead-. * '* '* ere The incumbent, Clinton Anderson, is retiring. • IDAHO - The Senatorial race has been com- plicated. by the entry of a Republican moderate, '* 'II- '* Glen Wigner, 32, fresh from the staff of White • RHODE ISLAND - Latest Becker findings show House counsellor Robert Finch, to compete with emi­ John Chafee ahead 3-1 oyer Senator Claiborne· Pell nent former Governor Robert E. Smylie and .several while Ed. Muskie maintains a similar lead over Nixo~ assorted. right wingers:3rd term Congressman James - recalling 1964 when .both Lyndon Johnson and A. McClure; perfervid former Congressman George Chafee got over 60 pe~cent of the vote. Hansen, hopefully not to be confused with his mod­ erate namesake, not in the race, Rep. Orval Hansen; and Bert Bergeson, an advertising man who has al­ ready spent some $10,000 on a candidacy that is • SOUTH CAROLINA -:- Senator Strom Thw.~ chiefly expected to promote his business. To win a mond, though still nominally Rep·ubIican· has deClared plurality in the poSSible five way contest, Wigner is •"'d 10 epen. d"f ence rom the natlOnal. party 'and is count- counting on his family name, prominent in North Ing .heavily on ~emocrats to engineex: his increasing­ Idaho, his exploits in four sports, his dazzling· blond ly hkely' reelectlon. A recent appreciation reception wife, his dual degrees as a doctor and a lawyer, was led by the late Congressman Mendel Rivers' cam­ the youth vote, a cooperative White House, a Lawton paign manager, Joe Riley Sr., and attended· by a Chileslike campaign, and a Frank Churchlike appeal. number of Democratic state legislators. Since leading Democrats like Governor John C. West, Congressman '* '* '* Bryan Dorn, and former Governor Robert McNiUr • ILLINOIS - Senator Charles Percy reportedly are recoiling from the .race; .likely Dem~raticchaJleng: has been refused in an attempt to get the overrated ers are State Chairman Don Fowler, andState·Sena.tor: right wing organizer, Clif White, to run his campaign, Nick ~eigler,·?oth of. whom. contemplate '.'populist" but despite the. weakness of Governor Ogilvie and campaigns a~nst Thurmond's increasingly establish-. President Nixon in the state, Percy is unlikely to be . ment reputation. ... .j ...... rejeCted by the people of Illinois in November. Slated for the Democrats is Chicago Congressman Roman '* .. .. Pucbinski, who is attacking the popular Senator from the right on busing and other issl,les. • ~OUTH DAKOTA. ~ The state is. currently clad 10 s~ow, and Republican· prospects have·· been­ • IOWA - Though he is seeking dpensive aid further ch1l1ed by the nominatipn of agribusinessman from Eastern political consultants, right wing Lt. ~arl Butz .as Secretary. of Agriculture.. Top . R.~p~b- .• Governor Roger W. Jepsen is attracting less than: 20 hcan candidates to oppose likely Democraticnoxni-·. percent support in his primary challenge to Governor nee, U.S. Representative James Abourezk are con~ Robert D. Ray, according to recent polls, and may servat~ve Robert Hirsch,· who has announc~d:; ;oon~_ , not lethally disrupt the reelection campaign of vigor­ sen:atlve Charles Lien, Senate Campaign Coinmiftee ous. incumbent Senator Jack Miller. The President's chOlce; and moderate Tom Reardon, regarded to .have unpopularity among fanners, however, was exacer­ the best chance to win if he can survive thepri.mary. bated by Earl Butz' appointment (opposed by Miller) .. *. .. '* and represents a serious problem for the Senator as he faces a strong adversary in Congressman John • . TEXAS - Former Senator Ralph· YarborOugh, CUlver, a Ted Kennedy Democrat. ending speculation that he might enter: thegubernato­ rial primary, has decided to run for the Senate.. Repub~ '* '* '* lican incumbent John Tower.. remains narrowly favpreq·, • KENTUCKY - Senator John Sherman Cooper's once firm resolve to retire is said to be weakening. '* *-* If he runs, he is expected easily to hold the seat • VIRGINIA - Right wing COilgre~sman Willi~ for the Republicans, despite the recent Democratic Scott, the only announced GOP candidate for Sen­ resurgence in the state. ator from Virginia, was· recently honored· at atesti­ '* .. '* monial . fundraising dinner at the Sheraton Carleton: hotel in Washington. Among· the 12 persons present • MICHIGAN - Moderate Republican Senator were Congressman SCQtt, his wife, the. various mem-. Robert Griffin, exploiting the busing issue for all its bers of his staff who did not· quit .inrecentinonths, unedifying worth, has moved into a significant, if and a bemused reporter from the Washington Post. volatile lead in the still unsettled Michigan contest. Perhaps Scott now knows how Ray Garland felt· in I Griffin's anti-busing venture is said to have enraged his forlorn 1970 race. Incumbent Senator William the VAW leadership and was described by one lead­ Spong looks strong unless the GOP can come up with ing Michigan Republican as "hitting a beehive with more formidable candidates. Governor Linwood Holton a baseball bat." So far, however, Griffin is stealing will not run. . . the honey. Robert Huber's Conservative party and a less significant Peace and Freedom effort under former .. *. '* Democratic Chairman Zoltan Ferency are now con­ sidered both less formidable and less likely entrants • WEST VIRGINIA ,. Jay Rockefeller· has an­ into the race against the Senator and his lackluster nounced for Governor; Republican GOvernor Arch probable Democntic opponf!nt, Attorney General Frank Moore is expected to do problematical battle with in':: Kelley. cumbent Senator Jennings Randolph. Joe McGinniss Out New '72 Strategy , Ad Agency Likely WASHINGTON - Richard Haldeman, together with Attorney polls by Gallup and Harris show­ Nixon's political managers are g0- General John Mitchell, whose like­ ing Nixon significantly behind ing to try somehow to sell the Pres­ ly successor at Justice is now rumor­ Muskie in all .regions except the ident this time without the aid of ed to be moderate former Congress­ South, where the President leads Joe McGinniss - but they will man dark McGregor, the Presi­ by some 25 percent. In .pursuitof have F. Clifton White, who ran dent's chief Congressional liaison. a new busing concept, Mitchell is the nomination machinery for said to be blocking Presidential ac- sen­ The most important 1972 cam­ ator Barry Goldwater in 1964. . tions that might actually stop bus­ paign change, apart from the Pres­ The autonomous White House ing an~ remove it as a political issue. ident's world-tripping incumbency, advertising agenqr being created by is likely to be Mitchell's growing Mitchell depicted as merely Presidential aide H.R. Haldeman sophistication about the role of the "keeping the store" the Presi­ t6 handle campaign publicity will Wallace movement, revealed in a dential campaign apparatus being try to stop any campaign diaries recent interview with the. Attorney assembled at. 1701 Pennsylvania this side of the best seller list. The General's former aide Kevin Phil­ A venue under Jeb Magruder and enlistment of White symbolizes the Iips. Mitchell and his assistant Harry Flemming. The storekeep­ failure of John Ashbrook's hypo­ Robert Mardian now are said to ers are currently concentrating on thetical 'right wing campaign to regard the Wallace vote - and "market opinion," having hired attract the support of key right the racial turmoil that creates it several pollsters, including Robert wingers. - as a positive help to the Presi­ Teeter and Fred Currier of Market Otherwise the 1972 campaign is dent in Northern states, while, it Opinion Research in . Detroit. In shaping up as a rerun of the 1968 is believed, Nixon can now win in effort that vastly outspent the Dem­ preparation is evidently a campaign the South regardless of Wallace's in which Haldeman and Co. are ocrats during Hubert Humphrey's presence. nearly successful drive in the final expected to serve as projectionists month. The Southern confidence, at least, of suitable TV imagery at com­ At the top, once again, will be is supported by recent national posite voter opinion profiles.

Milliken "Dump Nixon" Cry Advanced Youth Caucus Formed FRENCHLICK, IND. - Gov. CHICAGO - Some 3000 young caucus stressed the importance of William G. Milliken of Michigan voters, overwhelmingly college stu­ using the vote to influence the was moved up to chairman of the dents, gathered here December 3-5 system. The caucus agreed to Republican Governors Association to give birth to a "National Youth direct its principal efforts at the non­ during its winter meeting here last Caucus," designed to coordinate primary states by rallying around month. Milliken had served as vice youth voting power in non-primary the representatives of the strongest chainnan. states. liberal . candidate. to get as many Linwood Holton of Virginia was Though nominally bipartisan, the delegate slots as possible. unanimously chosen vice-chainnan, interest of both the leadership and In primary states, the effort will and by tradition will succeed Mil­ the assembled students lay with the be to put pressure on the various liken as chairman next winter. Wm­ Democrats. The conference was candidates to include substantial field Dunn of Tennessee, Walter sponsored by the Association of numbers of young people on dele­ Peterson of New Hampshire, and Student Governments, but seemed gate slates. Jack Williams of Arizona were to be controlled by Allard Lowen­ The conference heard several picked fo~ the Association's execu­ stein, President of Americans for speakers, including Representatives tive Cohunittee. Democratic Action, and his aIlies Paul Mcdoskey, Bella Abzug and In ~ r generally low-key three from the Registration Summer pro­ Donald Riegle, Lowenstein, Joseph day m~tirig, the governors seemed gram. Rauh, a former ADA head, Georgia ' most concerned about having a Lowenstein apparently hopes to Rep. Julian Bond, and Dan Swil­ meaningful role in the Presidential use the Caucus organization as a linger, Ripon National Political Di­ campaign. While for the public bargaining tool with Democratic rector. record all of the governors in at­ candidates and at the Democratic Virtually all of the major Pres­ tendance found Vice President Ag­ Convention. The theme of his idential candidates had .representa­ new an acceptable running mate, speech to the Saturday night session tives manning booths passing out the only real enthusiasm seemed was "dump Nixon," the rallying literature, buttons and .occasionally to come from Williams, Ronald cry to which the conference seem­ free coffee. Two were conspicuous Reagan, and outgoing RGA Chair­ ed most responsive. by their absence: President Nixon man Louie Nunn of Kentucky. Ag­ In a statement of purpose the and Senator Henry Jackson. neW's generally dull speech on gov­ ernmental reorganization was pre­ ceeded by his crack about what Agnew called Congressman Paul McOoskey's "favorite painting," "Benedict Arnold Crossing the Del· FbRUM Published semi-monthly by the Ripon aware." The remark was received Society, 14a Ellot Street, Cambridge, Ma. 02138. Second class. postage paid with some nervous chuckles and a at Boston. Massachusetts. lot of head-turning to see if any­ one was really laughing. Few were.