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THE RIPON FOR ONE DOLLAR APRIL 1968 VOL. IV, No.4 Can Nixon Still Lose It? You bet he can, notwithstanding the bandwagon cries Of his backers and the confident smile on his face. On one side of him, there will be a bloc for non-candidate Rockefeller; on the other, a bloc for Reagan. If these groups put the squeeze on the favorite sons in the middle, Nixon could be denied the nomination. To prevent his, he must dance awkwardly in the center, darting from left to right. - PAGE 3 Mixed Reviews on the Riot Report The Report of the Commission on Civil Disorders faces squarely the need for law and order as well as social and economic reform. It shows why brutal repression doesn't work, and it contains a number of proposals on which Republicans should act immediately. But its sloganeering about white racism as a cause of poverty is bad as a political tactic and sloppy as social analysis. Robert W. Gordon, J. Eugene Marans and Peter J. Wallison review the complete text. - PAGE 7 Laird on Congress Some think: that a Republican Majority in the House of Representatives would be unprogressive and obstructionist. The Chairman of the House Republican Conference refutes this charge and outlines his agenda for a GOP House in 1969. - PAGE 24 Non-proliferation Problems A nuclear treaty is all very good in an election year, but so is a strong Western Alliance. Yet the manner in which the Administration has pushed the non-proliferation treaty may proliferate the strains in NATO. Indeed, if it follows the nuclear pact with a troop cutback in West Germany, the Ger mans may become very uncooperative next year when they reconsider NATO and hold their own national elections. - PAGE 11 THE RIPO'",.... SOCIETY , I"'e.,.... "apoll" Rapubpean orpnlzatlon resaareb wbose and 14a ELIOT ST: Ripon Book Club ~ membelB are JOU118 business, academic and profiIssIonal men and women. Beginning this month we shiil offer -from 'time" to It bas national baadquartBIB In CambrIdge. MassacltusetlB, chaptm In time selected books at a discount to readers of the Boston, Las Angeles, Naw Haven and New Yorl!. NatIonal Assoclata memo beI8 throughout the fIftJ 8Iatas, and _I affiliated sroupa of sub-chaptar Ripon FORUM. There is no contract to sign and no status. The Socl.., Is SUPpllrtad ." chaptar dues, Individual contrIbutlDJlll, minimum number of books to buy. We shall try to and revanues from I1s publicatlona and contract work. The Soclaty offeI8 pick books that are important and readable, books that the following optlona for annual contribution: ContrIbutor $26 or mora: Sustalnar $100 or more; Foundar $1000 or mont. Inquiries about member· will fit together on the bookshelves of thinldng people who sblp and chaptar OrpnlzlltJOD Bbould be addressed to tbs NatIonal also happen to be Republicans. El8cutlva _Dlrctor. The selection for April is The Bepublfca.n Establish NatIonal GImrmIng Board ment by Stephen Hess and David Broder. It was re Jaslsb Las Allspltz Haward F. GllletIe, Jr. viewed on these pages last month by Ripon President Christopher W. Baal Barbera Grsane" Lee W. Huebner, who called it "mandatory reading for Rubert L Baal Las W. Huebner" ,J'resldant Richard Beaman Edward J. McAnm anyone who wants to understand the Republican party Robert D. Bebn J. Eagane Marena -- -today." It also happens to be very engagingly written. MalYiD A. Bemstaln W. Stuart PalBana The selection for May, which you may order this ThomasA. Brown Thames E. Petri"· Edward S. Cabot John R. Prlcs" month as well, is The BeaJities of Vietnam: A. Ripon Joel fisher Patar J. Willison Society Appra.isaL The book contains eleven fresh, hither Emil Frankel Jobn S. Saloma, 1\1 to unpublished essays including two analyses of how Wilfred E. Gardnar, Jr." Richard A. ZImmer" Eisenhower- handled the problem of -Korea in 1952-53. • OffICSIB and Chaptar Presldants "" National ExecutIVe Director It will also include a fully footnoted version of Ripon's "confederal strategy" that first appeared in the Septem ber 1968 issue of the FORUM. THE RIPON FORUM =a:.m:~1:U:~ rm: :=rI:: As a special bonus to those buying both titles (or M8888chUBBtIB 02138. Second crass postsge iBtes paid at Boston, two copies of one) we are offering a free copy of Massachusetts. -Contents are copyrlgbtild @ 1968 by tbs Ripon Society Inc. Correspandance addressed to the Editor Is waIcomad. SUBSCRIP· Southern Republicanism and the New South, Ripon's TlON RATES are $10 a J1IIIr: $6 for 1ItudenlB, B8IYlcemsn, and for 129-page analysis of the GOP in eleven Southern states. Peace Corps, VIsta and -other wlantaers. 0varseaIi air mall, $10 adra. • Massachusetts Governor John A. Volpe joined the Advertising retes an request. Cambridge/Boston Chapter for dinner at the Harvard EDITORIAL BOARD hculty Club on March 6th. He spoke and answered EdItor: Juslab Las Auapltz Las W. Huabner questions on his work as Governor and as Chairman of Thomas E. Petri the National Governors Conference. At the conclusion CcmtrIbutare: Christopher W. Beel, George D. Brown, Bruce K. Chapman, of an impressive performance at the podium, Governor Ralph B. Earle, Jr., Rubert W. Gordan, Duncen K. Foley, Philip Johnston, Volpe presented outgoing chapter President Lee Hueb John McClaugbry, Howard Railer, Paul Szep, Andrew T. Well. ner with a plaque entitling him to honorary membership T_ICe! EdltarB: Janet Baal, Ruety BellD1l8, Nan" G. Kelm. in the Order of Paul Revere. AdvertIsIng Manager: Donald R. Meyer • While in Boston in late February Governor Tom McCall of Oregon discussed the political situation in ~ W. Oshsr, ArIzona James L Roberteon, MIesIssIppi his state: with Ripon members over breakfast. Maggla Nichols, CalIfara1a Jobn Evans, M'-! Stenley M. Pottinger, CalIfornIa Arthur F. McClure. II, MIssourI • In March the Cambridge/Boston Chapter elected Rubert R. Jespersan, ConnectIcut William Harding, IIebrasIIa new officers. They are: Robert D. Crangle, President; MIB. Anna C. Johns, DeIIBra Jason Gettinger, New York Terry A. Barnett, Vice President; Christopher C. De Harold SClunlttlngar DaIaIIara Jobnson Howard, North CaroIIIIa Muth, Secretary; and Samuel A. Scherer, Treasurer. Cullan Hammond, iie.iiiiii Charles O. Ingraham, North CarolIna Michael McCreIJ, IdabD Philip M. Burgess, 0bI0 The members of the Executive Board are Christopher Jobn A. Braes, Jr., 1111lI0II William K. WoocIs, ObIo W. Beal, Michael F. Brewer, Ralph B. Earle, Jr., Daniel Hln'" Dink Kanna, \IInoIs ErIc R. Blackladge. 0Jwg0u Hirschfield, Howard L Reiter, Bink Shorts, Robert L Burton Soatbsrd, IDdIana James C. Humes, I'enasJIvanIa Tarrance Dwyer": William H. Undar, South CaroIIIIa Beal, George D. Brown, Michael W. Christian. Wilfred J. T. Moore, Stenlford M. Adelstein, Sooth DdDta E. Gardner, Jr., Robert S. Gulick and Rep. Martin A. GaIJ Scott Nunl." Kansas Nail D. And_n, T_ Linsky. The last six names are on the Steering Com Don Fowler, MaIDe Rubert R. MordClCb. VIrRIaIa mittee for a new downtown group which is planning Richard Olson, Maese 1'1188111 Cbrlstapbar T. aa,r." ff8llblngtan James R. Anderson, Michigan W. Stuart PaI8Ons, "'-III to split off to fonn a separate chapter. The split arises Tarrance Dwyer, Michigan Jcbn R. Lazarak, Soatbem Statal from the rapid growth of the Cambridge/Boston group. • In late March Don Luce, fonner Vietnam director of the International Volunteer Service Corps, analyzed CONTENTS the situation in the war zone for the Cambridge/Boston Chapter. Also in March, Lee Auspitz, Editor of this CAN NIXON STILL LOSE IT? 3 journal, presented the Ripon position on Vietnam before a crowd of 200 at the Metropolitan Republican Club of FIRST BALLOT PROJECTION 4 New York. • Mel Bernstein of the Los Angeles Chapter ap FOLEY ON FORCE 6 peared on KBJ-TV Tempo m show hosted by Don RIOT COMMISSION REPORT 7 McGuire to discuss Reagan Presidential strategy. Audi ence response was heaviest, however, on the Vietnam I. Repression is not the Answer war questions. McGuire authored 1300 Floogle Street, II. What Republicans Should Do which is a spoof of the 1966 Oalifomia gubernatorial campaign. The book is selling well in California. Bern CONSEQUENCES OF NON-PROLIFERATION 11 stein's analysis of the current race for the GOP Senate LBJ THE HOUSING THIEF 12 nomination in the Golden State, "Kuchel vs. Rafferty," appeared in the March 9 New Republlc. DRUG CRACKDOWN 14 STATE BY STATE 15 LETTERS: Flexible Exchange Rates California - Connecticut - Illinois - Dear Sirs: The articles on international monetary policy by Pr0- Iowa - Ohio - South Dakota - fessors Foley and Hart in the February FORUM did not, Washington despite a note on the demonetization of gold, give adequate attention to a very simple alternative to complicated in· Poem: TO HIS COY CANDIDATE 17 ternational monetary reserve systems: cut free of gold and RIPON BOOK CLUB FORM 20 let the exchange price of the dollar float. This would im ply letting the foreign exchange price of the dollar vIs-a. ANNUAL REPORT 21 vis other currencies be determined by supply and demand. CUtting free of gold, unlike devaluation, could be done by GUEST EDITORIAL 24 Presidential decree and does not require an act of Con gress. (turn to page 23) 2 Governor Rockefeller's'decision not to contest the Oregon primary does not yet make Richard Nixon a sure.winner. Though the Nixon camp will almost certainly attempt to generate a bandwagon psychology among delegates, Rockefeller's decision leaves things very much as they were before. On the one hand, there will be a pro-Rockefeller core, which THE NOMINATION GAME Can Nixon Still Lose it? we now estimate at 263 votes (see the first ballot pro jection on page 4). On the other, there is a pro-Reagan core of 207 votes. And then there remains a long list of favorite son delegates, some of whom will lean to Rockefeller, some to Reagan, some to Nixon.