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• RIPON FEBRUARY, 1969 VOL V No.2 ONE DOLLAR The Whole Sad Story of: by Lee Auspitz Biafra and the Bureaucrats A Human Rights Department? Nixon at the Crossroads A Ripon Paper Elliot Richardson: Lampoon to Foggy Bottom by Martin Linsky Post-elertion Poll Results: Torrents of Apathy by Evelyn Ellis t Plus the Annual Report and a letter from Dean Burch SUMMARY OF CONTENTS PRESIDENTIAL ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS FROM THE LAMPOON TO FOGGY BOTTOM A Ripon Society position pa,per prepared by the A nostalgic reminiscence by Ripon member and Massa­ New York Chapter suggesting practical and immediate chusetts State Representative MartIn LInsky on his form­ lines of action for President Nixon as well as a longer er boss, ED10t Richardson who, if past perfonnance is range strategy of establishing a Cabinet-level Depart­ any indicator ,will be sure to make his mark in his new ment of Human Rights. -8 post as State Department number two man. -14 POLITICAL NOTES ANNUAL REPORT A few items of .interest for GOP-Watchem from Wash­ Some details on the expansion and transformation ington State to Massachusetts submitted by our corres­ of the Society over the past year by our National Execu­ pondents. -4 tive Director Thomas E. PetrL - -18 BIAFRA AND THE BUREAUCRATS LETTERS An objection from Dean Burch to last month's ar­ The whole story of the tragedy of misconceptions ticle on Arizona politics and a reply from our special that has signaled the collapse of U.S. policy in Africa correspondent. -19 and driven weary officials from supporting a bad policy to having no policy. What the new President can do immediately and in the long run to salvage the mess PUBLICATIONS ORDER FORM -20 and correct the endemic organizational weaknesses which in no small way caused it. By Ripon President and 14A ELIOT STREET former Nigeria-based journalist Josiah Lee Auspitz. -5 A run-down on the comings and goings of Ripon brass, old and new. -28 POST-ELECTION POLL RESULTS THE ECONOMIC REALITY PRINCIPLE Between three and five million expected voters stayed A number of both philosophical and practical obser­ away from the polls last November, and the results of vations by FORUM economic columnist Duncan J. Foley our own little opinion survey hint why and what moder­ on what reform in the distribution of wealth in America ate Republicans think of Nixon's Cabinet choices. -12 really signifies. -24 ERRATUM POSTPONED In the sixth line of the first paragraph on Page 5, the word "ideological" should precede "cousin." Part II of William D. Phelan, Jr.'s, article on The Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Palmer and Complex Society has been postponed, which should New York TImes editorial writer Graham Hovey make it all the sweeter when it is published, prob­ are friends but unrelated. ably in the March issue. THE RIPON SOCIETY INC. Is .a Republican research and THE RIPON FORUM is published monthly by the Ripon So· , policy organization whase clelJ, Inc., 14a Eliot Street, Cambridge, membars are young business, academic and professional men and woman. Massachusetts 02138. Second class postage rates paid at Boston, Massa· It has national headquarters In Cambridge, MassachusetlB, chaptare In chusetts. Contants are copyrighted @ 1968 by the Ripon Society, Inc. seven clUes, NaUonal Associate members throughout the fIffJ states, and Correspondence addressed to the Editor Is welcomed. several affiliated groups of sub-chapter status. The Society Is supported In publishing this magazine the Ripon Society seeks to provide a by chapter dues, Individual contrlbuUons, and revenues from Its publica. forum for fresh Ideas, well-researched proposals and for a splrtt of crltl· tions and contract work. The SoclalJ offers the following opUons for cism, innovation, and Independent thinking within the Republican PartY. annual contribution: Contributor $25 or mora; Sustalner $100 or mora; Articles do not necessarily represent the opinion of the National Govarn· Founder $1000 or mora. Inquiries about membarshlp and chapter organ­ ing Board or the Editorial Board of the Ripon S01:leIJ, unless they ara ization should ba addressed to tha National Executlva Director. explicitly so labelled, NATIONAL GOVERNING BOARD SUBSCRIPTIDN RATES ara $10 a year, $5 for stud ants, sarvlceman, OIfIcera and for Peace Corps, Vista and othar volunteers. Overseas air mall, $10 °Lee W. Huebnar, PresIdent extra. AdvertisIng rates on request. ° John R. Price, Jr., Cbairmaa of ilia Board °Chrlstopher T. Bayley, VIce President Editor: A. Douglas Matthews "Wilfred E. Gardner, Jr., T_ Frank E. Samual, Jr.. Secrebny Consulting Editor: Josiah lee Auspltz Boston NIIII York ContrIbuton: Christopher W. Baal, Robert W. Gordon, Duncan K. Foley, °Robert D. Crangla oJ. Eugane Marans Phillip C. Johnston, John Kyrk, John McClaughry, Howard L Reltar, Tel1J A. Barnett Edward S. Cabot Mlchaal A. Sandman, William J. KIIberg, Paul Szep, Andrew T. Well. Cblcago Peter J. Wanlson "John A. Bross, Jr. Assistant EdItor: Nancy G. Kalm Benjamin C. Duster Seattle Georga H. Walker °Bruce K. Chapman Teclmlcal Editor: Janet Beal Daltae Thomas A. Alberg ONeil D. Anderson Camden Hall ClrculsUon: Nancy Morton Richard F. Smith At Large T. William Porter Christopher W. Beal Correspondents Los Angeles Robart L. Baal Mrs. Barbara Mooney, Connecticut James L. Robertson, MlestasIppi ·Melvln H. Bernstaln Richard E. Beeman MaggIe Nichols, California John Evans, Miesourl Thomas A. Brown Emil A. Frankel Mrs. Anne C. Johns. Detawara Arthur F. McClura, II, Mlaaourl Joel M. Fisher Howard F. Gillette, Jr. James F. McCollum, Jr., florida William Harding, NebraIke NIIII Hnan WIlliam J. Kllberg Cullen Hammond, Georgia Charles O. Ingraham, rc. York "Richard A. Zimmer Edward H. McAnlff Sand E. Brim, Georgia Johnson Howard, North Caroline Barbera Graene (Miss) W. Stuart Parsons Mlchaal McCrary, ldello William K. Woods, OhIo Wlillem Jeffress John S. Saloma, III Blaine Evans, ldebo Eric R. Blackledge, Oregon Hlnky DInk Kenna, illinois James C. Humes, I'enmlJIvanIa Ex·OIfIdo At Large J. Kenneth Doka, Indlena Donato Andra D'Andrea, Rhode Island A. Douglas Matthews, Editor of ilia Ripon FORUM Burton Southard, Indiana Bruce M. Selya, Rhoda Island JosIah Lee Auspltz, ConsultIng Editor of ilia Ripon FORUM Terrance Dwyer, Iowa Wlillem H. Linder, South CarolIna Robert D_ Bahn, NatIonal Researcb Director J. T. Moore, Kansas Stanford M. Adelstein, South Dakota Thomas E. Petri, NatIonal EncutIve DJractor Gary Scott Nunley, Kansas T. WillIam Porter, T_ "Indicates member of the NaUonal EucuUve Committee William A. Merrill, Maesacbusetts Robert R. Murdoch, ¥IrIInIa Bruce K. Chapman, WashIngton provides political re- Don Fowler, Maine THE RIPON INTELLIGENCE UNIT search on a contract Richard Dber, Jr., Maryland w. Stusrt Parsons. W1-'D besls to Republican office· holders and candidates and to non·partlsan com· Terrance Dwyer, Michigan John R. Lazarek, Southern states munllJ leaders. All Inquiries are kept strictly confidential. Wrlta the Douglas C. Watson, MIMesota Nationel Research Dlractor. A RIPON SOCIETY POSITION PAPER Nixon at the Crossroads: Presidential Action for Human Rights This position paper was prepared by the New the objectives of the employment, education and York Chapter of the Ripon Society and written by housing provisions of the civil rights acts of the Michael Macdonald, J. Eugene Maram and Lewis B. last five years. The strong moral leadership of the Stone. President will be critical to the country's success in reducing racial discord and division in the days President Nixon stands at a crossroads in de­ ahead. velopment of a human rights policy for America. AGENCY FOR There is no agency-public No President in this, country has been elected with HUMAN RIGHTS or private-charged with the so little support from black voters as Richard Nixon. development of a human rights policy. Some agency, Ninety-five percent of the black voters opposed him. preferably at the Federal level, must consider the No President in this country has succeeded to a nation's jobs, education, and housing programs racial dilemma as serious as that inherited by Mr. together in fulfilling national human rights objec­ Nixon. The new President faces an immediate credi­ tives. Creation of a new Department of Human bility gap among minorities and other concerned Rights could be of great significance in assur­ Americans. ing Americans that human rights is a concern of To gain the confidence of these minorities, highest priority to the new Administration. President Nixon must move with dispatch to demon­ Federal human rights policy and enforcement strate his concern for the problem of racial division functions are spread among ten executive depart­ in America. To fail to act swiftly and commit his ments and 21 additional agencies. The importance Administration to reversing the drift toward racial of human rights is often submerged by competition separatism, could engender a period of social dis­ among departments and agencies. Both within them ruption unparalleled in recent history. and within Congress human rights enforcement has no constant champion. The few attempts to coor­ The President must recognize that minority dinate policy at the cabinet level by informal com­ communities are not alone in their concern about mittees have been halting and ineffective. the racial division that pervades American life. Second, the level of expenditures and personnel Concerned Americans are depending upon him to for human rights planning and enforcement is piti­ bring an end to the time of racial trouble in this fully low. The budget of the Civil Rights Division country. The constituencies of youth and intellect­ of the Justice Department is scarcely adequate to uals and of enlightened business and labor are look­ maintain minimum enforcement of the voting and ing to the new President to lead the nation out of its education laws now on the books. The Department racial dilemma. of Health, Education and Welfare's budget for en­ The Ripon Society implores President Nixon forcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of to move promptly toward closing his administra­ 1964 for desegregation of schools comes nowhere tion's credibility gap on the problems of human close to meeting the need.
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