SECOND TERM The New Nixon And Agnew Circus

Gary Allen, a graduate of Stanford Uni­ stock, and the annual meeting of the versity, is author of Communist Revo­ Liar's Club, all rolled into one . lution In The Streets; Richard Nixon: The public is mildly pleased . But to The Man Behind The Mask; Nixon's the veteran Nixon-watchers on the Left it Palace Guard; and, None Dare Call It is as if the Wild Man from Borneo had Conspiracy - a sensational new best­ again escaped from his cage. Conservative seller with 6 million copies already in Republicans are beginning to wonder print. Mr. Allen, a former instructor of which is Dr. Jekyll and which Mr. Hyde. both history and English, is active in After all, this is the same man about anti-Communist and other humanitarian whom the New York Times exulted causes. Now a film writer, author, and editorially in February 1972 : "Seldom in journalist, he is a Contributing Editor to Western politics .. . has a national leader · AMERICAN OPINION. Gary Allen is so completely turned his back on a also nationally celebrated as a lecturer. lifetime of beliefs to adopt those of his political opponents." • TH E Greatest Show on Earth is no It is all very mysterious and exciting. longer the famed Barnum and Bailey Like watching Twirpo, the two-headed Circus. Great as it is, it has been surpassed pygmy, disappear into the magician's by the Nixon-Agnew Follies , a stupen­ fedora and reappear as Jumbo the G.O.P. dous exhibition based in Washington , elephant. But is the Nixon "Turn to the D.C., the con capital of the world . The Right" for real? Perhaps it is time to new Review would certainly have pleased mute the blaring brass in favor of a look P.T. Barnum. Headlined by a troupe of at the score. obedient elephants, it features trained bugs, clowns , tight-rope walkers, assorted A Matter Of Dialectics sideshows, a master illusionist, and a Mr. Nixon's "ideological switch" is no blaring brass band to trumpet its glories. surprise in Washington. Government in­ Best of all, you can watch this three-ring siders have been told not to blow any circus every night on the television news, gaskets over the new Conservative rhet­ or read about it in your Morning Bugle. oric. As Paul Scott, Washington's most And, golly gee, it's all free - until you get reliable independent journalist, reports in your tax bill, the Indianapolis News of November 22, The cacophony in the main tent, 1972: "In private conversations with where the band master is directing the other government officials, Dr. Kissinger brassy sounds of Nixon's Conservative has stated that President Nixon has be­ Second Administration," is enough to set come deeply interested in the philosophy every foot to tapping, every heart to of Hegel and how it can be applied to pumping, and every flag to waving. It is foreign and domestic policy making." the greatest hustle since the introduction So what does Hegel have to do with of Hadacol. It is a carnival barker's the price of kumquats in Topeka? Quite a convention, a Madison Avenue Wood- bit as a matter of fact. You see, Karl

MARCH, 1973 57 Marx based his philosophy upon the The President wants a Depart­ writings of two predecessors, Feuerbach ment of Human Resources . .. so and Hegel. He mixed Feuerbachian mate­ he.is bringing Caspar Weinberger to rialism with Hegelian dialectics to pro­ the White House as Counselor . . . duce his own dialectical materialism. And to run Human Resources . ... Mr. dialectical materialism is boggletalk for a .Weinberger will keep the title of concept that breaks down to "two steps H.E. W. Secretary. forward , one step backward." Kissinger . Similarly, James Lynn, the was telling government insiders to be quick-study lawyer who has been prepared for a propaganda step backward appointed as Secretary of Housing after four years of trotting towards social- . and Urban Development, will be ism at home and Communism abroad . 'Counselor in charge of community . Immediately after his landslide victory (and) regionaldevelopment . ... in November, Mr. Nixon isolated himself Agriculture Secretary Earl L. at Camp David and began drawing the Butz will be Counselor for natural blueprint for his second term. At the top resources in .charge of resource use, of his ·list was a Cabinet reorganization in . lands and minerals, environ­ ·line with the stated aims of his "New .ment . .. . American Revolution" or "New Federal- .So much fo r the super Cabinet. ism." Two years previously the President There were possibly five men on had submitted his reorganization plan to the- super-super level, all with the ;Congress and it had expired in Com- title ofPresidential Assistant: Hen­ mittee. In February of 1972, when Mr. ry Kissinger, foreign affairs; George Nixon signed an Executive Order dividing P. Shultz, Secretary of the Treas­ the nation into ten federal regions as a ury, efonomic matters;H.R. Halde­ first step toward the "New Federalism," man, White House administrator; he noted that the restructuring of the John D. Ehrlichman, domestic af­ Executive ' Department would have to fairs; and Roy Ash, director ofthe . await Congressional approval. As soon as Office ofManagement and Budget. he was reelected, however, he had a Thus on the organizational chart . sudden lapse of memory about Congres­ at least, these five Assistants are a sional'permission and began to'reorganize notch 'above the three new Coun­ ·the federal departments and agencies. He selors. Mr. Nixon, however, said ;'simply ignored Congress and -resorted to thatthe five"will work immediate­ .the issuance of those royal decrees known ly under me, and at my direction, as Executive Orders . to .integrate and unify policies and The President's revolutionary 'reorgan­ operations throughout the execu­ ization was described in the New York tive branch of the Government." .Times of January 7, 1973 : . The three new. Counselors will re­ port to Mr. .Ehrlichman .. .. Last Friday ... Richard Nixon proclaimed a massive reorganization The reorganization was accompanied ofthe.ExecutiveBrancb - the most by a storm of noble rhetoric about sweeping in history. He rolled out a controlling and cutting the bureaucracy, super Cabinet .and a super-super decentralization, and economy. Unfor­ Cabinet - a total of eight trusted tunately, the rhetoric is all very Hegelian. '. aides and official Cabinet members Columnists Evans and Novak observed - who will be superimposed on that Mr. Nixon was "designing a radically the existing ' Government machin­ .new federal bureaucracy which will cen­ ·ery . ... tralize the power inside the White House 58 AMERICAN OPINION ...;,...,...------~...,...---;------. ~ George Pratt Shultz; a mem­ :::i : ber of the Pratt family of the Standard Oil fortunes, is Mr. Nixon's economic czar. As Secretary of Labor, Shultz says he cleared his appoint­ ments with Senator· Javits. No doubt he did, because it was while in that post thathe created the Philadelphia Plan forcing racist quotas on firms with government contracts. ­ As head of the Office of Management and Budget, Dr. Shultz presided over the greatest Budget decifits since World War II and pushed for wage and price controls to deal with the inflation his deficits produced. With our currency wrecked by that. inflation, Shultz is now try­ ing to give control of the val­ ue of our money to the In­ ternational Monetary Fund. Elliot Richardson is the new Secretary of Defense. Seri­ ous trouble is being brewed in our Armed Forces by black militants, and they are delighted with the choice of Richardson - who as Sec-­ retary of H.E.W. personally opened a Marxist bookstore in the H.E.W. North Build­ ing, permitting it to carry a complete stock of hate-white and Communist Party litera­ ture. He has also declared that the Kremlin is filled with "solid, sensible peo­ ple," advocated unlimited transfer of valuable military· technology to the Soviet Union, and called for creat­ ing a U.N. army. Richardson began his career - like Com­ munists Hiss, Duggan, White, Pressman, and Glasser - as a protege of Felix Frankfurter. MARCH. 1973 59 to a degree never before attempted." The power in government that they divided Cabinet reorganization, say the colum­ political authority to insure that no single nists, will "centralize all decision-making official or branch of government could in the White House to about the same lay hands on sufficient power to institute extent that Henry Kissinger now controls a dictatorship. Since 1912, with a brief every aspect of foreign policy." The moratorium during the Twenties, our dynamic duo report that the new master Presidents have labored to rectify the bureaucrats, these "domestic Kissingers," "oversight" of the Founding Fathers in will "exercise fully as much control over not creating a monolithic government their old-line departments as Kissinger dominated by the Chief Executive. now exercises over the State Department The Founding Fathers were willing to through the National Security Council." sacrifice a little theoretical efficiency to Ultimately, of course, all of these prevent tyranny. But the heavy load of supercrats and super-supercrats are doing the Welfare State, with its burgeoning the personal bidding of Richard Nixon, waste and bureaucracy, has now been and reporting as directly as possible to used to promote among overburdened him . Little wonder that, with this kind of taxpayers Widespread demands for effi­ vast power being centralized in the Exec­ ciency above liberty. It is the Mussolini utive offices, columnist Richard Wilson syndrome, whereby the Fascist Govern­ has observed that "there is no point in ment of Italy was adjudged a good one downgrading [President Nixon 's] enthusi­ because it made the trains run on time. In asm for the new federalism. It is an the name of efficiency, the "counterveil­ obsession with him .. .." ing powers" created by the Constitution Power is an obsession with him . And, of the United States are being destroyed. President Nixon's "New Federalism" is And no President has more effectively at­ Newspeak, where love is hate and war is tacked the constitutional "division of peace and centralization is decentraliza­ powers" than has Richard M. Nixon . tion. Every farm boy used to know that As columnist Joseph Kraft observes: eggs cannot be scattered among the peo­ "They're calling him King Richard on ple by the act of putting them all in one Capitol Hill, and , given President Nixon's big omelet. new emphasis on executive prerogative, Under the revolutionary slogan you can't say he didn't earn the title ." "Power to the people ," Richard Nixon is Mr. Nixon's closest personal assistant, delivering "Power to the Presidency" ­ John Ehrlichman, appeared on the C.B.S. which means power to himself. Of course morning news on January 30, 1973, to Mr. Nixon did not start this trend; he has defend the President's constant bypassing merely accelerated it. It is difficult to of the Congress. "But you're getting into find a single example of a law passed, or the area of one man rule," a reporter an Executive Order decreed, during the observed. past forty years that has not increased the "Sure," replied Ehrlichman, "well, power of the Executive branch of the that's what the President of the United federal government. The cumulative ef­ States is." fect is potentially fatal. "One man rule?" gasped the reporter. "Yes, sir, and he is the only elected Separation Of Powers officer elected by all the people of the The genius of the American system, United States, unlike the Senators and which has allowed it to survive occasional Congressmen. " knaves, radical do-gooders, and would-be Somebody should send Mr. Ehrlich­ dictators over the last two hundred years man a high-school civics book so he can is that the Founding Fathers so distrusted learn the difference between a monarchy 60 AMERICAN OPINION Roy Ash is Mr. Nixon's new boss of the Office of Manage­ ment and Budget. When he was chief financial officer of Hughes Aircraft his firm was accused of padd ing and forg­ ing accounts and forced to repay the Air Force $43 mil­ lion. While he was head of litton Industries, his com­ pany was accused by Admi­ ral Rickover of " misrepre­ sentation if not fraud." Ash wrote in The Futurist of plans to set up a supranation­ al authority called The World Corporation, which he said "will consider the whole of the world as its production place . .. and will move fac­ tors of production to wher­ ever they can most effective­ ly be combined."Ash's job is to prepare the U.S. to ioin ' this new World Government.

"r=-:=-~ ------. Caspar Weinberger is Mr. s Nixon 's new chief of "hu­ man resou rces." A radical, he bossed the "stop Gold­ wate r" campa ign in Califo r­ nia in 1964. The official Communist newspaper, Peo­ ple's World, ran a puff piece abou t him as early as June 6, 1956, in which it said: " Sel­ dom in Californ ia history has a young man made such a meteoric rise in politics as has this pleasant-mannered 38 year old . . .. Weinberger, admittedly one of the bright­ est members of the legisla­ ture, has made himself a statewide reputation .. .. " The Comrades were assured he was their kind : "Weinber­ ger is smart enough to assess correctly the force of oft­ mentioned political winds blowing in the land. _.." MARCH, 1973 61 and a Constitutional Republic. For the and save money in the process ­ sad fact is that this Administration is need only survey his immediate moving toward " one man rule," just as domain to measure the scope ofthe Ehrlichrnan admits. The key is consolida­ problem. Since 1969, the annual tion. As Thomas Cronin observed in the cost of operating the Executive Los Angeles Times of January 21, 1973: Office of the President has more than doubled - to $ 71 million Under President Nix on . .. there from $31 million. has been an almost systematic bu­ But even that figure does not reaucratization of the Presidential actually portray the true cost of Establishment, in which more new running the Nix on White House. councils and offices have been es­ An Associated Press study of tablished, more specialization and budget documents and testimony at division of labor and layers of appropriations hearings suggests the staffing have been added, than at real cost may approximate $100 any time except during World War million a year - not counting ex­ II . .. . penses of the Offic e ofManagement and Budget, the Office of Emer­ On April 25, 1972 , United Press Inter­ gency Planning and some other national reported that Mr. Nixon's staff arms of the President's Executive was growing at twice the rate of that of Office . . . . even President Johnson. President Nixon expande d his staff at the rate of twenty­ Then came the propaganda about cut­ four percent per year, which means tha t ting back on the bureaucracy . As syndi­ he virtually doubled it during his first cated columnist Thomas Cronin reveals: term. Cutting the staff in half would still give him as big a staff as that of Lyndon . .. the President has officially Johnson. As U.S. News & World Report removed a number of trusted do­ noted on March 6, 1972 : mestic-policy staff assistants from the White House rolls and dispersed The White House staffis already them to key sub-Cabinet posts the largest in history and continues across the span ofgovernment. But to grow by the month. President this dispersal can be viewed as not Nixon personally does not try to so much reducing as creating yet keep track ofall the people that are another expansion - a virtual set­ being added to the payroll. His ting up of White House outposts (or theory is that the White House little White Houses?) throughout must have all the manpower needed the Cabinet departments. The aides to push his decisions through Gov­ that are being set forth are notable ernment departments, and he leaves for their intimacy with the Presi­ most of the hiring to his lieuten­ dent, and they will surely maintain ants. direct links to the White House, even though these links do not Even the cost of all that Whit e House appear on the official organiza­ staff did not jar the President. The tional charts. Associated Press reported on November 27, 1972: Remember that the Constitution di­ vides the federal government into three President Nixon, striving to re­ separate and co-equal bran ches of govern-, organize the federal bureaucracy - ment. But the Executive branch has 62 AMER ICAN OPINION continuously increased its .power at the is shielded from questioning by the expense of Congress, the state 'and local Congress and 'the press, and the governments, and the people. Cronin people. comments: According to the Washington Post's Perhaps the most disturbing as­ David Broder, Congress sees the reorgan­ pect of the expansion of thePresi­ izationas "an end run . .. that will shift dential Establishment is that it has decision-making power 'away from the become a powerful sanctum ofgov­ Cabinet secretaries, who are accessible to ernment, isolated from traditional, congressional pressures." The legislators constitutional checks and balances. fear that the super-supercrats will claim It .is common practice today for "Executive privilege" and refuse, like anonymous, unelected, and unrati­ Henry Kissinger, to testify before Con­ fied aides to negotiate sensitive gress. The White ·House has attempted to international commitments, by soothe ruffled feathers on the Hill by means of executive agreements that announcing that members of the Cabinet are free from congressional over­ ,will testify before Congressional Commit­ sight. Other aides in the Presidential tees, though "they will not be at the beck Establishment wield fiscal authority and call of the lawmakers." Which, of over billions ofdollars in funds that course, begs the question. Reston ex­ Congress has appropriated, yet the plains the game: President refuses to spend, or that Congress has assigned to one pur­ This. [reorganization] is another pose and the Administration rou­ point of contention between [Mr. tinely redirects to another - all Nixon] -and Congress, for the more with no semblance of public scru­ power he gives to his own White tiny . . .. House staff, the more he .invokes executive .privilege to protect his Prodded by a growing Congressional White House aides from questioning fury, even James Reston of the New York by Congress. Times is questioning the growth of the Executive branch at the expense of the What President Nixon has done is to Legislative: create a whole new layer of government between the President and the Cabinet , Every reorganization of the big thus isolating the Executive from the machine since the last world war, prying eyes of Congress. His methods whether in the name ofsecurity or would amaze Machiavelli. Consider: efficiency or "giving more power to Immediately .after the election the the people, " has ended with the President .called for the "pro-forma" President getting more power, the resignation of all two thousand of his Congress getting less power, and .the policy-level administrators. Such volun­ people getting the short end of the tary "resignations" by Presidentially ap­ stick. pointed officials .are 'traditional, but Mr. And now, in his reorganization Nixon made it clear that they were much of the Cabinet and the White House more than ' a formality this time. And staff, he apparently is concentrating most of his new appointments were the on increasing his control over the sort of "good gray men" who made the Congress, by centralizing policy de­ trains run on time for Mussolini. The cisions in a White House staff that main criterion for their appointment has is loyal and obedient to his will, but been that they be totally loyal to Mr.

MARCH, 19 73 63 Nixon. The Wall Street Journal of Janu­ important, Assistant to the President. The ary 19, 1973, observed that the President press has called him Nixon's " economic sought "intellect and stature in his ap­ czar," and Shultz has admitted that his pointees, even if he had to sacrifice the duties in this field "are similar" to those difference between 100% and 95% per­ of Henry Kissinger in foreign policy. sonalloyalty." The Journal continued: Before being appointed "czar" over the economy, he first served as Mr. . .. The background of the new Nixon's Secretary of Labor. When the Cabinet members and other top President announced the appointment of appointees suggests the White Shultz to head the Labor Department, House will be calling the plays in prominent labor columnist Victor Riesel the future even more regularly than commented: in the past. The Cabinet holdovers - Mr. Rogers, Agriculture Secretary It is certain that President-elect Butz, Interior Secretary Morton Nixon is moving the Republican and the rest - are mostly men Party to the left of its old center. who've shown an easy acquiescence Of this there is living evidence in in White House signal-calling. The the [appointment of] "genial new faces - including even Labor genius" George Shultz, the insider's Secretary Peter Brennan - don't insider . ... sound any more independent. The newer men, lacking this sort Mr. Riesel's judgment was quickly of background and understanding, vindicated as five of Shultz's first six seem all too likely to repeat and appointments went to "Liberal" Demo­ reinforce the tendency of the crats. The Chicago Tribune of February White House inner circle to divide 15, 1969, reported that when Republican Washington simply into "us" or Senators began screaming about the "them. " Shultz appointments, the Secretary of * ** Labor replied: "Why, I've been clearing A second possible weakness is them . .. with Senator Javits ! He ap­ that the new men, lacking political proved them all." Asked by the Wall constituencies of their own, or tied Street Journal why he chose to work so tightly to the White House by long closely with so many "Liberals," he association, will be too subservient responded curtly: "I didn't ask people to White House schemes, and will about their politics." fail to question, argue, and chal­ In was Shultz who created the notori­ lenge strongly enough. ous Philadelphia Plan, which required that construction firms with government So much for the good gray men. But contracts hire "minority" employees to not all of Mr. Nixon's new appointments meet racial quotas dictated by federal are gray. Four of them definitely rate a bureaucrats - even though the U.S. litmus test. Comptroller-General had issued an opin­ ion that the scheme was in flagrant George Pratt Shultz violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, The man in charge of both national which specifically forbids making race a and international economic policy during condition of employment. The President Nixon II is George Pratt Shultz, a mem­ overcame this objection by issuing an ber of the Pratt family of the Standard Executive Order to give the plan the force Oil fortunes. Shultz has the dual job of oflaw. Secretary of the Treasury and, more When Mr. Nixon reshuffled top offi-

MARCH, 1973 65 cials in his Administratio n during the type of monetary finagling the Republi­ summer of 1970 , he made George Shultz cans used to decry as witch-doctor eco­ director of the newly created Office of nomics. And, in October of 1969, George Management and Budget. The move Shultz was the first top official to urge prompted Human Events to observe in its publicly that the Federal Reserve loosen issue for June 20, 1970: its money policy. This, combined with the huge Nixon deficits, produced the The President 's naming ofLabor skyrocketing inflation which was used to Secretary George P. Shultz under­ justify totalitarian wage and price con­ scores the belief that the Nixon trols. Administration will continue to As Mr. Nixon's " economic czar," move in a liberal direction on do­ Shultz will administer Phase III of the mestic affairs . . . . While Shultz President's New Economi c Policy. Typi­ cannot be considered a liberal fire­ cal of the reaction to the announcement brand, he has consistently favored of Phase III was the response of News­ expanding the domestic side of the week , which headlined its coverage: federal budget. Along with Finch "Phase Three Means Phase-Out." Actual­ and several others, for example, ly, the program is another tyranny Shultz was a prime mover in getting wrapped in a typic al Nixon-Shultz ambi­ the President to push for the radi­ guity. As George Shultz puts it : "The cal, multi-billion dollar welfare re­ program is hard to describe in a single form bill. word. You can't call it wholly 'manda­ tory,' and you can't describe it as wholly George Shultz delights in using the 'voluntary.' " rhetoric of Conservative economists. But Shultz admits that he is keeping a it is only rhetoric. The editors of News­ "stick in the closet" with which to punish week took note of the phenomenon in those whose wage or price activities do their issue of November IS, 1971, de­ not meet with his pleasure. He adds tha t scribing Shultz as "a deeply conservative he "might find some ways to make life economist with an almost religious belief unpleasant for companies that raise prices in the glory of free markets and the evils higher than the guidelines." Virginia of government interference." The propa­ Knauer , Mr. Nixon 's special assistant for ganda out of the way, Newsweek ex­ consumer affairs, provides details : "We've plained that Shultz became a closer confi­ found that a visit from the I.R.S. has a dant of Mr. Nixon after the imposition of beautiful effect on anyone who is even dictatorial wage and price controls on thinking about raising something ­ August IS, 1971. And Newsweek then prices or wages." Supercrat Shultz is quoted Shultz regarding the President's also pretty blunt about it. He says of drastic interference in the economy as Phase III: "There is the knowledge that follows: "I was in full support of the idea people who don't cooperate are going to of the freeze and an effort to follow. This get clobbered." is a form of shock treatment and I think In short: Mr. Nixon's Phase III gives it is working ." So much for his religion. Shultz and his underlings awesome power The "Conservative" Mr. Shultz, de­ to decide whom to favor and whom to scribed by Dun's as a "dedicated free­ penalize. It is the power of economic enterpriser," also presided over the big­ dictatorship. gest federal deficits since World War II. Back in the days when Richard Nixon He covered this for the Nixon Adminis­ was saying that he would never impose tration by promoting what he called the wage and price controls on the economy, "Full Employment Budget" - just the he used an analogy about such controls

MA RCH, 1973 67 acting like a lid on a boiling cauldron of the Council on Foreign Relations. while the fire is being stoked. Eventually, Former Congressman John G. Schmitz I Mr. Nixon pointed out, you either have properly described George Pratt Shultz's to take off the lid or the kettle will blow proposals at that I.M.F. meeting as a up. His analogy was accurate. But Presi­ "blueprint for giving full control of the dent Nixon has continued to stoke the value of the American dollar to a few fires with tremendous deficits during men .... Anyone empowered to set the Phases I and II. Now he must let some of value of money can, and almost certainly the steam out before the kettle explodes. will, manipulate its value to his own Later he will use the ensuing wage-price profit and advantage. Our balance of spiral to justify a return of formal wage payments deficit is the excuse given for and price controls - this time controls surrendering control over our currency to with real teeth. When the new controls an international body. In the same are applied, Mr. Nixon's supporters will breath, Secretary Shultz admits this defi­ shrug their shoulders and rationalize that cit is primarily due to our gigantic outlay the President tried freedom, but it just of foreign aid since World War II. Since didn't work. this is the case, the solution is not to turn Meanwhile, the dollar is in serious over the control of our money to interna­ trou ble. When Dr. Shultz was promoted tional financiers, but to cut out the to "economic czar," the Wall Street economic foreign aid which has brought Journal commented: "President Nixon's us down to this position." elevation of George P. Shultz to super­ Of course Shultz and his Insider cabinet status as economic policy chief friends at Standard Oil and the Council signals Mr. Nixon's intent to move inter­ on Foreign Relations don't see it that national economic problems to the front way. And Mr. Nixon is playing the game burner in his second administration." their way. Financial writer Hobart Rowan said that "Treasury Secretary George Shultz elec­ Caspar Weinberger trified the last I.M.F. meeting with a Another man playing a dual role in the dramatic series of proposals to revamp new Nixon Administration is Caspar the international monetary system." A Weinberger. Weinberger doubles in brass Reuters dispatch for November 27, 1972, as the Grand Poobah at H.E.W. and as Mr. elaborated on that speech as follows: Nixon's supercrat in charge of human resources, a euphemism for socialism. The The United States is also pro­ machines of misinformation have given posing a far more controversial plan Weinberger the biggest buildup since to stop countries building up vast Christine Jorgensen. He is, we hear, a reserves of funds or, alternatively, steely-eyed budget slasher. He is supposed huge deficits. The United States is to be the greatest cost cutter since Mad urging internationally-egreed stan­ Man Muntz. Typical of the buildup is the dards to determine whether a coun­ following from Newsweek of December try with a surplus of deficit must 11, 1972: correct its payments position. He made his way to a.M.B. All of which translates into a step [Office of Management and Budg­ toward international control of the econ­ et], after a briefstint at the Federal omies of individual nations - a major Trade Commission, from Sacra­ step toward the sort of World Govern­ mento where he was Ronald Rea­ ment plotted for years at the Harold Pratt gan's director of finance. That ex­ House in New York City - headquarters perience left him a stouthearted

MARCH. 1973 69 balanced-budget man and his first As head of O.M.B., it was Weinberger's exposure to Mr. Nixon's Keynesian job to make sure that Congress spent only red ink was occasionally painful. a paltry $250 billion. In doing this he was "Cap's learned to live with deficits tagged with the nickname "Cap the - teeth grinding, eyes nearly shut Knife." But Weinberger was also known in tears," laughs a colleague. Even as "Cap the Knife" in California, where as though he never managed the bal­ commanding general of the Rockefeller anced ledger he would have liked, troops his specialty was coming on as Mr. he did perform the feat of paring Conciliatory and then putting his stiletto down the 1973 budget almost to in the backs of beguiled Conservatives. the $250 billion ceiling that Mr. Weinberger was not just a "Liberal" Nixon had sought . ... Republican in California, he was the "Liberal" Republican,* and an implac­ It is doubtless true that Weinberger able enemy of all Conservatives. was forced to do some Budget cutting, Caspar Weinberger headed Rockefel­ and that must have been what was pain­ ler's disastrous "stop Goldwater" oper­ ful. Consider how the game is played : ation in California, and he lost a long During his first term in office, Mr. series of confrontations with Conservative Nixon increased the H.E.W. budget (for insurgents in California's volunteer Repub­ example) fifteen percent each year. He lican organizations. Weinberger headed even bragged that we are now spending the only volunteer Republican organiza­ more on "human resources" than we are tion that refused to support Reagan in on defense. But the "Liberal" game is to 1966, and the Governor had promised raise the ante. If Mr. Nixon ups the Conservatives that he would not bring H.E.W. budget by fifteen percent it Caspar into his Administration. But, like makes no difference to the "Liberals." the phoenix, Caspar Weinberger kept They still accuse him of being the biggest rising from the ashes of defeat. Governor pinch-penny since Ebenezer Scrooge and Reagan broke his promise and appointed proceed to try to raise the spending by Weinberger Finance Director in Califor­ twenty or twenty-five percent. It is all nia, an appointment which caused apo­ great theatrics, keeps the public en­ plexy among many of the Governor's thralled, and gives them something to supporters. Weinberger was the architect argue about at Kelly's Bar. of a 12.3 percent increase in the State There can be little doubt that Mr. Budget for 1968-1969 - a larger percen­ Nixon and Caspar Weinberger were seri­ tage increase than in six of the eight years ous about limiting spending to $250 of free-spending Democrat Pat Brown. billion last year. After all, that is in itself Then, incredibly, Weinberger was brought a $19 billion increase over the previous into the Nixon Administration and bally­ year and included a "planned deficit" of hooed as a Conservative. over $25 billion. This was stretching fiscal Caspar Weinberger is about as much of matters as far as they could go without a "Conservative" as Gus Hall. The official courting absolute disaster. So, you see, Communist newspaper People's World for Mr. Weinberger is frugal only in the sense June 6, 1956, recognized this with a that Burt Reynolds is relatively hairless feature article promoting him under the when compared to an orangutan. headline, "Young Man On The Make." It included this very flattering description *Note, for example, his appeal for regional of the then-State Assemblyman: government - the latest Nixon ploy for ex­ panding federal authority - as far back as 1966. (The Commonweattn, December 19, Seldom in California history has 1966, Page 425.) a young man made such a meteoric

MARCH. 1973 71 rise in politics as has this pleasant­ When this limousine "Liberal," a mil­ mannered 38 year old . .. . Wein­ lionaire by inheritance, ran for Attorney berger, admittedly one of the General of Massachusetts, the Boston brightest members of the legis­ Record American of November 4, 1966, lature, has made himself a state­ carried a full-page advertisement which wide reputation in the last fou r read: "We and thousands of other Massa­ years . .. . In the course of all this, chusetts Democrats support Elliot Rich­ Weinberger has emerged as some­ ardson for Attorney General." Among thing ofa liberalin the ranks ofthe the signers was Adam Yarmolinsky, who Republicans. attended Harvard with Richardson. Yar­ molinsky had been head of the Harvard But the clincher came near the end of Marxists and was a founder and editor of the article. Suggesting why Caspar Wein­ the Yardling, which presented the views berger's stock was rising so rapidly, the of the Young Communist League. Rich­ Communist newspaper assured the Com­ ardson also had the official support of the rades: ". .. Weinberger is smart enough to A.D.A. and of socialist economist John assess correctly the force of oft-men­ Kenneth Galbraith, who declared "the tioned political winds blowing in the land election of Elliot Richardson would be today . . . ." To the Communists, that categorically good for the Democratic could mean only one thing: "This boy is Party." Other Richardson supporters on our team." from the ultra-Left included disarmament advocate Jerome Wiesner, Red China Elliot Richardson lobbyist Edwin Reischauer, McGovern The nature of the President's "Turn to advisor Abram Chayes, and New Fron­ the Right" is also revealed in his appoint­ tiersman Archibald Cox. ment of Elliot Richardson to the post of Elliot Richardson was well known to Secretary of Defense. There ought to be a these Establishment radicals. In 1947­ revolt going on over this one. Putting this 1948, he had served as a law clerk for Back Bay dandy in charge of national the late Supreme Court Justice Felix defense is like making Liberace a Marine Frankfurter. This is the same Felix Frank­ Corps drill instructor. Richardson is furter whose ideological position was dovish enough to have been named to a described by President Theodore Roose­ George McGovern Cabinet. As the Indian­ velt as being "fundamentally that of apolis News put it editorially on Decem­ Trotsky and other Bolshevik leaders in ber 12, 1972: Russia." The New York Times reported a few years ago that Frankfurter made We are frankly amazed in view Richardson "a special favorite among his of the election results and their many proteges." One wonders what the stinging repudiation of McGovern­ Times was trying to say when one recalls ite views on defense that the Presi­ that Frankfurter's other Harvard proteges dent would entrust the Pentagon included such famous Communist agents post to a man who is about as close as Laurence Duggan, Harry Dexter White, to McGovernism as one can get in a Lee Pressman, Harold Glasser, and Alger Republican administration. It is Hiss. doubtful the American people in According to Time magazine: "The voting down the "dove" position of public Richardson is stuffily Bostonian, George McGovern believed they serenely confident, vaguely remote ." The were voting for the "dove" position private Richardson is something else. He ofElliot Richardson in this depart­ has been arrested on at least fifteen ment. different occasions for speeding, reckless MARCH, 1973 73 driving, driving under the influence of Elliot Richardson has long allied him­ alcohol, or a combination of the three. self with militant "Civil Rights" agitators. For all of his outward self-confidence (or During his tenure as Secretary of Health, arrogance), Richardson is not exactly Mr. Education and Welfare he protected and Stable. His capacity for John Barleycorn coddled racist militants and H.E.W.ed to is widely reputed to rival that of Edward the radical line. As Human Events of Kennedy. December 9, 1972, reported: This is not to diminish Richardson's considerable mental capacities. In fact Richardson celebrated the open­ that is the tragedy of it. Coming as he ing of "Maelezo," a black-owned does from a long line of outstanding New bookstore on the ground floor of Englanders he might easily have applied the H.E.W. North Building, by cut­ his education, money, energy, and brains ting the lime-green ribbon at the in such a way as to have been a truly dedication ceremonies. To the great American. All he lacked was char­ cheers of "Right on!" Richardson acter! Even Time notes that his abilities gushed that Maelezo "represents of circumlocution under questioning are the creation of opportunities for renowned: minority enterprise. " ... the book­ store is controlled by three mili­ His set speeches are bloodless tants who couldn't care less about and dull. His ad-lib language is so the free enterprise system and who convoluted, yet grammatically cor­ are using their establishment to rect, that one questioner ut a Sen­ dispense pro-revolutionary and ate committee hearing jokingly "hate-whitey" propaganda. More­ confessed that he could not quite over, much of the material, vast tell from a Richardson answer amounts of which ' come from whether he wasfor, or against, drug Communist publishing houses, is abuses . ... stridently opposed to black moder­ ates. A pamphlet on Watts assails Before his appointment as Secretary of such moderate Negroes in Los An­ Defense, Mr. Richardson was Mr. Nixon's geles as Mervyn Dymally, con­ Secretary of Health, Education and Wel­ cluding "Reformist appeals and fare. The Indianapolis News commented: pressures are useless. Revolution in "Even his admirers at the White House all its intensity and decisiveness is concede he did not truly interfere with the remedy. We must struggleuntir­ the entrenched bureaucracy at H.E.W." ingly to hasten the day when armed In fact, says the News, "As Secretary of struggle will become the official H.E.W. he has permitted an incredible line of our people." A book of proliferation of bureaucracy." The Wall poetry by LeRoi Jones reeks with Street Journal wrote of him: virulent anti-white themes. Still another book, put out by Interna­ Liberals heaved a sigh of relief tional Publishers, the Communist when Elliot Richardson was thrown publishing house in New York, is a into the breach at the Department handbook on guerrilla warfare by of Health, Education and Welfare Kwame Nkrumah, the one-time So­ nearly two years ago. Here was a viet puppet in Africa. Pamphlets man whohad long fought for racial also abound with such titles as justice and social programs, and "Marxism and the Negro Struggle" could be depended upon to defend and "Black Nationalism and So­ their interests at the department. cialism."

MARCH, 1973 75 Before taking the position at H.E.W., friends. The Wall Street Journal of No­ Richardson served as Mr. Nixon's Under­ vember 29, 1972, assures us that: secretary of State. While he was laying the groundwork for the SALT talks, he When Mr. Richardson was in the declared on April 30, 1969: " I think we State Department, he developed a see it [the Soviet Union] as a government good working relationship with of pretty solid, sensible people who are Henry Kissinger, Mr. Nixo n's assis­ genuinely concerned .. .." According to tant for national security affairs. Richardson, "the unity of Communist Unlike Mr. Laird, it's claimed, Mr. discipline or dogma is increasingly a Richardson likes and respects Mr. phenomenon of the past." Kissinger. This suggests a less inde­ It sort of makes you feel safe all over pendent Pentagon under Mr. Rich­ to know that so trusting a man is now ardson. Secretary of Defense, doesn't it? While with the State Department, El­ Although Elliot Richardson may pre­ liot Richardson made a speech to a fer carrying a white lace hanky instead of Soviet-American audience in New York at a big stick, the Nixonites expect him to a conference sponsored by the Fund for accomplish big things in the military. As Peace. He called openly for building a Evans and Novak tell us: "Even those U.N. "peace" force which he said "the conservative White House aides who U.S. and Russia were already discussing grumbled about Richardson's liberal poli­ quietly between themselves." Such a posi­ cies at HEW feel a liberal at the Pentagon tion is not surprising since Richardson is a might be appropriate to deal with the member of the Insiders' Council on For­ deepening human relations problems in­ eign Relations and a regular contributor side the armed services . ..." to its World Government house organ, Ah well, Elliot Richardson should get Foreign Affairs. along splendidly with Admiral Zumwalt. Elliot Richardson carried on a running battle with the Pentagon while he was in The Amazing Roy Ash the State Department. He opposed apply­ Another new man on the Nixon team ing strong military pressure on the Com­ is super-supercrat Roy Ash, who will munists in Vietnam even as he advocated serve as Director of the Office of Manage­ virtually unlimited transfer of valuable ment and Budget. As such he will control military technology to the Soviet Union. the funding of all federal programs and all According to Human Events he was also programs at state and local levels in which part of a cabal working to present mis­ the federal government has a financial leading evidence to the President concern­ interest. This makes Ash the national ing the exchange with other countries of General Manager in charge of all pro­ nuclear technology. grams, organizations, and personnel at all It should come as no shock then that levels of government. nationally syndicated columnists Evans Like Weinberger and Richardson, Ash and Novak have reported that "Richard­ is a Harvard graduate. Although he has son's appointment has caused singular never before been in politics, he headed a disquiet in the defense community - on committee which in 1969 developed the the armed services committees of Con­ reorganization plan that created the super gress, among middle-level national secu­ bureaucracy and the O.M.B. he will now rity officials in the White House, in the head. Pentagon itself." Roy Ash has had a "checkered" career Elliot Richardson may be unpopular to say the least. From 1949 to 1953 he with the military, but he does have some served as the chief financial officer for

MARCH, 1973 77 Hughes Aircraft. During this time Hughes ment of Ash to run the vital Office of Aircraft was accused of padding and even Management and Budget is Gordon Rule, forging accounting records to improperly a former Navy captain who has been the claim millions of dollars from the Air Navy's chief procurement officer for the Force. Several of the company's accoun­ past ten years. It has been his responsi­ tants quit in protest of Ash's financial bility to enforce performance on billions manipulations and eventually Hughes Air­ of dollars' worth of defense contracts craft had to pay the Air Force $43 between the Navy and private corpora­ million. tions. So efficient was Mr. Rule that last Leaving Hughes, Ash became a co­ year he received the highest award the founder of Litton Industries. Litton's Navy can give to civilians. But a few sales rose in fourteen years to $2.5 billion weeks ago the Joint Economic Commit­ as the firm was transformed into a giant tee of Congress asked Gordon Rule to conglomerate of more than one hundred give his opinion of Roy Ash, with whom companies whose products ranged from he has dealt often in his official capacity. trading stamps to nuclear submarines. Rule told the Committee that the Presi­ Profits reached $50 million a year in dent made "a mistake" in turning over 1970 before financial reverses, partly the a.M.B. to Ash, adding that Ash made caused by delays and massive cost over­ "a worse mistake" in agreeing to take the runs on big Navy contracts, sent them post, probably the most important job in plummeting to a miserable $1.1 million in the government next to the President. 1971. Litton's common stock has Gordon Rule also commented on another dropped to one-sixth of its former value. aspect of this scandalous appointment. As Despite the collapse of Litton's profits, the Washington Post for December 10, the White House has been hailing Ash as a 1972, reported: managerial genius. Much of Litton's financial growth re­ Openly contemptuous of [fed­ sulted from lucrative federal contracts. In eral] bail-outs of defense contrac­ 1971 an investigation by the House Anti­ tors who claim to be accepting the trust Subcommittee concluded that Lit­ risks supposedly inherent in a capi­ ton Industries, which Ash then headed, talist system, Rule told [Senator had developed "flamboyant sham into an William] Proxmire that the govern­ art." The Report said Litton's manage­ ment lacks "the guts to tell the ment was "adept at concealment, misdi­ taxpayer free enterprise is out and rection and incomplete statement." The socialism is in." company has been neck deep in what have been called "the most inefficient Anyone bold enough to tell it like it is, and mismanaged military procurement as Gordon Rule has done, is anathema to operations" in American history. These the Nixon Administration. Within twenty­ involved drastically absurd cost projec­ four hours, Admiral Isaac Kidd was sent tions, and late delivery dates on some to Gordon Rule's home to ask him to three billion dollars' worth of Navy con­ retire! Rule refused to do so and was tracts for assault ships and destroyers. immediately demoted to a job as a Admiral Hyman Rickover said Ash's consultant to a naval supply school in claim for a $37 million cost overrun Anacostia, Maryland. So outrageous was amounted to "misrepresentation if not this business that Admiral Kidd even had fraud." According to minutes of the the audacity to tell the Proxmire Com­ negotiating session, Roy Ash threatened mittee that Rule had not been demoted to appeal directly to Nixon. but had been "transferred laterally." Sen­ Among those shocked at the appoint- ator Proxmire retorted: "With all respect, MAR CH. 1973 79 Admiral, you're insulting the intelligence ment among nations." The World Cor­ of us and the public." And, to his credit, poration "will consider the whole of the Gordon Rule is fighting this "lateral world its production place, as well as its transfer" as a blatant effort to punish him market, and will move factors of produc­ for telling the truth while under oath tion to wherever they can most effective­ before a Congressional Committee. ly be combined. " Although the mass media have focused Ash's job is to prepare the United some attention. on Roy Ash's business States to be amalgamated into the new background, they have said nothing of World Corporation. He is an exponent of the fact that Ash is an openly dedicated P.P.B.S. - the Planning, Programming advocate of World Government. On Feb­ and Budgeting System developed by the ruary 7, 1972, he participa ted in a White RAND think-tank and introduced into House Conference on the Industrial the Department of Defense by Robert World Ahead, billed as "A Look At McNamara and his Whiz Kids. The osten­ Business In 1990." The panel included sible objective is to make bureaucratic Roberto Campos, president of the Inter­ planning work through the use of com­ national Bank of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Jean puters. Incidentally, it creates a data bank Frere, managing partner of Banque Lam­ and control system that would make bert of Brussels; Peter G. Peterson , then George Orwell's Big Brother drool with Executive Director of the Council on envy. International Economic Affairs; and, A major step toward the Big Brother Robert V. Roosa, a partner of the inter­ system occurred in 1970, when Richard national banking firm of Brown Brothers Nixon accepted a recommendation of the Harriman and Company. Ash Commission and established the Ten On May 18, 1972, Roy Ash revealed Regional Councils which now divide the the "conclusions" of this Conference in a nation into ten federal districts to be speech to the Los Angeles Chamber of coordinated by Roy Ash and his P.P.B.S. Commerce. He declared that by 1990 the We learn from U.S. News & WorldReport economy of the world will be dominated of January 1, 1973, that: "An informed by multinational corporations, and that source said Mr. Ash may set up a 'regional such a One World Economy will necessi­ desk' at OMB, to deal directly with tate a One World Government to oversee Government field offices all over the and control their operations. You'll have country, in an effort to cut red tape and to admit that that is a new twist on the break bottlenecks." The Wall Street Jour­ old con game..And it is a twist that a lot nal of November 29, 1972, adds: "With of businessmen who would .never fall for Mr. Ash in the saddle, OMBshould come the peace and brotherhood gibberish will much closer to realizing its potential as an buy. Ash declared that "some aspects of instrument for government reform." national sovereignty will be given over to supranational authority" and that the Two Steps Forward International Monetary Fund will be "the All of that "reform" means control of source of all of the primary reserves of all state and local governments by the ten the banking systems of the world." federal subdistricts. Which is what Messrs. In an article for the February 1971 Nixon and Shultz and Weinberger and issue of The Futurist, monthly organ of Ash really mean. when they talk about the World Future Society, Roy Ash called "decentralization" and "taking power this "The World Corporation," which he . away from Washington." said will be a "corporation chartered not This program also involves Mr. Nixon's by one country but by a supranational much-propagandized new Budget, which chartering agency established by agree- is supposed to be the tiniest thing since

MA RCH, 1973 81 Twiggy's ankle. Such propaganda has gress to abolish an additional $6.9 been augmented by sten torian proclama­ billion worth of existing social pro­ tions from the President like: "It is time grams and to replace them with to get big government off your back and four Special R evenue Sharing meas­ out of your pocketbook." United Press ures - in education ($2.5 billion), International reports that Mr. Nixon 's urban community developm ent bare-bones Budget of $268.7 billion ­ ($2.3 billion), manpower training some $18.7 billion over his last Budget ­ ($1.3 billion) and law enforcement puts the government on your back and in ($800 million). your pocketbook to the tune of $1,277.72 per person. Which means that The key word above is replace. What an average family of five will payout we are seeing is a shift in socialism not an $6,388.60 in direct and indirect taxes to end to it. What we are seeing is a change float the S.S. Nixonia on the sea-lanes of in the Administration of socialism as a the New World Order. part of the Regional reorganization. Mr. Remember the late L.B.J.? In 1967, at Nixon's rhetoric on this is very cagey. He the height of the Vietnam War, Lyndon makes statements like: "No longer will Johnson, the man who claimed he was power flow inexorably to Washington." more "Liberal" than Eleanor Roosevelt, Or sometimes he puts it as a question: was spending $153 billion and Richard "Do we want to turn more power over to Nixon, then seeking the Republican nom­ bureaucrats in Washington?" The trick is ination, was demanding that the Budget that the power of the federal bureaucracy be sliced by twenty billion dollars. Five is being transferred out of Washington years later Nixon is spending almost and into the ten federal sub-capitals - the more than he said Johnson should have better to control you, my dear. been spending - and the mass media ask As I noted at the outset, in February you to believe the government is subsis­ of 1972 Richard Nixon issued Executive ting on soda crackers and water. Order 11647 which divided the country This is the greatest boo-hoo melo­ into ten federal regions, each with a drama since The Drunkard. Democrats designated capital. There is an appointed are howling about "brutal and arbitrary governor, or chairman, for each Regional cuts" in Great Society boondoggles. Council, which is composed of appointed House Speaker Carl Albert wailed that bureaucrats representing the Departments the $268.7 billion Budget was straight of Labor, H.E.W., H.U.D., O.E.D., S.B.A., from William McKinley (whose 1901 and the whole kettle of alphabet soup. Budget was $588 million with a $63 This is a new form of government, cre­ million surplus) and Calvin Coolidge ating a computerized bureaucratic dicta­ (whose 1927 Budget was $4.01 billion torship which is designed eventually to with a $1.15 billion surplus). Better the replace all city, county, and state govern­ Speaker of the House should denounce ments. The Nixon decentralization is real­ Raquel Welch as an old-fashioned girl. ly further centralization - strengthened The ghost of Hegel stalks the White by Regional overseers. House. It is true that the new Budget kills Under Mr. Nixon's "New Federalism ," seventy old social programs. But sift Revenue Sharing grants scheduled to rise through the ballyhoo and read the fine to $30 billion in fiscal 1974 will go print. Reporting on the new Budget, the to local "metropolitan govemments"* Los Angeles Times tells us: *See the author's article "Beware Metro" in the January 1973 American Opinion . Reprints are The second major thrust of Mr. ava ilable from A merican Opinion at seven for Nixon's budget is a call for Con- one dollar.

MAR CH, 1973 83 which are amalgamations of cities and/or Hegelian and will serve to make Richard counties. "Special Revenue Sharing will Nixon appear to be a "Conservative" carry more restrictions than general Reve­ doing away with government waste while nue Sharing," reports the Los Angeles making government more efficient. Once .Times. Dictates relayed from the federal again, Br'er Rabbit is being tossed into Regional capital will replace dictates di­ the briar patch. rectly from Washington. The New York Many good Americans still believe that Times editorializes on the "necessity" of Richard Nixon means well. They are loyal this combination: Republicans to the last. Let us ask them to remember how concerned Republicans Metropolitan and regional plan­ became over President Kennedy's remark: ning are essential, and the finan­ "Power , power all the way." Republicans cial power of the Federal Gov­ may trust Mr. Nixon not to abuse the ernment is the best available lever tremendous power he is acquiring in the to compel local, county and state Executive branch, but how can they be officials to take a broader view of sure that his successors will not abuse it? their problems and to cooperate For example, how will Republicans feel if more effectively with one an­ they must turn over all of this machinery other . ... to Edward M. Kennedy four years from now? Reporter John Herbers writes in the Richard Nixon has correctly assessed Long Beach Press Telegram of November the anti-government, anti-bureaucratic 23, 1972, that the President's reorganiza­ temper of the country and has figured tion revolves around "more authority in out a way to take advantage of it while at Regional offices and shifting of power the same time increasing the power of the from career bureaucrats to political ex­ government and the bureaucracy. Today, ecutives." He continues: "While the ma­ when things go wrong in the government, chinery of government is being decentral­ people have a pretty good idea who is to ized, the policy-making process is ex­ blame. They blame Washington with its pected to be further centralized, taken army of entrenched bureaucrats. Now Mr. out of the departments and moved to the Nixon is going to take the heat off White House ...." Washington by scattering the bureaucrats During the switchover, a number of into the ten federal sub-capitals, at the oxes are going to be gored and the same time increasing their power and his "Liberals" will scream bloody murder as own. Under the Nixon reorganization, the White House gains direct control over government becomes more sinister by the bureaucracy and the mechanism for becoming more anonymous. dispensing the goodies. But this little bit As someone said, they don 't call him of action-reaction-synthesis is strictly Tricky for nothing.•• CRACKER BARREL------• A woman 's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty, said Rudyard Kipling. • A "Yes Man" is one who stoops to concur. • Waiters often.encounter ill-bred guests, of course, but are in no position to snap back. There was a French headwaiter, however, who did - in the following words : "My position, sir, does not allow me to argue with you, but if it ever came to a choice of weapons, I would choose grammar!" • Ifyou dig, things will turn up. • Some one has said.that not being able to understand women wouldn't be so bad if they didn't understand men. • It is well to emphasize the fact that the wages of sin have never been reduced. 84 AMERICAN OPINION