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SECOND TERM the New Nixon and Agnew Circus 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.
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