VOL. VII, No. 12 SEPT. 15, 1971 FORUM 25 CENTS

~m Guess A Selluut? Dominick Thwarted YAFDumps GOP, Nixon s. D. Power Play Fails HOUSTON - Y AF, never an HURON, S.D. - A power play by the GOP State Chairman, explicitly Republican organization, U.S. Senator Peter Dominick and the GOP Senate Campaign Commit­ dropped all pretenses to party af­ tee to stop a progressive Republican Senatorial candidacy in favor of filiation last week and voted 1459 a right winger, ended in complete failure here early this month. to 41 to dump President Nixon. As a result, Thomas Reardon, 56, a lifelong Republican whose Holding their national conven­ opposition to the war led him to support Senator George McGovern's tion here over the Labor Day week­ reelection in 1968, is emerging as a likely GOP candidate to succeed end, Y AF repeatedly applauded a the ailing Karl Mundt. speech against busing by Senator Reardon, a personable Sioux Falls Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), the businessman and close associate of Majority Whip, who generated former Governor Frank Farrar, more enthusiasm than any other serves as a member of the 12-man speaker. When asked how he felt National Advisory Council to the addressing a dominantly Republi­ Federal Reserve Board. His sup­ can audience, Byrd replied that he port in the party and his ability to did not feel ill at ease in a group appeal beyond it made him the most with congenial ideological convic­ formidable opponent for the like­ tions. Y AF national chairman Ron­ ly Democratic primary winner, libe­ ald Docksai declared that the group ral Rapid City Congressman James should eschew "entangling party G. Abourezk. affiliations. " The Republican Senate Campaign Pseudo-Conservative Committee, however, was unwill­ The mood of the convention was After Nixon} Speech ing to let matters take their course. epitomized by Kevin Phillips, who Senator Dominick, who reportedly assured the assembled delegates had a candidate of his own, dis­ that his .so-called Southern strategy Welfare Plan patched his staff director Buehl was still valid, since Nixon's 1970 Berentson to help State Chairman campaign had been only "pseudo­ Faces Crisis Robert Burns contrive a "candidate conservative." Phillips urged YAF WASHINGTON - Amid re­ selection committee" meeting of to support men "who were con­ ports in the conservative press that 15 county chairmen, dominated by servatives first and Republicans sec­ the Administration's decision to de­ backers of two right wing candi­ ond." lay welfare reform is a decision to dates. On Saturday afternoon, Y AF kill it, the President has given Claims Dominick Backing voted to suspend support of Nixon HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson One, Charles Lien of Rapid City,. in the same stilted language, but a commitment to work urgently for with a business in Colorado, is a without the affirmation of personal its passage. military spending zealot who re­ respect, used by William Buckley He also personally directed Con­ turned from Washington recently and 11 prominent conservative in­ gressional liaison Clark MacGregor claiming Dominick's support and tellectuals almost two months ear­ to continue efforts for the bill as Campaign Committee pledges of lier. When Nixon was finally nom­ a matter of "highest priority." some $80,000; another is Robert inated that night at the mock con­ Richardson, moreover, is already Hirsch, the State Senate majority vention (following speeches for seeking candidates for the job of leader, who has already announced such stalwarts as Joseph Coors, At chief administrator for the pro­ with the support of the Mundt or- Capp and Washington State Sena­ gram. ganizati61i:" ":, : tor Sam C. Guess, .. the only can­ Nonetheless HEW officials rec­ Berentson and Burns proceeded didate who has not sold out to the ognize that it will take extraordinary with their plans for a selection com­ Ripon Society"), the group greet­ effort to gain passage this year mittee despite protests from Rear­ ed the President's name with a re­ after the collision of priorities with don and his declared refusal .to sounding chorus of boos and cries Treasury Secretary John Connally's appear before it. of "dump Nixon." New Economic juggernaut. Senate But public outcry, led by five of On the second ballot (Reagan Finance Committee Chairman Rus­ the state's daily newspapers and a led on the first) Vice President sell Long is setting welfare reform key television station, as well as pri­ Agnew was chosen as the presiden­ "on a back burner" while he con­ vate entreaties from some leading tial nominee, with Senator James siders the President's emergency Republicans, thwarted the Burns­ Buckley as his running mate. The tax package. Berentson effort. The candidate se­ convention also voted to appro­ HEW and White House officials lection plan was dropped and Ber­ priate up to $750,000, the approx­ fear that if Family Assistance does entson apparently restricted himself imate amount of YAF's entire 1971 not pass the Senate this year, it to a speech before a GOP dinner budget. in support of Agnew. - ttlrn to page 4 - turn to page 4 more timid approaches of the Democratic Administra­ tions which created our economic prt'dicament, is pro­ grammatically self-contradictory: a proposal to fight inflation and restore U.S. competitive fiber that begins by raising prices on most imports and excluding com­ petition; and an employment program that begins by reducing federal jobs. As an exercise in what we have described as the New Mercantilism, the policy imposes the chief burden for short term U.S. economic THE LIMITS OF NEP adjustment on poor consumers in the United States T4e President, in one of his more dubious po­ (who will be deprived of cheaper foreign goods) and litical accomplishments, has transformed John Connal­ on the poor countries overseas (who will be deprived ly from !l1l ex-Governor of unsure prospects into one of the wealthy American market). Trade preferences of the nation's most promising politicians. As pre­ for the developing countries, one of the Nixon Admin­ dicted, the Texas Democrat with the oil industry istration's most important nominal commitments, be­ credentials has emerged as the Man Who Wears the come ever more remote. The United States, moreover, Star in the Nixon Administration. Yet while the has in fact been about as protectionist as the rest of U.S. aufomobile industry joins oil, aerospace, textiles the world and all Connally's rhetoric cannot suppress and steel in the lineup for benefits and while Repub­ the grim laughter that greets our posture as an in­ licans and businessmen everywhere celebrate their nocent victim of world economic predators. new pro~pects, it seems unlikely that Connally, with hi's repertory of short-order salves and subsidies - Beyond the New Economic Policy, as desirable as the oils ll"d greases <>f the Service Station State - it may be as a short term fix, must come long-term can do for the economy what the President has done statesmanship. Our prosperity ultimately depends on for him: global growth of the capitalist system. In the trade and monetary negotiations which are in prospect the Let .us grant" that the President and the Secretary United States must push for arrangements that do not have won a great political triumph. Let us further exclude and exploit the developing countries and thus acknowle9ge that a political triumph in economic ,pol­ induce them to despair of free economic policies. icy was vitally needed, not only by the Republicans Similarly in devising domestic programs it is impera­ but also by the economy. The crisis of faith in the tive at last to relieve the consumer of the chief re­ Administration's financial management was in itself sponsibility for subsidizing politically sensitive cor­ an econo~c fact that undermined growth and stabili­ porations. ty. It is. thus largely irreJevant for the moment to Finally it must be said that on these issues the scrutini.ze too closely the Nixon-Connally package - country must look chiefly to the Republicans for lead­ or to point out that it is mostly rhetorical wrapping ership. For big labor, centered in relatively declining paper, r~sourcefully designed to create confidence, industries and in the Democratic party, is exploiting a gratify l'l"ejudi(e, and conceal the continuing fact that near monopoly position for short-term gains at the no federal Administration has yet presented a coherent expense of U.S. growth and total employment. It economic policy responsive to the real crisis in world has become, in large part, economically reactionary: a and Amqrican capitalism. leading voice, with John Connally, of the New Mer­ The new economic plan, like the similar but cantilism.

WHY WAIT FOR THE COURTS? Even if the courts fail to uphold the arguments In turning down an appeal by the state of Georgia, based on such analysis, however, the National Com­ the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colum­ mittee appears to be vulnerable to suit in terms of its bia has opened the way for other suits to force the Re­ own regulations. Rule #30 (B) specifies that Con­ publican and Democratic parties to change the num­ gressional districts which failed to produce 12,500 ber of n~onal convention delegates assigned to each Republican votes in the 1968 Presidential or 1970 state. Congressional races do not receive more than one del- • Georgia sought to compel the parties to adopt a egate; yet the five such districts all have beep. erroneous- ... one-man-one-vote system, based only on population. ly assigned two. More significantly, rule" #30 (B) The court decided this was not a rational method - bases delegate assignments on electoral performance given that party strength varies from state to state in 1968 and 1970 races; yet in practice the National - but in effect encouraged other plaintiffs to offer Committee has granted additional delegates on the practically any (Jther rational system for determining basis of the 1970 census reapportionment, thus giving delegate allocati9n. The court ruled that the questiQn California 10 additional votes, for example, while was justiciable and that a court could frame judicial­ taking 4 from New Y9rk. ly manageable standards to provide relief - only These errors are easily correctable, of course, and the method proposed (allocation based solely on state­ the National Committee should act expeditiously. wide population) was faulted. Other reforms will be more complicated since they The Republican procedure for 1972 delegate al­ require alternative criteria. The question, however, is location, adopted by the '68 convention, results in gross whether the party will act now to reform itself in discrimination against larger states. For instance, the accord with its own criteria, to some extent already eleven mo~t populous states get 221 fewer delegates articulated in its Delegates and Organizations ( DO ) (of a projected total of 1337) than they would if al­ Committee report; or whether it will await the in- _ location were based on the GOP vote for President itiation of new suits, perhaps already in preparation, in the last. three elections. Also, based on the present that may induce court-ordered reforms. form~ a delegate from Alaska would represent 3,133 ,votes for the Republican presidential nominee The Republican party, exempt so far from dis­ in 1968, whereas a delegate from California would plays like the 1968 Democratic Convention, has a repre$efit .40,796 votes, a discrepancy of more than relatively good record in maintaining internal demo­ 13 to' one. While we do not suggest that Presidential cratic processes and accessibility. The National Com­ vote .ili the only appropriate standard of allocation, mittee should not allow its reputation' to be sullied such discr~pancies do point to a serious problem. now by highly publicized ligitation. of directors are a number of leading Republicans, in­ cluding former Governors Winthrop Rockefeller (Ar­ People in PoUties kansas), Harold LeVander (Minnesota), Frank Farrar (South Dakota) and Dewey Bartlett (Oklahoma), and GOP National Committeeman Robert O. Anderson • A 30-year old Ripon Republican has won (New Mexico). The board also includes several for­ the Presidency of the Minneapolis City Council mer Democratic governors, business leaders and re­ in a move that has made him the city's hottest polit­ gional economic development leaders. ical property. With the increasing concentration of people Attorney John Cairns gained the council leader­ and problems - in the nation's metropolitan areas, ship by breaking with his GOP colleagues and voting there appears to be growing advocacy for directing with the Democrats to organize the council on August the nation's future growth into underutilized rural 13. His goal is coalition government, with committee areas. The new organization will work for that end chairmanships divided equally between Democrats and through lobbying and public relations efforts. In­ Republicans, ultimately making the Council a biparti­ troducing CRA at the Washington press conference san moderate counterweight to conservative Demo­ were Senators James Pearson and Hubert Humphrey. cratic Mayor Charles Stenvig. As of this writing, the other Republican aldermen have refused to accept • Hubert Humphrey, meanwhile, is making their chairmanships, and Cairns told the FORUM he rural development a major theme of his renomina­ may have to chair those committees himself. How­ tion campaign. Once a strong advocate of an Urban ever, he expects his colleagues to come around be­ Development Bank, he is now barnstorming the country fore long, and may surrender the Council Presidency on a $250,000 budget from Herman Talmadge's Sen­ if that is the price of coalition. ate Agricultural Committee, promoting a similar Rural More in sorrow than in anger, Cairns criticized Development Bank and other rural programs. In ex­ some "tunnel-vision partisan Republicans" who don't change for this consideration, Talmadge reportedly see that "the party that is most open to change is gets Humphrey'S proxy on all other committee issues. the party that will win in the future." 1970 marked a • Monday, the Republican National Commit­ Democratic sweep in Minnesota. tee's answer to Human Events, has done it again. Its As for himself, Cairns will remain Republican. August 30 issue is devoted to whooping it up for none "The Republican Party in Minnesota is open to every­ other than Vice President Spiro Agnew. We read a one, and there's no need to change it unless the old lengthy attack by Agnew on the Democratic National professionals force a fight," he said. Committee on page 2, Agnew's "insight" into George • Former Governor Robert E. Smylie, 56, once Meany on page 4, and a wordy exchange between the one of the nation's leading progressive Republicans, Vice President and Howard K. Smith on page 6. has declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in Idaho Could the rightists who run Monday be part of following the recent retirement of Senator Len Jordan, the conservative effort to keep Agnew on the ticket the man he appointed in 1962. Smylie, a former Chair­ next year? man of the Republican Governors Association, was • John Lindsay's first major speech since switch­ defeated in a primary by Bircher Don Samuelson in ing was at a "Register for Peace" rally in Pittsburgh 1966 after 12 years in office. His likely opponents in September 9. Joining Lindsay on a decidedly biparti­ a crowded primary, all right-wingers, are Samuelson, san platform were Representatives Shirley Chisholm, Congressman James A. McClure, former Rep. George Pete McCloskey and Don Riegle, plus AI Lowenstein Hansen, Lt. Governor Jack Murphy, and Bannock and John Kerry. County GOP Chairman F. W. Bergeson. • Former Republican Governor Claude Kirk • There's a Nixon running in Middle America has started a nation-wide crusade against busing. The this fall. His name is George NIXon and he is the Re­ Floridian heads Kirk's Campaigns, which recently swept publican nominee for the office of Mayor of Muncie, into Oxnard, California; the city has a desegregation Indiana. Nixon is facing an uphill battle against an plan including busing. Kirk, lest we forget, lost the incumbent Democrat, and a black minister, nominee governorship in 1970 to Reuhin Askew who said recent­ of the Poor People's Party. Though Nixon's campaign ly: " ... busing certainly is an artificial and inadequate has barely gotten underway, he's very proud of his instrument of change. Nobody really wants it ... yet billboard slogan "Let George Do It." The local press the law demands and rightly so that we put an end to calls Nixon a "moderate" and George terms the Nixon segregation in our society." in the White House a "powerful President." He says his nominal link with the Chief Executive should help • Recipient of a framed and mounted doodle his campaign. from HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson last week - said to be a coveted honor in the Department - was The pressing issues of the day in Muncie, popu­ Robert E. Patricelli, Deputy Undersecretary for Pol­ lation 70.000, are similar to those in any other U.S. icy Coordination, who resigned to take private em­ metropolis: taxes, unemployment, voter alienation. ployment in Hartford. Patricelli, one of many former Nixon would like to bring "politics back to the people" members of the talented Senatorial staff of Jacob and he supports federal revenue sharing in this effort. Javits to serve in the Administration, made important • Arthur Fletcher, the ebullient Assistant Sec­ contributions to the Family Assistance Plan and the retary of Labor, will shortly be moving to the UN Administration's health package. as alternate representative in the U.S. delegation. One • Jack Danforth has officially and publicly taken of the prime authors of the Philadelphia plan, where­ himself out of next year's Missouri gubernatorial race, by applicants for federal contracts must meet minority ending speculation about initiative petitions, legisla­ hiring specifications, the former Baltimore Colt tight tion or court tests that would nullify the ten-year res­ end is eyeing a political career in Washington state. idency requirement that Danforth can't meet. In 1968 he got 49 percent of the vote in a lieutenant The next-strongest GOP ..:andidate is State Audi­ governor race. tor Kit Bond. Bond is reportedly being pressured both by Danforth supporters and Nixon Administration people to get into the race soon. Nixon won Missouri THE RIPON SOCIETY INC is a RepUblican research and by a slim margin in 1968 and its 12 electoral votes , • policy organization whose members are young business, academic and professional men and are considered vital for 1972. A strong, united state­ women. It has national headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, chapters in thirteen cities, National Associate members throughout wide ticket would boost Nixon's chances. Danforth the fifty states, and several affiliated groups of subchapter status. people want Bond to head off lacklustre party regular The Society is supported by chapter dues, individual contribu­ State Representative R.J. "Buz" King, Jr., 58, who tions and revenues from its publications and contract work. THE RIPON FORUM is. published semi-monthly by the has already announced. Current speculation on the RIpon Society, Inc., 14a Eliot Street lieutenant governorship teams Bond with St. Louis Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. Second class postage rates paid at Boston, Massachusetts. Contents are copyrighted (C) 1971 by the Alderman Joseph Badaracco. Ripon Society, Inc. Correspondence addressed to the Editor Is • The interests of rural and nonmetropolitan welcomed. In publishing this magazine the Ripon Society seeks to provide America may have a strong new voice in the nation's a forum lor fresh ideas, well-researched proposals and lor a spirit councils. The Coalition for Rural America, Inc. was of criticism, innovation, and independent thinking within the Re­ publican Party. unveiled in Washington on September 7 to serve as SUBSCRIPTION RATES are $10 a year, $5 lor studenls, service­ men, and for Peace Corps, Vista and other volunteers. Overseas advocate for previously fragmented rural and small air mail, $10 extra. Advertising rates on request. Please allow town interests. Co-Chairmen of the new organization live weeks lor address changes. are former Republican Governor Norbert TIemann of Editorsl George GUder, Evelyn Ellis. Nebraska and former Democratic Governor Edward Contrlbutinv EdItor: Howctrd L. Reiter. T. Breathitt of Kentucky. Included on the large board rolled the Mayor's previous cam­ paigns and who did not wish their Hell, No, Very Few Go names divulged said that they NEW YORK - John V. Lind­ ganization switched. This group, would be "hesitant" about support­ say's drive for party realignment headed by Dominick Fusco, has ing Lindsay against Nixon next is making little headway here. been feuding with the "regular" year. A longtime friend and con­ Within the Mayor's Admini­ Republicans for years, and support­ fidant of the Mayor's, who has the stration, only the overtly political ed Arthur Goldberg over Governor title of "Confidential Assistant" and aides - Deputy Mayor Richard Rockefeller last year. a dollar-a-year salary, Harvey Roth­ Aurelio, Lindsay's 1969 campaign On the top level of the Ad­ enberg, will remain a Republican, manager, and Administrative As­ ministration - the "Supercabinet" and notes that the Mayor asks for sistant Sid Davidoff, Aurelio's dep­ - Finance Administrator Richard the formation of a broad urban­ uty in '69 - have followed the Lewisohn, Transportation Admini­ oriented coalition that must include Mayor into the Democratic party. strator Constantine Sidamon-Eris~ liberal Republicans. Aurelio had originally been a Dem­ toff, Commissioner of Investigations Only time will tell whether this ocrat before he worked for Sena­ Robert Ruskin, Corporation Coun­ coalition is capable of propelling tor Javits several years ago. sel J. Lee Rankin, and Housing and John Lindsay to the White House. Also switching are the leaders of Development Administrator Albert If, however, he chooses not to run the "John V. Lindsay Associations" Walsh have all indicated that they for the Presidency, or fails to get in four of the city's five boroughs; will remain Republicans. However, the nomination, he has definitely one, Highways Commissioner Vince Model Cities Administrator Joseph pledged himself to a very active Gibney of Staten Island, is an In­ B. Williams, one of the highest role in New York state legislative dependent, and will remain so. blacks in the Administration, has races next year. A pro-urban shift As of now, the only significant changed, registering Democratic. in the legislature's makeup would grassroots move came when 250 The Mayor has not succeeded in make it smoother going for Lind­ members of the pro-Lindsay fac­ dr~ng his fundraisers with him, say on his way to the governorship tion of the Bronx Republican or- either. A few individuals who bank- in 1974.

and others for favoring right wing Richardson Given Bus Line candidates in the disbursement of WASHINGTON - On August ment and a retreat from Swann, in committee funds. Senator Domi­ 3, President Nixon seriously under­ fact the key portions of the August nick, however, thwarted an attempt mined the credibility of HEW Sec­ 31 opinion were verbatim passages after the 1970 elections to create retary Elliot L. Richardson by "dis­ from Swann, merely warning that a new three-man committee direc­ avowing" HEW's desegregation Swann should not be read to re­ torate by pledging evenhanded con­ plan for Austin, Texas. But if Rich­ quire "a fixed racial balance or duct of Committee affairs. ardson was stunned by that man­ quota" in every school. euver, nothing could have prepar<:d Burger's opinion could have been FAP from page 1 him for the ritual abasement that viewed just as readily as at least will be more difficult to .secure . took place on August 31 at San temporary approval of a District Wilbur Mills' strong advocacy next Oemente. Court order requiring something year, when, as they recall, there Trotted out before a throng of re­ very near to racial balance in a will be elections. They also worry porters, with White House mouth­ large urban system, and necessi­ that the hostile Finance Committee piece Ron Ziegler monitoring his tating the purchase of 157 school may separate welfare reform from responses, Richardson parroted the buses to transport a total of 34,000 other sections of HR-l and thus President's "neighborhood school" students an average of an hour a reduce Mills' relative bargaining philosophy. Was he in "total day. But in the present supercharg­ power in Conference. and complete agreement" with the ed atmosphere created by the Pres­ The President's reference to a President's policy and statements on ident around the busing issue, com­ delay in implementing FAP is gen­ busing? someone asked. "That is mentators and observers - and erally regarded in HEW to have correct," Richardson replied. those hapless Southerners who have been a tactical mistake that set How then, Richardson was ask­ to determine, somehow, what is re­ back the program's momentum. But ed, did he account for his Depart­ quired of them - have been con­ HEW insists - and offers docu­ ment's submission of a plan for ditioned to expect the worst. mentation to demonstrate - that Austin that required extensive bus­ the schedule currently set in the ing? Unconvincingly, the Secretary S. DAKOTA t,.om page 1 legislation could not be met under explained that the plan, formally in Huron on September 3 and to any conditions because of severe submitted to a Federal court pur­ various informal meetings with Sen­ administrative difficulties in creat­ suant to court order, was merely atorial hopefuls in subsequent days. ing a F AP apparatus throughout the "a point of departure for negotia­ Reardon now may be the man to country. The President, they say, tions," and that the Department, beat in the June primary. would have been wiser to have whose experts painstakingly design­ The Senate Campaign Commit­ simply stated this fact, rather than ed the plan in the light of the tee, which consults closely with indicating a decision to defer im­ Supreme Court's SWa11n decision, White House political operatives, plementation - and thus to down­ nevertheless did not think it was has long been regarded with suspi­ grade this already embattled pro­ "constitutionally required." cion by party progressives. Under gram, which he still believes is In a miracle of bad timing, John Tower in 1970, it was criti­ "the most important social legis­ Chief Justice Warren E. Burger cized by Senators Brooke, Hatfield lation in 35 years." chose the same day to suggest t "there may be some misreading" of Swann and to issue a lengthy and unusual opinion denying a stay of a: court-ordered desegregation plan FbRUM for Winston-Salem and Forsyth Published semi-monthly by the Ripon County, North Carolina. Although Society, 14a Eliot Street, Cambridge, Ma. 02138. Second class postage paid the press unanimously played Burg­ at Boston, Massachusetts. er's opinion as an anti-busing state-