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John Connally and SMIC Nixon and Vietnam RIPON t FEBRUARY, 1971 VOL. VII, No.2 John Connally and SMIC Stephen Berkowitz Nixon and Vietnam Wes Michaelson Plus: THE SOUTHERN STRATEGY AND THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY; LIND­ SAY AND THE GOP; GOVERNOR WILLIAM MILLIKEN; RIPON POLL RESULTS; 1970 ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY OF CONTENTS THE RIPON SOCIETY INC Is a Republican research and , • policy organization whose memo bers are young business. academic and professional men and woman. It EDITORIAL has national headquarters In Cambridge, Massachuaatts, chapters In el8V8l\ cities, National Associate members throughout the fifty stetes, end sevenll Why John Lindsay should stay in the Republican altlilated groups of subchapter etatus. The Society Is supported by chapter d~es, Individual contributions and revenues from Its publications and cOn. Party. -8 tract work. The Society offers the following options for annual contrlbu. tion: Contributor $25 or more; Sustalner $100 or more; Founder $1000 or more. Inquiries about membership and chapter orgenlzatlon should be POLITICAL NOTES -5 addressed to the National Executive Director. NATIONAL GOVERNING BOARD WASHINGTON VIEWPOINT OffIcers Clark MacGregor, Nixon's new chief of congressional • Josiah Lee Auspitz, President relations, has been billed as the savior of Hill-White House 'Howard F. Gillette, Jr., chairman of the Board harmony. Dan Swillinger, probing the etiology of the 'Bruce K. Chapman, Chairman of the Exe:utlve Committee resentments MacGregor has inherited, concludes that 'Michael F. Brewer, Vlce-Presldent he will get no further than his predecessors unless things 'Robert L. Beal, Treasurer change higher up. -6 'Richard E. Beeman, Secretary Boston Philadelphia RIPON POLL RESULTS 'Robert Gulick • Richard R. Block Martin A. Linsky We had a large and thoroughly fascinating response Robert J. Moss Michael W. Christian Herbert Hutton to November's "Looking Ahead to 1972" poll. For in­ Cambridge Seattle stance almost two thirds of those who voted for Nixon­ • Robert Devldson °Martin H. Sours Agne~ in 1968 don't plan to in 1972. Riponers are look­ David A. Reil Camden Hall ing for inspiring leaders, appropriate ideological labels and Rhea 'iemble Wlllia m Rodgera Chicago Washington a positive legislative program. (The editor thanks Ripon's ·R. Quincy White, Jr. °Dan Swillinger bank of human computers for their unerring arithmetic.) 'Harold S. Russell Stephen Herblts -7 George H. Walker iii Albert Elly Dalles At I.arp 'Nell D. Anderson "Christopher T. Bayiey GUEST EDITORIAL Howard L. Abramson Thomas A. Brown Excerpts from remarks by the Honorable William Robert A. Wilson Richard M. Conley Hartford Christopher DeMuth G MiIllken, made at Ripon's Anniversary Banquet. Gov­ 'Nicholas Norton Bruce D. Fraser errlOr Milliken urged those in the GOP to encourage Robert G. Smith Emil H. Frankel debate but to banish division, to let the trumpets be William J. McKinney, Jr. Ralph J. Heikkinen Los Angeles Paul Leach heard but to leave the blaring tuba out of the orchestral .oLee W. Huebner score. -10 New Havan Pbllip C. Johnston • Hayward L. Dra per William J. Kllberg JOHN CONNALLY AND SMIC Deke Karzun ..J. Eugene Marans Paul C. Capra Thomas E. Petri In December, President Nixon announced that he "John R. Price, Jr. New York Howard L. Reiter had selected John B. Connally, Jr., a premier member of 'Richard -Zimmer Clair W. ~dgers, Jr. SMIC (the Southwestern Military Industrial Complex), Werner Kuhn .,John S. Saloma III to replace David Kennedy as Secretary of the Treasury. Marianne Magoesl Frank E. Samuel, Jr. In this article, Stephen Berkowitz seeks to examine the Ex.Offlclo At Large implications of this appointment. -12 "Robert D. Behn, Natlonel Elecutlve Director Evelyn F. Ellis, Editor of the Ripon FORUM William G. Rogers, Research Director 1970 RIPON FORUM INDEX Terry A. Barnett, Polltlcal Director Christopher W. Beal, Policy ChaIrman VOLUME VI, No.1 THROUGH VOL. VI, No. 12 ··Peter J. Wallison, Finance Chairman centerfold °Natlonal Executive Committee Member ·'Past Presldant, ChaIrman of the Board, or Chelrman of the Eucutlve Committee MAKING OF A JUDGESHIP 1971 THE RIPON FORUM i~ published monthly by the Ripon So· A mini Carswell caper. The Southern strategy is Clety, Inc., 14a Eliot Strest, Cambrfdge, being applied to the federal judiciary in the person of Massachusetts 02138. Second class postage rates paId at Boston Massa. chusetts. Contents ere copyrighted © 1971 by the Ripon Society, Inc. Robert E. Varner, President Nixon's nominee for the Correspondence addressed to the Editor Is welcomed. U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Alabama. In publishing this magazine the Ripon Society seeks to provide a This article examines the implications of such appoint­ forum lor fresh ideas, well· researched proposels and for a spirit of crltlclsm, ments and chronicles Varner's civil rights record. Un­ innovation, and Independent thinking within the Republican Party. Articles do not necessarily represent the opinion of the National Governing Board less moderate Republicans on the Judiciary Committee or the Editorial Board of the Ripon Society, unless they are explicitly ao are willing to join liberal Democrats already opposed to iabelled. Varner, another in-the-mold-of-Carswell will sit on the SUBSCRIPTION RATES are $10 a year, $5 for studants, servIceman, federal bench. -15 and for Peace Corps, Viste and other volunteers. Overseas elr mall, $10 extre. AdvertisIng rates on request. NIXON AND VIETNAM Editor: Evelyn F. Ellis Wes Michaelson sees no light at the end of the tunnel. Contributing Editor: Howard L. Reiter Our present policy only serves to perpetuate the war and will lead to certain disaster, economically, politically Technical Editor: John Woodman and militarily. There is, however, an alternative to cata­ Contributors: Christopher W. Beal, Duncan K. Foley, Philip C. Johnson, strophe, and Mr. Michaelson, who recently visited Viet­ Douglas Matthews, William D. Phelen, Jr., David Omer White. nam, would like to see the U.S. adopt a Hatfield-Mc­ Govern amendment-type withdrawal schedule and nego­ Circulation Dept.: Hope Fellowa Correspondents William Harding, Nebraska tiate an end to the war. -18 Mrs. Barbara Mooney, Conn. Charles O. Ingraham, NtIII York Maggie Nichols, California Deryl Howard, North Carolina Alex M. Hehmeyer, No. Calif. Henri Pell Junod, OhIo 14A ELIOT STREET -28 James F. McCollum, Jr., florida William K. Woods, OhIo Michaal McCrory, Idaho Stephen Jones, Oklahoma Ben Violette, ""nols Eric R. Blackledge, Oregon LETTERS -28 J. Kenneth Doka, Indiana Richard Ober, Jr., Pannsylnnla C.R. Connell, hllla Donato Andre D'Andrea, R. I. Eric Kames, Kentucky Bruce M. Selye, Rhode Island 1970 ANNUAL REPORT Henry Bernstein, louisiana Harris Beach, Jr., So. Carolina Wlillem A. Merrill, Mass. Stanford M. Adelstein, S. D. Summing up and looking ahead, by National Exe­ Don Fowler, MaIne W. Stuart Parsons, WIsconsin Terrence Dwyer, MIchIgan Robert R. Murdoch, VirgInia cutive Director Robert D. Hehn. The report includes a Arthur F. McClure, II, MissourI detailed chart of Ripon finances. -24 EDITORIAL LINDSAY: FIGHT OR SWITCH? public mind with the Administration - Finch, February marks an important benchmark in Rumsfeld, Scott and the President himself - drop­ John Lindsay's career. In addition to all his head­ ped sharply, even among erstwhile Nixon support­ aches in running New York City, the Mayor must ers. 2) Senators with a steady exposure in the pub­ decide whether he will switch registration to avoid lic eye held about even - Percy, Hatfield, Brooke, possible legal complications to entering a key 1972 Muskie. 3) Men who publicly identified themselves presidential primary as a Democrat. A failure to as Republicans but took positions independent from switch this month may mean a firm decision by the Administration rose sharply - Gardner, Rocke­ Lindsay to build strength in the GOP. To help feller, Scranton and Goodell (though Gardner has him make up his mind, a rash of articles has yet to take on significant Republican staffing for appeared in the press speculating on Lindsay's fu­ Common Cause). But Lindsay, publicly identified as ture. The usual trial balloons by his staff encouraging Republican, independent of the Administration and Democrats to make overtures to the Mayor have commanding as much attention in the press as ever, come up again. Two Young Republican Clubs have fell. Why? actually left the party in New York City. William The message of the poll is clear. As John Lind­ Buckley has also entered the fray. In a column ap­ say, despite his disclaimers, takes public stands and pearing when Lindsay's tough handling of the New allows private newsleaks encouraging speculation York Police strike was creating new sympathies for that he will change parties, he loses the loyalty him among heartland Republicans, Buckley taxed of progressive Republican activists around the coun­ his forensic resources to demonstrate that all Re­ try. Outside New York, progressive Republicans publicans despised Lindsay. Buckley's outburst is see no need to give up their stake in the party merely comparable to John Kenneth Galbraith's asserting because the Mayor has been set back in the byzantine that the Democratic Party has no place for South­ bargaining of the past two and a half years involv­ ern committee chairmen. Buckley wants Lindsay to ing himself, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew and Nel­ switch because conservatives would be immeasura­ son Rockefeller. It may be argued that he will pick bly stronger in New York State and the nation with up in Democratic loyalty what he loses among Re­ Lindsay out of the party. publicans. If so, he has a long way to go. Those In view of all this discussion, perhaps the who were at the Miami Convention know that he most interesting result of this winter's Ripon Poll was more popular among the delegates there than is the sharp drop in popularity of John Lindsay Nelson A. Rockefeller. At the convention,. Jack among FORUM subscribers. Last year Lindsay was Miller a conservative Republican Senator from Iowa, far and away the first choice in the poll with about wanted to nominate Lindsay for the Vice Presiden­ as many admirers as the next three men combined.
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