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FEBRUARY, 1, 1974 Vol. X, No.3 ONE DOLLAR

Busting The Candidate Trust CONTENTS

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Breaking Up the Candidate Monopoly···· 4 Politics: Reports " ...... 9 In case you have not noticed, Gov. George C. Wal- lace is already running for President. So are Gov. U.S. District Court Judge William Jones has Ronald Reagan ex-Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and ruled that the delegate allocation formula for the ex-Gov. John o;nna:lly. Vice President Gerald Ford 1976 Republican National Convention is unconsti­ does not have to run. The assumption is that he tutional; it may be a good year for some athlete­ will inherit the office. Most of these men have been politicians; and state reports on Illinois. Wyo­ "mentioned" in the past. The list of "mentioned" ming, and Connecticut. presidential possibilities is regrettably small, ac­ cording to the brothers Behn, Robert D. and Rich- ard J. So ... they have proposed their own exp~d- ed list ... and invited you to add your own favonte Politics: People ...... 12 presidential possibilities. It is all part of the "Bust the Trust" movement. The FORUM's reader sur- vey of unmentioned candidates can be found on page 9. Letters ...... 15

Is Private Philanthropy 14a Eliot Street ...... 15 "Government Money?" ...... 6

Robert F. Goheen. chairman of the Council on Duly Noted: Politics ...... ~...... 16 Foundations and former president of Princeton University has a solid background in the field of charitable' giving. Goheen takes exception to the views of Harvard Law Professor Stanley Surrey who argues that charitable donations are "'costs to ... I'll u-_...__ rur_ ..... ___..... _.._ .. _ ... _.. _ ..... _.a_a_a_ government" because they diminish the. gove~­ ment's tax income. In Goheen's view. charItable m­ Renew Today: Tomorrow May Be Erased come tax deductions are key components in Amer- ican soclety because they encourage the expendi- II • ItI II II III III IU II U II I lsi ture of gr.eater amounts of money on social prob­ lems than the government itself would spend if such deductions were eliminated. · RIPON FORUM is published semi-monthly by the THE . RIpon Society. Inc.. 509 C Street In Washington. D.C. and other ma!Ung houses. Contents are copy­ righted © 1974 by the RIpon Society. Inc. Correspondence to the Can Two Enemies Tango? ...... 8 Editor· ts welcomed. In pUblishing this magazine the Ripon Society seeks to provide a lorum for a spirit 01 crltictsm. innovation. and Independent think­ Editorial Board Member Robert G. Stewart con­ Ing within the Republican Party. ArtIcles do not necessarily rep. tends that the energies of pro- and anti-abortion resent the opinion 01 the RIpon Society. unless they are explicitly groups are being wasted by their preoccupation so labelled. with the abortion controversy. It is time to call SUBSCRIPTION RATES are $10 a year. $5 for students. service­ men. and lor Peace Corps. Vista and other volunteers. Overseas a moratorium on abortion agitation and concen­ air mail. $10 extra. Advertising rates on request. $10 01 any con­ trate on the more pressing problems of the rights tribution to thn Ripon Society is credited for a subscription to the of the unborn child and the pregnant woman. These Ripon FORUM. rights need to be more clearly defined. argues Editor. Dick Behn Editorial Board. Stewart, while more thought and less commotion Robert D. Behn. Chairman Tanya MeUch is devoted to abortion. Robert H. Donaldson Ralph Thayer James Manahan Robert G. Stewart Contributing Editcmn. Josiah Lee A~ltz. ClIHord Brown. Glenn Gerstell. George Gilder. William· JI. •. Koelsch. RIchard W. Hahn. John Rehfuss and Daniel Sw!l1inger. Bust The Trust AasJatcmt Editor. Victoria Golden Advertising Manczgen Deborah Bowen Clarence Darrow 012ce said, "When I was a bOy, CO'PV Editom. Evelyn LaBan and Suzanne Ray Stciff AssIstcml: NelSon M!llet I was told that anybody could become President,. I tim Am Leslie Morrill. Annfe Greene Correspondents· . Arthur F. McClure. Mlaso1l1i beginning to believe it.'.' But Darl'OW was wrong. T~e Foy McDavid. Alab_ J. James Piant. Nebraakcl field of preside12tial possibilities has been narrower th/m GOrdon Williams. Colorado Scott Green. New Hcm1pahire James Gardner. Delcnrare Deryl Howard. North Carolina thai for the pro football draft. The FORUM's editors James F. McCollum. Jr .• Florida Henri Pell Junod. Ohio Steven Livengood. Georgia: William K. Woods. Ohio feel that Republicans should give greater thought to pos­ Mike Hansen. Idaho Stephen Jones. Oklahoma: David Allison. Indicma: Eric R. Blackledge. OregOJl sible presidential candidates: businessmen, labor lead­ Thomas A. Sargent. Indiana Donato Andre D' Andrea. B. I. C.R. Connell. Iowa Bruce M. Selyal. Rhode Islcmd ers, college preside12ts or eve12 politicians. We urge Judy Gentry. KCIJISCIII Dean Sinclair. l:IOuih Carolina John C. Yoder. Xcmsaa Stanford M. Adelstem. S. D. you to "mention" your favorite unmentioned candidate Donald Gulick; Kentucky Mark Gustavson. Utah in the reader survey 012 page 9. It's your draft pick. Eric Karnes. Kentucky W. Stuart Parsons. WfscoDSla James Remington. Maine George Charles. Vennont is alert enough to see the beautiful showplace this could eMargin Release become." Most observers simply see the mess it now is. But I am a visionary (or a nut). Which is why I PETERSBURG - In all modesty, my house is under­ buy houses out of catalogs for $4,000. Cash, mind you. I assessed. Even my house's worst detractors (and they are owe Rebozo and Abplanalp nothing. many) have a hard time believing that it is assessed for $500. Still, my assessment was only $400 when I bought the house. And I didn't complain. I thought maybe they There is no impropriety involved, but I thought I dropped a zero by accident. When they raised the assess­ should make the whole thing public so the American peo­ ment to $500 last summer, I stiII didn't complain. What ple can understand. I am perfectly willing to let the Joint did the town fathers know about all the fancy improve­ Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation ments I put in - such as a heating system. (Actually, in review the whole matter even though my real estate taxes Petersburg, I would be surprised if the town fathers didn't are no concern of theirs. know everything.) "That piece of junk," as one friend describes my house, is not one of America's choicest pieces of real estate. After all, I don't have a helipad or private golf links. I dream of the day when I can install a tennis court, but it would take a lot: of filling to level off the 45-degree slope in back of my house. It's not exactly a classy neighborhood. Bebe Rebozo and Bob Abplanalp haven't discovered the local real estate market yet. In fact, I wish the old railroad line adjoining my property would be revived so I could see a locomotive bisect the ugly mobile home which now straddles the rail­ road right-of-way. I bet the Secret Service eQuid take care of that problem. Not that I don't like my neighbors, but they wouldn't all tramp through my property to go fishing in the Little Hoosick River if the Secret Service were around. Pacifist that I am, it scares me every autumn to see those 12-year­ old kids running around town with double-barreled shot­ As it now appears, however, I have been ripped off. guns and hunting licenses. They don't have to put up with According to the prevalent wisdom of the local fathers that in San Clemente. and mothers, the state government interceded when it dis­ covered that a hillside - complete with beautiful old farm­ On the other hand, I don't think the President bought house and barns - had beeri solt'r,for193",000. It was his house out of a catalog, the way I did. Actually, I took assessed for $900. a look at the real item before I bought it. The catalog de­ scribed it as a "handyman's buy." The catalog didn't lie. It would appear that I have been overassessed. But Every Boor and every wall sloped a different way. It was I'm wiIIing to let the Joint Congressional Committee look only after I bought it that I discovered that the state of into the situation. I'm even thinking of willing the prop­ New York owned half my front lawn and half my neigh­ erty to the federal government - as a summer/winter re­ bors had rights of way through my property. "Challenging treat for the Vice Presidents. That is, if I ever get that buy for the handyman who likes working with tools and tennis court put in. db.

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February, 1974 3 the aces never seem to change. names. Still, the meteoric rise of Vice By whom are the aces "mention­ President Gerald A. Ford - from "un­ COMMENTARY: ed?" Several years ago, Russell Baker mentioned" by Republicans when Gal­ of The New Y ork Times revealed the lup polled in early October to "the POLITICS existence of the "Great Mentioner" lead" when Harris talked to GOP - the one who is responsible for voters in mid-November - can char­ newspaper stories that begin: "Nelson itably be attributed not so much to his Rockefeller, who is frequently men­ long unrecognized talents as to his tioned as a potential presidential can­ "starlet" quality. Ford became an in­ didate ...." stant hero for Americans, particular­ Unfortunately, the Great Mention­ ly Republicans, shellshocked by daily er is extremely selective about those crises and searching for a hero. In Dustina whom he mentions. Although the cri­ today's political climate, honesty is suf­ teria for being mentioned are obscure, ficient lor idolatry. they are clearly restrictive. Donald R. The events of last year have forced Matthews, a political scientist at the some new faces forward. The Water­ University of Michigan, has calculated gate hearings propelled Howard H. the that in the Gallup presidential prefer­ Baker, Jr. onto the presidential pre­ ence polls from 1936 through 1972, ference polls and the Agnew resigna­ only 47 Republicans have been men­ tion did the same to Ford. But are tioned with sufficient seriousness to they leaders? With two-thirds of the develop, at one time or another, the public now believing that they can support of one percent of the GOP trust their government only "some of Candidate rank-and-file. There are almost that the time" - a 20 percent increase in many Republicans in the Senate today. the past year, according to the Uni­ The Democrats have been slightly versity of Michigan's Institute for So­ more generous, discovered Matthews, cial Research - are the Great Men­ for Gallup has recorded 62 individuals tioner's traditional methods of select­ Trust who have had at least one percent sup­ ing new members of the Candidate port from Democratic voters some­ T rust adequate? time during the last ten campaigns. The American Assembly thinks not. Commenting on Matthews' findings in At the end of last year, it recommend­ by Richard J Behn a recent column in The Washington ed "that, well before the nomination Post, David Broder asked: "Is it con­ process begins, national, state and local and ceivable that in two generations, this party organizations, members of Con­ nation of 200 million produced only gress, state and local officials and pri­ Robert D. Behn 109 men and women with qualifica­ vate organizations, not only assess tions to be considered presidential pos­ such candidates as present themselves, sibilities by one percent of their par­ but also conduct a systematic search Presidential politics has become a ty's adherents?" for persons who should be encouraged monopoly enterprise. Presidential can­ The Great Mentioner seems to have to contend. Serious consideration by didates are the new "robber barons" established a Candidate Trust: a select such organizations should stimulate ap­ who by virtue of their "mentioned" group of political figures - vice pres­ propriate attention by the media." status in the media have monopolistic idents, senators, a few big-state gov­ The following list of "unmention­ control over the money and resources ernors, and former presidenfhtl candi­ ed" Republicans who ought to be con­ necessary to a presidential campaign. dates - who monopolize the two par­ sidered for the 1976 presidential nom­ There has been a growing wellspring ties' presidential fields. Richard M. ination is not meant to be all-inclu­ of concern for the ethics of campaign Nixon, for example, was a principal sive - nor have all those mention­ fundr!1ising but comparatively little stockholder of the Trust for over a ed had their presidential qualifications distress over the quality and sparsity decade before he was elected President; carefully examined. Rather, the objec­ of members of the Candidate Trust. and Nelson Rockefeller, another senior tive is to stimulate the thinking of Re­ One has only to compare politics to member, helped the Trust limit any publicans beyond the narrow member­ poker to see how badly the cards are real primary challenges to Nixon in ship of the Candidate Trust. (FORUM stacked against a true "choice" for 1968. As Broder argued, an effort subscribers should also take up the L976. It is hard to remember a time should be made "to improve and suggestion of the American Assembly; when Rockefeller, Reagan, and Con­ broaden the quality of the presidential the opportunity to participate in the nally were not "mentioned" for Pres­ field." mentioner game is provided on page ident. There are always a few "jokers" Listing the members of the Candi­ 10.) in the deck - Baker, Brock, Buckley, date Trust is a boring litany, even Sen. Charles McC. Mathias is an ob­ Percy, Richardson, and (if Nixon re­ though "circumstances and the force vious candidate; he is quoted month­ signs or is impeached) Ford - but of events" have recently added a few ly in the New York Times by James

4 Ripon F01'um Reston and Tom Wicker, yet these two managerial problems of making gov­ lined, "This Man Should Be Presi­ columnists never suggest that Mathias ernment work and bureaucracies re­ dent"; from Indiana, Miller could be is of presidential caliber. Another sen­ spond; they are forced by their con­ the Wendell Wilkie of 1976. And if ator who should be mentioned is Jacob stituents to produce results rather than we are going to nominate a Rocke­ Javits, important in Washington but, speeches and legislation, and therefore feller, why not David, president of the as a New Yorker, overshadowed on should be given more serious attention Chase Manhattan Bank? the national scene by Nelson Rocke­ than the Great Mentioners of the na­ Finally, vhere are ,those political fig­ feller (who is only four years younger tional press and trustees of the Can­ ures whom fate has barred from the than the 69-year-old Javits) . Yet Javits didate Trust currently award them. Congress or gubernatorial mansions. was voted the "brightest" senator in As governor of Michigan, George Richard Lugar of Indianapolis is the a survey of senatorial legislative assis­ Romney swallowed too much too only Republican mayor of a large city, tants and tied for second as the "most quickly when he attempted to brave though he has not received much ex­ effective" - a significant compliment the waters of presidential politics. His posure since it is no longer an asset to a member of the minority. Another first dip in to the sea of national pol­ to be "Richard Nixon's favorite may­ member of the Senate who deserves itics might not have been so chilling, or." U.S. Attorneys Richard Thorndike more serious consideration is Sen. Ed­ however, if he had been able to slow­ in Pittsburgh and James Thompson in ward W. Brooke, a leader who, in ly immerse himself, learning about the Chicago also merit consideration; after the battle to elect a minority leader tides and undertow more slowly rather all, Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas to succeed Everett Dirksen, proved he than being forced to dive into the Dewey first proved themselves as pros­ is one progressive Republican who rocks. Earlier attention to governors ecutors/police commissioners. can count noses. Senators Richard from states other than New York and America's next President need not Schweiker, Robert Taft, Jr., and Mark California, which are already well cov­ be in the current stable of "stars." The Hatfield are others whose talents are ered by the media, would provide a country should not be resigned to a unrecognized by the national media or better test of how transferable indi­ contest between Ronald Reagan and the party. vidual gubernatorial talents are into Edward Kennedy in 1976. The Re­ The House of Representatives has presidential ones. publicans have more candidates than not been fertile ground for would-be Gov. Tom McCall of Oregon has Rockefeller, Connally, and Ford; the Presidents as the candidacies of Wil­ has already suggested he might run, Democrats do not have to restrict their bur D. Mills, John M. Ashbrook, and as an independent, in 1976. Other Re­ choices to Jackson, Muskie, or Wal­ Paul N. McCloskey demonstrated in publican governors who deserve exam­ lace. Charles Percy and Howard Baker, 1972. In fact, the House has not pro­ ination are Robert Ray of Iowa, Wil­ Walter Mondale and Daniel Walker duced a presidential nominee in this liam Milliken of Michigan, Daniel are the 1976 starlets - but are they century, unless you count John W. Evans of Washington, Winfield Dunn really what we mean by "new leader­ Davis, the 1924 Democratic candidate of Tennessee, and retiring Gov. Lin­ ship"? who served one term, 1911-1913. Still, wood Holton of Virginia. If Houston As the American Assembly recom­ there are several representatives who Flournoy is elected governor of Cali­ mends, we need .to "conduct a sys­ have already demonstrated their lead­ fornia this year, he will automatical­ tematic search for persons who should ership abilities, with John B. Ander­ ly be considered. be encouraged to contend." It is time to bust the Candidate Trust. • son, the chairman of the House Re­ Administrative experience has also publican Conference, heading the list. been gained by Republicans serving in Others include Paul Findley and Tom the Nixon Administration, many of Railsback of Illinois, Barber Conable whom leFt with honor. Elliot 1. Rich­ of New York, John Dellenback of ardson is the obvious example, and Oregon, Louis Frey of Florida, Gil­ the "Saturday Night Massacre" launch­ bert Gude of Maryland, Mark An­ ed him into the polls. William Ruck­ drews of North Dakota, Charles W. elshaus need not remain in Richard­ Whalen, Jr., of Ohio and Silvio son's shadow, however, for he too Cor,te and Margaret Heckler of Mas­ proved his managerial skills in several sachusetts. And Pete McCloskey de­ administrative capacities. Also worthy serves another opportunity to try for of serious consideration is Peter G. national leadership. Peterson who left the Administration Today, most members of the Can­ under fire and who is now chairman didate Trust come from Washington of the investment banking firm of where there exists the access to the Lehman Brothers, Inc. national media that is essential if one In fact, several businessmen would is to be seriously "mentioned." Yet, make worthy Republican candidates. J. members of either branch of the U.S. Irwin Miller, the president of Cum­ Congress lack any experience as po­ mins Engine Company in Columbus, litical and policy administrators. In Indiana, was mentioned in a 1966 contrast, governors daily confront the E.rqflire magazine cover story head· John B. Anderson

February, ·1974 5 abuse prevention, population studies, ing of favorable tax treatment to eligi­ an experiment in school decentraliza­ ble institutions does not in itself make COMMENTARY: tion, and investigations into new them arms of government and subject, methods of converting waste into en­ ipso facto, [0 all its policies and reg­ NATION ergy. Sarah Jones put $5.00 in the col­ ulations. Such a ruling was given, for lection box at her church to celebrate example, by the Supreme Court in a the christening of a nephew. 1970 case involving the tax exemption Whose money was involved in these of church-owned property (Walz vs. various philanthropic acts? There are Tax Commission). those who hold it to be basically the The influence of a contrary and po­ government's money because it is tax tentially much more restrictive posi­ deductible, and in recent years this tion has been growing, however, which view has gained a strong foothold in may be called the "Surreyan view," the major tax-writing committees of for no one has done more to give it the Congress. intellectual clout than Professor Stan­ Is But if one accepts the premise that ley Surrey, brilliant tax theorist of the charitable activities and giving repre­ Harvard Law School and former as­ sent not so much valued personal com­ sistant secretary of treasury for tax mitments as government expenditures, policy. Professor Surrey considers all then the door is opened to drastic tax deductions, including those per­ Private changes in the traditional indepen­ mitted for charitable giving, as rep­ dence of private philanthropy and its resenting "costs to government." He capacity to contribute fruitfully to the alsO-describes them as "government well-being and improvement of our subsidies" and while serving in the society. Treasury led the formulation of a new Philan. If the assets of tax-exempt organi­ "treasury tax expenditure budget" that zations are indeed government money, includes charitable deductions as gov­ then it is only logical that their poli­ ernmental expenditures. cies and practices should be fully sub­ The Surreyan view appears to have ject to federal regulations. But where, little historical basis in the thinking thropy then, do you draw the line? Within and motivation of those who wrote our federal tax laws, deductions and the exemption of charitable institu­ exemptions are almost as ubiquitous as tions and the deductibility of charita­ fire and police protection. Virtually ble giving into the American tax sys­ .... Govern. every taxpayer uses either one or more tem. The congressional deliberations of the assorted itemized deductions and debates of that time reflect, in­ or else the optional standard deduc­ stead, a concern to preserve the vitali­ tion. Are we then, on these grounds, ty of nongovernmental charitable en­ to obliterate all distinctions between terprise and the view that such enter­ Inent public and private activity? prise represents gains for the society Current decisions of the courts seem rather than costs to government. For divided on the extent to which the example, in 1917, Senator Hollis in sole fact of tax exemption either en­ introducing the amendment that as­ titles or requires the government to sured the deductibility of contributions Money!" force federal regulations on "the man­ to charity, observed: agement and practices of private in­ Look at it this way: for every dol­ stitutions. lar that a man contributes for these Ending racial discrimination and the public charities, education, scientific by Robert F. Goheen injustices of racial segregation are im­ or otherwise, the public gets 100 portant objectives of national policy. percent; it is all devoted to that It is especially noteworthy, therefore, purpose. If it were undertaken to Last week John Doe pledged $15 that in Green vs. COn/la1ly (1971) the support such institutions through to his town's United Fund. A doctor District Court of the District of Co­ the federal government or local gov­ in the local hospital saved a child's lumbia ruled that gifts to segregated ernments and the taxes were im­ life with a $5,000 piece of equipment schools in Mississippi could not qual­ posed for the amount, they would paid for by a wealthy doctor. Repre­ ify for tax exemption because segre­ only get the percentage, 5 percent, sentative College announced $25,000 gation in education contravenes fed­ 10 percent, 20 percent or 40 per­ contributed by alumni donors for an eral public policy. cent, as the case might be. enlarged student aid program. The On the other hand, there are a num­ Again in 1938, the Congress stated, Charitable Foundation reported grants ber of other cases where the courts "The government is compensated for totaling twice that amount for drug have held that the government's grant- its loss of revenue by its relief from

6 Ripon F Mum financial burdens which would other­ flow not to the individuals who maI.:e preciably in 1973, but the issues are wise have to be met by appropriations the gifts but to the charitable institu­ still very much with us. Three pro­ from public funds." In the Tax Re­ tions receiving them. posals with serious negative implica­ form Act of 1969, Congress not only Turning the issue around, regard­ tions for many philanthropic organi­ endorsed again the basic principle of ing gifts to charity as government zations are already under attention by the charitable deduction on income tax, tends, the Surreyan view argues that the tax-writing committees of this Con­ but raised the maximum allowance to the man in the 70-percent tax bracket gress. 50 percent of adjusted gross income. has $700 of his $1,000 in cash gifts One is a proposal to limit deduc­ From the perspective of history, then, paid by government, while the man tions for gifts of appreciated securi­ the Surreyan views seems to reverse in the 14-percent tax bracket has on­ ties to public charities, as was done the basic rationale of charitable exemp­ ly $140 of his $1,000 paid by govern­ with respect to such gifts to private tions and deductions in the U.S. tax ment (i.e., the amount each does not foundations in the 1969 Tax Reform system. pay in tax). So, from this point of Act. A second involves placing some No one, however, can deny that view,the $1,000 cash contribution percentage limitation on the propor­ serious problems of inequity have costs the rich man $300 and the man tion of estates that can be left to char­ emerged in that system - some of of modest income $860 - at face ities w;thout taxation. (Wilbur Mills, them tied to tax preferences and other value a glaring inequity. sage and influential head of the House deductions more available to the rich Ways and Means Committee, has in­ But even if one accepts that view­ than to the average taxpayer. At the dicated he may favor such a limita­ point, there are two important points same time, as a people we have de­ tion.) The third is a new income tax to recognize with respect to rhe dis­ veloped such large needs and aspira­ recommendation from the Administra­ parIty; (1) In neither case does the tions in the areas of health care, edu­ tion called "Minimum Taxable In­ charitable giver save money. After cation, and other social services that come." Offered as a remedy for oc­ enormous added pressures rest now on making the donation and taking the casional noteworthy cases where com­ our tax system. It is not surprising, deduction, both donors have less cash­ binations of legal exclusions and de­ then, that politicians and economic in-hand than before. (2) While it ductions result in wealthy persons planners alike seek to close off "tax cost the rich man proportionately less sometimes paying little or no tax, the preferences" and so-called "loopholes." and the tax incentives to giving are "MTI," as currently, proposed involves Most unfortunate, however, has been thus enhanced for him, it is precisely dangerous side effeots for charity. the entangling of charitable giving in on large gifts that colleges, universi­ Big issues, then, are involved in these combined drives for larger tax ties, and many other forms of private changing tax laws which affect vol­ revenues and greater tax equity. For, charitable enterprise are most heavily untary private giving. Nor is "who in fact, charitable giving is not a dependent. For example, in a survey pays the bill" the only issue. At de­ "loophole" in the sense that the giver of ,1972 giving to colleges and uni­ bate is the very organization of our is enriched by it. The man of high versities, 75 percent of the total amount society; the extent to which ,it values income and the man of modest income received came from less than 5 per­ its pluralism and voluntarism; the are both out of pocket $1,000 if each cent of the donors in gifts of $5,000 maintenance of a multiplicity of solu­ contributes that much to charity. If, and more. In sum, if there is an in­ tions to social problems; and the for example, one is in the 70-percent equity in the charitable deduction, it existence of independent institutions tax bracket and the other in the 14- is not the sort that results in personal attempting to meet important human percent tax bracket, each would have gain for any taxpayer. It results, rather, needs. in advantageous support for needy re­ been out of pocket in lesser amounts Each proposal above beclouds what cipient institutions. - $700 and $140, respectively - if have been important incentives in our he had 110t given the $1,000 to chari­ Tax reformers thus confuse the is­ tax system that have helped encourage ty and had to pay income tax on that sue when they mix consideration of persons of means to make substantial ::mount. the charitable deduction in with the charitable gifts. Singly and together When gifts are made in appreciated consideration of "tax preferences" and they raise serious threats to present securities which if sold would entail "loopholes" that do confer net eco­ patterns of funding the country's phil­ a capital gaim tax, this basic situation nomic benefits to those who take ad­ anthropic institutions, and especially so still prevails - unless one assumes vantage of them. The Surreyan view for its universities. How we feel about th:tt the individuals are under com­ of charitable deductions as "govern­ these proposals may be strongly in­ pulsion to sell. This cannot be a uni­ ment expenditures" or "government fluenced by Whether we come to re­ versally valid assumption. Both the 14- subsidies" encourages this confusion, gard the current exemptions and de­ percent tax-bracket person and the 70- even as it reinforces also the senti­ ductions accorded to philanthropy in percent tax-bracket person may, and ments of those who would have gov­ our tax laws to be the state's money often do, simply hold on to their ernment extend its control into the or money that still belongs to the peo­ appreciated securities and enjoy their policies and practices of tax-exempt ple. I would strongly urge the latter yields, in which case no capital gains institutions. view as historically based and intimate­ tax is involved. This fact simply re­ The fervor about tax reform in the ly related to the continuing strength inforces the proposition that the gains early phases of the 1972 presidential and vigor of the country's many vol­ which philanthropic donations afford campaign appears to have cooled ap- untary nonprofit institutions. •

February, 1974 7 • In some states, a child receiving serious problems involving women and pre-natal injuries through the fault of unborn children. The church and right­ COMMENTARY another is entitled to recover damages. to-life groups are guided by the prin­ In some states this right is afforded ciple of sanctity of life, the women's NATION: only if the child was "viable" at the and pro-abortion groups by the prin­ time of injury. In still others, no such ciple of dignity of the individual. right exists. These very principles are the ones • In some states a "wrongful which demand protection for the un­ death" action lies against one who born as well as for pregnant women CaD causes the death of an unborn child. - decent pre-natal care for indigent In others, no such action lies. pregnant women and their unborn • In a few states a parent may children, laws protecting women from recover damages for the birth of an the kinds of harrassment regarding Two unwanted child ("wrongful life") if pregnancy uncovered by the ACLU, the birth was the result of medical or and consistent, reasoned laws for the pharmaceutical negligence. The dam­ economic protection of unborn chil­ ages are intended to allow the parents dren. Unlike abortion, these issues hold to properly care for the child when out a realistic chance of reform. their existing finances prevent them Both sides should reconsider an ele­ from doing so. At least one court mentary principle of bargaining which TaDIIO! came within a sentence of awarding is applicable to multi-group lobbying a right of action for "wrongful life" efforts: concentrate first on those parts to a child who claimed he should not of the problem on which you agree. by Robert G. Stewart have been born, but the court was A firmly committed pressure coali­ deterred from so ruling because of its tion could force passage of virtually inability to formulate a measure of any reasonable law in the area of the Overzealous debate over abortion damages. rights of women and unborn children has diverted attention from the broad­ • Only recently, a few lower fed­ - and could soundly defeat any legis­ er problem of the rights of pregnant eral courts have held that an unborn lator who dared to stand in its way. women and unborn children. child may qualify as a child for the The price for reform is a lobbying The woman-unborn child question purpose of benefits under the Aid to moratorium on abortion. Without it, encompasses a sFectrum of serious is­ Families with Dependent Children too many resources on both sides are sues. On one side of the spectrum lies program. wasted; neither side can afford to let the rights of pregnant or potentially up unilaterally on abortion. The cost pregnant women. On the other side Thus, beyond the question of his is small, however, as there is little lies the rights of unborn children. right to life, an unborn child's rights hope of new victories for either side. Abortion is only a narrow issue in are more a function of geographical This is not to suggest that discus­ the center of the spectrum delineating luck than a serious pattern of thought. sion should cease on the fundamental the proper balance between the wom­ The tragedy is that the very pres­ issue of abortion, even temporarily. an's right to liberty and the unborn sure groups who ought to be most in­ But the discussion should be channel­ child's right to life. terested in reform in both areas are ed toward finding an answer. On the woman's side, the American paying insufficient attention to them. What is needed is to put the theo­ Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights They are too busy squabbling over the logical, philosophical and scientific Project has compiled a veritable lit­ issue of abortion. minds of the nation to the task in an any of outrages perpetrated upon Religious groups (particularly the organized manner, such as through a pregnant women and those who might Catholic Church), right-to-life groups, presidential commission whose man­ become pregnant at some future time. and others spend an enormous amount date would be to ascertain whether a Prospective employees can be grilled of time and resources beating if not national consensus can be found on as to their maternity plans. Some ap­ a dead horse, at least a crippled one, the proper balance between the right plicants for mortgages must agree to in trying to overturn Roe f'. Wade, of an unborn child to life and that sterilization, birth control programs, or the Supreme Court's abortion decision. of its mother to personal liberty. Fail­ even abortion so that the woman's in­ Meanwhile, women's groups, pro-abor­ ing this goal, it should seek to under­ come can be counted toward qualify­ tion groups and others, unsatisfied with stand and formulate the alternatives ing for the loan. Employees and stu­ Roe v. Wade, spend a great deal of and their justification. It should have dents have often been forced to leave thei; time trying to obtain even more a reasonable deadline of three years. jobs or school because of pregnancy. changes in the abortion laws such as These inequities only scratch the sur­ state-financed abortion services and If the collective wisdom can pro­ face of the problem. laws prohibiting even private hospitals duce convincing answers, fine. If not, On the side of the unborn child's, from refusing to perform abortions. at least the right questions might be the state of the law is at best con­ The very principles which guide found and the alternatives available fusing and inconsistent: these groups apply as well to the other to answer them formulated. •

8 Ripon Forum Bust The Trust The American Assembly has recommended "that, well before the nomination process begins, national, state and local party organizations, members of Congress, state and local officials and pri­ vate organizations, not only assess such candidates as present themselves, but also conduct a sys­ tematic search for persons who should be encouraged to contend for the presidential nomination." The American Assembly argued that "serious consideration by such organizations should stimulate appropriate attention by the media." (See Commentary article, pages 4-5.)

The Ripon FORUM is conducting such a "systematic search." We are asking our readers to recommend Republicans who should be "encouraged" to seek the 1976 GOP presidential nomi­ nation. Republicans who receive any significant response at all will receive a letter from the FORUM suggesting they consider seeking the nomination. The results of this search will be published in the April issue of the Ripon FORUM magazine.

Rules for the Candidate Search 4. The following Republicans are already mem­ bers of the Candidate Trust and are thus ade­ I. You can mention up to five Republicans who quately taken care of by the Great Mentioner. who you believe should be considered by the You should devote your attention to others. GOP for its 1976 presidential nominee. Please list your candidates in preferential order. It is Howard Baker, Jr. Charles Percy suggested that you personally write the Repub­ John Connally Ronald Reagan lican at the top of your list and urge him or Gerald Ford Nelson Rockefeller her to run.

2. You can tear out this page, xerox it, or simply My suggestions for the 1976 Republican presi­ list your names on a piece of paper and mail dential nominee are: it to: 1...... BUST THE CANDIDATE TRUST Ripon FORUM 2...... Box 226 3 ...... Charlestown, Mass. 02129 4 ...... 3. Your list must be received by Friday, March 5 ...... 1, 1974.

states casting their electoral vote for the 1972 Republican nominee for Pres­ POLITICS: REPORTS ident by allocating a number of del­ egates to such states on the basis of 4.5 delegates to each state that voted 60 percent of the electoral vote of RIPON SUIT for Nixon in 1972; one delegate to each of such states would have a con­ each state that elects a Republican gov­ stitutionally rational basis." WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Dis­ ernor before 1976; a delegate for Ripon had argued that the alloca­ trict Court Judge William B. Jones each Republican senator elected before tion of bonus delegates discriminated ruled January 11 in the favor of the 1976; and a delegate for each state against Massachusetts, but Judge Jones Ripon Society in the Society's suit con­ with a House delegation with a Re­ ruled that electoral college vote was testing the constitutionality of the uni­ publican majority. a reasonable standard for the appor­ form delegate allocation formula for In its suit, the Society contended tionment of bonus delegates. "Plain­ the 1976 Republican National Con­ that this formula distorted the inequi­ tiffs' challenge to such apportionment vention. ties of delegate representation well in of bonus delegates is unpersuasive and, Although Judge Jones did not com­ excess of the distortion found in the therefore, does not alter this court's pletely prohibit a bonus delegate sys­ Electoral College; Ripon argued that earlier conclusion that a system which tem, he did rule that the current bonus the Electoral College distortion of the rewards states producing Republican system violated the equal protection representation of big and small states victories, by allocating a number of clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. was the maximum allowed under the delegates reasonably proportionate to The formula adopted by the 1972 Re­ Constitution. Judge Jones ruled that a state's electoral vote, has a constitu­ publican National Convention awards "a bonus system which would reward tionally rational basis."

February, 1974 9 Judge Jones' ruling was similar to (Just before the ruling was made, the publicans still think "Vinegar Ben," the one he issued in April 1972 in RNC submitted an affidavit from Reed a former pitcher for the St. Louis Car­ response to Ripon's first suit chal­ denying that he said the South "will dinals, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the lenging the constitutionality of the act as a unit and will decide, with the New York Mets before he retired delegate allocation formula. Supreme West, who is the presidential nomi­ to work for Pepsi-Cola, can outhurl Court Justice William Rehnquist is­ nee" at the 1976 Republican National anyone in the Democratic bullpen. sued a stay just prior to the 1972 Re­ Convention. In his affidavit, Reed al­ (Charles R. Jonas, son of former U.S. publican National Convention, how­ leged in his affidavit ,that, "I have never Rep. Charles Raper Jones, is also con­ ever, so Ripon filed an amended com­ believed party politics to be a regional sidering the GOP Senate race.) plaint in December 1972 charging that matter. Nor do I believe it is a ques­ The three-term Republican congress­ the formula still discriminated against tion of large states versus small states. men will probably face the popular At­ large states and the Northeast. These concepts are losing approaches torney General Robert Morgan. But the In responding to the District Court from their inception and are not con­ Democrats may have difficulty straight­ ruling, a Ripon spokesman said, "The ducive to building a successful na­ ening out their lineup -the same apportionment scheme adopted at the tionwide Republican Party.) • sort of difficulty which gave Republi­ 1972 Republican National Convention can Sen. Jesse Helms his Senate open­ was imposed by the leaders of a fac­ ing in 1972. tion which tried to ensure that the re­ Henry Hall Wilson, the former gions where that faction dominates the SPORTS ROUNDUP president of the Chicago Board of party organization would control the Trade, has already been campaigning process leading to the nomination of BOSTON - The Super Bowl is for the nomination. Other Democratic the party's presidential candidate in over, but around the country, political possibilities include former Gov. Rob­ 1976. Their end was divisive, their athletes are gearing up (and occasion­ ert Scott, former Lt. Gov. Hoyt Patrick means unconscionable and, as the ally dropping out of) their winter Taylor, Jr., former U.S. Rep. Nick Court has now confirmed, unconstitu­ warm-up program for the 1974 recess. Galifianakis (who lost to Helms in tional. " With or without Sen. Sam Ervin, 1972), and U.S. Rep. L. Richardson The spokesman observed that the Preyer, court's ruling ensures that the ap­ U.S. Rep. Wilmer "Vinegar Ben" Miz­ portionment "is fair to Republicans zell was the likely starter against the In neighboring South Carolina an throughout the country and accurately Democratic Senate nominee in North infielder may seek the Republican Carolina. reflects each state's Electoral College nomination for the seat of retiring U.S. Rep. Thomas Gettys. Former and Republican strength. We look for­ In fact, Republican strategists were ward to working with the Republican convinced that Ervin had been so bad­ New York Yankee Bobby Richardson, National Committee on the develop­ ly hutt in North Carolina by the now coaching baseball at the Universi­ ment of a formula which meets these Watergate hearings that they were ty of South Carolina, has yet to make standards." hoping he would seek re-election. Sen­ a formal announcement. ator Sam and Miss Margaret failed to Because Ripon feels that the court's In New York, meanwhile, Sen. accommodate the GOP, however, and ruling would still discriminate against Jacob Javits appears to have been decided to go fishing instead; but Re- Massachusetts (the only state not to spared a primary challenge from for- vote for President Nixon), the So­ ciety said it would consider an appeal. The Republican National Committee is still studying the ruling allc has not yet announced if it will appeal the case. Mississippi GOP State Chairman Clarke Reed had none of the RNC's uncertainty about appealing Judge Jones' ruling. Reed was sure it would be appealed. Reed, one of the moving forces behind the Republican National Committee's opposition to the Ripon suit, indicated he was not sur­ prised by the ruling and expected the suit to go all the way to the full Su­ preme Court. Reed said he didn't think Ripon cared what happened to the GOP. If the Ripon Suit is successful, said Reed, "it will be one of the greatest things to weaken the party that has ever happened." Jack Kemp ·10 Ripon: Forum mer Buffalo Bills quarterback Jack F. phia comptroller in the 1973 elections, ed Gaffney, caIling the age issue "just Kemp. The Buffalo congressman may for the Republican nomination for ridiculous. " have a tougher time winning re-elec­ lieutenant governor in 1974. Stay tune, In the gubernatorial race, Killian tion than he did in 1972, when he sports fans. • had not even announced his candidacy won 73 percent of the vote, but it still when Gov. Meskill demanded his res­ should be an easy score for Kemp. ignation. The day before the January Javits will also probably avoid pri­ 5 announcement, Meskill told reporters mary contests with U.S. Rep. Peter CONNECTICUT that Killian should resign as attorney Peyser and State Sen. Richard Scher­ general because his candidacy amount­ merhorn. Topping the Democratic list ed to a "conflict of interest with his of Senate challengers are lawyerperson HARTFORD - Connecticut Gov. role as a legal advisor to the gover­ Ramsey Clark, Jr.; consumerperson Thomas J. Meskill (R) is in poJi,tical nor." Commenting on past difficulties Bess Myerson and politicperson Al­ trouble. Republican polls reportedly with Killian, Meskill said, "It has been lard K. Lowensten. Lowenstein, how­ show Meskill trailing three possible difficult to get advice that has not been ever, may try again to get the Brooklyn Democratic opponents in this year's gu­ laced with political intrigue." Killian House seat now held by U.S. Rep. bernatorial election: U.S. Rep. Ella T. refused to resign. John J. Roney (D). Grasso; former University of Connec­ In nearby New Jersey, New York Killian's early announcement and ticut president Homer D. Babbidge; Knicks basketball star BiIl Bradley ap­ his quick moves to sew up support and Attorney General Robert K. Kil­ among party officials may have pre­ pears to have settled on the 13th CD. lian. as his next field goal. The Republi­ cipitated Grasso's candidacy declara­ can incumbent, U.S. Rep. Joseph J. U.S. Rep. Robert H. Steele (R), tion, which came quickly on the heels Maraziti, won election in the new dis­ who has yet to announced if he'll run of the formal announcement from the trict in 1972 with only 56 percent of against Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff (D), attorney general. According to Hart­ the vote and will have to hustle to did better in his half of the poll. Steele ford Courant political writer Jack Zai­ win in 1974. allegedly trailed Ribicoff by a narrow man, both Democrats feel they have Down in southern New Jersey, for­ margin. If Steele decides to challenge earned their party's nomination. Mrs. mer boxer John Hunt (R-1st CD.) the popular former Democratic gov­ Grasso was an extraordinarily popular may also have trouble in his re-elec­ ernor, the ex-CIA agent will be leav­ secretary of state before she vacated tion bid. AI·though the Democrats will ing a safe House seat for a risky Sen­ that elected office to run for the con­ probably have a primary, the most ate race. In the case that he runs for gressional seat vacated by Meskill. On likely candidate is State Assemblyman the Senate, the 2nd CD. seat Steele the other hand, Killian feels he's earn­ James J. Florio, a 36-year-old attorney. has held will be sought by Lt. Gov. edthe honor by surviving the Meskill In 1974, 1st CD. U.S. Rep. John Peter Cashman. Cashman's spot on the victory of 1970. Hunt won 77 percent of the vote in GOP ticket is expected to go to Bridge­ Less seriously considered for the the 1st CD. In 1972, the conservative port Mayor Nicholas Panuzio, who nomination are Babbidge, now master former sheriff won only 53 percent of could help Meskill among both urban of Timothy Dwight ColIege at Yale the vote. His opponent was Florio. and Italian voters. Universi.ty, and Frank Zullo, former The gregarious Republican congress­ Republican State Chairman J. Brian mayor of Norwalk in southwestern man is an active member of the Gaffney opened up an intra-party Fairfield County. The big names in Chicken Shack Gang, a group of about squabble in December when he sug­ the party - Ribicoff, State Democratic 20 arch-conservative congressmen who gested that Ribicoff's age - he'll be Chairman John Bailey and former meet each Wednesday night for a 64 this year - should be a cam­ Gov. John Dempsey - are maintain­ fried chicken dinner in Maryland. The paign issue. Republican Sen. Lowell ing their neutrality. Chicken Shack Gang is social, but it's Weicker, Jr., immediately contradict- Still in doubt are the intentions of members form the conservative hard Gov. Meskill, who has admi·tted bore­ core of the House (e.g., Republican dom with his office on occasion and fail­ Samuel 1. Devine of Ohio and and ed to endear himself with the eleotorate John H. Ware of Pennsylvania.) when he went skiing in Vermont while Hunt's one salvation may be a large portions of the state were pow­ proposed congressional redistricting to erless as a result of a severe ice storm. save U.S. Rep. Peter Rodino (D). Ap­ (State residents did not find out about parently, Gov. Matthew Byrne (D) the trip until later - but neither did "owes" new district lines to Rodino Lt. Gov. Cashman who should have in return for Rodino's support in last been acting governor during MeskiIl's year's gubernatorial race. White Rodi­ absence.) If Meskill did step aside, no currently has a heavily-black district. there has been some speculation that In Philadelphia, meanwhile, they Steele might run for governor. The for­ have been talking about running for­ mer New Britain mayor almost did not mer basketball star Tom Gola, who run for governor in 1970. He had was ousted from his post as Philadel- Robert Steele scheduled a press conference to an-

Febrttary, 1974 11 flOunce his decision not to run but can­ lost the 1972 primary for the Reid celled it because of a threatened snow­ ILLINOIS seat to Carlson and a third candidate, storm which never materialized_ When John A_ Cunningham, 34_ Cunning­ Dempsey retired, Meskill decided to ham, now working on a master's de­ make the race_ • CHICAGO - Shifts in the lineup gree at Governors State University, of the Illinois congressional delega­ won election as Aurora commissioner tions should center this year on three of public property at 25 but lost a re­ seats being vacated by incumbents and election bid in 1972. The two other WYOMING the marginal seat held by Republican candidates are Tom Corcoran, 34, U.S. Rep. Samuel H. Young. chief of staff to the Illinois Sen­ CHEYENNE - Wyoming Repub­ Former U.S. Rep. Abner Mikva, ate Republicans and State Rep. Carl licans are "very optimistic" that they whose 2nd CD. seat was wiped out W_ Soderstrom, 58, the son of a for­ will be able to retain the seat of re­ in the 1972 redistricting, is seeking a mer long-time president of the Illinois tiring Gov. Stanley K. Hathaway (R). rematch against Young. Mikva, who AFL-CIO. One reason for their optimism is moved his home to the new 10th CD. Regardless of the Republican nom­ the possibility of a bruising primary to keep a post in Congress, lost a nar­ inee, he will have a tough race. Dem­ between Democratic factions led by row 52-48 race to Young in 1972. ocrat Tim Hal~ a liberal teacher from U.S. Rep. Teno Roncalio and Sen. The conservative Young ran far be­ Dwight, ran strong campaigns against Gale McGee. Roncalio had at one hind President Nixon, who received both Carlson and Arends in 1972. He time been rumored as a possible gu­ 62 percent of the vote in the district lost to Carlson by 5,000 votes and bernatorial aspirant, but under pres­ In another suburban Chicago dis­ won a respectable 43 percent of the sure announced in November that he trict, the 6th CD. being vacated by vote against Arends. Hall will be op­ would seek re-election instead. State U.S. Rep. Harold R. Collier, there are posed by Martin Dubin, a professor Sen. Harry E. Leimback, a Casper at­ prospects for a stiff fight between at Northern Illinois University and torney who was formerly a field· m:w State Rep. Henry Hyde, an able, ar­ DeKalb County Democratic chairman, for Roncalio, will probably contest ticle Republican conservative, and for­ and Emmett J. Slingsby, an aide to the Richard Brown, currently a McGee mer Democratic State's Attorney Ed­ state superintendent of public instruc­ field man, in the August gubernatorial ward V. Hanrahan, whose run-ins with tion. primary. Because Leimback is. in the the Black Panthers contributed to his The GOP's chances may be bleakest middle of his Senate term, he wIll have defeat in 1972. Hanrahan, who once in the 24th CD. where U.S. Rep. Ken­ to resign, under Wyoming law, to seek was considered the heir-apparent to neth J. Gray (D) is retiring. The the governorship. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (D), strength of the Republican organiza­ There are three serious Republican and Hyde both will have primary tion may be indicated by Gray's 1972 aspirants to succeed Hathaway: At­ challenges, but both are expected to election margin; he won 94 percent torney General Clarence "Bud" Brim­ win. Hyde's principal opposition in six­ of the vote without any Republican mer, a former GOP state chairman; man GOP race is Roy C Pechous, a opposition. In 1970, however, when State Rep. Roy Peck, Riverton news­ 37-year-old lawyer he had a Republican opponent, he WOn paper publisher and a former director U.S. Rep. Leslie Arends was almost only 62 percent. The probable Demo­ of economic planning and develop­ redistricted out of his seat in 1972. cratic candidate to succeed Gray may ment in the Hathaway administration, Arends district was merged with the be no less formidable: Paul Simon, the and State Sen. Tom Stroock, a Casper seat then held by U.S. Rep. Charlotte fomwr reform-minded lieutenant gov­ businessman and oil executive. Former T. Reid. When Reid resigned to join ernor whose aspirations for the gov­ State Superintendent of Schools Har­ the Federal Communications Commis­ ernorship in 1972 may be been crushed ry Roberts was regarded as the front­ sion, however, her successor promised by the endorsement of the Daley or­ runner until he dropped out of the not to run against Arends. Now for­ ganization. Although the Republicans race this winter. mer U.S. Rep. Cliffard Carlson, Il­ will have a three-man primary, the A key asset for Republicans, in the linois Republican national committee­ leading contender appears to be Val opinIOn of Wyoming GOP State man, is one of the leaders to succeed Oshel, who ran unsuccessfully for Con­ Chairman Jack Speight is the "beauti­ Arends. The 20-term House Repub­ gress in .1968 and served in the ad­ ful record" of Gov. Hathaway. He lican whip is retiring; he will turn ministration of former Gov. Richard hopes to parlay that record, plus Dem­ 79 this year and has held his House Ogilvie (R). .. ocratic division, into Republican vic· leadership post for 30 years. tory. The 58-year-old Carlson, a Geneva Republicans have less chance of un­ industrialist, will have four Republi­ seating Roncalio. The liberal Demo­ can opponents for the 15th CD. Now is crat has always eked out victory - seat. Other Republican aspirants in­ winning by about 800 votes in 1970 clude William C McConkey, former the Time and by about 5,000 in 1972. The only deputy regional director of the federal serious Republican candidate to emerge Commerce Department. McConkey, a to renew. so far is Todd Sermon, a businessman-. 31-year-old progressive, now teaches rancher from Laramie. • political science at Aurora College. He

12 Ripon Forum Fulbright in a primary, but Bumpers is considered unlikely to risk the race. Meanwhile, Arkansas Repub­ POLITICS: PEOPLE licans have their sights set on humbler targets. They have only one seat in each house of the legislature and will target eight Senate seats and 40 House scats in the 1974 elections. • California State Assemblyman Jerry Lewis (R) narrowly missed avoiding a runoff in a special election • Fuel Crisis: Ron Rietdorf, executive director for the State Senate in December. Lewis won 49 per­ of the Tennessee GOP, predicts that politicians will be cent of the vote in the {)riginal election in the Repub­ traveling less and seeing more people in upcoming po­ lican district, but lost the runoff to Democrat Ruben litical campaigns. Commenting on the impact of the S. Ayala, a moderate Chicano who received 54 percent gasoline shortage in Tennessee, Rietdorf said, "The can­ of the runoff tally. The loss is a bad one for Republi­ didates will take a long, hard look at voter counts cans. It tips the balance in the California State Senate when they go into an area, and because of this, most to the Democrats, 21-19, but more seriously, it is a re­ campaigning will probably be done in the six or sewn flection of voter disenchantment in a normally Repub­ most-populated counties." lican area. • Inspiration Department: Hollywood songwriter • First Monday, the Republican National Com­ Henry Tobias may have written 1974's answer to the mittee monthly which hardly knew Watergate existed "Ballad of the Green Berets." I t is called "Hang in when John D. Lofton, Jr., was editor, rediscovered the There, Mr. President," and features such uplifting lyrics controversy in its December 1973 issue. The bulk of the as: "We are with you, Mr. President / With all our magazine was devoted to a defense of President Nixon's might / They may use you and abuse you / Holler quit, Watergate actions, and it included a solicitation of in­ quit / But you've heard that all before / Just clench your formation concerning support-the-President activities. fist and grit." "This information will be forwarded to the White House so that Mr. Nixon will know about it," said First Mon­ • Speaking before the Republican Governors' Con­ day. It might be even more interesting to know how ference in Memphis in November, New York University many Republican congressmen displayed "Support the Professor Irving Kristol provoked considerable laughter President" bumper stickers (which were enclosed in the by quoting from Berkeley Professor Aaron Wildavsky: magazine) when they returned home for the Christmas "Laboratory experiments show that rats who are con­ recess. sistently given contradictory commands become neu­ • Washington Gov. Daniel Evans (R) says he's rotic, if not psychotic. The same phenomenon is readi­ keeping his beard because it keeps his face warm when ly visible among politicians. Give them incompatible he skis - even if icicles do form on his whiskers. demands; insist that they fulfill contradictory impulses at the same time, and they, too will show the classical • Maine State Sen. Bennett Katz has dropped out symptoms - withdrawl, self-mutilation, random activi­ of the Republican gubernatorial race, suggesting that ty, and other forms of bizarre behavior unrelated to "the state may have lost a 55-year-old sex symbol." Katz the ostensible task at hand." explained that polls showed that 80 percent of his sup­ port came from women. The decision to withdraw came • Republican arch-conservatives apparently still the day he was going to announce his candidacy. know how to sling the dirt. Prior to U.S. Rep. Barber • Maryland Republican National Committee­ B. Conable, Jr.'s election as chairman of the House Re­ woman Louise Gore, who has the distinction of intro­ publican Policy Committee, a letter was distributed to ducing former Maryland Gov. Spiro Agnew to Richard GOP members castigating Conable's membership in the Nixon, is now running for governor herself. Gore was "ultra-liberal" Council of Foreign Relations. The scur­ Maryland's first female state senator, is a former am­ rilous letter, signed by "Janice Blakely" was distributed bassador to UNESCO, and is a poker-playing friend of from a congressional office. Columnists Rowland Evans Alice Roosevelt Longworth. and Robert Novak quote U.S. Rep. Sam Steiger (R.­ Ariz.) as attributing the unmarked correspondence to • Tennessee Gov. Winfield Dunn (R), who can­ U.S. Rep. John B. Conlan, a vigorous enemy of Steiger's. not succeed himself in this year's election, is leaving Responsible conservatives were livid over the Watergate open the possibility of another gubernatorial run in 1976. mentality which produces such diatribes. • The announcement of Mississippi Sen. John Stennis, now 72, that he will seek re-election in 1976 • Lest Republicans forget the ideological pre-dis­ may be virtually tantamount to re-election itself. It is position of the Young Republican National Federa­ almost unthinkable that the Mississippi GOP will mount tion, a memo to YR leaders across the country in late a challenge to Sen. Stennis, despite his age. November served as a reminder. The memo from the YRNF Issue Development Committee reviewed the Sat­ • South Carolina Republicans hope they have urday Night Massacre and concluded: "Furthermore, found a candidate to oppose Sen. Ernest Hollings (D). the President will do well to resist the pressure to give Air Force Col. Quincy Collins, a former POW still in Elliot Richardson another position in the Administra­ the service, has made numerous speeches around the tion. Richardson is a Boston-baked liberal of the A.D.A. state and excited the interest of t'op Republicans, in­ stripe who openly stated that he was reinstituting Ram­ cluding RNC Counsel Harry Dent. sey Clark's philosophy in the Justice Department. Any • Arkansas Republicans are still waiting for a can­ Republican administration would be better off without didate to announce for Sen. William Fulbright's seat. him - and the same applies to cohort William Ruckels­ Polls show that Gov. Dale Bumpers (D) could beat haus."

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big b~ks ~ho woUld like the Soviet business today, with the nsk beIng borne by the taxpayer. Some kinda risk LETTERS capitalism! If detente is real, then it should go forward on real terms. As it stands we in the United States are asking th~ Soviet Union to be friendly through our gbing them Bill of Rights things they want on terms which are wholy favorable I thoroughly agree with the need for a sensible ''bill ~o the buyer. It is well known that American technology of rights" in the juvenile corrections. (See "The Rights IS not a glut on the market. It can, and therefore should of Juvenile Delinquents," September 1973 FORUM). be required to make its own way. In addition, such terms However, my recent nine or ten months' experience cannot in any may be conducive to building mutual re~ here in Dlinois in what is essentially a child welfare spect, founded on real assessments by trading partners agency which encompasses part of juvenile corrections - who have something to gain from the commercial inter­ it is increasingly clear that the rights of childl'en in state course. Instead we look like pansies. That is not the fiower care generally are trampled upon in all directions. rve of sound detente. been appalled to find this to be the case in an agency with Your editorial missed the point. a long "social work" tradition and one with an ideology DANIEL JOY, of "helping and concern." It has made more real to me Board of Directors the comments of Ivan Illich in his book DeschooUng So· American Conservative Union ciety that he includes among what he describes as "right~ Rockford, Illinois wing institutions" prisons, police forces, the CIA, peni­ tentiaries - and child welfare org,anizations. There is a THE RIPON SOCIETY INC. is a Republ.lc~ research great deal of truth to that inclusion. b ' oollcy orgamzation whose mem ers arhe young business, academic and professional men and JEROME G. Mn...LER, D.S.W. wome:,. It as national headquarters in WaShington, D.C., chap. Director, Department of Children ters . Ul fifteen CIties, National Associate members thrOughout ~~e fifty states, and several aIflliated groups of subchapter status. and Family Services . e Society is supported by chapter dues, individual contribu­ Chicago, Illinois. ~ons and revenues trom Its publlcations and contract work The ,?clety olfers the folIowing options for annual contribution:' Con­ tributor $25 or more; Sustainer $100 or more; Founder $1000 or Sound-In The Abstract more. Inquiries about membership and chapter organization should Your recent editorial (November, 1973), "Jackson be addressed to the National Direcior. Amendment: Mora1 Imperialism," is by and large a sound NATIONAL GOVERNING BOARD statement of foreign policy - at least in the abstract. 'Ronald K. Speed.. President Unfortunately, the major issue which was and is before :Patricia A. Goldman, Chairperson of the Board the Congress is not exactly as you framed it. The issue ,PRaul F. Anderson, Vice President. Chief Financiell Officer obert H. Donaldson, Vice President Research was not trade but whether the United States, through :A:me-Marie Borger, Vice President. Pubnc: Information credit and guarantees from the Export~lmport Bank, RIchard Carson, Treasurer should subsidize trade with the Soviet Union. Therefore 'Werner P. Kuhn, SeCl'etary consideration of internal moral and political questions ~ Boston • Cambridge Pittsburgh not inappropriate. Martha Reardon Murray Dickman Martin A. LInsky James Groninger Although your editorial note was silent on the ques~ Bob Stewart Bruce Guenther tion, you do know that the credit permission, which the Chicago 'Jared Kaplan Seattle Administration sought (ironically, it alreadY had it) and A. Richard Taft Tom Alberg. the House rejected (by more than 200 votes), involved Tomas Russell Mason D. Morisset 10 percent down, the remainder being financed half by Detroit the Ex-1m Bank (20 years, at six percent) and half by Dennis Gibson Washing\On Stephen Selander 'Jonathan Brown commercial banks (guaranteed by the Ex~1m Bank). E Lo Rick Carson Mary . W Willie Leltwloh What this amounts to is subsidization of big business and Hartford Nicholas Norton At Large Stewart H. McConaughy "Josiah Lee Auspitz Augustus Southworth "Chrlstoper T. Bealey Los Angeles Christopher W. eal Robert L. Beal Mark Pierce Peter Berg Thomas A. Brown "Michael Brewer 14a ELIOT STREET Edward McAniH Cilliord Brown Memp~ John CaUna 'LInda Miller Ralph Caprio Harry Johnson, Jr. "Bruce Chapman Jerry Katz Pamela Curtis • Still working his way across America's airwaves Minneapolis Robert W. Davidson promoting Sexual Suicide, former Ripon Editor George Ann O'Loughlln Al Felzenberg Gnder is already contemplating his next book: Love and Elayne Hansen Larry FinkelStein Money. Gilder appeared on the Dick Ca.vett Show No­ Jim Manahan Glenn Gerstell Nashville "Howard F. Gillette, Jr. vember 30. Leonard Dunavant Bema Gorenstein • Andre D'Andrea., Rhode Island Ripon FORUM cor~ Dru Smith "Lee W. Huebner respondent was re--elected to the Newport School Com­ Bill Gibbons Bobbl Greene Kilberg New HerveD William J. Kllberg mittee in 1973. The 3O-year~old D'Andrea garnered more M lvio D· Ralph Loomis votes than any candidate for municipal office in the elec­ ~ L. '~d Judith R. Lwnb tion and was chosen chairman of the school committee Jeffrey MUier "J. Eugene MaraDS for 1974. New Jersey Tanya Mellch • Ripon Policy Chairman Richard Zimmer has join~ John Brotschol ll~k ~i~~~ Harry Kline Thomas E. Petri ed five other Ripon Society members on the National Gov­ Nancy Miller "John R. Price, Jr. erning Board of Common Cause. New York "John S. Selloma m • Jerry Ka.tz, vice president of the Memphis chapter, Martha Ferry "Daniel J. Swilllnger has been appointed to the Citizen's Advisory Council on Edward Goldberg Leah Thayer Lewis B. Stone 'Chris TopPing Welfare by Fred Friend, Tennessee state welfare com~ "Peter WaUison missioner. Philadelphia R. Quincy White • Larry Finkelstein, Washington, D.C. chapter mem~ Robert J. Moss Lyndon A.S. Wilson ber, is the executive director of a new ad~hoc organiza­ Wllllam Horton 'Richard Zimmer Ex-Officio At Large tion called the Committee on Government Secrecy. The "Richard W. Rahn, Managing Direcior purpose of the committee is to develop a broad-based 'Michael F. Macleod, NatiODal Director public constituency around the issues of the public's right Robert Gulick, Counsel to know about what its government is doing. It will also Max Richburg, Counsel 'National Executive Committee Member attempt to define more sharply the areas of national se­ "Past PresideDt, Chairman of the Board, or Chairman of the curity which should be proprietary information and to Executive Committee develop alternative automatic declassification systems.

February, 1974 15 and when asked about the problem of transition from one governor to another a Rockefeller staff member who plans to stay on said, 'Well, the first thing we're all do­ DULY NOTED: POLITICS mg is cutting our ties in half.' At City Hall, scissors have been applied to beards and long hair by many of those • 'ThlIa.delpJda. GOP Leaders Said to Ponder Naming eager to be considered for reappointment. The new staff Black Leader for Mayor Race." (Philadelphia) ObserVer, members there tend to be not only shorter but older than January 7, 1974. "Philadelphia Republican leaders, still those they replaced. The sixty-seven-year-old Beame's five­ suffering from shock as a result of the totally unexpect­ man transition committee included only one man under ed losses of Arlen Specter and Tom Gola, have started a sixty - James A. Cavangh, who is fifty-nine. On his last series of discussions aimed at rebuilding the party for the day in office, Lindsay gave out the trophies for the soft­ 1975 mayor's election. One of the plans of the GOP re­ ball tournament between his staff and the City Hall police. portedly is to give the party nomination to a top black Thirty-three-year-old Steven Isenberg, special assistant to leader in the hopes of starting a new power base in the the mayor and a member of the softball team, announced North :and West Philadelphia communities, and hoping with youthful cheek that the rumors that the City Hall that the Democratic organization will challenge incum­ sports program was being phased out under the new bent Mayor Frank L. Rizzo in a three-way race. One regime were entirely false - regular mah-jongg and of the top blacks under consideration for the nomina­ parcheesi tournaments would begin in June." tion is newly-elected Common Pleas Court Judge Paul A. Dandrige, Dandrige, in his early forties, is a. rising • "Duryea. Is Given Applause From. Both Sides of star in local Republican skies. He served with distmctii}n AlsIe," by Linda Greenhouse. New York TImes, January for four years as a judge of the Municipal Court befote 10, 1973. "Twice in the opening minutes of the 1974 leg­ his election to the Common Pleas bench in the November islative session (January 9, Assembly Speaker Perry elections." Duryea's) Republican and Democratic colleagues rose to salute him with prolonged, bipartisan applause." Duryea • "An Outspoken Goldwater Shows New Polltlca.I was indicted in December 1973 on charges of providing LIfe," by James M. Naughton. New York Times, January Liberal Party candidates with Republican campaign funds 9 1973. "Barry Goldwater, like a Republican cloth coat in order to siphon votes away from Democrats. Despite r~covered in the closet at the end of a fashion era, is the charges, Republican legislators have continued to back in style. For a decade, Democrats gleefully scorned back Duryea and even the Democratic Assembly minori­ him, Republicans tried to forget his political legacy; now ty leader, Stanley Steingut, attested to the speaker's in­ they applaud him. The reason is Watergate - and Sen. tegrity. Democrats who first sparked the vote-siphoning Goldwater's outspoken criticism of President Nixon and charges have themselves been accused of vote-siphoning what he plainly believes is Mr. Nixon's failure to deal for Conservative Party candidates. effectively with the scandal. The blunt candor that dev­ astated the senator's campaign for the White House in • "GOP Future Reasonably Robust, Buckley Says," 1964 appears to many to have become something of a na­ by Joseph V. Ganley. Syracuse HeraJd.Journal, December tional treasure in 1974. .." Although Goldwater's influence 5, 1973. "Sen. James L. Buckley said (December 4), on at the White House has reportedly waned as his criticism the eve of a two-day speech-making trip to IDinois and of President Nixon has increased, the Arizona senator Wisconsin that he views the future of the GOP ,as 'reason­ still carries considerable clout with fellow Republican con­ Ilbly robust if tne people wL,o are interested in that fu­ gressmen. Naughton quotes one GOP senator es comment­ ture will empha.lize the fur.damental princip).es of the ing: "If (Goldwater) signals a movl.~ toward impeachment, lJarty.''' Buckler was paid $2,500 plus expenses for each the herd will stampa'e." speech "which members of the New York Press Co!ps interpreted as part of the senator's program of identify­ • "A Wasbington Perspective," by Lou Cannon. Cal­ ing himself directly with the Republican Party - as 0p­ ifornia. JouruaJ, December 1973. "While the South is posed to the image he carries as a leader of the Conser­ changing, (,California Gov. Ronald Reagan) seems much vative Party. The move was also interpreted as an at­ His the same. approach to a prospective candidacy also tempt by Buckley to project himself into the national p0- appears to possess some of the same liabilities that litical arena to obtain exposure which might lead to an accompanied his belated campaign in 1968. At the Re­ elective position on the national scene in the future - publican Governors' Association winter conference in perhaps vice presidency or the presidency." The party's Memphis, Rea~ startled his listeners by alternately de­ future must be "robust" if Buckley is milking the GOP nouncing the pressure groups of teachers and unionists for $2,500 per speech. who he said had defllated his tax-limitation initiative and, in the next breath, discounting the effect of pressure • "The Major Orga.nizes a. 'Last Hurra.h,' " by Michae! groups, lobbyists and contributors on political campaigns Kilian. Cb1ca.go TrIbune, December 16, 1973. ACCOrding and state government. Some governors, not unfriendly, to Kilian, TIlinois Lt. Gov. Neil Hartigan, a former dep­ privately confessed that they were baffled by these state­ uty mayor under Richard Daley, is the Chicago mayor's ments, and Reagan also reinforced the suspicion of many heir apparent in the 1975 mayoralty contest ag'linst U.s. • Eastern reporters that he is a welterweight without the Attorney James Thompson (R~. "For those who read substance for the presidency," writes Cannon. "It is early, leaves and rbeep's entrails, it n not far-fetched 1.0 en­ of course, and Ronald Reagan has made a oareer of con­ vision the follOwing scenario: At the 1975 mayoral "late­ founding adversaries who have undereStimated him. ::Jut making, Daley simultaneously announces his retirement there is less time for the Republican Party tHan anyboJy and his choice of Hartigan as his successor. Dalty re­ would ever have believed when Nixon buried George Mc­ tains his post as county chairman and wise tribal chief­ Govern a yea!- ago. George Gall;\P bluntly told the Re­ tain untU after the 1976 Democratic Convention (his last publican governors that the GOP is in the worst shape role as Kingmaker) and the 1976 general election. Then of any party sine..' he began polling in 1935, and Repub­ he steps down and Hartigan takes over the party." lican politicians eV\.TYWhere are searching for someone to • "The Mondale Myth," by Wallace Roberts. New • lead them out of the Watergate wilderness. It is too soon Times, January 25, 1974. Analyzing the performance of tcf say whether Rea~ is the man. But it is fair to sug­ Minnesota Sen. Walter "Fritz" Mondale (D) as both a gest, on the basis of Memphis and all that has gone be­ senator and a presidential contender, Roberts concludes fore, that a Southern sT.itegy is not enough." ''What it comes down to - where Walter Mondale fi­ • "Around City Ball: Auld Lang Syne," by Andy nally is standing in the blUTr of his political two-step - Logan. New Yorker, January 14, 1973. Commenting on is that he is not, as he claims, for the poor and the power­ the departures of John Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller less. He is against them. In fact he is afraid: of them. from their positions of public power, Logan observes that Monda1e has spoken several times in recent months of New Yorkers are now bereft of easy targets for political his fear of the rise of Know-Nothingism, of the possibility petulance. The successors to Lindsay and Rockefeller are that an anti-politician will come along proposing to throw much less amenable to hasty hostility. The styles of Mal­ all the rasca'!s out. As he put it to me, 'If a guy decides colm WIlson and Abraham Beame are much more sub­ to ride the backs of welfare mothers and other protest dued. "In the new regimes in Albany and in City Hall groups into office, he's got a right. But we have to ask a number of changes are expected., and some have already if that's what we want.' We also have to ask if what we taken place. In both places, sober blUe suits have re­ want is a man who talks constantly of 'empowering the placed many of last month's bright-colored shirts and powerless' and in the crunch does just the opposite to sports jackets. Wilson's ties are nineteen-fifties narrow, further his own career."