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The Non-Galbraithian State GOP Second Thoughts in Tennessee RIPON SAFEGUARD SUPPLEMENT ISSUE MAY, 1969 VOL. V, No. 5 ONE DOLLAR William D. Phelan, Jr. The Non-Galbraithian State Michael S. Lottman GOP Second Thoughts in Tennessee Richard A. Berliner The Vietnamese Moderates The Ripon Society Beyond the First 100 Days SUMMARY OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL FORUM SAFEGUARD SUPPLEMENT A eulogy to Dwight D. Eisenhower, what he meant to A three-part supplement in which the editors and two those who did not have the opportunity to know him as weapons experts, Alton Frye and Jeremy Stone, discuss adlilts, and a reading of the tea leaves on the remaining the latest transmogrification of the ABM concept, and 1200-odd days of the Administration. -8 in particular how the President's response to this crucial issue may determine the whole course of the Presidency. -Centerfold LETTERS POLITICAL NOTES -28 Twists and tidbits from coast to coast on the great 140 ELIOT -28" sublimation of war called politics. -5 THE VIETNAMESE MIDDLE GROUND Crucial to any discussion of a post-war polity in Viet­ nam is the role that the sizeable and overlooked "middle STATE SPOTLIGHT grounq." will play. RIchard A. Berliner, who has spent most of the last three years in Vietnam and is currenly Ripon Fellow Michael S. Lottman, who covered the a student in Southeast Asian Affairs at American Uni­ special three-way Congressional race in Tennessee last versity due to return to Asia shortly, describes the compo­ March explains how, despite the rosy vista Republicans sition of this center and how the NLF, in contrast to had painted for themselves in the South, Republican the Ky regime, has had the elementary common sense to candidate Leonard Dunavant ran dead last, and what the make some overtures for its support. -24 lessons for the Southern GOP are. -"I QUOTE OF THE MONTH THE COMPLEX SOCIETY - IV "I believe a basic mission of the Party Is to be open to free expression of individual points of FORUM ContributorWUlIam D.Pheian, Jr., concludes view. As of today, whether we Dke It or not, both his discuss ion of conglomerates, how their success belies major parties are forums for converging and diverg­ John Kenneth Galbraith's view of the economic cosmos Ing phllosophles. No Republican should be discour­ in The New Industrial State, and how this success de­ aged from thought, from opinion of conviction. It pends as much on their political credentials as their Is from this interaction of Ideas that comes forth economic ones. -9 the energy of the Party and Its wU1 to do." -ROGERS MORTON Chairman of the Republican National Committee ORDER FORM -12 TH E RI PO N SOC I ETY INC. Is a Republican research and THE RIPON INTELLIGENCE UNIT provides political re- • policy organization whose saarch on a contract membelll are young buslnaas, academic and profaaslonal men and women. basis to Republican offlca·holdelll and candidates and to non· partisan com· It has national haadquartelll In Cambrldga, MaSS8chusetta, chapta!1l In munllJ laadalll. All Inquiries are kept strictly confidential. Writa the _n cities, National AasocIate III8IIIbera throuahout the fIflJ states, and National Rasaarch Director. sevaral affiliated groups of sub·chapter status. The SocIety Is supported THE RIPON FORUM is publishad monthly by the Ripon So· by chapter dues, Individual contributions, and nMlnues from Its publica· clety, Inc., 141 Eliot Straat, Cambridge, tlons and contrect work. The Society offelll the following options for Massachusetts 02138. Second class postaga retes paid at Boston, Massa· annual contribution: Contributor $25 or more; Sustalner $100 or more; chusetts. Contants are copyrighted © 1969 by the Ripon SoclalJ, Inc. Founder $1000 or more. fnqulrles about membelllhip and chapter organ· Correspondence eddressed to the Editor Is welcomed. lzatlon should be addressed to the National Executive Director. 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Merrill, Massachusetts Robert R. Murdoch, VIrginia A. Douglas Matthews, Editor of the Ripon FORUM Don Fowler, Malna W. Stuart Parsons, Wisconsin • National Executive Committee member Richard Ober, Jr.J• Maryland John R. lazarek, Southern States •• Past President or Chairman of the Board Tarrence Dwyer, michigan lkr Many young people, almost accusromed now ernment and he did it. We are grateful to Kennedy to the shock of political assassination, responded to for making politics exciting. We must be at least the quiet passing of Dwight D. Eisenhower with as grateful to Eisenhower for making politics respec­ more reflective curiosity than concern. He was the table. grandfatherly figure of our childhood, the object We in Ripon also choose to remember that of ribbing by the chic and sophisticated in the Ken­ he was the first progressive Republican of our expe­ nedy years. Liberal Democrat intellectuals, writing rience. He said he was a liberal when it came to their contemporary pop histories for the New York people's needs and a conservative when it came to Times Magazine, assured us that Eisenhower would their money. We'll still go along with that. His never rank with the significant presidents; he was middle path seemed obscure sometimes and his a Grant with better luck. sense of duty to party was the kind that made him But Eisenhower also had better "luck" than equivocate on the Right's takeover in 1964, but the Kennedy or Johnson. Eisenhower - among the hallmarks of legislation are there: the consistently things he "didn't do" - didn't get us into war. munificent foreign aid programs that have not been matched since; Atoms for Peace; the St. Lawrence Eisenhower was a great man. We who are Seaway, the admission of Alaska and Hawaii to young can only stand in awe of the hero of North statehood; the creation of the Department of Health, Africa and Normandy, the man whom even the Education and Welfare; the curbing of inflation; the New Republic recently compared ro Lee, Napoleon intervention in Little Rock; the civil rights bills and Marlborough. Our generation's mural of mod­ that nearly completed that phase of the black advance ern diplomacy puts Ike in the beginning panel. seeking legal equality. He warned against the mili­ He is the begining of our modern political story tary-industrial complex as he left office and later roo. Not only did he keep us out of war, he got us against unchecked population growth. out of war, and he helped soothe the domestic strains For these things, and because he was humble which then, as now, so painfully afflicted the nation. before God, generous with his fellow man and an The high example of personal probity, President encouraging friend of youth, we will always like Ike Eisenhower pledged to bring integrity back .to gov- and treasure his memory. Beyond the First 100 Days Over the past six years, Ripon's main con­ war in Vietnam and the debate over an anti-ballis­ cern has been to introduce a number of progressive tic missile system. programs into the mainstream of Republican In both these areas, the President has made thought.
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