Politics '72: Special 24 Page State by State Survey RIPON JULY, 1972 - Special Summer Issue Vol. VIII No. 13 . ONE DOLLAR The Connally Phase In Articles by Thomas E Petri, Howard Gillette and George Gilder Bow RelorlDers Could Rave NOlDinated Wallaee by Clifford Brown THE RIPON SOCIETY INC is a RepubUcan research THE BEHN BROTHERS I • poUcy organization whose members are young business, academic and professional men and As Roberl D. Beh11 resigns as Ripon's Execu­ women. It has no1ional headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, chapters in thirteen cities, National Associo1e members throughout tive Director, the expansion of the society itself and the fiity sto1es, and several affilio1ed groups of subchapter status. The SOCiety is supported by chapter dues, individual contribu­ its financial base offers the best testimony to his tions and revenues from its pubUco1ions and contract work. The Society offers the follOWing options for annual contribution: Con­ success in this role over the last two years. His exec­ tributor $25 or more; Sustainer $100 or more; Founder $1000 or more. Inquiries about membership and chapter organization should utive achievement, however, comprises only a frac­ be addressed to the No1ional EXecutive Director. NATIONAL GOVEBNING BOABD tion of his services to the society. The editor of Officers -Howard F. Gillette, Jr., President Ripon's 1968 election analysis, The Lessons of Vic­ -Paul F. Anderson, Chainncm of the Board -Patricia A. Goldman, Chairm_ of the Executive Committee tory (Dial, 1969), Bob also has served as a valued -Howard L. Reiter, Vice President -Edward W. Miller, Treasurer catalyst and contributor to the FORUM and we hope -Ron Speed, Secretary Boston Pittsburvh he will continue in this role. His impact as special -Martha Reardon -Murray Dickman Martin A. Linsky James Groninger editor of the June 15 newsletter - particularly his Michael W. Christian Stan Sienkiewicz Cambridge critique of Governor Sargent's reticent Republican­ Joel P. Greene Seuttle -Bob Stewart -Tom Alberg ism - has been signalled in headlines in most of CbiCCl!Jo Dick Dykeman R. Quincy White Mason D. Morisset Massachusetts newspapers. Gene L. Armstrong Jared Kaplan Washington But perhaps his greatest legacy to the FORUM Detroit -Alice Tetelman -Dennis Gibson Larry Finkelstein will be his brother Richard, who ;oins us this is­ Stephen Selander WUUe Leftwich Mary E. Low sue as an associate editor, with special responsibility Hartford Nicholas Norton At Large for the newsletter. He displays the familial talents -Stewart H. McConaughy --Josiah Lee Auspitz Ralph Loomis --Christoper T. Bayley in the Politics '72 SlIpplement beginning on page Los Angeles Christopher W. Beal -Micliael Halliwell Robert L. Baal 13. As we extend regretful best wishes to Bob in Thomas A. Brown --Michael Brewer Edward MeAntff Jan Bridges his move to new responsibilities as a lecturer at Mbmeapolis Ralph Caprio *J ohn Calms --Bruce Chapman Harvard Business School, we are happy to be able leo1l Sasseville Pamela Curtis Nashville Robert W. Davidson to welcome Dick to the staff. (See also 14A Eliot -Robert H. Donaldson Christopher DeMuth Jerry H. Smith EvelYlJ. F. Ellis St. page 47). G. G. Cary Miller Al Felzenberg New Haven Emil H. Frankel -Peter V. Baugher Glenn Gerstell Jeffrey Miller Ralph J. Heikkinen Melvin Dltman --Lee W. Huebner New Jersey Philip C. Johnston -Richard Zimmer William J. I<:ilberg Nancy Miller --J. Eugene Marana John Brotschol Martha McCahill New York Tanya MeUch -Werner Kuhn Don Meyer Richard Rahn --John R. Price, Jr. Richard Scanlan --John S. Saloma III Pbila:delpbicz Jim Self -Robert J. Moss Leah Thcocer WUliam Horton WIlUam Whitten Ken Kalserman Lyndon A.S. Wilson Ex-Officio At Large -Robert D. Behn, National Executive Director CONTENTS -George GUder, Editor of the Jlipoll FORUM -Daniel J. Swillinger, Nationa:1 Political Director -Richard E. Beeman, Policy Chairm= --Peter J. Wallison, Fin=ce Chairm= *Robert Gulick, Co1lllS01 The Oase for ConnaUy -Clair W. Rodgers, Jr., COUllllel by Thomas E Petri 3 *Nationa:l Executive CommiHee Member --Past President. Cha:lrman of the Board. or Cha:inn_ of the Executive Coaumdttee Connally's Prospects THE RIPON FORUM is publis~ed semi-monthlx by the by Howard F. Gillette. Jr. ........................................ 5 Ripon SOClety, Inc., 140 Eliot Street. Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. Second dass postage ro1es p<:!id Boston, Massachusetts. Contents are copyrighted © 1972 by the Is Agnew Preferable? Ripon Society, Inc. Correspondence to the Editor is welcomed. by George Gilder 6 In publishing this magazine the Ripon Society seeks to provide a forum for a spirit of criticism, innovo1ion, and independent think­ ing within the Republican Party. Articles do not necessarily rep­ resent the opinion of the Ripon Society, unless they are explicitly How "Reform" Helps Wallace so labelled. by Cli1ford Brown ........................................................ 8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES are $10 a year, $5 for students, service­ men, and for Peace Corps, Vista and other volunteers. Overseas air m.an, $10 extra. Adverttsing ro1es on request. $10 of any con­ Special 24-page Supplement tribution to the Ripon Society Is credited for a subscriptios to the Ripon FORUM. PoUtics '72 .................................................................... 13 Editor: Georg~ GUder Contributing Editol'Sl Clifford Brown, Glenn Gerstell, Howard Reiter. Circulation Dept.: Judith H. Behn. An Army of Ideologues Arb Leslie Morrill, David Omar White. by Howard L Reiter .................................................... 37 Correspcmdents Deryl Howard, North Carolina: Stephanie Mc Collaughy, Coma. William K. Woods, Ohio Mike Halliwell, Ca:lIfOriUa: Henri Pell, Junod, Ohio James F. McCollum, Jr., Florida: Stephen Jones, Oklahoma: The Human Costs of Production Michael McCrery, Idaho Eric R. Blackledge, Or89'on by Steven Haft ............................................................ 38 Ben Violette, IllInois Richard Ober, Jr., PeDDll'fIvania: J. Kenneth Doka, Indiana Dono1o Andre D'Andrea, ]l. L C.R. Connell, Iowa: Bruce M. Selya, Rhode IslcmcI. Eric I<:arnes, Kentucky Harris Beach, Jr., So. Carolina: Achieving Civilian Control James Harrington, Maine Stanford M. Adelstein, S. D. by Peter Welch ............................................................ 41 JuUa M. Renner, Micbig_ Patrick W. Dunn, Vermont ~--' Robert R. Murdoch, VirgiJIla: Arth ur.F McCl ure, ~oun Fred O'Brien West Vir9inicz Letters and 14A Eliot St. .................................................. 47 William Harding, Nebraska: Linda HannaWay, Wash.. D.C. Al Felzenberg, New Jersey Ken Nikolai, WhIc:onsin Charles O. Ingraham, New York W. Stuart Parsons, WiscollSm McCloskey's Win by Michael Halliwell ............. ............. .......................... 48 The choice of the Republican Vice Presidential candidate in 1972 will be one of Richard Nixon~s most important and revealing decisions. It may well determine the Republican nominee for 1976. It will indicate the con­ stituencies on which the President hopes to build a new Republican majority. It will symbolize the hopes and directions of his second term. The mere con­ sideration of a sectarian Democrat for this post is thus a portent OilS event even if he is ttltimately slated for some other role. The great ability and distinctive ideology of former Texas Governor John Connally, the particula1 Democrat at hand, 1'aises the stakes of the de­ cision still higher. Ever since the President named Connally Secretary of the Treasury and granted him broad powers within the Administration, the imperi­ ous Texan leader has at once embodied and symbolized some of the most important enigmas of Republican politics and ideology. In the controls of Phases 1 and 11, he has enthusiastically administerd economic policies, in both domestic and foreign a.fjairs, that the President only reluctantly adopted and that bespeak the priorities of a managed economy more than the market­ place verities of Republicanism. In political terms, he has combined these popular governmental measures with his own phases 1 and 11, first as Sec­ retary of the Treasury and then as international diplom(Jt and consultant for President. The question is whether Connally will proceed now to a phase Ill, in which he serves as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee. In the persttasive memorandttm reprinted here, Thomas E. Petri presents the case for his nomination. But even if he is not chosen - and he may well not be - his position in the next Nixon Administration will be deeply inflttentia1, as Howard Gillette observes in his Washington Viewpoint column. The ideo­ logical issues symbolized by his RePltblican ascendancy will remain acute. In the accompanyinf!: article Georr!e Gilder discusses both the political and ideo­ lo~ical challenrre of John Connally to the GOP. The Case for Connally by Thomas E Petri John B. Connally should be the President's Vice erate-conservative positlOn on the political spectrum Presidential running mate for three reasons: are well-suited to attract moderate and conservative I. He will be a greater asset in the 1972 cam­ Democrats to the Republican ticket without incurring paign than any other potential Republican Vice Pres­ significant Republican or Independent disaffection. He idential nominee. would also hold conservative Republican votes more II. If elected he will be a more effective Vice than many other possible nominees. Unlike any other President and of greater assistance to the President possible nominee, he