RIPON MAY 1968 VOL. IV, No. 5 ONE DOLLAR Galloping Reaganism Fifteen months ago, under the title Creeping Reaganism, we reported the beginnings of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign. Now the California governor, having carefully paced his public appearances, is racing to head Richard Nixon off at the pass. With a blitz of T.V., a rush of speaking en­ gagements and the stirring cry of "Hi-ho Salvatori," Reagan rides into Oregon. His goal: to demonstrate enough public support to assure the brokered con­ vention in Miami for which he has been quietly preparing this past year. See the report by Melvin H. Bernstein. PAGE 5 New Nationalisms In the Third World, political leaders of a new generation are arising whose primary concern is neither with "nation-building" nor with the ideo­ logical struggle between Communism and Western Democracy. They seek instead self-determination through the creation of new ethnic and regional communities. Robert Dickson Crane of the Hudson Institution examines the implications of this "second generation nationalism" for American and Soviet foreign policy. He shows how ignoring this force has caused us trouble in Vietnam, and he draws an interesting parallel with the communal aspirations behind the black power movement in American cities. PAGE 11 Nixon on Jobs In a special Guest Editorial Richard M. Nixon outlines his plan for creating a National Job Bank to help break the poverty cycle. He suggests the application of computer technology to match unemployed workers to suit­ able job vacancies. PAGE 24 Tax the Polluters Duncan Foley proposes a delightfully simple approach to the problem of air and water pollution. It doesn't involve intricate government subsidies or tax credits; it doesn't require a complex bureaucracy; it doesn't demand mas­ sive federal spending programs. PAGE 8 THE RIPON SOCIETY, INC. ~I:'c, ReP:~~~~m:,.:! members ars JIIung business, academic and professional men end women. SUMMARY OF CONTENTS It has national haadqoarters In Cambrldga, Massachusetta, chaptars In Boston, Los Angelaa. Naw Haven and Naw York. NatIonal Associate memo bers throughout the fm, states, and aamal affiliated groups of sub· chapter (continued from the front page) status. lbe SocIety Is supported by chapter duaa. Indlvldoal contributions, and menuas from lis publlcatlona and contract work. The Society offers the following optJona for annusl contribution: Contributor $26 or mare: OPINION Sustalner $100 or mare; Founder $1000 or mare. Inqulrlas about member. A regular monthly page of EcUtorla.l Points begins ehlp end chapter organization should be addressed to the NatIonal Executhe Dlrctar. with this issue. -S NatIonal Gawarnlng Board Ripon President Lee W. Huebner calls for a new sense Josiah Lee Auspltz Howard F. Glllatte, Jr. of urgency, anger and activism by moderate Republicans, Christopher W. Beal Barbara Gruene· lest history pass them by. -4 Robart L. Baal Lee W. Huebner·, President This April a GOP group in Vermont held a Jefferson Richard Beeman Edward J. McAnlff Robert D. Bahn J. Eugene Marana Day dinner. John McClanghry thinks the commemora­ Malvin A. Barneteln W. Stusrt Paraone tion should be an annual Republican rite. He cites flve lbomas A. Brown Thomas E. PatrI·· elements in the Jeffersonian tradition that should become Edward S. Cabot John R. Prlca· Joel FIsher Pater J. Walllson cornerstones of a progressive Republican philosophy. --14 Emil A. Frankal John S. Salama, III Wllfrad E. Gardner, Jr.· Richard A. ZImmer· ANALYSIS • Officers and Chapter Presidents •• National Executlva Director WID Labol' Go Republican? Though most labor leaders may endorse a Democrat, many younger union members may vote GOP. The reason: the union man, THE RIPON FORUM Is published monthly by tha Ripon S0- ciety, Inc., 14& Eliot Street, Cambrldga, as often as not, is a middle class suburbanite worried Massachusetta 02138. Second class postage rates paid at Baston, Massa· about high taxes, air pollution, the cost of living and the chusetts. Contents are copyrighted © 1968 by the Ripon Society Inc. like. He breaks with his leaders on many political as Correspondenca addressed to the Editor Is welcomed. In publishing this magazine, the Ripon Society seeks to CrovIde a forum for fresh Ideas, well as economic issues. WUllam J. KUberg gives a pro­ well·researched propossls and for a sp rlt of criticism, Innovation, and file of the changing union man and suggests under what Independent thinking within the Republican Party. ArtJclas do not conditions labor leadership as well as the rank-and-ftle necessarily represent the opinion of the National Governing Board or the Editorial Board of the Ripon Society, unless thsy are axpllcltr so member may be induced to support Republicans. -9 labelled. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ara $10 a year $5 for studants, servicemen, and for Peaca Corps, Vista and othar voluntesrs. Overseas POLITICAL NOTES air mall, $10 axtra. Advertising rates an request. The quiet squeeze on Richard M. Nixon by the Rocke­ EDITORIAL BOARD EdItDr: Josiah Lee Auspltz feller and Reagan forces that we reported last month has Lee W. Huebner now come out into the open. Jesse Benton Fremont re­ Thomas E. Patri ports some recent developments. -7 Assistant Editor: Nancy G. Kelm Ripon's representative at the KIng funeral in Georgia, Contributors: Christopher W. Baal, George D. Brown. Bruca K. Chapman, reports. -17 Raiph B. Earle, Jr., Robart W. Gordan, Duncan K. Foisy, Philip C. Johnetan, John McClaughry, Howard A. Reiter, Paul Szap, Andrew T. Wall. In IDlnois, the submerged bitterness in the guberna­ torial race seems ready to come out into public -18 Technical Editors: Janet Baal, RustY Ballows, Nancy G. Keim. Thumbnail sketches of the three Ohio Congressmen Adnrtlslng Manager: Donald R. Msyer who made a special effort for a strong civil rights Circulation: Nancy Morton bill. -18 Correspondents Mrs. Norman W. Oshar, ArIzona James L. Robertson, MIssissippi Senator Carlson's favorite son candidacy will have a Maggia Nichols.. California John Evana, Missolirl unifying effect on Kansas state politics, whereas a simi­ Stanley M. PDttingar, California Arthur F. McCiure, II, Missolirl lar candidacy by John Volpe in Massachusetts will only Robart R. Jesparsen. Connecticut William Harding, Nebraska Mrs. Anna C. Johns, Delawara Jason Gettinger, Naw York sharpen the divisions inside his state. -18, 19 Harold Schmittingar, Delaware Johnson Howard, North Carolina The nuts and bolts seemed in order in the Republican Cullen Hammond, GaorgIa Charles O. Ingraham, North Carolina National Committee's Research Conference In Connecti­ Michael McCrary, Idaho Philip M. Burgess, Ohio John A. Bross, Jr., illinois William K. Woods, Ohio cut. What the RNC needs now is a sense of direction Hinky Dink Kanna, illinois Eric R. Blackledge, Orngon and some fresh ideas. -20 Burton Southard, Indiana James C. Humes, Pennsylvania The Silk Stocking District in New YOI'k, which oftens Terrenca Dwyer, Iowa William H. linder, Sooth Carolina J. T. Moore, Kenaas Staniford M. Adelstein, South Dakota sends men on to hgher things, is the scene of a per­ Gary Scott Nunlsy, Kansas Nell D. Anderson, T_ sonal feud between two well-qualified candidates. -21 Don Fowler, Meine Rabert R. Murdoch, VIrginia In Maine political activity is starting to warm up in RIchard Olson, Massechusetta Christopher T. Bayley, Washington James R. Anderson, Michigan W. Stuart Parsons, WI_In preparation for the State Convention on May 10. -21 Terrence Dwyer, Michigan John R. Lazarek, Southern Stet8s REVIEWS In a "springtime ramble" through some recent mag­ CONTENTS azines Robert W. Gordon discovers a real thaw. A new EDITORIAL POINTS 3 spirit of non-doctrinaire social criticism is blossoming HUEBNER'S VIEW 4 among a younger generation of writers. Their minds are not simply critical, but flexible a swell. -15 NO STAMPEDE TO NIXON 7 The impact of technology and polling techniques on TAX THE POLLUTERS 8 American politics is the subject of a book by James M. Perry on The New Politics. -16 WILL LABOR GO REPUBLICAN 9 NEW NATIONALISMS 11 McLAUGHRY ON JEFFERSON 14 GORDON ON PERIODICALS 15 14a ELIOT S1. BOOK: THE NEW POLITICS 16 • "Resolved: That The Draft Should be Abolished and STATE BY STATE 17·21 Replaced by a Professional Volunteer Army". This will Georgia-lllinois-Ohio-Kansas-Massach usetts be the official high school debate topic next year, and Connecticut - New York - Maine Ripon's "Politics and Conscription: A Proposal to Re­ pLace the Draft" (FORUM, December 1966) is being re­ POLITICAL CALENDAR 20 printed by the Ubrary of Congress in its research hand­ BOOK CLUB ORDER FORM 22 book. • Congressman Paul M. McCloskey, who defeated Shir­ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 23 ley Temple Black in California's 11th district last fall, GUEST EDITORIAL 24 stopped in Cambridge en route to Vermont for an evening (Turn to page 23) 2 Editorial Points Dr. King's funeral would have been very beautiful, his decision to attend the King funeral shows that Jimmy Breslin wrote from Atlanta, "except that he is still covering his bets in the South. Though he we had all been there before. There have been fun­ made a discreet private visit to Mrs. King in Mem­ erals and marches in the last five years and every­ phis, he hesitated to attend the public funeral in thing was supposed to change and nothing changed." Atlanta until his staff had called to clear the trip This time things must change, and Republicans, with John Grenier of Alabama. Mr. Grenier, the in particular, must take long overdue action to set architect of Goldwater's disasterous Southern Strat~ their house in order. Since our Election '64 report, egy, happened to be at a local memorial service for the Ripon Society has issued a series of recommenda­ Dr. King when the call came through, so Mr. Nixon tions on race-related issues that Republican leaders felt perfectly free to mourn publicly in Atlanta.