Thursday, June 28, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Watergate Tests Judgment, Integrity of Conservatives
By GEORGE WILL
The Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON—Recently I was invited to a university to participate in a panel discussion on Watergate. The man impersonated the president, and he would be "liberal" and that the university wanted me to represent the "conservative position". What, I wondered, is the "conservative" position?
This small episode suggests an enormous
zard confronting conservatives today—a
burden that will affect everyone.
*Alison*
Reflective conservatives know that they must act with special severity against miscreants whose political activities represent a perversion of conservatism in the name of—but contrary to—the essential conservative values. Reflective liberals also know their party's role and their special moments in recent history librarians and conservatives have failed to do this, thereby diminishing their credibility.
IN THE 1930'S many liberals flunked the test posed by Communism, at home and abroad. Seduced by the Stalinists' ability to play upon liberal passions for equality and reform, liberals were "understanding" about the "excesses" of communist onion on liberty in the 1930's when they were "understanding" about civil disorder when they should be indignant.
Like Stalinists in the 1930's, the "kids" attacking the universities in the name of communism were black neighborhoods to punish "white racism" a winner of a flaccid approval from many liberals. Bermudan by rhetoric and class distinctions, liberals tolerated the intolerable.
Conservatives have had a similar failure. In the late 1940's and early 1950's many conservatives failed the test of Joe McCarthy. Because they quite properly understand the concept of detest it, conservatives were "understanding" about McCarthy's cynical, frivolous and cruel rampages. Conservatives could have quarantined McCarthy's lumen-conservation; he was the best way to preserve his conservatives tolerated the intolerable. That is one reason anti-Communism, which should be a categorical imperative for every friend
KU Info Center Compiles Guide To Local Area
The staff of the University of Kansas Information Center is compiling a guide to human resources in the Lawrence area, director Katherine Hoggard said Friday.
Called the "People's Yellow Pages," the guide will be published in booklet form and will be distributed free to students this fall at enrollment.
"We want to make people aware of opportunities in Lawrence and kinds of help offered."
"Often students are at a disadvantage being somewhat isolated from the community. We want to make student awareness of resources available to life-time residents."
The booklet will include sources for counseling in mental health, family planning, birth control and adoption procedures. It will also include sections on continuing education and vocational training opportunities.
The booklet will be organized by subject. For example, under educational opportunities in Lawrence, references in continuing education courses; free schools; university courses; arts and crafts; Lawrence High School adult education courses; Lawrence Parks and Recreation courses; or by the KU Museum of Natural History.
Another section of the booklet will deal with foods.
In this section, comparative prices of stores will be presented. Listings of health stores, salvage stores, orchards and canned foods are unusual ingredients will also be available.
Another section in the booklet will provide information about restaurants in town. Hours, delivery services and check cashing information will be listed.
Preparing the "People's Yellow Pages" has been a cooperative project. The Information Center is compiling data and money for printing will come from the Publicity Department of the Communication Committee of the Student Senate has directed the project.
Hoggard said that she expected research for the booklet to be completed by July 2. She urged anyone who knew of information about her work to contact information Center at 843-306 this week.
SCoRMEBE Gets
$2,000 Mobil Grant
A grant of $2000 was given to Tuesday to the Student Council for Recruiting, Motivating, and Educating Black Engineers (SCoRMEE), by the Mobil Oil Company. Accepting the grant was Charles Lockhart, SCotMEE president.
Henry Pack, corporate recruiter for Mobil who presented the check, said this was the third year that Mobil had given SCoTMEBE money.
The purpose of SCoRMBE is to recruit minority students into engineering. Industry provides 90 per cent of the program's funding.
of freedom, instead today is widely considered fairly disreputable.
NOW THE MISDEEDS of the Nixon administration are similarly testing conservative judgment and integrity. In a statement on Friday, "the responsibility." They rescued him from political oblivion; they gave him the benefit of what seem to have been quite warranted doubts; they superintended his nomination; they prevented the administration strike at what conservatives cherish most: the institutions and procedures that guarantee limited government and prevent ordered liberty from being taken to the licious abuse of uncleared power.
If conservatives are going to remain useful as keepers of the public conscience about such things, they must now do several thins.
First, they must eschew the "so's your own firm" argument, the doctrine that "everybody does" the sort of things the law requires in order to justify its especially must reject the morally-obuse comparison between Watergate and Teapot Dome or Credit Mobilier. Conservatives should be well equipped and eager to argue that the laws are more odious than crimes against the structure of liberty and justice—crimes such as perjury, destroying evidence, attempting to suborn individuals with dangerous vulnerable institutions such as the FBI and CIA, saboting the process of democratic
SECOND, CONSERVATIVES must strenuously reject any institution that legitimate national security concerns and that is not under ministerial supervision. Just as McCarthy helped
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make the noble cause of anti-Communism seem contemptible, the Nixon administration is well on its way to making concern about national security seem ludicrous. (It has already done severe damage.) The president is executive privilege.) Conservatives rightly object to liberal complacency about the profusion of Soviet SS-9 missiles. Conservatives should also object to the notion that in some arcane way the contents of Nixon'sberg's psychiatric file are, like SS-9 missiles, important to national security.
Third, conservatives should lead a chorus of ridicule against the "Haldeman equation" in its many mutations. It is pernicious twaddle to equate loyalty to the Nixon administration with loyalty to the federal government, to government in general, to the Republican Party or to the nation. Already the Nixon administration's
misdemeed have reinvigorated the zany and reinforced all its worst misconceptions about the American "police state." Thanks to the Nixon administration conservatives especially have a sickening feeling of deja vu.
During the 1960's, conservatives labored at refuting preposterous doctrines about the emerging police state, the depredations of the FBI and the CIA, the manipulation of the masses by makefacts of great wealth, and the threat of the "Haldeman equation," is being used to give retroactive legitimacy to the leftist paranoia about "Amerika."
ALREADY THE anti-American Americans are shelving their mabotropic fads and hitting the lecture circuit to become politically trendy again. So conservatives must be about the tiresome mess of reminding people that the particular administration (like those of the Johnson administration) do not vindicate the modish disarrayment of the nation. In fact, the Nixon administration has inadvertently offered conservatives the bittersweet pleasure of demonstrating the truth of some conservative dogmas about the pertinent issues. Now the American Washington power in the white house
The final thing conservatives should do about Watergate is insist that most institutional aberrations have intellectual pedigrees, and the dizzy misadventures of
the Nikon administration are not exceptional to that rule. Nikon's White House was able to run amunck because some foolish ideas already had done their work. In fact, the culprits are the two central ideas of recent American liberalism.
These imperatives comprise an ambitions program of public pedagogy for conservatism. But if conservatives do not talk straight now, no one will listen when next they discourse on the subject of limited government in a lawful society.
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