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83rd Year, No. 138
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, May 1, 1973
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, May 1. 1973
Jamson Staff by PRIS BRANDSTEE
Watergate Prosecutor Charles Morgan Jr.
Predicts Nixon will resign or be impeached
Nixon Takes Responsibility For Watergate, Fires Aides
"However, new information then came to me which persuaded me that there was a real possibility some of these charges were true, and suggested further that there had been an effort to conceal these facts both from the public, from you and from me," Nixon said.
The President said he ordered an in-
In the shakeup, Nixon fired presidential counsel John Dean III and nominated Secretary of Defense Elliot Richardson to be attorney general.
Until late March, Nixon said, he had been assured by those around him that no one in the administration was involved in the bugging and wiretapping.
The President gave Richardson the job of overseeing the administration's Watergate investigation and of naming a special investigator, a special investigator if Richardson deems one necessary.
Thus Nixon disclaimed any advance knowledge of the June 18 brief-in at Nixon's address.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nixon told the nation Monday night he accepted final responsibility for the Watergate scandal that led him to accept the nominations of H. R. Halderman, John Ebrichrum and Atty. Gen. Richard Kleinstrand.
Attorney Accuses Nixon
"I accept it," he said in a nationally broadcast and televised address.
In a solemn address to the nation, hours after a major shakeup in his administration, the President said the blame belongs at the top.
President Nixon's days in the White House are numbered, Charles Morgan Jr. one of the prosecuting attorneys in the statewide winding case, said Monday night.
By BETSY RIORDAN
Kansan Staff Writer
Morgan spoke before a crowd of about 800 persons in the Kansas University ballroom immediately after the President's 8 o'clock television address.
Morgan referred several times to the television speech, saying at one point that he had seen a "finger."
"The President spoke of the number of days remaining in his administration," Morgan said. "My first thought is that his days are numbered. I make the flat prediction that he will be impeached or will resign. He is guilty."
"I SAW THE Checkers cheers and I didn't laugh. it came across," he said, "tonight, I laugh. it was obscene, with the bust of Lincoln family picture and the American flag."
Morgan called the speech a bribe to the
nation. He said that the presidential promise of more funds for American needs was made so that the nation would forget about Watergate.
"Just watch, there will be a new policy developed of impounding funds, to get more money for the poor."
Morgan made a stinging attack on the lawyers Nixon had chosen as personal acquaintances by being by saying that all lawyers he had been told sold their clients and each other the truth.
The Nixon administration has attacked the Bill of Rights one amendment at a time.
"NIXON JOINED a law firm with John Mitchell and they became close friends," Morgan said. "Mitchell was appointed Attorney General, he was Nixon's lawyer. According to what Nixon is saying now, Mitchell didn't tell him anything."
"We have another lawyer, John W. Dean Again, he didn't say anything.
"Gordon Liddy is a lawyer, and that lawyer didn't talk. Mr. Nixon is a lawyer. Like the man said, you can fool some people all the time."
Morgan said. He gave as an example the government's injunction against the Washington Post in the Pentagon Papers case.
Morgan said that the Watergate incident was not like the Teapot Dome scandal of the Harding administration. In this case, he knew one is any real gain money, just profit.
HE SPOKE of the years he had spent
lactating low-quality milk that he
peeled off and afraid of anything.
"I lived under George Wallace and survived," he said, "I organized the American Civil Liberties Union in the South and survived.
"People in the White House are just the other kids on the block. I'm not afraid of them."
Morgan said that the Supreme Court and the FBI were examples that "Nixon has done." The case, he added,
Every prosecution by the Justice
Department is stopped until the
department listed is cleared.
Lawrence Resident Has Curse of Verse
In speaking of the Nixon campaign of 1972, Morgan said that Nixon had not campaigned actively because he felt he did not need to.
"He was financed with money that was never reported," Morgan said. "Some of it was even left over from the 1968 campaign." He was not surprised by fund. It shows what inflation will do.
He called the Watergate incident an offense against the Constitution and the country, but ended his speech on a hopeful note.
wards," Lacey said. "I always write the last line, the clincher, first. If you write the first word, I'll write the last."
"You may not know it, but you are sitting in a room when the United States is at its most crucial time," he said. "The people are about to cleanse their government."
"A basic element of good story-telling is to leave the best until last. The punch line always comes last. So I write the last line first."
By PAMELA PROCHASKA Kansan Staff Writer
A talent for rhyming's a curse;
There could hardly be anything worse . . .
You wake up in the night
tensive new inquiry. The results would be reported directly to him.
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Nixon called for political reforms to ensure that future campaigns be as free of bias.
"America in its political campaigns must never again fall into the trap of letting the end, no matter how great that end is, justify the means." Nixon said.
'New information then came to me which persuaded me that there was a real possibility some of these charges were true, and suggested further that there had been an effort to conceal these facts both from the public, from you, and from me.'
He made no specific proposals, but he assigned Richardson the task of determining what specific changes in federal campaign laws were necessary.
Nixon said it now was essential to restore faith in the American system and to make certain that abuses were purged from politics.
He said the case represented a series of legal acts, bad judgments and overreactions.
He said he was determined that the truth be brought out, no matter who was involved.
He also said he must turn full efforts toward the larger duties his office, office of Mr. Werner, will accept.
"I wanted to be fair, but I knew that in the final analysis the integrity of this office and public faith in the integrity of this office is important for all personal considerations." Nixon said.
He praised the federal judge and the free press that discovered the intrigue behind the June 17 incident at Democratic party watering holes in the Watergate office building.
Twenty-one years ago, as vice presidential nominee, Nixon delivered his "Chevrolet speech" defending the $18,253 budget he proposed. His expenses as a U.S. senator from California
In a new time of political trauma, Nixon vowed that he would not place the blame on subordinates to whom he delegated responsibility for his 1972 campaign.
The resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman as top White House aides, Nixon said, did not imply their guilt. He had also been the finest public servants he had ever known.
Senate sources have accused Halderman and Ehrlichman of involvement in an alleged White House attempt to cover up the Watergate wrestrapting affair.
Nixon said the resignations should not be interpreted as evidence of wrongdoing by him.
Nixon said that pending Richardson's confirmation by the Senate to become attorney general, "I have asked him to involve himself immediately in the investigative processes surrounding the Watergate matter."
In announcing the resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman, Nixon said that the integrity of the White House had to take priority over all personal considerations.
The President said he had asked for the resignation of Dean, who reportedly had been accused of helping to plan the attack, raided on Democratic headquarters.
Then move quickly from bed into verse!
He said Kleindienst believed he could not continue as attorney general because it appeared close associates may be implicated in the Watergate inquiry.
As attorney general, Nixon said, Richardson would have full responsibility for coordinating all federal agencies in uncovering the whole truth and recommending changes in federal law to prevent future campaign abuses.
Lacey Lacey, 2711 Oxford Road, has the talent and the curse. His hobby is writing in the New York Times.
The announcement of the personnel shakeup followed a weekend of seclusion for the President in which he talked at Camp McCarthy, MD., with Haldenman and Ehrlichman.
Kleindienst is to remain at the Justice Department and Richardson at the Pentagon until the defense secretary is confirmed as attorney general.
Haldeman, 46, regarded as the most powerful man on the White House staff, said.
that it had become virtually impossible for him to carry on his regular responsibilities in the White House because of what he called allegations, innuendoes and a "flood of stories arising every day from all sorts of sources."
Ehrlichman, 48, has remained relatively untouched by recent Watergate disclosures that acted as FBI Director L. Palacio destroyed sensitive documents given him by Ehrlichman and Dean. Gray resigned in May, hours after that report was published.
Dean's dismissal was covered in one Nixon sentence:
"I have today requested and accepted the recognition of John W. Dean III from his position on the staff as White House counsel."
Richardson issued a statement saying he was accepting the new appointment because he believed he had an overriding duty to do so. He said he would have no further comment until the Senate confirmed him for the Justice Department job.
Kleinident is a close friend of former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, who has been struggling plans were discussed in his press conference he said he had not approved them.
WASHINGTON (AP) -After addressing the nation on Watergate, President Nixon stepped into the White House press room Monday night and told newsmen, "just continue to give me hell when you think I'm wrong."
Without advance notice, the President stepped behind a rostrum in the press briefing room and began talking into microphones that were not connected.
Looking grim, Nixon began by saying he and the press had had differences in the past but added: "Just continue to give me what I think is wrong. I hope I'm worthy of your trust."
With that, Nixon left the room.
Lacey said that he had been writing verses most of his adult life. He described what he
Nixon Humble Before Press
"Petry is a kind of elegant expression for me. I do. I'd call my verse it, said he recite, "Petry."
Lacey said that he used his limericks and verse to express his opinions on social and business issues, both local and national. He occasionally shared his limericks to newspapers as letters to the editor.
An example of Lacey's cartoons in wor-
pokes fun at a Kansas political issue
Rock Repetitious,Composer Says
Lacey said he always carried a pocket e-mailing dictionary with him because it was easier to find the information.
Kansan Staff Writer
"I send my limericks in as letters to the bearer because to me they are really painful."
By LARRY FISH
Rock music differs from serious music ... its amount of commercialization and in its tendency to be repetitious, said con-
tenderator John Aaron Carcoll, an interview Monday.
The key to writing lingeries and the kind of verse I write is to write it back
"The trouble with popular music is that there is the commercial interest involved, and it creates a distraction."
"Rock music is serious," Coplan said. "It is certainly meaningful, and when it is played, it's an all form of popular music, once it gets 'seat' getting conventionalized. It doesn't have the excitement of the original urge that produced it. To keep it fresh is the
Copland, guest composer at the University of Kansas Annual Symposium of Contemporary Music, said that he did not understand the Beatles' music. Although he admires the Beatles for being very inventive, he said, his primary interest in rock music had been through a car crash.
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Copland said that there were basic dif-
Jobs Available in Certain Fields
Rex Heater, Florissant, Mo., senior, will graduate from KU this spring with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. Heater interviewed with nine companies. From these he had three job offers, one of which he accepted.
By PAT BREITENSTEIN
Kansan Staff Writer
This multitude of opportunities for one student stands in sharp contrast to the idea prevalent among college students that there will be no opportunities available when they graduate. It is said that his situation was in no way unjustified among graduating chemical engineers.
Heater is one of some 4,000 KU seniors,
many of whom will end their academic
careers this spring. Although not all
graduating seniors will be as fortunate as he, there is reason to be optimistic about their future.
WHERE KU GRADUATES go and what they do was the subject of a Kansas survey of placement directors and concerned educators from schools and departments
across the University. The survey revealed that there are more opportunities for KU graduates this year than there have been in recent years.
Those administrators interviewed in the survey were optimistic. They said that all things were not as good this year as in 1988, they were much better than two years ago.
The information made available through the survey is limited because many schools and departments of the University keep no regular records of their graduates, and in some cases records that are kept are incomplete.
Engineering placement director Elmo Llandiquest said that engineering job opportunities were generally good. KU graduates should work for jobs with graduates of other schools.
This is in part due to the difficulty of keeping track of graduates after they leave the university.
LINDQUST ATTRIBUTED the opportunities available to KU graduates to the
improving economic conditions nationally and the high quality of education received
Heater echoed Lundquist's faith in the education received by KU engineers. He said that many prospective employers came to KU for engineers because they had had good luck with KU graduates in the past.
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ferences between rock musicians and serious composers and that their attitudes are similar.
THIRTY-EIGHT PER CENT of the graduates from School of Social Welfare are from outside of Kansas. This contributes to the emigration of social welfare graduates. He also said that there was more opportunity in this field in areas with larger cities.
Anse George, professor of social welfare, said that graduates from the school of social welfare can be graduated when they graduated from KU. Often, also said, social welfare graduates have very clear ideas about where they want to live, and more than particular job opportunities do
"If you keep writing piano sonatas and symphonies all the time, that can get kind of hard."
Copland said that he was currently trying to write a string quartet. He said it was challenging because some of the greatest music written was in that form, and the composer was limited to four instruments with which to work.
Copland has had considerable success as a composer. Some critics have called him the best composer active in North America. His best-known works are the ballets "Billy" and "Appalachian Spring," all set in locales quite different from his native Brooklyn.
"For one thing," he said, "there is not that much money involved in serious music. We're free of that kind of pressure, so the attitude toward writing music is somewhat connected with making a fast back. You're lucky to make a slow back in serious music."
Although he has traveled widely in the United States, he said that it was not necessary for him to travel to write his ballets.
"Travel helped, but it wouldn't have been
In addition to the ballets, Copland has written symphonies, concertos and an opera, "The Tender Land," which is now being performed at the University Theatre. He says he likes to vary his writing media to stimulate his imagination.
In addition to his writing, Coplain said, he enjoys conducting symphony orchestras.
an essential," Copland said. "Any American has a sense of what it must be like in the West. The point of ballet like that is not their authenticity so much as the creation of a general atmosphere that everyone recognizes as representative."
Kanan Photo by BARBARA KELLY
Guest Composer Aaron Copland
Says rock has commercial interests . . .