4 University Daily Kansan Kansas Staff Photo by ED LALLO Presidential Shrouding One of the more disconcerting aspects of President Nixon's recently televised negotiation catharsis was the revelation that US missiles have been sent to Paris to confer with the North Vietnamese—all in total secrecy Kissinger seems to have a flair for such dramatics. The president used Kissinger, again secretly, to travel to Peking July 8. The Nixon Administration's penchant for secrecy is difficult to reconcile with the image of an honest, smiling Uncle Sam. Many Americans found it hard to believe that the kindly old man would actually try to deceieve them. People often tell the truth, but not altogether. It is safe to assume that just as many citizens flatly refuse to believe their government would lie to them—and those who expose those lies as a traitor. Now we have further proof that things in Washington are not always as they seem. It seems we exist under a government by illusion. Black and white do not mean black and white any more. Pollsters rate Nixon highly in every area except in trustworthiness. The American people do not seem to be sure whether they would, in fact, buy a used car from him. I wonder whether Henry Kissinger would. —Thomas E. Slaughter Teddy's Non-Candidacy AP Backgrounder By JOHN BECKLER BY JOHN BECKLEM WASHINGTON (AP)—Cutting across the many battlefields on the U.S. West Coast, the Democratic presidential nomination are engaged is the long shadow of Edward M. Kennedy. Despite the Massachusetts senator's repeated insistence that he is not a candidate and the eagerness of the active members to believe he remains a real, if enigmatic, factor in the unfolding campaign. What neither Kennedy nor the hard-working candidates can easily ignore is the popularity which keeps him at the top of presidential preference in the polls. Given the shattering impact of *Poundpounddack*, the hustler-in-trachelism of Senate Democrat whip, and his frequent declarations of noncandidacy, the polls attest to the ironic, but insignificant, mystique that cannot be ignored. It is not being ignored by Democrat Obama, who last week, in a speech only hours after Kennedy removed his name from the campaign, alleged that "tens of thousands The Republican response was, in effect, a measure of pressure partake by Kennedy's non-candiability serious. Three of the GOP's top *grip* innocent men and women and children will die in Indochina in 1972 for the simple reason that President Nixon will not allow the govemment to falter until he is able to home for another term of office." Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania said Kennedy wiped the President an air of confidence in Vietnam policy was dictated by domestic politics. The Democrats chaired Senate. Robert J. Dole of Kansas, said Kennedy's remarks were made in viscacy of mindlessness. As for a Kennedy remark that the Nixon administration did not trust the American people. House Republicans said that of all the issues Kennedy could have raised, "the question was, 'What can I most likely serve his interests?' The consensus among active candidates was voiced by aides to the New York office of John Kerry, who said that if Kennedy came in late and tried to take over the convention, he would party and assure Nixon's re-election. candidate is the possibility of the national convention turning to a state convention in Miami Beach with enough delegates to insure an early开幕. Figuring strongly in the calculations of every Democratic James J. Kilpatrick Kennedy has said he will attend the July convention, but will not be a delegate, and will not accept a convention draft. "If it's there, he won't walk away from it," said Rep. Edward P. Boland, (D-Mass.), a longtime Kennedy supporter who held that belief, has not committed himself to another candidate. But that would be a harder choice than his decision to stay out of the primaries. in the event of a deadlock, Kennedy 'is the man they'll go to' when he is running out of work is who is working for Sen. Edmund Hammons in another way to read the polls. McGovern Vs. Nixon On Defense WASHINGTON—Conservatives are sorely torn these days on the question of supporting Richard Nixon for reelection. We seem to be divided between the disenchanted on the one hand and the absolutely disenchanted on the other. There is not much enthusiasm in us. The principal disagreement between the disenchanted and the absolutely disenchanted has to do with political tactics. Those in the former group would have been the Democratic in the White House would be worse. Those in the latter group content that nothing could be worse; they would let the presidency go by in November, and spend four years in Congress to make conservative for nomination in 1976. Both factions tend to agree generally on a bill of particular grievances. The Senate has agreed on appointments to the Supreme Court and for his unwinding of the war in Vietnam. He is roundly criticized for his handling of the wage controls, and deficit finance Now, I happen to believe that my absolutely dischanted brothers are wrong. If I were making a case in court, I would call up as Exhibit A the defense budget unveiled by George McGovern on January 19, and as Exhibit B the defense budget unveiled by the President on January 24. Senator McGovern, to be sure, is not likely to win the Democratic nomination. Yet his attitude toward national security is not significantly different from the attitude of, say, Muskie, Kennedy, Humphrey and Lindsay. Doubless the other candidates would disagree on some of their recommendations, but their underlying position is generally the same: They want to cut defense spending, and they want to cut it hard. McGovern's proposed defense budget, spelled out in a 25,000-word position paper, rests on the assumption that both the Soviet Union and Communist China will remain hostile to the USSR, but that neither poses serious threat of increasing our spending on arms, in the McGovern view, would be doubly in error: It would waste public funds better spent on human needs, and it would heighten international tensions. McGovern prepares a Navy of 414 ships, roughly half the present fleet. He would halt the conversion of Polaris submarines to the larger Poseidon missiles. He would get along with six new ships, including a construction of three new submarines a year for the next five years; otherwise further construction is required." From these premises, McGovern argues for dramatic cutbacks all along the line. For starters, he would bring home all troops from Southeast Asia and from Korea. He would bring home more than half of those now assigned to NATO in Europe. He would reduce the number of men on active duty from 2.5 million to less than half the process, he would cut the army to ten divisions and Marines to only two. interceptor force by more than half, discontinue the upgrading of Minuteman missiles, halt the deployment of the Safeguard system, reconfigure the 511 bomber, suspend further work for the F-15 fighter—and so on, and on. In other areas, the Democratic candidate would halt the construction of further atomic weapons, abandon the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile, reduce the army's surface-to-air missile capability, cut the Air Force's Question for my absolutely dischented colleagues: Would you truly want to risk a McGovern attitude in the White House for the next four years? Granted that Nikon's administration has been, in some respects, a disappointment. Would you truly risk disaster in its place? By contrast, Nixon recommends a moderate strengthening of U.S. defenses. He seeks authorization for an increase in the budget to $48.8 billion. Mack would make three times the investment in research that McGovinson would make. On virtually every point, the difference between the two countries is strikingly big. Democrat McGovinson is strikingly big. (C) 1972 The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc. Garry Wills The Great White Ethnic Hoax NEW YORK-People are still trying to work the Great White Ethnic Hoax in our politics. The President has afraid that the Kevin Phillips strategy will let Republicans steal the Middle American vote because of a new Populism among Democrats, who are increasingly embarrassed to be called liberals. Democrats want their own Kevin Phillips, but with a difference Philips was honest when he voted. It is a machinery fueled with hatred and envy. That is largely true of political elections, where the machines effectively reminded people. Whatever political mastery Nixon has comes from his firm grasp on the Chotier rule that makes it easier for As Phillips points out, the (Jewish) Liberal Party of New York Conservative Party now mainly exist to vote against each other. way of doing just that The Democrat's problem is that they have not supplied their old students a way of fighting against black professors, and WASP Eastern Establishment types. The ethnic origin of students with a covert and respectable It poses, of course, as a positive way of bringing out "ethnic values", of stressing pride and a variety of contributions. But how we understand publicists not have usually shown pride, but self-pity. We get the spectacle of well-situated publicists moaning in public about the way they have led them against. Selfpity edges toward that key political emotion, envy. Far from promoting variety, an ethnic politics flattens people out in racial stereotypes. These are used to shift debate from the political right to the all racial quirks. This can be done in two ways—saying opposition to, e.g., integration is just ethical琳熏ism; or that a serious opposition to national policies is ethical琳熏ism; just as ethnic琳熏ism is not one simultaneously excuses covert racism and dismisses overt dissent —very neat, eh? (a diminishing) 'ethnic' influence on character in America. But when we have dismissed outright racism as the source of this—i.e., because we are genetically inferior. WASPS (or Irishmen or Jews) are genetically superior—what we get is one cultural influence that others, with unpredictable results in each individual. One can see, retrospectively, the Irish trouts of Nixon (Father John F. Kennedy) times in his son. But these traits have been colored by, and less important, than many other fish. The Quaker, a Californian, heavily dosed on Horatio Algernon at his age, has remained a key point in his development, was the son of a dominant mother, had his first success at school. All these cultural facts have some influence, no doubt—as does public school upbringing (or family) or school (or stable family, second-child status. But people do not propose a politics of college debates, or of twins, or second children, or offspring of divorced families, or of parents with ill treatment, positive contributions to our cultural variety—but that is not what is really at issue. Ethnicity qualifies as a political program because it offers the chance to engage with different cultures envy, and the hostility that takes men into voting booths. It is an attempt at a hygienic Kevin Phillip strategy; one more step in the game, thegrass less because less honest, less free of cant and hypocrisy and self-righteousness. 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