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What Is Dick Nixon - Liberal or Conservative?
Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon
Thursday, April 7. 1960
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By Ray Miller
Who is Richard Nixon the man and what is Richard Nixon the politician?
Here is a question that has stumped the nation's best political analysts and commentators; a question which even has Nixon's own party members guessing.
NIXON THE MAN is certainly a different person from the one he attempts to represent on the political front. The Wall Street Journal, that citadel of conservatism, speaks of Nixon as being an intellectual who is endowed with that breed's "characteristic" of being an introvert.
Here we find an interesting parallel to Adlai Stevenson, who was damned in the last election as being an "egghead."
"He is rather introverted, self-contained and plainly studied in his efforts to make friends with people," the Journal comments.
WHETHER OR NOT this intellectual tag is responsible for some of the personal dislike Mr. Nixon has incurred is debatable.
Still, in view of his "just plain folks" approach to the public, it would seem that he is certainly aware of some gulf between him and his public.
Mr. Nixon's actions on the political front are likewise clothed in the wraps of ambiguity. The question of where to place him in the political spectrum is a source of consternation within his own party.
Twenty-five years ago the Whittier College yearbook labeled him as being "always progressive and with a liberal attitude." Certainly, in the present GOP yearbook he is no darling of the Old Guard.
THE NIXON OF TODAY is far too liberal in regards to foreign aid, international involvement and welfare legislation, the Journal reports.
This is a big change from his days in the Senate. The Congressional Quarterly shows Mr. Nixon consistently voting against public health assistance to states, grant and scholarship
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programs to colleges, and mutual defense treaty acts. It must be remembered, however, that he was voting in a Democrat-controlled Congress and with a majority of his fellow Republicans—in other words, he was voting the party way.
For years a secret shame destroyed my peace—
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or Mac-
Neice.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Walter Lippmann points out that a Nixon administration could not hope to achieve the aura of invulnerability with which President Eisenhower has surrounded himself. Now the question seems to be "could Nixon effect party solidarity within the Republican ranks." Republicans pretty well admit that chances for a bi-partisan Nixon administration are pretty slim. Mr. Nixon will have to enter the arena and do bloody battle—unlike Mr. Eisenhower.
THIS WOULD SEEM to make Mr. Nixon out to be a conservative at this stage of his career. Yet now we find Republican liberals maintaining he is a conservative, and conservatives maintaining he is a liberal.
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IF THIS HAPPENS, could Nixon identify himself with enough members of his party to effect solidarity?
Justin Richardson.
His unclear policies and two faces (one for the public and one for his friends) have the GOP guessing. Nixon is an
orphan who needs to be claimed by his own party. The trouble is, until his ancestry has been proved he will be claimed with reservations.
Poor Richard's Almanac is making no predictions for the forthcoming Republican convention.
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Sunday, April 10
6 p.m.
Student Union Ballroom
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Student Union Room 305
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Speaking of looking at Life, let me suggest that no matter how long you stare at this week's cover, the chances that somebody will pull the plug are pretty slim. Best of luck, anyway. Silvana Mangano is the main attraction on the cover. Although no justification really is necessary, there is a reason. On page 75 you'll find four more enticing young women, all sporting the same cropped coiffure. It's not a fad—yet. But far be it from me to say it won't catch on. For the five presently involved it's a piece of the price of being starred in the new film, "Five Branded Women."
While we're on the subject of women, fashions and sex in general, let me recommend that all of you who are concerned with the latest in boudoir attire check into the article "Bikinis Move to Bedrooms." For whose benefit these are worm I have no idea, but I'm for it. Who knows? GSP may be full of them right now.
Remember Life's three pictures of fleeing natives in South Africa last week? They're back this week—in caskets. The implications of this tragic massacre and a brief but penetrating analysis of the build-up to South Africa's present precarious situation are found in the illustrated article beginning on page 32. Those who heard Mr. Edwin S. Munger of the American Universities Field Staff speak last week might be interested in comparing his American stereotype of the "white settler as a man who goes out and whips a few Africans every day before breakfast" with Life Foreign News Editor, Gene Farmer's concept of the picture.
With Ex-President Harry S. Truman's inauguration of KU's first Model UN fresh in our minds, it is somewhat comforting to see a more challenging charge given to the real UN by the Editors of Life. Those of you who participated in the recent sessions will be heartened, I think, by the views expressed in "The Bridge to Sharpeville."
Elementary Education Majors, ho! Part IV of the series, "Folklore of America" presents the "Legendary Feats of the Pioneers." Not having kept close tabs on the kiddy set, I may have missed the fact that Pioneer I, II, III, etc. have replaced Pioneer Daniel Boone. But if there are remnants remaining of the Davy
Crockett craze, this is for you. The stories are brief and explanatory, but what they lack in imagination is more than made up in James Lewicki's illustrations. Ranging from beautiful and Disney-like to grotesque, there is fodder here for a whole yearfull of traumatic dreams and nightmares. In the words of one A. Huxley, a real "visionary experience."
If rocket has replaced Crockett as the password among the grade school set, you need not feel shunned. Part III of the series on Astronaut training (page 58) offers another first-person account of the weird world of simulated outer space. More graphic even than the color pictures of the MASTIF is Virgil Grissom's vivid description. A must for armchair space bugs who like to get their experiences vicariously.
Ignoring the fact that the format resembles a hangover from the "Men of America" series of ads, our own Men of Marvin should enjoy the picture series on New York's Niagara Power Project. An impressive bit of engineering and a whale of a lot of rock-hauling, it all adds up to the Western world's largest hydroelectric development.
Ever heard of Rod Lauren? RCA Victor has $75,000 that says if you haven't, you soon will. Now that Payola is a taboo word and everybody is aboveboard you can learn in six quick pictures and a little painless copy how a star is "born." Page 135 holds the secret key to the proper way to build an image the teenies will buy and cry for.
In the wake of the Caryl Chessman story, the "Ballad of Caryl Chessman" and much ado over justice and injustice, comes a new figure. "Prodigious Intellect in Solitary" is a fascinating story based on an intriguing lack of facts concerning the treatment of Robert Stroud. Made prominent recently as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" in a book by that title written by Tom Gaddis, Stroud is a two-time killer whose latest plea for freedom was made in a Kansas court. Threaded throughout the story, and explanatory of the lack of facts in the case, is the attitude of James V. Bennett, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. To say the least, it throws an interesting sidelight on penal reform in the United States.
No strippers winning court battles this week, so back to page 105.