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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 20, 1968
Columbia's acting president sags "no repression"
New York (UPI)—Andrew W. Cordier, 'Columbia University's acting president, told a student rally Thursday there would be "no repression whatsoever" on the troubled Columbia campus.
Cordier made the remark at a rally of 300 students called by Moderate Students for a Restructured University to protest the denial of campus facilities to the more radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
SDS led the protest demonstrations last spring which resulted in hundreds of arrests, violent clashes with the police and the suspension of classes for two months. It also caused a disruption of fall registration Wednesday.
There was fear the SDS would try to continue the disruptions Thursday, but the rally was peaceful and registration for Columbia's 17,500 students proceeded without trouble.
Cordier's surprise appearance at the rally brought a flood of questions from students, including one about campus repression.
"Repression is not a word in my vocabulary," he said. "It never has been and it never will be."
During his brief remarks to the rally, Cordier said "What we want from this campus is, to be sure, the dynamic, forward-looking, progressive institution which engages in strenuous efforts to have a program which corresponds to the temper and needs of our time."
The remarks were greeted by shouts of "Talk about the issues. The issues."
Nixon promises waltz if elected
Springfield, Mo. (UPI)—Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon delighted a Missouri audience Thursday by evoking the image of the opposing party's elder statesman—former President Harry S. Truman.
Nixon told a Springfield fairgrounds rally: "I think you'll be interested to know that while I have differences with the very distinguished Missourian who was president of the United States, we have one thing in common. I play a piano too."
"And I make this pledge," Nixon continued, "that when we enter the White House, we're going to hear the Missouri Waltz played in the White House again."
Humphrey, Nixon talk about youth, dissenters
By United Press International
Hubert H. Humphrey, still beset by anti-war demonstrators, got a welcome public endorsement Thursday from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and two other leading Senate critics of administration war policies—George McGovern and Wayne Morse.
Richard M. Nixon, Humphrey's opponent for the presidency, meanwhile promised to bring dissenters back into the political mainstream if he is elected.
In his best day yet while campaigning, Humphrey was endorsed by Kennedy in Boston and by McGovern and Morse in McGovern's home state of South Dakota.
Morse said that between Humphrey and Nixon, there was "no question" whom he would choose. He promised to campaign strongly for Humphrey.
Humphrey and Kennedy campaigned together in Boston for the Democratic ticket and were greeted by what the vice president called the largest crowd he had had in any campaign. Estimates ranged from 5,000 to 20,000 persons at an outdoor rally at a busy Boston intersection, and thousands more lined the streets for a motorcade.
The crowd included hundreds of chanting antiwar demonstrators who tried to shout down Humphrey and Kennedy, both of whom denounced the hecklers in strong language.
Kennedy told the crowd, "I have no hesitation in urging support of the vice president for election as president." He said Humphrey had "been in the forefront of every vital domestic problem before the United States in the last 20 years."
But neither mentioned their differences over the Southeast Asian conflict.
Humphrey told the rally that Nixon was the same man whom John F. Kennedy defeated for the presidency in 1960. "We
know what he (Nixon) stood for then and we know what he stands for now," Humphrey said.
Nixon pledged to scrap government by census if elected and to give dissenters an opportunity to present their views on how the nation should be run.
"In a Nixon administration, America's citizens will not have to break the law to be heard," Nixon said in the text of a nationwide broadcast Thursday night. "They will not have to shout or resort to violence."
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But he also said that as president he would represent "the non-shouters and the non-demonstrators, rather than losing them in the wail and bellow of what too often passes today for public discourse."
George C. Wallace—The third-party candidate was in his home state as Alabama staged a "Stand up for George Wallace Day" to try to raise $1 million to finance his campaign. The activities in Montgomery included a $500-a-plate luncheon, a $25-a-plate dinner and a $10-a-present rally.
Spiro T. Agnew—Nixon's running mate said he thought the AFL-CIO was "dangerously close" to violating federal regulations limiting political activity by labor unions. Agnew said he
referred to a statement by AFLCIO President George Meany that union officials would be put to work full time in behalf of Humphrey's candidacy.
Interview—The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Humphrey said in an interview that as president he would do "whatneeds to be done to obtain a peace in Vietnam." The copyrighted story said Humphrey's remarks were "the strongest suggestion yet that he would not be tied to the course of President Lyndon B. Johnson in Vietnam,
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emphasizing steps that would allow troop reduction there by the United States."
Debate—The House Commerce Committee reversed itself on Wallace and voted to invite him to participate in any special television debates between Humphrey and Nixon.
Last week the committee voted to suspend the "equal time" provisions of the federal broadcasting code to permit debates only between Humphrey and Nixon without giving equal time on the same program for other presidential candidates.
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Nixon, GOP's top other nominees in State Fair poll
Hutchinson, Kan. (UPI)—Republicans continued sweeping the Wichita Eagle-Beacon's straw vote at the Kansas State Fair Thursday; Richard Nixon again in front and Hubert Humphrey third.
GOP presidential nominee Nixon collected 1,534 votes while third party candidate George Wallace led Democratic Vice President Humphrey by 980 to 609.
And for governor, Republican Rick Harman of Shawnee Mission was in front of incumbent Gov. Robert Docking, Democrat, by 1,748 to 1,240.
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