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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 26, 1964
Security Scandal
President Johnson's former aide for 25 years, Walter Jenkins, is in the news—in what appears to be a newsmen's attempt to initiate a Profumotype scandal (on the other side of the fence) into the U.S. Presidential elections.
BUT SO FAR Sen. Barry Goldwater has been decent about the whole mess, and President Johnson and his first lady have not cast-off the man like a garment that suddenly became soiled.
Newsmen did the digging that made the headlines concerning Jenkins. For once, unless a cunningly contrived political coup has been engineered, politicians had nothing to do with it.
BUT ALTHOUGH Goldwater has said he will say nothing about the incident "unless it affects national security," observers could lay bets-after giving odds-that every Republican from Goldwater on down will do with the incident what he can.
A kind of 11th hour-59 minute scandal.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON, in the interests of both politics and the nation, has ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to make a complete "public" study of the charge of "indecident gestures" that has been made against Jenkins.
But at the same time he has declared that Jenkins has served his country well and that he accepted his resignation only to serve the "best interests" of the nation.
LADY BIRD JOHNSON said her heart was "aching" with concern over Jenkin's health because, she said, he had worked himself into exhaustion giving "service to his country."
It somehow seems that maybe professional politicians could have a sense of gratitude after all.
But back to the hard facts of life.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON and the Democratic party are in an unenviable defensive position—committed to make public all the facts concerning Jenkins' involvement in the charges that have been filed against him. The worst possible thing that could come out of the Jenkins' scandal now would be for the nation's voters to believe that the administration was holding back facts that it had a right to know.
WALTER JENKINS, his wife and six children are now in for a prodigious and minute examination of their personal lives.
But the issue at stake is one of national security.
The first thing an enemy does is find a weakness in its opponent and then exploit that weakness in any way it can.
BLACKMAIL HAS BEEN USED successfully countless times in wrangling top-secret information from top-level sources.
And, of course, the public laps up the scandalous details from the resulting publicity.
Unfortunately for both political parties, this particular scandal broke at a most inopportune time—because its influence on the nation may warp the judgment that will guide the nation's future.
THIS MAY BE ONE of those times—not when the end justifies the means, but when the means justifies the end.
Either way, it would end up as a weak apology for a sloppy decision.
JUST HOW does a person keep from casting an "unclean" vote.
Tom Hough
Solid South Splits in 1964
The following article is one of a series dealing with states and the nation in which the articles can be run along with the articles on campaign issues until the election. )
THE traditionally Democratic South may reflect some changes in this year's presidential election.
For the first time in the history of the seven "solid South" states, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana are expected to end up in the Republican column in the presidential race. Virginia and South Carolina are leaning heavily toward the GOP.
Only in Tennessee and Georgia does President Lyndon Johnson hold the apparent lead.
THERE ARE SEVERAL possible reasons why the South is willing to change political sides after all these years — but only one that counts. That, of course, is the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. President Johnson, a southerner, literally pushed the bill through Congress. The Republican candidate, Sen. Barry Goldwater, voted against the bill and consequently is championed as the South's hero.
LONG-TIME observers say that in the opinion of the average southerner, the President turned his back on them when
they needed him the most. In Alabama, the citadel of the confederacy, a ch-segregationist Gov. George Wallace is leading his state into the GOP column. In Mississippi, former Gov. Ross Barnett and Gov. Paul Johnson also favor Goldwater.
LIBERAL SEN. Albert Gore of Tennessee has a fairly well known Republican opposing him in his run for re-election. He is Dan Kuykendall, regional director-manager of the Proctor and Gamble Distributing Co. in Memphis. Gore, who voted for the civil rights bill in the 88th Congress, is still expected to win re-election because of his support of TVA, and because of President Johnson's popularity in the state. Tennessee citizens associate Kuykendall with Goldwater, and disapprove of the Arizona senator's proposal to sell the TVA.
Seventy-two-year-old Sen. Herbert Walters of Tennessee, who succeeded Sen. Estes Kefauever, is not seeking re-election. Rep. Ross Bass, also a libto defeat his Republican opponent, State Rep. Howard Baker Jr., a Knoxville attorney.
IN THE HOUSE OF Representatives, the Democrats are
OTHERS LEANING TO THE Democrats include two in Georgia, one in South Carolina, one in Virginia and all eight in Alabama. The GOP hopes to capture one of the Alabama seats, but chances of success are doubtful.
Here's how it looks in House races three weeks before the election. All seats in Louisiana and Mississippi are safely in the Democratic column. Eight seats in Georgia, five in South Carolina, five in Tennessee and six in Virginia are safely Democratic.
The People Say...
expected to win by large majorities. Most incumbent members of the House probably will win easily.
The Republicans apparently have one safe seat in Tennessee and one in Virginia. Another is leaning toward the GOP, and it is also in Virginia. Two House districts in Tennessee and one in Virginia are rated a toss-up.
Editor:
I happened to notice that the October 16 issue of the "Kansan" carried an advertisement from an organization called American Overseas Information Service, inviting students to obtain information about jobs in Europe. I know that each year there are a number of students interested in opportunities to work in Europe, especially during the summer, and it is this group to whom the ad would appear to be addressed.
IN THE FINAL analysis Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana probably will go Republican for the presidency, but not by big majorities. South Carolina and Virginia, with GOP leanings, are rated a toss-up, while the Democrats will carry Tennessee by a big majority and also take Georgia, but with fewer votes.
The Council on Student Travel, the largest and best established
organization of institutions operating programs of study and travel abroad, especially for students has apprised its members (of which the University of Kansas is one) that it cannot recommend American Overseas Information Service as a suitable agency to carry out the functions it advertises. I believe that it is both appropriate and desirable that this warning by a highly reputable organization be communicated to your readers.
Francis H. Heller
Associate Dean and
Member of Board of Directors
of Council on Student Travel
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Illinois GOP Hopes Rest With Percy
IN ILLINOIS, the gubernatorial race is overshadowing the presidential race, and a young Republican is making a strong bid for the governorship. If he can capture that office in November, he may be tempted to try for something bigger in a few years.
But it isn't going to be easy. He's going to have to work pretty hard . . . and he needs a little luck. But then Charles (Chuck) Percy, 45, does work hard . . . and so far his lucky start hasn't failed him.
AS REPUBLICAN NOMINEE for governor, Percy is fighting pretty stiff odds — incumbent Democratic Gov. Otto Kerner and Chicago's Mayor Richard Daly, who happens to be in control of one of the most powerful Democratic machines in the country.
Percy, however, is used to stiff odds. The cards were stacked against him in the 30's, when the Percy family was on relief. Chuck, a young boy of 10, helped out in those dark days by selling homemade cookies and getting up at 3:30 a.m. to deliver newspapers.
BUT AMBITIOUS Percy just changed the deck and stacked the cards in his favor. His Christian Science Sunday school teacher and also the president of a small movie-camera company, Bell and Howell, took a liking to Percy, gave him a summer job and with that start Percy moved quickly from rags to riches.
SO, IN JULY OF last year, Percy announced he was running for governor. His first opponent in the primary was Charles Carpentier, Illinois secretary of state. But Carpentier suffered a fatal heart attack in April and Percy went on to win the primary over State Treasurer William Scott, who jumped into the race at the last moment.
INCUMBENT Gov. Otto Kerner now his hands full with Percy, who is waging a tough campaign. And if Percy doesn't win, it won't be for lack of organization. His streamlined organization has eight different departmental heads. One department prepares speech drafts, one organizes "Businessmen for Percy" and "Doctors for Percy" and one department is hopefully called "The Office of Take-Over."
But backing Gov. Kerner is the powerful Democratic machine of Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley. Kerner himself is well-liked, and at 56 he can still match Percy's handsome appearance. He has a good record on civil rights, a big issue in Chicago; and mental health. But his effort to reform Illinois' tax structure has been unsuccessful. And Republicans have attacked him for vetoing a state aid to schools bill.
Another theme which Percy and his followers will hammer on right up November is election fraud. The cry went up following the 1960 election, when the late President Kennedy took Illinois' 27 electoral votes from Richard Nixon by a scant 8.858 votes out of more than 4.7 million votes cast.
REPUBLICANS went to court with charges of voting irregularities in Democratically controlled Cook County involving 677 election judges and 133 precincts. Democratic Judge John Marshall threw the case out of court on grounds of faulty evidence, and called it the "cleanest election Chicago ever had."
Republicans have been screaming ever since. For the November election, Percy's followers have organized an antivote fraud drive called "Operation Eagle Eye"; Percy himself would like to use marine reservoirs in Cook County to assure an honest election; and the Republican National Committee, citing Illinois as an example, has set up a nationwide poll-watching operation to prevent what the GOP calls "fraudulent election practices in the 1960 Presidential elections."
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BUT CONCEDING an honest election, the Republicans still are the underdogs. Percy is leading by big margins in the rural farm areas, but when the going gets rough, Mayor Daley can be counted on to get out the votes in Cook County, which has a little more than 50 per cent of Illinois' total population.
Percy's cause received a boost recently when Kerner's campaign manager and state director of revenue, Theodore J. Isaacs, was charged with conflict of interest. It was revealed that he had been attorney for a large envelope company which acquired more than $1 million worth of state business during Kerner's administration.
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Reports show the experts differing as to which of the presidential candidates will carry Illinois. With a state that has 12 Democratic and 12 Republican congressmen, and one Republican senator and one Democratic senator, the election easily could go either way. There appears to be some "white backlash" working for Goldwater, but at the same time the so-called "frontlash" seems to be working for Johnson in the suburbs.
PERCY HAS NOT ALIGNED himself too closely with Barry Goldwater, who admits that he needs Illinois' 26 electoral votes to win. Percy even made the statement that if it had been his decision, he would have voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But it still will be difficult for Republicans to get much of Chicago's heavy Negro vote, and Negro districts are reported out-registering voters in other districts by a rate of three to one.
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ON THE STATE LEVEL the Illinois election is further complicated. All candidates for the 177-member Illinois lower house are running at large since the legislature's reapportionment bill was vetoed by Gov. Kerner. Politicians are hoping that it will be to their advantage if people decide to simplify matters by voting a straight party ticket.
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BOTH gubernatorial candidates are campaigning hard and predicting victories. The pollsters are giving Johnson a slight edge over Goldwater. And Goldwater's only hope is that Percy will carry Illinois for him. It could be another close election for Illinois.
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