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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 15, 1968
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the stigma it bears today—and championed himself as the man who would save the nation from socialism.
While in the Senate he gained national attention for the role he played in exposing Alger Hiss as a communist spy and for pushing the case to conviction.
During the 1956 campaign, some of Nixon's enemies feared Eisenhower might not survive a second term in office—his heart attack, requiring a three-month convalescence, occurred only a year before. Not wishing to see Nixon succeed to the presidency, they waged a vitriolic anti-Nixon campaign.
The mails were flooded with postseeds bearing uncomplimentary cartoons of a jowly Nixon with a heavy 5 o'clock shadow, captioned with such phrases as, "Would you buy a used car from this man?"
Nixon's detractors still consider him a demagogue without the dignity to be president. However, with the voters and the press he is apparently succeeding in completely changing his public image.
"They don't think of him as the 'Tricky Dick' stereotype of the 1950s." New York Times reporter Robert Semple wrote.
Nixon's supporters believe he has more experience and is more knowledgeable on foreign relations than any other Republican.
Few vice presidents have been given the responsibilities delegated to Nixon by Eisenhower. He was the President's roving ambassador—a job which placed him several times in personal and diplomatic tight spots.
In Moscow, in the kitchen of a display of an American-style home built for a U.S. exhibition, Nixon engaged the then Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the famed "kitchen debates," defending America's foreign policy.
Sent on a good-will visit to South America by Eisenhower, Nixon found himself trapped by roiling mobs of angry, Communist-inspired mobs both in Lima, Peru, and Caracas, Venezuela.
At home, in addition to his duties as President of the Senate, Nixon presided over the National Security Council and the Cabinet in Eisenhower's absences.
Douglass Cater, political analyst and author, wrote in 1958, "With the ready consent of the President (Eisenhower), he is the first vice-president in history to become a full-time student in an in-training program for the presidency."
In his race for president in 1960, Nixon swept the Republican National Convention by storm, losing only 10 delegates out of 1,331. He then lost to Kennedy the closest presidential election since James Garfield defeated Winfield Hancock in 1880. Kennedy received only 100,-000 votes more than Nixon out of a record 68 million cast.
Noteworthy in the Nixon campaign that year was that Eisenhower, while verbally supporting Nixon, did not campaign actively for him until the closing weeks of the campaign. Some political analysts believe this cost Nixon the election.
Others seeking causes for Nixon's defeat pointed to the television debates Nixon had with Kennedy. More than anything that was said in the debates, what probably damaged Nixon most was his physical appearance.
Now Nixon, whose political bandwagon ground to an embarrassing halt in California in 1962, apparently has it rolling again—on bearings newly-oiled by his New Hampshire victory.
Although a campaign against Lyndon Johnson, the most likely Democratic nominee at this time, may prove no easier than the one Nixon waged against Kennedy, his rising popularity, combined with the growing dissatisfaction with the Johnson policies, affords him the best hope of winning he has had since leaving public office.
But to have the chance he must first win the Republican nomination.
Next; Robert F. Kennedy
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He said he didn't know of any pre-marital pregnancies among nudists and added that he's never seen a physical reaction among males at the camp, although visitors at first are usually pretty shy.
Karr said that although nudists are a fun-loving group, they actually are rather conservative. "We discourage things from getting out of hand."
"We're not anti-sexual, but believe that sex is a part of the human being. Nudists simply don't make a big deal about sex."
He said eroticism, or sexuality, is largely man-made. Nudism. Karr said, is something natural.
He said there's a time and place for clothing, but said wearing clothes is utterly stupid in 90 degree weather. "Then too, miniskirts are cute in July and August, but stupid in January."
Karr said nudists are opposed to the entire Victorian concepts of hiding and distorting the body with clothes.
He also commented on the 'ridiculousness' of bikimis.
"If people believe a bikini covers a lot, come to a nudist cemp and see what a person looks like who used to wear one. You'll see
that bikinis don't hide anything.
They only leave things to the imagination and everyone knows what the plumbing's like, anyway."
He said the first criteria for new members is that they adapt well into the family-type group. He also said he makes no distinction between races or religions. "I recognize only one race—the human race." $ ^{*} $
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Invited to the meeting were the heads of the national banks of Belgium, Germany, Italv, the Netherlands, Switzerland and England. Absent, of course, will be the French, who have refused to join in the international attempt to hold down the price of gold in the face of speculation by
buyers who were willing to gamble on American devaluation of the dollar.
The London Gold pool is a seven-nation operation which buys and sells gold through the Bank of England to other world gold markets in an effort to keep the price at the agreed price of $35 an ounce.
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