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University Daily Kansan Friday, April 24, 1964
RFK, Shriver, Humphrey & McNamara.
Which One?
Who will be the running mate of President Johnson on the Democratic ticket for the office of vice-president of the United States? This question has arisen today as it always does almost every four years when the President in the office decides to run for the second term.
Several names have been mentioned and are being considered as possibilities for the position of vice-president. Among them include Robert F. Kennedy, attorney general; Robert McNamara, secretary of defense; Abraham Ribicoff, senator from Connecticut; Hubert Humphrey, senator from Minnesota; Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, governor of California; George Wallace, governor of Alabama; J. W. Fulbright, senator from Arkansas and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; R. Sargent Shriver Jr., director of Peace Corps and of President Johnson's War on Poverty; and many others.
BUT LOOKING AT the qualifications of these men, only four persons are likely to be the choice for the second highest position in the nation. (The qualifications here are based on popularity, likability, experience, standing on issues such as Civil Rights, Medical Care, prayer in the public schools, taxation, foreign policy, and so forth.) Those four persons are Kennedy, McNamara, Humphrey and Shriver.
Born on Nov. 20, 1925, in Brookline, Mass., Robert F. Kennedy was educated at Milton Academy. He was graduated from Harvard in 1948 and then studied law at the University of Virginia. In 1951 he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar.
Before becoming attorney general, he served the government as an attorney with the criminal division of the Department of Justice and as a member of the Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations headed by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
KENNEDY RESIGNED from his government job to become the campaign manager for his brother, the late President John F. Kennedy, who later appointed him (Robert) as attorney general.
Bobby in the last four years has always tried to promote integration and equality. He has launched a campaign to decrease crime and juvenile delinquency. He was sent to Asia by President Johnson to investigate the conflict over the newly-born Malaysia.
A FIRM BELIEVER in civil rights, he stated his support of the Civil Rights Bill now before the Senate that each and every part of the bill is important and that no part should be omitted. He had always supported his brother's program and advised him whenever necessary.
Robert should help Johnson pull votes from the East because of the popularity of the Kennedy family.
ANOTHER POSSIBLE candidate is R. Sargent Shriver Jr., a brother-in-law of the late President Kennedy.
The 48-year-old Peace Corps director is a liberal Catholic and has a Midwestern background. He served as an executive of the Merchandise Mart in Chicago for 12 years until he quit to serve as Peace Corps director. In Chicago he was very active in civic affairs.
Shriver received close attention of political observers when President Johnson asked him to deliver personal and confidential messages to Pope Paul VI in the Holy Land, to Jordan's King Hussein, and to Israel's Premier Leo Eshkelon.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON and Shriver have worked together closely since 1960. They seem to
get along well. Recent appointment of Shriver as director of President Johnson's war on poverty gives an indication that the President is considering him as his running mate on the Democratic ticket.
The President has described Shriver as "one of the most brilliant, most able and most competent officials in the Government."
The man most often considered is Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, who developed liberal political philosophy through his experiences during the draught and depression years. A native of South Dakota, he graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1939 and became interested in politics.
HUMPHREY WAS elected mayor of Minneapolis at 34. In 1948 he was elected senator from Minnesota and was re-elected in 1954 and 1960.
The Senator received a great deal of attention in 1958 when he spent eight hours with Premier Nikita Khrushchev. He was a hopeful candidate for the presidency in the 1960 election, but he ran a weak second to John F. Kennedy in the presidential primaries.
In January 1961, he was elected the majority whip by his Democratic colleagues in the 87th Congress. In the Senate he has been a very persuasive man and has gained the respect and affection from his conservative colleagues. He is particularly known for his "Food for Peace" as well as for his farm welfare measures.
Among some of the bills which he has favored and endorsed are the Youth Employment Bill, the Civil Rights Bill, and Medical Care for the Aged. He is well known for his work on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, for his work which helped create the National Defense Education Act, and for his love of the Peace Corps.
He is considered to be the most noisy extrovert since Teddy Roosevelt.
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There are signs that President Johnson is encouraging the discussion of Robert McNamara as a possible candidate.
A native of San Francisco, McNamara attended the University of California and Harvard School of Business. He worked for a year with a California accounting firm after receiving his M.A. from Harvard and then returned to Harvard as assistant professor of business administration.
The People Say.
McNamara was a commissioned officer in the Air Force during World War II and reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel by the end of the war. He was the first person outside the Ford family to become the president of the Ford Motor Company, which he joined after the war.
IN 1960 HE WAS appointed secretary of defense by President Kennedy. He served also as a close assistant to President Kennedy, especially during the Cuban blockade and signing of the Nuclear Ban Treaty. He was sent to South Viet Nam to study the situation there and evaluate the American policy.
The 47-year-old Secretary of Defense is a registered Republican but considers himself independent. He has built himself quite a reputation in the past three years and is expected to gain support from his native state.
As the present situation stands it is very hard to tell who will be picked in the Democratic convention for the job of vice-president. And the question will not be resolved until that time.
- Vinay Kothari
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Knocks Parking
Editor:
When we came to Miller and Watkins, it was a privilege to live here. Now, it seems, we are to become burdened by this privilege. With the new parking regulations to be enacted in September, any
student wishing to see a Miller or Watkins girl before closing must hike up the hill from Ohio. Why must our dates be limited to nature-lovers and athletes?
Some of us ride home with friends whose cars bear the KU Student parking sticker. Starting next year, these friends will not be able to park closer than Ohio, and be
we will have to carry our luggage one block and down seventy steps which are often dahgerously icy. Perhaps $ \frac{1}{2} $ - hour parking stickers for Zone T can be given to students wishing to pick up a girl and her luggage. Or will Chancellor Wesco lend us the Wescoe family butler to carry our luggage for us?
Two Millerites
"I Wanted To Make Sure Everything Was Clear"
BOOK REVIEWS
THE FLINT AND THE FLAME: THE ARTISTRY OF CHARLES DICKENS, by Earle Davis (University of Missouri Press. $6.95).
Some of us remember Dickens with resentment as one of those "classic" authors whose work was crammed down our reluctant throats in high school. Others, belonging to an older generation, think of him affectionately as a good-natured sentimental entertainer—the "Christmas-card Dickens." Others still—earnest young men and women who have taken courses on the theory of the novel before having read much fiction—dismiss him scornfully as a bunglar who knew nothing about Art, never having worshipped at the shrine of Henry James.
All these folks will read Professor Davis' book with profit. The author (chairman of the English Department at our sister state university up the river) shows in great detail how Dickens developed from a rather sloppy storyteller steeped in 18th century literary traditions and the atmosphere of the early Victorian stage into a master craftsman who integrated his plots ever more skillfully as his career progressed.
As he grew artistically, Dickens' comments on his civilization became more penetrating and more savage, so that aesthetic skill and social vision can be seen working together in his mature books. What emerges in mid-career—particularly after "David Copperfield," Mr. Davis holds—is a first-rate novelist whose acquaintance no sophisticated reader need shun: a novelist, on the contrary, who should be respectfully considered along with such fashionable modern giants of fiction as Faulkner and Kafka.—George Worth, Chairman, Department of English
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BLEAK HOUSE, by Charles Dickens (Signet Classics, 75 cents).
More and more this novel is coming to be regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of Dickens' novels. It is giant in size and giant in scope, Dickens offering a strong denunciation of an archaic legal system at the same time that he provides a bitting picture of society.
A long lawsuit over an inheritance is the central point of the plot. Dickens gives here some of his best characterizations, his best social satire. Geoffrey Tillotson, who has written an afterword, calls the book "the finest literary work the 19th century produced in England."
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PEER GYNT. by Henrik Ibsen (Signet Classics, 60 cents).
Readers of plays will cheer the availability of this Ibsen drama in paperback. It is one of the most familiar stories in literature as well as in music, an epic dramatic poem rooted in the romantic folklore of Norway. Its pertinence lies in the eternal meaning it conveys—man's search for meaning in a frightening world.
The translation and foreword are by Rolf Fjelde, poet and critic. This is a new and welcome translation.
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