GOP in ideological conflict
Republicans split by current crises
By JOHN HALL
WASHINGTON (UPI) — When President Nixon left Miami Beach in 1968 with his party's nomination for the presidency and the glint of forthcoming victory in his eyes, there was great hope among his supporters that two decades of Republican ideological conflict were coming to an end.
On Nixon's left, delegates, who watched Spiro T. Agnew tapped as his vice presidential running mate and stood aghast as Nixon shared his victory platform with conservative Sen. Strom Thurmond, saw the seeds of future conflict.
Nixon, to many liberal Republicans, had clearly embraced a "Southern strategy" and a hard-line program against dissent which was anathema to their dreams for the nation and to their political constituencies.
Within the decisive majority
that nominated Nixon, however, there was a correct optimism that Nixon would win the election. And victory, they believed, would heal all wounds, unite all factions.
Today, with the nation torn bitterly over the war in Southeast Asia, both sides at Miami Beach have been proved right at the same time they have been proved wrong.
Nixon has unified the party and he has split it.
His occupancy of the White House, ending an eight-year GOP drought, gave Republicans a spirit of self-confidence that they had lost in the party's shattering defeat four years earlier.
They took control of the nation's affairs at possibly the worst time they could have chosen.
The fact of a Republican in the White House has enhanced the party's fortunes at the very time it is threatening to split the GOP
more deeply than it was during Barry M. Goldwater's 1964 candidacy.
Republicans now find themselves as lobsters in the same sort of pot in which Democrats were boiled during the final year of the Johnson administration. Should they squirm in the soup, hoping the heat is turned off or should they claw at the lid?
Loyal GOP senators like Robert Dole of Kansas say they want
to stand behind Nixon but, after briefings and hours of soulsearching, they still have misgivings.
Sen. Hugh Scott, R-Pa., the minority leader who is up for reelection this fall, supports the Cambodian expedition but pleads for restraint on the part of unnamed national leaders who make inflammatory comments about students.
Two cabinet members whose
Haskell alums honored as 'outstanding grads'
South Vietnamese will penetrate Cambodia
South Vietnam (UPI)—President Nguyen Van Thieu said Monday South Vietnamese forces will be sent into Cambodia whenever necessary to fight Communists and destroy their bases.
Thieu and Vice-President Nguyen Cao Ky came to the III Corps headquarters base three miles from the border for a briefing from South Vietnamese military commanders on the operations inside Cambodia.
At a news conference later
A woman stock broker and a retired United States Department of Justice deputy district director will receive citations as outstanding graduates of Haskell Institute.
Thieu said, "We will continue to operate in Cambodia when it is necessary. Perhaps then the Communists will learn they can't reestablish bases there again."
Thieu, who has set no deadline for the withdrawal of South Vietnamese troops from Cambodia, said it might be necessary to go even deeper into the country if current efforts to destroy Communist bases and sanctuaries proved only temporarily effective.
Mrs. Wallace lives on a tract granted to her father, George Washington Skye, a Peoria Indian chief, in 1890 by the U.S. government.
and is presently the highest commissioned of all the company's local brokers.
President Nixon has said U.S. Forces will not go beyond 21.7 miles into Cambodia and all will be withdrawn by June 30. Thieu obviously was not bound by any such commitment.
Chosen by the Haskell Institute Alumni Association were Gladys Skye Wallace of Tulsa, Okla., who graduate in 1919 and Turner Cochran, who graduated in 1929 and now is living on a farm near Bonner Springs.
Cochran, a commercial accounting major at Haskell, served as a clerk-stenographer for the War Department before being transferred to the Immigration Service where he achieved officer status in 1939.
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Interior Secretary Walter F. Hickel was moved to write a private letter to the President warning that the administration is alienating young people and that Agnew should be silenced.
loyalty to Nixon is beyond question express uneasiness.
"The vice president's speeches are not helping to bring the country together. He ought to ease up," says Linwood Holton of Virginia.
"I believe no further commitment to Cambodia should be made without a clear mandate from Congress," says Francis Sargent of Massachusetts.
He was promoted from field officer to deputy district director and served as deputy director until his retirement in 1963.
Some of the nation's Republican governors also are worried.
Cochran, who is the son of a Cherokee Chickasaw father and a Caddo-Cherokee mother, now raises beef cattle and trains horses and ponies on his Bonner Springs farm.
In the Senate, opposition from Republicans grows even more vocal.
Mrs. Wallace, who majored in business at Haskell, was executive secretary for Sinclair and Gulf Oil firms for 20 years until she retired from her position as staff assistant.
At least 12 of the 43 senators have now spoken out against the military thrust into Cambodia. At least three are backing legislation to force Nixon to withdraw from Southeast Asia by July 1, 1971.
What all of this means to the Republican party is not clear and probably won't be until the smoke clears from the Cambodian operation and the resultant domestic protest.
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What is clear is that no Republican has set out consciously to "break the President." Those who predicted in Miami Beach that Nixon's enemies in the party would look for any excuse to fight him and wreck his presidency have not generally been proved right.
After passing state and national security dealer examinations and finally the New York Stock Exchange exam she became a stock broker with Dempsey-Tegler and Co. in 1960
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