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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Monday, Jan. 21, 1986
Ex-presidents' aides discuss their old jobs
United Press International
SAN DIEGO — For one brief and shining moment, men like Theodore Sorensen, H.R. Haldeman, 'Alexander Haig and D阿拉ドrumfeld took on the most dangerous and exhilarating task of their lives.
They served the president of the United States.
They were the keepers of the flame, the confidants and conspirators, the Richelieu and the Metternichs, the men at the nucleus of the inner circle. All doors opened to them, none so widely as the door to the Oval Office.
At an unprecedented presidential symposium at the University of California at San Diego during the weekend, the former key presidential assistants spoke candidly about their experiences in the White House.
All agreed that the role of chief of staff was, at best, a delicate and imprecise science, a pressurized bout with power.
Most of them miss the glamor and glory. They even miss the gaffes and paralyzing indecision that came with the territory.
The seminar participants spanned 25 years of the presidency, from President Dwight Eisenhower's Andrew Goodpaster to President Jimmy Carter's Jack Watson. They shared the private glimpses to which history treated them.
They recalled such milestones as the Korean War, the Berlin Wall airlift, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Watergate, the capture of the Mayaguez and the seizure of the American hostages in Iran.
After the session Friday, a barefoot Sorensen rummaged around his hotel room looking for his socks. He had just finished a vigorous swim. Still tall and lean with black-rimmed glasses, Sorensen was just 32 when John Kennedy gave his inaugural Address 25 years ago Monday.
Now a 57-year-old New York attorney, the man who served as Kennedy's chief adviser smiled weakly when asked about those heady days in what the legend-makers refer to as Camelot.
Sorensen said he had several highs over his lifetime, including his book, "Kennedy," his work in a prestigious law firm and his family. But serving
Kennedy at the White House was the highlight of his career, he said.
"It does seem larger than life now," he said, pulling on a black sock. "It was such a different spirit then."
Sorensen leaned back on the bed, then straightened himself and said wistfully: "It was a great time to be alive. It was so great to be a part of it. If I had one regret it's that I was stretched so thin working that I didn't have a chance to enjoy it."
Sorensen called the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 the most triumphant moment in the Kennedy White House. His wrinkled face tightened as he remembered those tense, exhausting 13 days, when he and Robert F. Kennedy became the president's closest companions.
"There you were, with all your training, your education and your knowledge of the law, and yet your instincts are of so little value to you," Sorensen said. "We have never confronted anything like this before or since."
The white-haired Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, 69, who served as Eisenhower's staff secretary and took on added responsibility after the president's heart attack in 1955, stood at the corner of the seminar room Saturday as NBC commentator John Chancellor, the symposium's moderator, engaged Haledman in an animated conversation during a coffee break.
The tall and courty Goodpaster appeared touched by the obvious camaraderie the eight former presidential assistants exhibited during the two-day event.
"There's a sense of shared scar tissue," he said. "We've all met each other before, but this is the first time all of us were together in the same room. It's kind of magical."
"I guess we all felt we were doing something to help the country."
The participants were Goodpaster; Sorensen; Harry McPherson, who served Lyndon Johnson as a key presidential assistant; Haldeman; Haig, at the height of the Watergate crisis was widely regarded as president; Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney, who both served as key aides in the Ford administration; and Watson.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Joseph P. Kennedy II began his quest for Congress yesterday, pledging to campaign in every street in every neighborhood of Massachusetts' 8th District, the same seat once held by his late uncle, John F. Kennedy.
Joe Kennedy's hat enters House ring
United Press International
Joseph Kennedy, 33, the king of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, told 1,000 cheering supporters who crowded into a veterans' hall in a working-class neighborhood that President Reagan had betrayed the nation's poor and pledged to make world peace his primary objective if elected.
"I've come home to the city of my ancestors, the city of my birth to run for the Congress of the United States," said Kennedy, who was accompanied by his wife, Sheila, his mother, Ethel, and other family members. His uncle, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., did not attend the rally.
"You will see me in every street in every neighborhood of the district. With that statement I suppose I formally become an American politician. I've made my first campaign promise," Kennedy said.
candidacy Dec. 4, is seeking to replace retiring House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, who has held the seat since 1953, when John Kennedy entered the Senate.
Kennedy, who announced his
The race for the Democratic nomination includes state Sen. George Bachrach, who also formally entered the race Sunday. James Roosevelt, a grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, also is considering a bid for the seat.
Supporters chanted "Joe! Joe! Joe!" as Kennedy entered the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall and a placard in the crowd read "Give Your Energy to Kennedy," a
reference to Citizen's Energy Corp., the non-profit organization he started to provide low-cost heating oil to the poor.
Kennedy called for significant cuts in defense spending to help reduce the federal deficit, which he said threatened to undermine the nation's economic recovery.
He accused the Reagan administration of helping the most affluent 20 percent of the country at the expense of the middle class and the poor and called the president's policies "a betrayal of this country's promise that all should share in growing abundance."
O'Neill leads long list of retiring legislators
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Led by House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, who for nine years was second in line of succession to the presidency, a flock of politicians is ending its career with the second session of the 99th Congress
The list of notables includes a former presidential candidate, a former vice president nomine, the last of one of America's great political families, one of the few Republican liberals left on the national scene and one of President Reagan's closest friends.
One other, Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., is ending his Senate career as the prelude to an almost certain run for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.
Going of their own free will into retirement are Sens. Russell Long, D-La., Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., Charles Mathias, R-Md., Paul Laxalt, R-Nev. John East, R-N.C. and Hart.
O'Neill, 75, a burly Irishman and a lifelong liberal Democrat, was elected to the House in 1952 to succeed John F. Kennedy and climbed the party leadership ladder from whip to leader and to speaker in 1977.
Goldwater, considered the father of the modern GOP conservative movement, was the Republican presidential candidate in 1964. He has served 30 years in the Senate, and used much of that time to build up the military. He is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Long, 67, son of the legendary Huey Long, has served 37 years in the Senate, close to Sen. Carl Hayden's all-time tenure record of 41 years.
Written off early as little more than Huey's son, Long forged a notable career of his own and for years was one of Congress' most dominant figures on tax and fiscal issues and one of its most colorful members.
Eagleton, 56, retiring after three terms, legged a productive Senate career but will be remembered historically for his abrupt dismissal as the Democratic vice presidential candidate after it was disclosed he underwent shock therapy for a mental condition.
Mathias, who is also ending his third term, was a leader in the fight for civil rights legislation and an expert on foreign affairs. But he became well-known for his liberalism as Republicans became more and more conservative.
Laxalt, who became friends with Reagan when they were governors of adjoinning states, was the chairman of Reagan's presidential campaigns and provided the Senate with its most direct link to the Oval Office.
East was plagued by illness last year and decided not to seek a second term.
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January 17, 1986
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Dear Students:
We would like to invite you to participate in the "Parade of Celebration" commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr., on Monday, January 20, 11:30 a.m. a.m. Participants will walk from Chi Omega to the Chapel of St. Matthew Haill where a short program will be presented in Room 100.
Dr. King was an unique individual who led a non-violent revolution for social change. His commitment to equality and justice for all regardless of race, creed, or color was implemental in creating major legislative changes and contributed to the establishment of the United Nations. King died on the hands of an assassin in 1968, his ideals and commitment still influence our lives today. His dream lives on.
January 20 will mark the first observance of Martin Luther King's birthday as a federal legal holiday. With the exception of George Washington, the holiday is the only one to pay tribute at the national trip. We hope you will join us as we pay tribute to Dr. King.
Sincerely,
Harald A. Lambert
David A. Amber
Vice Chancellor
Student Affairs
Sincerely.
Director
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