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By JOHN MITCHELL
Collegian Staff Writer
The resignation. of former
President Nixon and his sub
sequent pardon have caused
some embarrassment among
Republican Party members,
but College Republicans at
Penn State are putting the
events of the past year behind
as they look to future ac
tivities.
The current campaign for
GOP gubernatorial candidate
Drew Lewis is being con
ducted on a bipartisan basis
with support being drawn
from both Republicans and
Democrats, according to Ed
Lerch (7th-accounting), coor
dinator of the campaign.
"We want to support our
candidate because he is a good
man rather thaii because he is
a member of the Republican
Party.” Lerch said.
Party affiliation is being
emphasized less in this cam
paign so that the stigma at
tached to Watergate does not
camaflouge the candidate as a
man, Lerch said.
“People aren’t voting party
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"We want to support pur candi
date because he is a good man,
rather than because he is a member
of the Republican Party. "
tickets nearly as much any
more,” he said. As a result of
Watergate strict party af
filiation is not as prevalent
<iow as it has been. People are
examining the issues before
deciding to support a can
didate, he added.
After examining the issues
closely, former president of
the College’ Republicans Clyde
Sheehan (9th-accounting), is
leaving the Republican party,
but he said the “reason I'm
switching has nothing to do
with Watergate.”
“One of the reasons I got in
to the Republican Party is
because I. didn’t think it out
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enough.” Sheehan said. "I Bill Morton tilth-general
was a fanatical Republican; arts and sciences) said he
what was best for the party thinks Ford's pardon of Nixon
was best for government. Now was premature. He said that
I’m for good government -people wanted to see what
first ” truth really was in the case.
Sheehan plans to campaign but the pardon will make that
for issues which emphasize , knowledge much"' harder to
the working class rather than get.
big (business. He said he does ' •
not see how he could do that According to Lerch. Nixon’s
and remain in the Republican acceptance of-the pardon was
Party. not an admission of guilt, but
Other College: Republicans Lerch pointed out that "if
have chosen to remain with Nixon was innocent, he
the party, although they are wouldn't have needed a par
not always in agreement with don."
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said that the pardon should
have come with a few more
stipulations on the part of
President Ford. "Then
might have heard a mot jg
definite reaction from Nixon
as to his guilt, and also make
the pardon more justifiable to
the public." she said.
Lerch said that ( "there is a
thin line . between political
ethics and dishonest. Nixon
clearly passed the line into
dishonest v.”
Lerch added that "nothing
Nixon did went for personal
gain. Nixon's ends usually
were a'll right, but his wavs of
going about them were
questionable."
Nixon's resignation and
Ford’s inauguration "was a
breath of relief," Mprton said.
As an organization. College
Republicans support all
Republican office holders, ac
cording to member Dave Buf
fington ( lst-sceondary
education). But individuals m
the organization "are not so
much party hacks" as might
have been the case in the past,
he said.
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