The Nixon Threat
Last Thursday, Richard Nixon an
nounted to the world that if heds elected
President, he will take the next step
toward World War 111.
Nixon told an- enthusiastic group of
“provincials in a small Pennsylvania town
that if he occupies the White House he
•will take steps to establish a “clear-cut!’
nuclear superiority over the Soviet
Union.
In other words, the Republican die
hard .candidate .would .accelerate .the
arms race, further exacerbate relations
between East and West and make the
confrontation'which is now only prob
able a virtual inevitability.
In one of his more candid moments
on “Face the Nation,” Sunday, Nixon
unconsciously made clear the lunacy of
his own position. “But we have to re
member that we are in a race,” he said.
“The other side’s running; we’re walk
ing. We’ve got to be sure we stay ahead.”
Why? The two countries have large
enough stockpiles and missile systems
to destroy each other. And if we start
frantically running toward “superior
ity,” the Soviet Union is perfectly capa
ble of matching or surpassing our pace.
Further acceleration of the arms
race is both pointless and dangerous.
Nixon and his followers refuse to ac
knowledge the conclusion reached by
almost every historian and political sci
entist of any importance: that the arms
race cannot be compared to a track meet
because, unlike a foot race, it the arms
race does have an end, no one will win.
Every arms race in history has even
tually resulted in war. And the only rea
son why the antagonism between the
United States and the Soviet Union did
not long ago take this form is due to the
universal fear of nuclear war.
Richard M. Nixon' has appar
ently overcome this fear, and is there
fore to be feared.
Richard Nixon frightens us. He
should similarly affect every
American who is genuinely concerned
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Editorial Opinion
about the future of this country.
Contrary to the repeated claims of
Hubert Humphrey, Nixon does have a
detailed program for- change. But the
main purpose. of that- program is to.
thrust the United States back into the
19505; back into the Eisenhower era of
brinkmanship abroad and chauvinistic
conservatism at home.
In foreign policy, Nixon would not
only step up the nuclear arms race, but
his refusal to endorse the' nuclear non
proliferation treaty indicates that he
would allow it to spread to smaller coun
tries with less responsible leadership.
In Vietnam, Nixon’s hawkish call
for a “greater military effort” and his re
fusal to accept a coalition government in
dicate that even if he ends the war,
South Vietnam will remain an Ameri
can imperialist possession for many
years to come.
Domestically, the main thrust of
Nixon’s campaign has been the meaning
less call for “law and order.” If he had
his way, the next four years would be as
calm and eventless as the Eisenhower
years. But the only way to achieve such
a static state of affairs would be to si
lence dissent on the campus and in
the ghetto. And this would require a
two-year Chicago-type police riot.
His method for ignoring the civil
rights issue is also a throwback to the
Eisenhower era; ignore the rulings of the
Supreme Court and turn the expensive
business of rebuilding the ghettos over
to '"private industry." The latter is one
of the most absurd, impractical pro
grams ever devised.
But while all of these aspects of the
Nixon program for “change” are dis
turbing, they fade into insignificance
when one considers the chief demerit of
the 1968 Republican ticket Spiro T.
Agnew.
The possibility that this petty left
over from the Joe McCarthy days might
be a heartbeat away from the Presidency
should make any voter turn tail and run
for the Democrats, however paltry their
offering might be.
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TO THE EDITOR: I wish to resurrect the idea of a student
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Fans Hail
'Der Fuhrer'
(Continued from page one)
pants carted signs around the arena telling
the names of the faithful.;
“United Association of Plumbers and
Steamfitters Support Wallace.” “United Auto
Workers s Local 282 Endorse George Wallace.”
And on end on.
But they stood the longest and cheered
the loudest when their Fuhrer took the
podium, fie stood there, his lips stretched
into the same nauseous smile. At any second,
you thought, he’s going to blow Friday morn
ing’s hominy grits all over the microphones.
And while he stood oozing that sickening
confidence, his'partisans screamed their alle
giance.
Eyes Blurred
And then, if your eyes were blurred by
the. waving signs and flashing' banners of
red, white and
blue, if your
ears were
blasted with
cowboy hoots
and hillbilly
yells, you
blew your
mind.
All around ||
you were 1
George Wal- |
lao e s, with £|
vomit smile* *1
and flashing, 1
reptile eyes, fe
Five thousand fi
of them, five f
thousand George Wallaces, surrounding you, S
gnawing at your soul. They were there de- 8
fending the flag against anarchists and J
blacks and students, and they did it by ®
spitting all over humanity.
One Face
They all had one face, the ugliest in <
America. ?
And they had one voice. It was the drawl 1
of an Alabama truck driver turned Governor jg
turned leader of a nationwide hate cult, 7
Translate the' words into German and it was
&
the rhetoric of an Austrian paper, hanger
turned Fuhrer turned chief assassin.
Short, Fat Lady
And there was this short, fat lady who
kept pointing at student cars, shouting
, “Communists, communists. Kill the commies,
The parallels are clear, though George kill the commies.”
Wallace’s political future is not. Just as the Ashne elderly lady left with her hus
, . & band, she said, “You know what those kids
sign in the arena warned hockey patrons, it is £ are, Henry? You know what it is? It's trea
necessary- that citizens are warned that the son » that's what it is. Treason. They're all
. .. . x * , treasonous.
death of a country from a-charismatic fascist ; Yes. it was quite 41 show. But perhaps
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„ 33 hockey brawls. .They are much more .sophisti
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geiiing my vote. Are you voting for him?”
Well, er ... no; I won’t be voting this
time, m be 21 in June.”
"That’s okay. We’ll get him in now, and
you can vote for him next time around.”
Finally the candidate himself appeared.
He climbed onto the stage, taking his place
behind a mass of microphones. From up
close you could see only the top of his head
—the rest was hidden by the rostrum and
the electronic gear.
As soon as Wallace started to speak,
heckling broke out. It came from about 300
students in the rear. They cheered Wallace,
mockingly, but soon the mocking turned to
The C “We J '
want Rich” / WvKmL
chant caught L
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to be bored
by the speech, \ \
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three and four /" ///
times a day
for the last coctci ki
sixweeks.But era i tin
this chant was something new.
"Rich?” one reporter asked. “Why would
college kids want Dick Nixon?”
It was explained that the students were
referring to John Rich, student-candidate
for Penn State.
The heckling continued, but it never
really rattled Wallace. His amplifying sys
tem was loud enough to carry his voice
over the students’ noise. Most of the time
the speakers were too loud, causing Wal
lace’s voice to sound like a continuous blur.
Throws Kisses
At one point Wallace stopped, stepped
away from the microphones, and threw
kisses in the direction of the hecklers. It
was quite a show.
“Now, I believe in dissention,” • George
told his audience. Then, a few minutes later,
he looked at the student section and said,
“You’d better have your day now, because
after Nov. 5 you’re all through.”
After the speech, a few hecklers mingled
with Wallace supporters outside of the arena.
One lady, while admonishing a student for
.his alleged poor manners, claimed she was
'“not for Wallace the man, but for what he
stands for.”
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