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many people, as being a cross between Norman Thomas and Neville Chamberlain... a veritable witch's brew of socialism and surrender. | many people, as being a cross between Norman Thomas and Neville Chamberlain... a veritable witch's brew of socialism and surrender. | ||
It is difficult to say how this image came into being. If one examines McGovern's voting- | It is difficult to say how this image came into being. If one examines McGovern's voting-record carefully, it certainly doesn't hold up. He's a liberal, no question, but no more so than many other public figures generally regarded as being fairly moderate. | ||
To some extent, of course, McGovern himself has carefully cultivated hie radical reputation, as a means of gaining the support of the youthful shock-troops who were eo vital to his success in the primary campaigns... and is now back-pedaling furiously, in order to appeal to the moderate-liberal, whose votes he needs in the general election. | To some extent, of course, McGovern himself has carefully cultivated hie radical reputation, as a means of gaining the support of the youthful shock-troops who were eo vital to his success in the primary campaigns... and is now back-pedaling furiously, in order to appeal to the moderate-liberal, whose votes he needs in the general election. | ||
And to some extent, he is simply the beneficiary-if that is the right word-of a curious phenomenon that occurs once every 24 years, as precisely as clockwork. | And to some extent, he is simply the beneficiary-if that is the right word-of a curious phenomenon that occurs once every 24 years, as precisely as clockwork. | ||
McGovern's proposed Federal Budget of S350 Billion is viewed as fiscally calamitous ... and so it would be. Meanwhile, Nixon, who campaigned against Kennedy in 1960 on a pledge to hold the Budget under SI 00 Billion, inaugurated hie Ad · ministration only nine years later with a Budget exceeding $200 Billion . .• and is now beating his chest and emitting cries to the effect that he will hold the line at S250 Billion. Judging from this record, there is little doubt that Nixon will be cloee to the S350 Billion level himself within four yean , if re-elected. | |||
Of course, domestic policy is only part of the package one must consider in .-inga President (or potential Presidentl; foreign policy must also be taken into accounL And here , as on the domestic scene, Nixon', performance offen little more hope than McGovern's promises. | |||
For Nixon has done everything in his power to "build bridges" to the most op preuively totalitarian regimes in the world thegovernments of Soviet RU111ia and Red China. When he could have used the threat of cutting oU foreign aid fa good idea, in any instancel to hold our mppoeed "friends" in line at the UN, he sat on his hands and let these rented allies un-t theNationalist Chinese delegation, and seat in its place the murderous Pek!n¥. regime. And then, his UN ambassador didn t even have the good grace to follow the lead of the Nationalist Chinese, and walk out of that assemblage of pompous pipsqueaks forever. | |||
In Vietnam, he has punued a policy that combines the wont of two alternati neither getting us out as 8000 u he wu inaugurated, nor attempting a military victory. The remit: thousands of livee and billiOlll of dollan thrown away for nothing. No, wone than nothing-for the Nixon Vietnam policy hu relUlted on a destruction of the American peoples' wiU to fight in any future war which might hmlilte Vietnaml be nece?sary for our survival, and hu 1iphoned money out of our domestic defenae Ludget, leaving us sadly behind the Soviet? in miseile stre ngth. And then, to cap it off, he has now virtuaUy conceded the Soviet? pennanent military superiority, in the SALT Talb. | |||
Nobody knows just why it happens, but every 24 years, a sort of populist radicalism seems to sweep the country . . . and those who are infected with its fever seek a champion. And for some reason, this champion inevitably turns out to be a man of the Upper Midwest-William Jennings Bryan in 1900, Robert LaFollette in 1924, Henry Wallace in 1948, and now McGovern. | Nobody knows just why it happens, but every 24 years, a sort of populist radicalism seems to sweep the country . . . and those who are infected with its fever seek a champion. And for some reason, this champion inevitably turns out to be a man of the Upper Midwest-William Jennings Bryan in 1900, Robert LaFollette in 1924, Henry Wallace in 1948, and now McGovern. | ||