NIXON AS A LIBERAL AND WHAT WE CAN DO
Somers, Dr. Alan B.
N I X O N A S A L I B E R A L A N D W H A T W E C A N D O Dr. Alan B. Somehs With some of the passion of the past election drained from the issues, it begins to appear as if the...
...but most assuredly the mass (and I use that word in its most depreciating sense) media v?ill not interpret his successes to be ours...
...More have to be made, but we are perhaps beginning to approach the problems successfully...
...from National Review...
...However Nixon's failures will be our failures...
...Liberals, of course, have shared this goal, but the arguments through time have been over the means of attaining this goal...
...Let us hope so and hope that he succeeds or the lead mantle of government control will surely fall on the free enterprise system never to be lifted again...
...N I X O N A S A L I B E R A L A N D W H A T W E C A N D O Dr...
...James E. Allen becomes commissioner of education...
...in 1968, it came close...
...particularly since he felt the handle in his sweaty little hand...
...In 1960 his philosophical odyssey cost him the election...
...What were Nixon's views on these rather plain but basic issues...
...Alan B. Somehs With some of the passion of the past election drained from the issues, it begins to appear as if the conservatives have less to be happy about than one would have originally thought...
...One could see Tricky Dick swinging the mace of presidential power freely...
...After all, we could still salvage the mechanics of government as long as the government was there to salvage...
...H e has given us the opportunity to perform in two important areas, and we must grasp these opportunities with the tonic clasp of eagles' talons...
...Ed...
...This is not to say I would have voted for McCarthy...
...The memoirs will record the birth in humble circumstances, the steadfast struggle of the blameless youth, the devotion to scholarship, the love of teaching, the call to higher service, the forty days in the wilderness with Billy Sol, the triumphal entry into South Chicago, the severe tribulation in the Carousel Garden with Bobby Baker, and the final triumph of virtue...
...Weep for Clio...
...When Nixon leaves office I doubt there will be much change in the essence of government...
...Fortunately it is in this area that Nixon has made suggestions about which conservatives can truly be happy...
...Shriver remains in Paris, Robert Finch continues Wilbur Cohen's policies at H E W and Dr...
...and as if to display his disdain for power, he often said he would probably serve but one term if elected...
...Here he was articulating an issue best and most elegantly voiced by William F. Buckley in The Unmaking of a Mayor...
...Frank Roosevelt was not one-tenth the liberal in 1932 as he was when the dirty disease struck him down in 1945...
...Conservatives should take their opportunities in the next years and as time passes they should not fail to press the ship of state toward the starboard for there are still many threats to the liberty of man...
...Reprinted from The Alternative Bulletin, November 27, 1968...
...In a lengthy radio speech Nixon spent considerable time on the issue that the age of the passive President was dead and the President should use the massive power at his access rather freely...
...In the tradition of American lumpenpolitik, conservatives have been cast in with the supporters of Richard M . Nixon...
...Surely, Nixon has no philosophy of government beyond pragmatism and power politics...
...W e should work now as did the liberals when F D R was elected...
...jyndon Johnson's memoirs have been sold for $1.5 million, payable to the Johnson School of Government at the University of Texas...
...The second opportunity is social reconstruction and the allied fields of educational, economic and health care...
...What has Nixon given conservatives in his victory...
...On the other hand...
...On the eve of the Indiana primary McCarthy gave a rather lengthy dissertation about the evils of the politics of interest groups — a bold move by a m a n of a party built upon the rock of interest groups...
...It is said that Milton Friedman is likely to reside high among Nixon's economic advisors...
...W e must never forget that true conservatism has always been a humanistic philosophy based on education and equal opportunity with the goal of the elevation of man...
...W e must show now that the economy can work well, that the dollar can be healed and inflation stopped by implementing conservative policy...
...I a m afraid Dick has lost his bearings again — assuming he had any other than to the nearest seat of power...
...As I said, the specific issues were too impassioned, and some of McCarthy's stands on these issues portended greater danger than continuing the status quo of the political balance of power...
...The first is in the area of economics...
...In regard to interest politics it is plain to see that Nixon believed wholly in this — he was just forming a new coalition of interest groups composed of the threatened, the plain, the ugly, the tired businessman and, probably last, the conservatives...
...As, Sgt...
...These are problems about which conservatives have also been concerned...
...The absolute power of Johnson was one of the issues which brought McCarthy into the race...
...Papa Eugene McCarthy was clearly concerned about aggregation of presidential power and prehensile interest-group politics...
...He was probably the candidate of conservatives no more than Hubert H. Humphrey was the candidate of the new left...
Vol. 2 • May 1969 • No. 4
