Special Presidential Report
SANDOZ, ROBERT
Washington-USA SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL REPORT BY ROBERT SANDOZ In the next 10 years we shall increase our wealth by 50 per cent. The profound question is: does this mean we will be SO per cent...
...I will not make that charge...
...Perhaps not...
...Robert Sandoz is a free-lance writer working out of Washington...
...Just how, a few nitpickers may ask, does the Nixon Administration intend to close the happiness gap...
...Pat, too...
...Some have called it the Unhappy Kennedy-Johnson-Democratic Decade...
...Mitchell has seen to that...
...You don't think I was unhappy in 1960...
...That is one reason I want to submit this separate, but equal, report on the happiness gap in this great country of mine-ours-today...
...The profound question is: does this mean we will be SO per cent richer in a real sense, 50 per cent better off, 50 per cent happier...
...I think you can see already how effective it is...
...This will not be easy...
...Perhaps it is only a coincidence that between the end of the Eisenhower-Richard M. Nixon Administration and the beginning of the President Nixon Administration, Americans of every hue, color and pigmentation were wretchedly unhappy...
...But make no mistake about it: An unbalanced nation is an unhappy nation...
...Richard M. Nixon State of the Union Message I know what it means to be unhappy...
...We are a tolerant nation, but we cannot tolerate those of little faith who refuse to go along with our national plan...
...Those few who, taking the law into their own hands, continue to wallow in their own woe, will, in Attorney General John Mitchell's words, "be persecuted to the full extent of the law, and then some...
...Without getting into personalities, I would like to see some of the people happy all of the time and some of the people happy none of the time...
...I myself prefer a middle course...
...I was miserable...
...You have nothing to fear but blacks, students, tobacco, cyclamates, ddt, pornography, the Pill, the press, death, taxes, and fear itself...
...With your backing, we are going to win the peace on unhappiness, and the war that goes with it...
...Therefore, I call upon the Great Surly Majority to support us in this endeavor...
...It never is...
...There are those who believe in happiness now and those who believe in happiness never...
...So, as you can see, our happiness plan is working...
...It is feasible...
...Winning the peace will not be easy...
...It is consistent, patriotic and altogether thrilling...
...I like to think of it as first down and 10 years to go...
...But surely a just and honorable happiness is worth excruciating pain and overwhelming grief...
...Let me add this: We are going to have a happy America and a balanced budget...
...I therefore am announcing the following goal: a 50 per cent uplift in the Gross National Mood by the end of the 1970s...
...The plan has been devised by the Vice President and myself, as well as by some of the best minds in this country...
...I am confident that by November 1970, they will be able to appropriate it completely, leaving the rest of us to enjoy the fruits of a Smiling Society...
...An important facet of the war on unhappiness is the liberalization of that war...
...It will involve sacrifice, and deprivation, and great hardship for some-most of whom, incidentally, failed to vote for me...
...Let me answer the entire part of that question first: I have a plan...
...The decade of the '60s was an unhappy decade...
...The brave may die, the innocent may suffer, some will leave the game with injuries...
...Actually, of course, there are no fruits in this Administration...
...I am content merely to repeat it...
...A nation half again as happy will be a goal second to none in this Administration-which is not necessarily to say that it will be first...
...And no one could be happier about it than I. I am Richard M. Nixon-that's "o-n"-President of the U.S.A...
...It is a comprehensive plan...
...In 1962...
...Eternal sorrow is the price of joy...
...Every day in every way, the liberals are showing an ever-increasing ability to assume responsibility for unhappiness...
...Cast off your neuroses...
Vol. 53 • February 1970 • No. 4
