Dear Editor

...Another friend...

...the large White House staff, duplicating in many instances the Federal bureaucracy, can be curbed...

...Berkeley Carl Landauer Professor of Economics, University of California Hardman In his review of J. B. S. Hardman's Labor at the Rubicon ("Promoting the Public Good...

...Both of these men were dedicated to what Douglas understatingly terms "equality...

...But Nixon never was that sort of statesman...

...Undoubtedly, campaign laws can be improved...

...If the United States ever again has the misfortune to be faced with similar alternatives, who can say the outcome will be less bad...

...I would like to point out, however, that it was the young, independent Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (and not the International Ladies Garment Workers Union) that hired the brilliant Hardman as an editor and education director...

...He wants to restore the work ethic of Middle America, but this concept is embedded in a tradition incompatible with his political practices and the pirate morality of the people he called to the White House...

...surveillance of the FBI and CIA can be made more effective...

...Will they, however, prevent disasters of the kind that has now come over us...

...It came to our house because my father was a member of the union, and it was a stirring paper with a social conscience...

...I became aware of Hardman's Advance as a high school student and active young Socialist in the early 1930s...

...Nixon understood some obvious things, especially that ending the unconditional hostility toward China would improve the position of the United States, and he had the courage to shock some of his old friends by acting upon this insight...

...He took his paranoid illusions for reality...

...Such reforms will obviously be to the good...

...Congress can reassert its authority...

...In international affairs...

...was also a formidable writer and editor...

...In other words, inside the new Nixon, who recognized the expediency of a reconciliation with China and an accommodation with the Soviet Union, there survived the old Nixon, well known from the slander campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and from many equally reprehensible activities...

...that the extremists themselves were split into various hostile factions...

...Future historians, to whom archives and private papers will be accessible, may be able to find a conclusive answer...

...The latter was regarded by most Americans as the lesser evil and was therefore chosen...

...May 28), Paul H. Douglas paid his respects to an old friend and a truly great figure in the history of labor on this continent...

...this is the core of his personal tragedy...

...Pearl K. Bell neglects to mention the man most responsible for making Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wolfe and others the "lords of language" they aspired to be...

...In short, he apparently did not want a wave of super-patriotism to sweep the country, possibly causing some disturbance to his foreign policy, although this alone could have supplied the camouflage for a power grab...

...It was the legendary Scribners editor, Max Perkins, who corrected Fitzgerald's spelling and grammar, honed Hemingway's style to perfection, and gleaned cohesive books from the wheelbarrows of manuscript that Wolfe delivered to him...

...and that even the Communist party, the best organized group of the far Left, had ceased to be truly revolutionary...

...Professor Maurice F. Neufeld, has called Hardman the "constant idealist of the American labor movement...

...Hamilton, Ontario Lloyd Harrington...

...Consequently, he saw the possibility of dealing with Communist states as with others motivated by the normal incentives of governments...

...It has now become commonplace to say that a repetition of Watergate must be prevented...

...This raises the interesting question: How did the old and the new Nixon get along with each other...

...Nixon's intellect told him that the United States could not afford to lose Europe, and that it was imperative to resolve our economic conflicts with France and Germany in a friendly manner...

...Indeed, the Amalgamated of that day was the source of much inspired labor journalism...

...Minneapolis John Winston Nixon Enigma Was Richard Nixon sincere when he maintained in his May 22 address that the security of the nation had been threatened by Leftist conspirators enjoying the support of foreign powers...

...Since his devotion to truth is not exactly unqualified, this may seem dubious, but there is strong circumstantial evidence to support the assumption that the President really believed what he said he believed...

...A statesman, to be sure, would have seen that all this, albeit upsetting and at times tragic, was a movement on the surface of society, that neither the labor movement, nor the black population, nor any major section of the American people was partisan to radical cliques like the Weathermen or the Black Panthers...

...Perhaps it is not a want of discipline on the part of today's writers, but a dearth of good editors (or publishers willing to spend money on quality line editing) that accounts for the deterioration of contemporary American fiction...

...he is not credible as a spokesman for the positive values of a nontotalitarian society...

...His anti-Communism is all anti...

...All in all, he is a man guided by his pugilistic instincts and lust for power into actions that his above-average intelligence should prohibit...

...Any person susceptible to Red Scares would have had no difficulty persuading himself in 1968, '69 or '70 that internal, and perhaps external, security was being put in jeopardy by the people who rioted, occupied public buildings, carried Vietcong flags, threw bombs, and talked as if they were on the point of overthrowing the establishment...

...If psychologists had not done so poor a job in explaining historic personalities, we might look to them for enlightenment on the question of why Nixon's intelligence has lost control over his policies...

...In the meantime, the most plausible explanation is that in Nixon's view the role of ideology in foreign policy had come to an end, and that the Communist states were using ideological propaganda only to weaken those they opposed for reasons of power politics...

...This kindly and courageous leader, who never feared to be a majority of one...

...In 1970, the year mainly referred to in his slatement, Nixon did not act as if national security was merely a shield behind which he could pursue his individual and political goals: He refrained from nationalistic slogans that would have made the eagles scream...

...yet he lacked the sensitivity-a quality closely related to a person's moral standards-to realize that prior consultation with Japan was indispensable if his new policy direction was to be reconciled with the maintenance of friendship with this important ally...

...The ultimate cause of the present crisis was the impossible choice presented to the American people in 1972: to elect to the nation's highest office either an illusionist of indubitable integrity but no political sense, or a man of considerable shrewdness and experience whom nobody credited with particularly high ethical standards, even before the current revelations...

...still, he permitted John Connally to talk to the Europeans as if we wanted to lay down an American law for a currency and trade settlement...

...he drew up his schemes surreptitiously...

...Richard Nixon does not have the moral fiber required by the leadership Tole he has chosen for himself...

...In domestic affairs, though, he continued to see himself confronted by dragons, without perceiving that the radicals were not much more than paper tigers, capable of causing disturbances that could lead to local difficulties and sometimes to loss of life, but incapable of affecting the stability of the existing order...

...Equally responsible for the quality of the union's publications was the Amalgamated's first general secretary-treasurer, Joseph Schlossberg...