European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Buckley or. The stars and stripes b Page Nixon makes pitch for students Richard Nixon Fin something very important Lilly that com of Tho do tit Stow of he lit enter. Iron out by misled and that abm dissatisfaction an by no sans it monopoly of i my. St Nixon s june it radio Anta towards an expanded Domoe Focy Sugg to that hit Eye it finally focusing on some of the pm logical consequence of omnipotent government which flow Alai not merely under recent democratic administrations but under or. Eisenhower s Ai  matter better late Man never and although or. Nixon s speech dribbled off into misty pities the analytical framework it Tough and exciting. He began by toying that we John Keasler have reason to believe that those of our demonstrators who Are moved to revolution for the Sake of revolution those who specifically understand themselves As disciples of Castro or Guevara or Mao Are a very Small minority easily coped with by the Asser Tion of the Law. Or. Nixon then goes on to describe those among the alienated who Are not in any technical or ideological sense revolutionists. Let s look he says at some of the things they re angry about a materialism that robs the individual of his sense of self. A widening Gulf Between the individual and his govern ment As effective Power moves further and further away. A political dialogue littered with broken promises with false phrases and inflated Hopes. A racial dialogue still stud ded with the old stereotypes. A welfare system that Breaks families apart rather than hold ing them together. A disillusionment with wars that seem avoidable in places that seem Remote. An anxiety about the future and about the place of the individual who More and More seems atone and powerless against an overwhelming so  that is of course to identify the condition that has resulted from overweening government and from the rhetoric of Utopia. Or. Nixon went on to recommend a new Hoover commission whose mandate would be not merely to recommend ways in which the government might be improved but to weigh the uses of government against expanded criteria or. Nixon As 1 have noted does not get terribly Concrete but it is quite enough that he should be explicitly endorsing an analysis that others have striven to make Over the years. A decade ago writing about the then silent generation a Young conservative observed there is personal satisfaction to be derived from having a hand in the shaping of events. A phenomenon of our age has been that fatalistic sense of personal remoteness from in mechanisms of Public policy. There will not again be a robust political life in the undergraduate world until the student becomes convinced that it matters what he thinks about Public problems. Briefly after the War the world appeared to be in flux and from All Over hands reached out straining to leave individual Marks on the Clay Quick be fore it  then and suddenly now again it was generally believed that every individual exer Tion every Point scored every pamphlet distributed every polemic delivered contributed to the crystallization of an historical  in Between were the silent years from which the students Are Awakening. They May find the right vide or. Nixon far More responsive than the old left. A hindu tool Star Syndicate inc. So Gripe Gripe Gripe below Olympus by Interlandi for the troops participation in a War is an inconvenience at Best and what i really Don t understand about this War h How the men overseas stand us Civili ans at All. They have so Many legitimate gripes about the Home front that it makes the old world War ii Standard gripes look in Nocent by comparison. Which of course they Are. We used to sit around and jeer at defense workers As Tho phrase was but at feast they were on our Side. Now we be got pickets carry ing the Viet Cong Flag around and All sorts of things including the Paris Tea parties aimed at firming up a committee meeting for some future Date on the subject of getting one s head blown off. Civilian manufacturers and nauseating they were caused Many an unrecognized wound ulcers. At least our boys boy we hated that regardless of race Creed or color of today Don t have to put up with that aspect of gripes. Civilians Don t sacrifice anything another terribly annoying thing was the cloying and mawkish insistence of Advertis ers to Tell us what we were fighting  there was a strange and mis taken idea that we were fighting for mom s Apple  an exceedingly Good Gripe was the movies we got concern ing where we were. The gis in the South Pacific movie always looked like Dick Powell coming out of Abercrombie and Fitch my interest in this particular with Betty Grable in a Sarong. Subject the one of go griping is neither Dove nor Hawk. I am an excedrin owl every time i try to find any logic in anything i get a headache and fall out of my tree my interest i that i spent three years in the South Pacific and Betty Grable was not there. Boy was Betty Grable not there. The movies too often made the Pacific islands All neat and Tudball therapy class at Belle vue. I understand the european theater of operations also was misrepresented. We viewed civilians with con tempt of course. The "4-f" was roundly booed traction splints and All. Nobody burned draft cards in those Days preferring to Par boil an occasional draft dodger but our White hot anger was reserved for the defense Plant worker who had an a for excellent Pennant in the de sense Effort. That was the generalization the shipyard worker for some reason was the specific term he held a riveting gun while driving his Caddy to pick up the blonde you used to know in at Lanta. Boy we hated him with a passion that Only True envy Sparks. So Reading about enemy Flag carriers picketing Green berets and the like i would be inter ested to know what gripes his tory will evolve from this War. It May take a lot of history there Are so Many gripes i Ima the swim Rake Guerand Reathan r  Ivy Mieres is Inai Ino runs i ii. -. Of a Journeyman Griper. Regular pretty and the troops look like Gine it s hard to make a Clear s to a  b am a. A Lra army ret. Looking Back and in ratio to the cause for beefing among current troops in or near combat our old gripes seem pitiable inadequate and dated although they seemed perfectly splendid at the time. Near the top of the list w a civilian  the fact that civilians actually complained about things like Gas and food rationing sent us into frenzied and Noble fury. The fact that torn fat cat civilian had to make do with pork chops instead of sirloin made us see red. Weren t we heroes out Here braving shot and Shell and to Liting on a rations recess at the Uso when in real Ity everything looked like the Clayton Fritchey Cut Choice. Distributed by Mcnaught Syndicate inc. My love this election year. It s full of visionaries and dreamers m Washington one important reason that sen. Eugene Mccarthy s Campaign managers think they can ultimately win increasing party support is the Tol interest of numerous influential democrats who Are running for office themselves this year. Many if not most of these candidate for governor Nator would normally prey Coart alls Are the Best. In new York for instance the new democratic nominee for the . Senate is Paul o Dwyer. Although he is an old Friend and a former Backer of Hubert Humphrey he wants the vice presi Dent to withdraw from the presidential race. There is nothing per Sonal about this o Dwyer simply wants to run with a Winner and in the new York primary race Mccarthy won about five times As Many delegates As Humphrey. Others have not been As Blunt gives the greatest Assurance yet of an open democratic Conven Tion. The Public has vividly demonstrated that it wants a voice in the future course of  Wayne Morse another old Mccarthy and Kennedy divid ing up the other 88 per cent. Like California Pennsylvania is supposed to have been lined up by the professionals for Humphrey but Mccarthy s smashing Success in that state s non bind  tsar a wire dining Fri Minnar and Cong Fouli wow t the fact of course that Tho near be Loyal to Tho administration Ett enemy might at the moment but in the nature of things the be 325 Miles away and the first order of business it loyalty 9ratest immediate physical to their own candidacies. Natu �"t.7v.w danger Lay in getting trampled rally they want a presidential at o Dwyer but them u a now in the Rush to the Chow Hall Lent nominee who can carry their Pon Siveney even in Tate like Wade no difference it Wai states and help them set elected. Illinois where the democratic to principle , question Mot in at machine is supposed to have it the Adt placed by Lilly Willy Taal a dozen or so states where All wrapped up for Humphrey. Then have been primaries or u h a a other popular contests Mccarthy s string of victories has raised the opinions expire de in the column Ana cartoon on Thea Page rope went woe of i author Ana Are in no way10 be considered a resenting a now however we have the machine s senatorial candidate William 0. Clark saying sen. For the Senate in Oregon. Morse did not take sides in Oregon s presidential primary election in which Mccarthy got 45 per cent of Hie vote As against a 3 per cent write in for Humphrey. Morse has now dropped his neutrality. He wants to run with Mccarthy. In California Republican gov. Ronald Reagan and democratic Boss Jesse Unruh have never seen Eye to by on anything except their opinion that Mccarthy is a stronger candidate than the vice president. In California s june 4 Mccarthy got to Humphrey s a avs was Ajr a Jar Zzz i or tva2T& is Zuj in 7  the. He Virto a.  i. I. 9lh. Only 12 p. . ,., via the regulars. 428,000 votes 42,000 write ins. Sen. Abe Rilcoff up for re election is also caught in a fight Between the old Connecticut political machine backing Humphrey and a rebellious popular movement supporting Mccarthy. The personal concern of the various state candidates has of course been magnified by the latest National Public opinion polls which confirm the verdict of the primaries that Mccarthy is presently the strongest candidate in either party and still climbing. New Uay inc