European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 27, 1968 the stars and stripes Page t Max Werner conventions Don t answer big questions there Are two questions Shaf very presidential convention has to answer. One is what kind of president do the dete Otei want the other what kind of parly do they want neither gets really answered because neither is squarely con fronted. The first is usually rephrased into which of the available men with whom we can live will win for us the other Usu ally follows from the first we want the kind of party that will be big enough for the rejected but that will rally around the  this fits what happened to the publicans at Miami Beach but not what is happening to the democrats at Chicago they say Little about what makes a Good president but Are waging a Sharp inner struggle to decide what the identity of the party will be. All the candidates except Lester Maddox agree that the delegations must represent the new Black voters As Well As the Whites although they Dis agree on what state delegations should be changed. The real trouble lies elsewhere with the efforts of one segment of the party to use a deep difference on the Vietnam Issue As a reason for rejecting not Only the opposing Candi Date but the party itself and for starting a new fourth or will it be fifth party. Meanwhile what counts most for the nation remains woefully Undt cussed what kind of pres ident does America need in a time of global turmoil racial conflict and widespread unrest i see a president s qualities under five headings although obviously the divisions Are artificial since All must be part of the same living functioning Man. 1the qualities of knowledge intellect and insight in a Job which demands More of each than any other in the world. Good staff work can repair some of the defects of knowledge but intellect and insight cannot be delegated. This is where experience in government and in life counts. Being a Egghead helps but it in t essential. A Man must have been through the Battles touched All the big problems sweated blood in striving for their solution. 2qualities of personality and character. Is the Man credible As a person can you Trust him this is where the Quality of Cour age comes in provided it does t go with a Martyr com plex. This is where integrity comes in again provided a Man does t believe he is the Only one who has it. This is also where you have to balance consistency with the capacity for change. Here is the graveyard of Many politicians who succumb to being Machiavelo Lis or who change their skins of opinion and personality with every changing wind or who in the opposite directions be come so pure that they become isolated As Woodrow Wilson did in his time of troubles. 3qualities of maturity and judgment. The problem Here is not to be governed by impulse or ideology nor to wreak your inner personal conflicts on your decisions but to act or refrain from acting with a Cool and Calm intelligence. Age has Little to do with it but what you have made of your experience and your mistakes has much to do with it. 4the Quality of command. This includes Many things Energy that communicates itself to others and the Quality of will and the capacity to make Deci Sions and live with them until they have to be changed and clarity amidst the confusion of others and direction amidst the Cross purposes of others. This is where an activist Conception of the presidency comes in. 5the Quality of relating to others. A president has always had to act As educator and carry on a genuine dialogue with the people. But today he must know As never before How to relate to those who feel out of things to the disinherited negroes and poor to the Young who feel estranged from the world they never made to those in the cities White and Black alike who feel endangered by the increase in violence. The candidate who most clearly had this Quality of relating Robert Kennedy is dead. Those who re main have shown it Only spot tily not strongly. I leave for the last a Quality related to All the others the president As a Symbol. He must be Able to attract and organize the Best brains in the service of the nation and give the world the sense when he Speaks and acts that he does so not for one class or race or generation but for the whole society. Is this perfectionist i Don t mean it to be but Only a touch Stone to see which of the Avail Able men comes even within hailing distance of it. C 1968, los Angeles time Russ simplify . Voting j. F. Ter Horst the crisis in Czechoslovakia offers american voters a unique Opportunity to weigh the Candi dates running for the presidency this year. The test is a simple one which of the candidates would you prefer to have in the White House right now in deter mining . Response to the soviet thrust which Man would make the Best decision for this country with president Johnson firmly in control at least until his term ends next january the question May seem academic right now. But it s certain to be asked with increasing frequency in one fashion or another by the candidates themselves Between now and the november election. The czech affair mirroring the Kremlin s continuing threat to world stability Sharpens the foreign policy concerns of the voters and the parties. It adds a new dimension to the Vietnam controversy and raises anew the Issue of Ameri can priorities overseas. If the crisis worsens it May very Well replace Domestic concern for Law and order As the number one Issue of the Campaign. Richard m. Nixon tried hard to get elected in 1960 on the premise that he was a Tough anti communist and a protege of the Eisenhower administration who knew How to Deal with the russians. Before every audience that Campaign year Nixon invariably asked this question which candidate can Best defend Freedom around the world and keep the peace without surrender it was t quite Good enough to beat John f. Kennedy but might it be Good enough this year to beat vice president Hubert h. Humphrey the expected nominee of the democratic con the opinions expressed in i column and Hartooni on Tel Paa it print wow or the author and a in it Way a con Ledere a  the View of Thart and to Rupee itself or mention this week the czech crisis has markedly simplified the voters problems. Prospects of a new round in the old cold War will mean a hard ening of attitudes toward the communist world. There will be less talk now of building Bridges across the Iron curtain of negotiating with the Kremlin or of reducing Ameri Ca s already modest troop strength in Western Europe. In terms of Vietnam there probably will be less talk about trying to work out an accommodation with the communist re Gime in Hanoi. All this is bad news for sen. Eugene Mccarthy the leading democratic peace candidate. By moving into Czechoslovakia the soviet Bear has stepped on the Dove s wings. The next effect As seen Here is to assist Humphrey s quest for the Nomina Tion. Only the genuine danger of a new world War is Likely to pro Duce a draft Johnson Boom at this late stage of the selection process. Short of that the real political beneficiary of the soviet move is Richard Nixon. Ironically Nixon was about to shift his soviet attitude for this Campaign and indeed had already begun to do so. At the Miami Beach Conven Tion two weeks ago he said the cold War atmosphere of the 1960 Campaign had to be replaced with a new emphasis on get Ting along with Moscow. In his acceptance speech Nixon declared to the leaders of the communist world we say after an Era of confrontation the time has come for an Era of negotiations. But we shall always negotiate from strength and never from  in View of the czech experience Nixon now will say that Only a Republican administration can properly end the War in Vietnam and restore . Strength to the Point where the russians will think twice before embarking on such military adventures. There s one irony about the czech crisis the russians May have overlooked. By moving into Czechoslovakia they probably have doomed Mccarthy whom they like and aided Nixon whom the that not the script the Krem we must vote for Nixon no telling How in had in mind for America s be 11 take another defeat and i won t newspaper . Ov6 i t of toy c of  i 61106. " . Times growls at russians the new York times is fight ing mad. It has attacked Russia in print and its Lead editorial the Day after the soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia Call the act a brutal retrogression to the suppression is spirit that erased Freedom in Hungary in 1956. Err Rel what really angers the new York times editorialists is that the ability of the United states to do anything beyond diplomatic protest is gravely limited by its Over involvement in the morass of  Sid Goldberg in other words if Only there were no . Involvement in Vietnam the times would have us believe it would Call on Uncle Sam to Roll up his sleeves and get Lough with Russia. Presumably the new York times laments the fact that be cause of our Over involvement in Vietnam we can t stand up to Russia militarily Over Czechoslovakia. For there is nothing about the Vietnam War that pre vents America from imposing economic sanctions against the so Viets yet the times does not Call for them. Let there be no doubt How Ever that the self styled most influential newspaper in America can be Tough toward foreign troublemakers when it wants to. It fearlessly supports economic sanctions against Rhodesia be cause that country by not establishing a one Man one vote democracy has incited the warlike rage of such african democracies As Tanzania Ethiopia the United Arab Republic and Algeria. With Tongue removed from Cheek the unfortunate fact is that the new York times re serves its moral courage for firm stands against countries that Are smaller than the United states. It has taken a get Tough attitude toward Rhodesia Spain Cuba under Batista and All the Small time dictatorships of latin America. It even attacked Indonesia s Sukarno once he was out of Power. That s Why there is a credibility Gap in the times editorial policy on soviet aggression. Tho paper assumes the stance of the braggart who safely held Back by his companions wrestles vainly to get free so he can take on the barroom bully roaring lemme at  for we All know and the times knows that even if there were no Vietnam War the old Gray lady of 43rd Street would Call for nothing More than ver Bally slapping the wrists of the bad boys in the Kremlin. C North american newspaper