European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 25, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 9 Nixon is owed the Chance to make Good the people who were 10 a term led to Gat Lyndon Johnson out of the while House have now sic needed the new left the Harvard intellectuals the Black Radical the Wallace Tei and dispirited democrats. Together with the republicans they just happened to have com prised a majority of the voter on nov. 5. They helped make pos sible the political resurrection of Richard Nixon. Now he s in the White House if not yet in the hearts of All the voters. And the question i whether they will give him a Chance to make Good or whether they will try to 4.f. Ter Horst hound him out of office too. It Ifor his part my. Nixon seems willing to go More than half Way. If there was on Therne to his inaugural address it was the Mes Sage of reconciliation not Only for nations across the sea but for the disenchanted rebels across the Street. If they do not. Now give him a fair hearing and an Opportunity to redeem his pledges they do not deserve to be listened to. The several Hundred teenagers who tried to disrupt the inaugural Parade were but a rag tag rabble and the few who hurled Sticks and bottles at or Nixon s limousine rate even less of a compliment. The truly concerned Young people had mainly re turned to their campuses the Day before having made their pro f test in More or ims peaceful manner. Recognizing that Washington is not Chicago and that the metropolitan police Are not mayor Daley bully boys even Davtd Detlinger took pains to notify Washington s press corns that the National mobilization com Mittee was having no part of any inaugural Day confrontation by the Motley band of White teeny toppers who wandered about looking for excitement. The shame of it All is that once again the nation and the world May have gotten the impression that Washington was an ugly place on inauguration Day. It was not. Indeed the bitter wind and frigid air did More to Dampen morale than the entire Assem Bly of counter inaugural demonstrators try As they might. It was or. Nixon who lifted Washington s spirits at this time of transition of Power who ended a Long silence about his objectives and who charted his course for the next four years. For reasons unknown the Elo Quence of his Tongue did not match the eloquence of his words. But those who treasure moments in history should put Nixon s inaugural address alongside John Kennedy s of eight years ago. They Are of the same cloth offer ing Hope and Challenge to a world hungering for leadership. The soviets do not need to be told of the importance of or. Nixon s remarks. Nor do the chinese communists or the North vietnamese or even a pair of Uncertain allies South Vietnam Ese president Thieu and French president de Gaulle. They Are ready to rest or. Nixon s sincer Ity in seeking a world in which nations Are at least civil to each other if not Friendly. But the litmus test in mainly Here at Home for or. Nixon and for the nation he seeks to Lead. And it would help if the angry people in the country would pause Long enough to let his words Wayt be con to Rcd at representing the View oth met and Stripe Ruelf roof the United Sutow government. Jurisdiction clipping their fat cats of the fur they believed was rightfully theirs. Unlike the Kennedy machine which organized its 1960 Victory Down to the last mailman pres ident Johnson simply ignored the democratic political organizations. Practically All of the Ken Nedy Cabinet members continued to such an extent that the president s five year term is More properly called the Johnson presidency than the Johnson administration. The policies were ibis but the administration of them was by Juk holdovers. Johnson staked All on new legislation not administration and he won. But As president he fought to a finish the quarrel he and Ray Burn had with the democratic National committee. It was a Dou Bio knockout. The president did not say Goodby. He and the democratic National committee had said their goodbye the Day he took office. North american newspaper Alli inc