European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pc Ihidoy january 28, 196 the stars and stripes Page 9 Max Lerner Nixon speech emment i hard inaugural speech Cam not from tit experts but from a waitress in a Coffee hop he did t prompt any tiling she said that he can t carry  the fact is the were no Promise at All in the speech except the Promise to Fry hard. Ther wat nothing about pro Grams there was no talk about priorities except the vague one of peace. It was a speech of exhortation to Unity and of Dedica Tion to High moral purpose and As such a fitting sequel to or. Billy Graham s rousing perform Ance and those of All the of her divines of every persuasion who seemed to dominate the Day. By candidly telling us that he hat been studying past inaugural speeches or. Nixon invites a comparison of his own with them. It was not As Long or Windy As William Henry Harrison be Ras Short and earthy As Andrew Jackson i not Ai Brilliant and philosophical a Jeffersons a not As prosaic As those of Harding Coolidge Hoover Artel Eisenhower not As rhythmic and soph uti rated As Wilson and Kennedy a not As buoyant As Franklin Roose velt a not As tragically profound As Lincoln s. While it was not either in ideas or phrasing a speech that will rank anywhere hear the immortal ones it was in its own Way a Good speech Prelec Ting Nixon s self image faithfully Pru Dent in not boxing Nixon in and thus reducing his options when he will have to act. It said Little and said it passably Well. But mainly it fitted in with the mood of the people far better than most Wishful democrats would agree. The capacity to sense the decent society emerging mood of the Large mid dle class of America and the refusal to be swept along by the current wave of the future May be the chief Quality that Richard Nixon will bring to the first year of his presidency. It won t be the Quality of a great legislator or an inspiring imaginative Leader but Don t underestimate it. When Calvin Coo Lidge came into office Justice Holmes wrote to a Friend i Don t expect very much from the pres ident and i Don t want very  i suspect that this expresses the mood of Many americans today. Nixon paid his obeisance to the restless Young and to the anguished suffering poor Black and White but mainly he talked to Middle class americans. They did to expect deathless phase from him. What they want most after ail the confrontations and anger and hate is a breathing spell in which America can catch up with the gains registered on its statute books and its con science. Will the new president achieve this he will try. That along with All the flowery embellishments of rhetoric is what i take to be the essential message of his inaugural. One notes that or. Nixon stayed Clear of giving his coming administration any key phrase except the drab one of Forward  other presidents have tried from Theodore Roosevelt s new nationalism and Wilson s new Freedom. What hints Are there in Nix on s speech from which a slogan for his administration might emerge he asks americans to lower our voices but the quiet society would hardly do. Neither would the relaxed society Al though he does ask in effect for a breathing spell from All the tension and turmoil. In a notable sentence he asked his fellow citizen to surmount what divides us and Cement what unites  i happen to feel that the re knitting of the Cement of fragmented society is the crucial task facing America but i fear that the phrase a cohesive society would inspire few people. But there is another sentence with More Promise the decent order that makes Progress Possi ble and life  i Trust that Nixon did t mean this in the or Der in which we aim at decent living standards and a decent Quality of life for All and which must be both orderly and dynamic at the same time. In this sense i can imagine his continuing in later speeches a plea not for any great society but for something More modest and co passable the decent society. C 1969. Lot Angele time Henry j. Taylor negro fanatics hate the jews and Stop calling me boy1 the new York metropolitan museum of Art s curator of paint Ings Theodore Rousseau jr., one of the Ablest in his Field is faced by 10 defaced paintings including Rembrandt s Christ with a Pilgrim s  the de facing is a knifed a presumably for Harlem. The uproar with chanting pickets and All was a protest against the museum s Harlem on my mind exhibition and the keynote is an in discussed nationwide backlash that explodes in the More aggressive negro organizations behind the scenes and tragically complicates the nation s racial problem. It is anti semitism and it is High time that the Sham of this be torn away and by exposure the pleas of moderate negro leaders be heeded. Like cholera it contains the danger of spread ing any advances by negroes Are attributed to a guilty conscience among Whites and Are called merely defensive. The jewish peo ple have been the largest Money supporters of the a act. This is sneered at surely the negro in our coun try is much better off than Ever before. Foi example a larger percentage of our negro Popula Tion now goes to College and graduates than the percentage of England s White population goes to College. But such advances Are ignored. Their purpose is not to com pos but to annihilate not to reconcile but to crush not to build but to destroy. Ther can be no divided allegiance Here. Any Man who fays he is an american but also something else in t an Ameri can at All. Meanwhile there Are Only 20.$ million negroes in the United states out of 202 million and Les than 14 million jew in the world of whom just 5.7 million Are americans an Over Allna tonal total astoundingly less than generally supposed. The introduction to the metro Politan museum s catalogue of the Harlem on my mind exhibition reads behind every hurdle the afro american has yet to jump stands a jew who has Al ready cleared it. Blacks May find that anti jewish sentiments place them for once within a majority. Thus our contempt for the jew makes us feel More completely american in sharing a National  c 19s9 United feature Syndicate inc. Vera Glaser Nixon s no. 1 negro is vague in choosing his link to the nation s negroes Richard Nixon May be sending a boy to do a Man s Job. Robert j. Brown is the new presidential aide with the super sensitive task of building the Nixon administration s image among minority groups. He is a tall Good looking 33-year-old negro who left a lucrative pub Lic relations business in High Point n.c., presumably to help enhance the Black Man s status in America. In his first Washington inter View which was tape recorded or. Brown s concept of his mis Sion appeared fuzzy. Questions on Black capitalism and other areas of concern Drew vague imprecise replies. Emphasizing that he is a Generalli or. Brown said or. Nixon did t hire anyone to Deal with Black problems per  he said his first months in the White House will be spent surveying existing programs studying in coming proposals travelling and speaking. Although he predicted that Well be involving private re sources As they be never been involved in this country before or. Brown was unclear about the Means. Finally he said the mechanism would be revealed later. The following questions were put to or. Brown when president Nixon appointed you precisely How did he spell out your assignment what part of your task do you View As most pressing what Are your goals in help ing minority groups do you have any preliminary thoughts about How to go about achieving them have you familiarized yourself with the work of other agencies such As the Small business administration and the equal employment Opportunity com Mission in assisting negroes to build their own businesses or find jobs stripped of irrelevancies or. Brown s replies fall into the god love and country Cate gory of political cliches with few if any specifics for achievement. In essence he Saidi to must bring people to Gether. We must Cut red tape. We must Speed things up. We must get government and private Enterprise working together. We must have an information Clearing House. Fire bombs Are not the an  at one Point Brown abandoned generalities to As Sert people ought to have the Opportunity to own Post offices government buildings factories and retail  such a shift from Federal to private ownership if seriously contemplated would require congressional action. Asked if he sees a need for new legislation in the areas with which he will Deal Brown re plied. Offhand i can t think of  during the Johnson administration the top ranking negro was associate counsel Robert the opinion exp ewed in the column Sand cartoon on this Page represent those of the author and Are in no Wayto to considered at representing the View of the Star and Stripe itself roof the United state government. Taylor jr., who was subsequently named a director of the Export import Bank. Now in private Law practice Taylor represents some of the nation s largest corporations. Taylor s White House Succes Sor Clifford Alexander jr., an other negro is now chairman of the equal employment Opportunity commission. Both men worked closely with Johnson. Negro republicans Are saying openly that the first and most prestigious appointment to the Nixon White House has gone to a  if the magnitude of the economic and social problems involved they believe requires an official with the background Assurance and authority to move easily through the official and party hierarchies. Brown a former Democrat served on Nixon s travelling Campaign press staff. He was recommended for the $28,000-a year Post he said by White House counsel John Erlichmann. The salary according to Brown represents a financial  North american newspaper Alliance