European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday May 15, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 15 John p. Roche machiavellian advice to Carter could backfire Well. Who would have thought it Jimmy Carter has Machiavelli in the while House closet Patrick h. Caddell. This came to Light when some anti intellectual in Orcsi dance leaked Caddell s 56-Page version of the Prince to the last december it is quite a document. Presidents have Long been told the Virtues of positive thinking but cad Dell hit a novel note he focused on the merits of charismatic inertia too Many Good people have been beaten because they tried to substitute substance for style observed Niccolo Caddell to the Georgia Lorenzo. He proceeded to indicate in hegelian marxist terms that since neither the thesis nor inc Antithesis would pro vide any political mileage the thing to Dowas wait for a new synthesis smiling All the while. He also recommended a number of cosmetic ventures fireside chats visits with folks around the country and a cutback on limousines As standby Mea sures while the president waited for Hegel s world spirit to do its thing. Providing philosophical advice to princes is an ancient and As Caddell May discover risky Art. Plato spent a couple of years slaving in sicilian mines when the tyrant of Syracuse rejected his admonitions and Machiavelli died broke. In Carter s Case i announced Las summer that basically his style was his substance. But then i was t looking for a Job. Though not the seventh son of a seventh son in the gaelic tradition i have always known in Advance the Day and hour of the trains i would miss. However setting out the president s posture in this realistic fashion is hardly a political the great s first Book was entitled the Voltaire then remarked that the first thing a machiavellian would do was denounce Machia Velli. But he was a Well known Wise Guy and Frederick remained the great de spite his Patent cynicism. His Cannon were inscribed ultimate ratio Begum the ultimate Lesili Bizalion of Kings forgive this compulsive pedantry i am a professor of political theory. But putting aside the fun and games even assuming that Jimmy May not have followed the hegelian references Loo closely what Are the practical premises of Caddell s tract Here 1 can speak from personal experience. Well meaning High theorists used to ship president Johnson extensive reflections on his character and the appropriate philosophical course of his administration. Some ran to Iso pages. Inevitably they would land on my desk with a note what s he trying to say or some variant query. Johnson wanted desperately to be Laken seriously by the intellectuals was an extraordinarily intelligent Man. But could hardly take time out from Vietnam or the Middle East to absorb Iso i would take the treatises Home labor through them and present him with sum Maries. After we got to know each other Well i would add a Grade the highest Ever awarded was one a plus. In essence the advice came Down to Stop being Lyndon the options suggested ranged from Winston Churchillo Jesus Christ invariably he was urged to communicate with the american people and from 1966 on a common theme was Don t lose Vietnam but quit this was quite unrealistic lbs for better or worse was lbs incapable of being born again either As Winston Churchill or Jesus Christ. Indeed because he was somebody a elemental giant he generated intense love and intense hatred. If i had Ever gone into the Oval office and said you must stress style Over substance he would have choked me with his Bare hands. And by god Given the Liberal commitments of the democratic party i would have deserved now comes Niccolo Caddell with a trea Tise which must have received an a from his master otherwise the president Wouldhave kicked him through the French win Dows. His advice translated into my English is when in doubt smile. When George Meany growls about unemployment Visita veterans Hospital in Iowa and smile. When you learn that 1977 inflation is run Ning at Over 13 per cent close Down two fancy dining rooms at the Pentagon fire Joe Califano s chef and Short since nobody in the United states really believes anything the Way Roget reelected in 1980 and Caddell is Al ready on the track is to avoid All matters of substance and smile. I doubt if cad Dell will suffer the plight of Plato but if the president takes his advice they both May be unemployed in 1981. It King pm term William or. V is Bem i Light a where does Carter go from Here a week on the Road persuades you that there is one and Only one persistent question on people s minds. It is what do you think of Jimmy Carter h bespeaks an anxiety to think something about him Dif Ferent from the usual characterizations All the More because they Are not by an Means identical. People want to know what Jimmy Carter is really like. People both Hope that he is holding out on them and fear he is holding out on them. There is the useful Wisecrack in a play of Oscar Wilde i Hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and More really Good All the time. That would be by much is Safe to say. What is unsafe i la say later. If Carter turned to Morrow to the left he would disappoint and Surprise about half his constituents. If tomorrow he turned to the right he would disappoint and Surprise about half his constituents. As he stands both groups tend to co Opl him. It is not a bad position to Are vaguely pleased that he has put off elaborate new Federal pro Grams most particularly the further socialization of Medicine and welfare Reform defined As a Preemption of Wel fare As a Federal concern. They arc pleased that he has not yet been snookered columns comments by the communists thus setting a record for democratic presidents who typically give away an invaluable resource within a _. _ _ Hundred Days or so of taking Power. And Back from Salt ii having lost our cruise they Are pleased that he did not bestir him missile in return for nothing very much self to bring on either the repeal of i b of Tito should in the period immediately particularly when aimed at countries for which they feel a visceral dislike. These Are countries that have refused some times by the use of Force to permit communication. The prime offender since the death of Franco is Chile. Carter scored heavily when in a single statement he denounced Chile Argentina and Uruguay. His sallies against soviet oppression Are Welcome but a Little More timid. You see the liberals do not want to go Back atavistic Cally to the cold War. They would rather lose it. They also like Carter s Republican style. It is nigh time the president of the United states carried his own tend to the belief it is High time the president emptied his briefcase. What is unsafe to say about Carter i where he will go from Here. Will the Energy program be encumbered with barnacles each representing a special interest will a letter to Sakharov one year hence be suddenly inconceivable will we come wow Lun Loffi or step offs my is Shu. At a the National labor relations act or to give the unions com onsite picketing liberals arc pleased that he has not put an end to the Purchase of Rhodesia Chrome it has been years since they slept peacefully worrying about All that Rhode Sian Chrome coming in from that illegal country. They Are pleased that he has articulated an Energy policy that bristles with rhetoric against daddy warbucks types w Hether Oil and Gas producers Broil and Gas . They Are clearly attracted to the glorious possibilities inherent in taxi Gas and automobiles and re mitting the proceeds to the liberals favorite people the poor and the people the poor vote for. Namely the liberals their friends and the bureaucracy. They like Carter s human rights talk ahead join his ancestors and the soviet Union were to touch off local disturbances will we stand in the Way of Russia s 25-year-old dream of re acquiring effective Power in Yugoslavia candidate carte seemed to be saying so but then that was the same hour during which the president of the United Stales told us that Poland was already free so maybe it was an of night. What if inflation Back to say 9 or 10 per cent two or More Points higher than they arc now talking it will be Brac ing to see or. Carter Lake a step More re publican even than carrying his own briefcase. He might periodically remind us that we Are a self governing people and thai for the answers to these questions we should look mostly to the Congress not to the president
