RICHARD M. NIXON
37th President
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Nixon takes office oath,
launches administration
From AP Reports
President Richard M. Nixon launched his ad
ministration Monday with a pledge to consecrate
his office, “my energies and all the wisdom 1 can
summon, to the cause of peace among nations.”
Shielded by the tightest, security ever devised
for an inauguration. Nixon was sworn in as the
37th president of the United States by Chief
Justice Earl Warren, a one-time political foe.
As the totems of power passed from Lyndon
Johnson to Richard Nixon, from Democrat to Re
publican, from "Great Society” to “Forward To
gether” helicopters carrying Secret Servicemen
hovered in the leaden skies nearby.
Capital streets, damp from three days of rain,
were lined with more than 10.000 soldiers and
stands where victorious Republicans jostled with
antiwar protestors.
In outlying areas of the capital armed National
Guardsmen patrolled with city police. Mingling
in the downtown crowds were plainclothes experts
from Chicago, New York and Philadelphia.
Before Nixon took the oath, his vice president,
Spiro T. Agnew, was sworn in by Senate Minority
Leader Everett M. Dirksen. Agnew is the first man
since Henry Wallace in 1940 to become vice
president without serving in Congress, aides said.
Gathered around Nixon on the platform outside
the Capitol were many of the nation’s leaders—
including the Republican and Democratic chiefs of
Congress and the Nixon Cabinet—as well as the
outgoing president and vice president—Lyndon B.
Johnson and Hubert H. Humphrey.
Nixon and his vice president, Spiro T. Agnew,
went through the outdoor ceremony without top
coats despite the 35 degree chill ol' the gray day.
From a hospital bed a scant three miles from the
inaugural scene, former President Dwight D.
Eisenhower sent a message urging his countrymen
to unite behind the man who served him as vice
president for eight years.
"The nature of the next four years is in the
hands ol all the people," said Eisenhower who is
making a slow recovery at Walter Reed Army
Hospital from his seventh heart attack.
"No longer are we partisans in a presidential
campaign," said Eisenhower. "Now we are Ameri
cans together.”
The 77-year-old general, stricken by his last
attack just hours after urging the Republican
National Convention to nominate Nixon, ended his
message with Nixon’s inaugural theme:
"Forward together.”
After seeing Nixon take the oath of office at
the Capital, iormer President Johnson drove to
the home of his secretary of defense. Clark M.
Clifford, for a luncheon with some of his old as
sociates.
The last thing on his schedule for .Monday; a
flight on an Air Force plane to his ranch in Texas.
At the same time President Nixon was climbing
the steps to review the Inaugural Parade, John
son was boarding the Air Force plane to fly to
Texas.
In tiie text of his inaugural address, Nixon
said that at home the nation faces a crisis of the
spirit and needs an answer of the spirit.
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Vol. LXVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1969
Faculty, students respond to address
Nixon s talk brings reaction
By LINDA MEIER JURGEN
Of the Emerald
University reactions to Presi
dent Richard Nixon’s inaugura
tion today were largely nega
tive, especially concerning a
tightening of purse strings by
the new administration.
Acting University President
Charles Johnson said: “I think
probably that the question of
the effect on higher education
depends to a large effect, on
what happens to the war in
Vietnam and other defense ex
penditures. I haven’t seen any
thing that would indicate a
change in policy in respect to
the policy regarding higher ed
ucation.
’’Therefore, it seems that so
far as support is concerned, we
are looking for availability of
funds in non-military expendi
tures. In any expansion of the
domestic program, higher edu
cation will command its share
of attention.”
In general the “new Nixon”
approach to America's problems
was cited as wrong, ineffective
or irrelevant by those inter -
viewed.
Most adopted a wait and see
attitude.
“I’m not optimistic about the
approach he’s taking,” ASUO
President Dick Jones said, “but
I’m willing to wait and see
what he says and does.”
“There is a lot of pressure
for unity and a hope that he
won’t destroy the domestic pro
grams started in the Johnson
administration. I'm afraid he
may scrap a lot of them. By
turning them over to the busi
ness community he is really
giving business the control and
increasing their profits,” he said.
Jones said students could
work most eff ectively on the stu
dent, local and state government
level to accomplish their goals
—better than on the federal
level. One group functioning on
the federal level will be the lob
bying service of the National
Student Association (NSA).
Jones said they will continue to
lobby for the 18-year-old vote,
against the draft and on other
issues of concern to students.
If Nixon is going to up the
profits of businessmen, as Jones
believes, he is apparently going
to get the money to do so from
other areas of government. Sev
eral University programs are al
ready feeling the pinch from
congressional cutbacks in this
year’s budget.
Mary Hall, director of the Uni
versity Office of Federal Rela
tions said: “I expect the new ad
ministration will have an impact
on the types and amounts of
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Police stop agitators
in counter movement
WASHINGTON </P> — Anti -
war demonstrators trying to
push their way onto President
Nixon's inaugural parade route
were forced back Monday by po
licemen armed with nightsticks
and tear gas equipment.
After remaining out of sight
during the mid-day ceremony
at the Capital that made Nixon
the new President, about 1.000
youths appeared suddenly along
the parade route near the White
House about an hour before
the parade began.
Police backed by paratroop
ers held back the group of anti
war demonstrators but the
youths pelted Nixon’s car with
smoke bombs and other objects.
One soldier was knocked
down by a thrown object and
many of the demonstrators were
arrested. The missiles included
beer cans and clods of dirt.
Nixon, in a heavily armored
limousine surrounded by Secret
Service agents was never in
danger, but the parade picked
up speed to get him by the trou
ble area a few blocks from the
White House.
The youths moved into the
parade area from a park live
blocks away.
Earlier, when Nixon rode to
the Capital to take the oath of
office, the demonstrators were
hardly in evidence.
Where 5,000 youths had
marched the day before, only
about 40 were gathered on a
street corner as Nixon and out
going President Johnson drove
past in their bubble-topped lim
ousine trailed by Secret Service
cars.
Nixon gave the group only the
briefest glance and Johnson
looked the other way. A feeble
chant of “Peace Now” followed
the car, but died quickly.
In their counter-parade Sun
day, however, the youthful pro
testers showed they have elevat
ed Nixon to the position of No. 1
target for their demonstrations
and the new president was made
sharply aware of what life in the
bull’s-eye is going to be like.
Nixon masks and effigies were
featured in a counter-inaugural
parade by 5,000 demonstrators
Sunday.
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Pearl instructs
alienation class
By MATT McCORMICK
Of the Emerald
“Sem Alienat Youth 3 Ed
407 6551 7-10 M 150Sc. Pearl
NG.”
More University students sign
ed up for the above course
than for any other class this
term. Arthur Pearl, professor
of education, instructs 1,300
students each week in his sem
inar on alienated youth in Am
erican society today.
The first time the class met
two weeks ago in 150 Science,
the University’s largest class
| room (518 seats) was filled to
overflowing. Pearl broke the
class into 100 groups, each
I group consisting of 12 students
I and a student leader.
I While one half of the discus
1 sion sections disperse through
I out the University to hold con
ferences, the other half is in
150 Science listening to his lec
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NO SEATS AVAILABLE IN 150 SCIENCE
1300 enrolled in Alienated Youth