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President C/\r/l ■Pres. Ford proud of his accomplishments, ■ ^ "claims responsibility for lower inflation Since taking over the office of President, Republican Gerald Ford points to his re cord as a measure of achievement. Reagan: Ronald Reagan, former governor of California and Re publican candidate for Presi dent, says the federal gov ernment has grown too large. “We can and must reverse the flow of power to Washing ton,” he says. “The more gov ernment we can keep at local Harris: Former Oklahoma senator Fred Harris regards the fight against class and privilege in this country as the key issue in the presidential race. And he still supports that stand al though he has formally drop ped out of the race. Harris, a Democrat, says, “The fundamental problem is that too few people have all the Page 2 Section B Ford was appointed vice president by Richard Nixon at the resignation of Spiro Agnew in October 1973, and took the presidential reins in August 1974 at Nixon’s resignation. He doesn’t believe the way he reached office has hurt him, however, and says that during his administration, the inflation rate has been cut almost in half. He is proud to point out that 1.8 million more Ameri cans were working in January 1976 than in May 1975. This was done, he says, without runaway government spend ing, a policy he says he has worked to avoid. ‘To put it simply,” he says, Run for the top shifts into high levels in local hands, the better off we are and the more free dom we will have.” He also says that same large government is the cause of our inflation problems. “The basic cause of inflation is government spending more than it takes in...The cure: a balanced budget . ” Reagan believes the United States is losing ground in the arms race. “A decade ago we had military superiority,” he says. “Today, we are in danger of being surpassed by a nation that had never made any effort to hide its hostility to everything we stand for as a nation,” Reagan says. Reagan served as governor of California from 1966 to 1974, and has worked as a columnist and commentator since leaving public office. Anti-elite, but out of the race money and power, and every body else has very little of either.” Harris says he would cut the defense budget by $14.7 biB ion in the first year, force auto companies to make ail cars give at least 22 miles per gal ion and develop oil and other energy resources on public lands through a pubic energy corporation. Harris scoffs at liberals who search for a “higher purpose than economic self-interest, saying “that is the higher pur pose.” Harris served in the Ok lahoma State Senate from 1956 to 1974 when he was elected to fill an unexpired term in the U S. Senate. He was re-elected in 1966, but chose not to run in 1972, opt ing to run for President in the last weeks of the year. “we must decide whether we shall continue in the direction of recent years—the path to ward bigger government, higher taxes and higher inflation—or whether we shall now take a new direction." Ford served as Representa tive from Michigan to the U S. House from 1948 to 1973. He held the position of Minority Leader of the House from 1965 to 1973. Church: U.S. Sen. Frank Church, D-ldaho, is a strong supporter of federal aid to education, and sponsored the Federal Aid to Education bill. He also sup ported improvements to the G.l. Bill, giving educational rights to returning Vietnam-era veterans. He has also taken on big business, and has sponsored legislation to close tax loopholes that provide multina tional corporations with incen tives to locate plants abroad rather than at home. He has taken a basically dovish stand on foreign policy. In 1969, he sponsored the Bayh: fr Birch Bayh, U.S. Senator from Indiana and Democratic candidate for President, has formally withdrawn his na tional bid for the post. But, according to Oregon law, the ballot must be drawn up by March 25 by the Secret ary of State, and at that time he Carter: Jimmy Carter, former Gov ernor of Georgia and Democ ratic candidate for President, is a strong proponent of the zero-base budget plan. Under the plan, which he in stituted in Georgia, govern mental agencies would have to present and defend a new budget each year — starting from zero funding. Agencies would not be allowed to tack on automatic percentage in creases as has been practiced Long-time dove makes late bid amendment barnng money foi U S. military operations ir Thailand. In 1970, he co authored the Cooper-Churet" Amendment forbidding th€ expansion of the war intc Cambodia without Congres sional authorization, and th< Case-Church Amendmen which forced the end to th« bombing in Cambodia. Church has served in th< U S. Senate since 1956, and i: chairer of the Senate Commit too nn ininn Brown: Jerry Brown, Governor o California and Democratic candidate for President, i; waging a write-in campaign fo the Oregon vote. He is not on the ballot be cause he had not announcer his candidacy when the Oregon ballot was written, an< had not made any statement: that he would. Since then however, he has run in the Maryland primary and has or ganized a drive in Oregon. short-lived / for the post was judged to be a viable can didate. But he has not formally withdrawn from the Oregor race (some have facetious!' suggested he does not knov he is on the ballot) and hr might use a strong showing ir the relatively-late Oregor Primary as a tool in the upcom ing national convention. Bayh earned his libera reputation by championinc myriad special causes: labor minorities, women and far mers. This made him say hr was the most attractive anc logical candidate for the job From this came the Bayh feel ing that he was electable, anc the Bayh slogan “Yes, He can." Bayh has served as U.S Senator from Indiana since 1963. Primary drive puts him close in Washington for many years. Carter also points out that while serving as Governor of Georgia, he eliminated 278 of 300 agencies by consolidating services duplicated by more than one bureau. This action, he says, cut administrative costs by over 50 per cent. He says he can do the same thing on the federal level. Carter does believe, how ever, that the government should work to create jobs for the nation's unemployed Carter served one term as Governor of Georgia after serving eight years in the Georgia Senate. A late drive for write-in votes f Brown has said his major commitment is to full employ i ment. He is a proponent of shorter work weeks to distri bute the work load among the entire work force. He says he ( is not opposed to job-shanng in which more than one emp ( loye divides the traditional 40-hour week. Brown says the American values need reassessment in terms of fundamental roots “I think our values are a bit out of kilter,'’ he says. “If we think that just producing two and three cars apiece, and an economy of obsolescence and increasing mobility and mater ial accumulation is the good ' life — I don't believe that, and I 1 don’t believe any society has ' survived on that basis " f Brown has been governor of , California since 1974. Friday, May 21, 1876
