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
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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.
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