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History from the files ef The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years age.
10 YEARS AGO ,
Oct 30, 1850 (Monday)
October this year hai been
the wettest month since
weather recordi have been
kept here with the monthly
total so tar registering 8.87
Inches, 7.58 Inches mora than
normal.
Six officers from the Med
ford police department are
attending a basic police train
ing school which started to
day in Grants Pass.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30, 1940 (Wednesday)
The Medford city council
last night voted to eliminate
the city real estate depart
ment and apportion the work
formerly done by that office
to other departments.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "China
is reported in a mood to Join
the Axis powers, and become
an enemy of democracy.
America should lose no time,
and strain every nerve and
muscle to deliver all relief
rice before the move comes
to pass."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 80. 1930 (Thursday) ,':
A Portland firm was award
ed the contract to pave Crater
Lake highway from Eagle
.Point to Trail.
Special policemen will be
on duty here tomorrow night
which Is Halloween.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30, 1920. (Saturday)
Two respectable gentlemen
engaged in a fist fight in
downtown Medford yesterday
over the proposal to transfer
the courthouse from Jackson
ville to Medford.
' ' Three citizens were fined
$10 yesterday for getting
drunk on lemon extract.
80 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30, 1910 (Sunday)
The city's new water sup
ply system was temporarily
shut down yesterday when
the pipeline crossing little
Butte creek burst,
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine ef ten earner Is aeaeriefi
seven er elf kt la euelleM) five 04
Is la fees'. .
1. Without looking - how
many, holes are on the disk of
a dial telephone?
2. What types of fish are
found In the Great Salt Lake
in UtahT
3. What President of the
United States wrote the first
ten amendments to the U.S.
Constitution?
4 What sea disaster was
partly responsible tor caus
ing the Spanish American
War?
5. What was the first major
league team to win a World
Series?
6. What was the "promised
land" to which Moses led the
Israelites?
7. Where was Simple Si
mon going when he met the
pieman?
8. Do the Green Mountains
of Vermont belong to the Ap
palachian or Bltteroot range?
9. The Ganges river emp
ties Into what body of water?
10. We've heard It did-but
Is it a fact that London bridge
once fell down?
Answers! 1. Ten. 2. None.
3. James Madison. 4. Sinking
of the U.S.S. Maine 5. Red
Sox. (. Canaan (New Pales
line.) 7. To the fair. 9. Appala
chian. 9. Bay ef Bengal. 10.
Yet. A item earned tt away
In 1091.
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County
Over the past several days, we have reviewed,
briefly, every candidate and measure which will
appear on the Nov. 8 election ballot, except the
candidates running for county office.
These local offices district attorney, county
assessor, county commissioner, county treasurer,
and county surveyor are all important posi
tions, even though the races for them lack some
of the drama of those which have received more
publicity.
; County government is close to its own con
stituents, and for this reason the voters have a
somewhat better chance
auainted with the candidates although it must
be admitted they don't
to do so. E. A.
District Attorney
TVia rlinfinnr nttnimpu tpphnifallv is a Rtate
nttinar (tho ato.ro nnva a
but his jurisdiction is limited to this county.
It is a quasi-judicial office, and the incum
bent is called upon to make many decisions af
fecting the rights of his neighbors. He is the
atafn'o wimlnal nrnaerntnr for the fnnnt.v and the
UVMMV eJ vi lelitiliea vwwwvwev owe. , ww-"--
legal advisor for county government. In both
Xl. u1m Iv nn nvnu v...nll lvllllVlAlrt Ml
vl Ulcsc rules, 11c can cacii iiiucii uixiucuic
what sort of a community we have.
He has ,heavy responsibilities, and consider
able discretionary authority to go with them,
WE believe that either of the candidates-r-Alan
Holmes, Republican, and Gerald Scannell
Jr., Democrat would serve ably in the office.
As nearly as we have been able to ascertain,
both are honest, integrious, competent 'lawyers.
Holmes has had experience as a deputy DA,
as municipal judge, and in private practice. On
the basis of experience alone, he probably has
somewhat superior qualifications.
But Scannell has been chief deputy DA for
three years, and had similar experience in an
other county. He has handled much of the trial
work of the office recently, with considerable
success.
So there isn't much
on that score.
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THE choice, then, must be made largely on the
riaai'a nf their nersnnnlU.v nnrl arlihldps.
After consultation with a number of lawyers
for whom we have respect (and in both political
parties, by tne way), we nave come to tne con
clusion that Scannell will be our choice.
We have had our differences with him on the
matter of opinions he has rendered, but on ex
amination they appear to be legally sound, even
though somewhat confusing in syntax.
Believincr that either man would serve ably,
we recommend a vote for
1 " County Commissioner
Paul Rvnninp-. Medford Remiblican. for
- j - t a .
manv vonvs .Tarksnn
veyor, and Edwin H. Taylor, Democrat, Central
Point area farmer and businessman, are the two
candidates for county commissioner.
Both are good men.
On the basis of demonstrated ability and ex
perience, we recommend the election of Paul
Rynning. E.A.
County Assessor
Candidates for assessor are Ray Schumacher,
the incumbent, a Democrat, and Herbert Hunter,
a Republican.
The office is largely a technical one, with
little or no Dolicv-makiner function, but requir
ing ability and experience to do well. We have
heard good reports of the way Schumacher has
conducted the office, and see no reason for a
change. ,
We recommend hjs re-election. E.A.
County Treasurer
' The candidates for treasurer are Chester
Rapp, young Ashland car salesman, a Republi
can, and Karl Janouch, the Democratic incum
bent . .,
Our impressions of this contest are similar
to those concerning the assessor's office election.
We Rpfi nn reason to chance, and thus recommend
the reelection of Karl Janouch. E. A.
County Surveyor
The'race for surveyor has been a bit heated.
Ed McGinty, the Democratic candidate, has
charged that Mark Boyden, Republican, present
deputy surveyor, has improperly used county of
fice facilities for his private business.
This is always a hazard when public officials
are permitted by law and the nature of the of
fice to do work outside the office. But in this
particular case, where the job is part-time and
the pay is low, it seems a sensible solution, and
we fail to see any wrong-doing, despite Mc
Ginty's rather intemperate charges.
Also, Boyden has stated that, if elected, he
will establish his own private office away from
the courthouse, and separate his two functions
public and private. ,
DOTH men appear to be adequately qualified
for the office, though Boyden's educational
qualifications seem to be superior to those of Mc
Ginty's. Boyden's general experience has been at
least equal to McGinty's, and his experience in
the office is also an asset.
We shall probably cast our own vote for Boy
den, but make no recommendation. E.A.
Offices
to become well ac-
always take the trouble
nnrtfon nf his salarvl.
to choose between them
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Scannell. E. A.
, .
ountv entrineer and sur
Dennis the Menace
'Our BABy sitter just called
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
KENNEDY AND THE
NEW DEAL
Having seen something of
the New Deal in the thirties,
I have been struck with how
much alike
and how very
different are
the Roosevelt
ate
and the Ken
n e d y cam'
paigns.
The differ
ence is that
Roosevelt was
if
13
far more "ra-
Walter
Unpmann
dlcal" than
Kennedy is today. The simi
larity Is that Roosevelt did in
the thirties what Kennedy
will do now which is to
bring new blood and new
brains into a tired and dis
couraged government,
The secret of Kennedy's ap
peal lies in the hope he
arouses that the country will
enter into a time of renewal
and revival, of hope and of
energy, of fresh interest and
of confidence.
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THE difference is import
ant and highly significant.
It Is not, I think, an over
simplification to say that
when Roosevelt took office at
the depth of the Great De
pression, he committed him
self to a substantial change
in the structure of the social
order. He set out to reduce
the political and economic
power of the banks and cor
porations and to build up the
countervailing power of the
labor unions, of the farmers.
of the Negroes and other de
pressed and submerged mi
norities. '
It was upon this radical
structural change that Roose
velt established the welfare
state. The controversies
which Roosevelt aroused in
the thirties were violent and
bitter. They were much more
violent and bitter than those
which Kennedy arouses, ex
cept of course among his reli
gious enemies. The great bit
terness and violence of the
thirties was due to the fact
that the central issue then,
unlike the central issue now,
was a change in the Internal
balance of power among so
cial groups.
For many who felt that
they were hurt by this change
Roosevelt was regarded as a
traitor to his class. The cut
ting edge of their bitterness
was not that he provided wel
fare measures for the poor,
but that he pushed through
changes in the relative status
and power and privileges of
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
ANEW ALARM dock, announces "Postage Stamp Maga
zine," wiU soon be On the market guaranteed to get
the laziest sluggard out of the hay. First a gentle bell sounds,
then a louder one, fol
lowed by constantly
swelling music. If this
finds you still in bed, the
alarm next simulates the
barking of wild dogs and
the screech of fire sirens.
Its final trump card is a
complete anti-aircraft
barrage.
"There ought to be just
one additional device,"
suggests the editor of
"Postage Stamp." "If all
the above fails, an auto
matic signal should go a
out to the nearest undertaker."
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John Fuller enspeots that a pro-Yale secretary has been tam
pering with a New Haven newspaper's stencil for Harvard's dis
tinguished daily. It reads: "The Harvard Crimson." Fuller
made another noteworthy discovery In New Haven: a Chinese
piano player named Wong Keye.
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Jay Quran's motto for the week: "Fleas dont talk while I'm
Interrupting."
OUS0, fcy Beaattt Cart Distributed by Xlag reaiurae aVoiicate
flat,
049
and canceled our,
Uppmann
banks, corporations, unions,
farmers, and Negroes.
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rTHIS radical issue is lack--
ing In the present contest,
For the situation has changed
in the course of these 30
years. The balance of the so
cial group has changed very
considerably. Big business
now deals on even terms with
the big unions and there is a
rising sentiment that both
need to have imposed on
them a sterner social disci
pline. The farmers still have
serious problems. But they
are not, as they were before
the New Deal, on the outside
of government looking in.
In 30 years there have vir
tually disappeared 'those
problems of power and privi
lege which were the central
concern of the New Deal.
This has come in part be
cause of the New Deal itself,
In greater part it has come
because of a technological
and managerial revolution
which ..has expanded enor
mously the productivity of
the American economy and
the distribution of its goods
among consumers.
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OINCE there is no issue of
J social power, the whole
spectrum of what is the left,
the center, and the right has
shifted to the right. Unlike
any other large country in
the world, there is no socia
list, much less a Communist,
party In this country. I would
describe Kennedy's social
philosophy and program as
about the same as that of the
British Conservatives under
Mr. Macmillan. They are
hardly distinguishable from
the philosophy and program
of a progressive American
conservative like Governor
Rockefeller.
What Kennedy stands for is
not a change in the structure
of our society. In this funda
mental respect he is undubit-
ably conservative. He does
not intend to take the ship of
state apart and rebuild it to
a new design.
What he does Intend to do
is to provide it with a captain
and officers who know where
they are going and have the
will to go there. For a ship,
however soundly it is de
signed and constructed, can
drift aimlessly in the stormy
seas if it is not properly
fueled and navigated and
commanded.
(c) I960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Stop Me
Matter of Fact
LET'S HAVE THE
DOCUMENTS
Washington-There are now
two cases in which the Eisen
hower administration has a
clear duty to
produce all
the official
documents, in
order to settle
grave issues
.oicwl Kv thA
i"""1 IFrei idential
L fc" a campaign.
The first
has already
r a 9 n h rl an
inerrju i EfTH w
acute stage. It arises from
Vice President Nixon's repeat
ed assertions that American
prestige is at an all time high
overseas, and his charges that
it is "downgrading America"
to say that our prestige has
declined.
It has now been authorita
tively revealed that the U. S.
Information Agency conduct
ed an official inquiry into this
very matter of American pres
tige during the summer.
Soundings taken in many
countries showed decline in
American prestige. According
to the "New York Times," the
data produced by the inquiry
disclosed "an almost unani
mous belief that the Soviet
Union is (now) the leading
military power."
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WHEN this became known,
the House sub-committee
on Government Information
asked for the data in ques
tion. The U. S. Information
Agency, pleading "executive
privilege," has now refused
to release the data. Since com
parable data have been re
leased in the past, the plea of
privilege is distinctly pecu
liar. The second and even more
Important case of this sort
also arises from the Vice Pres
ident's more recent assertion
that the American govern
ment never contemplated
abandonment of Quemoy and
the Matsu islands.
Precisely the contrary story
has been repeatedly published.
The most authoritative ac
count was given in the "Satur
day Evening Post" by this
reporter's brother, Stewart Al
sop, after the last Quemoy
Matsu crisis in 1958. This ac
count, which was not official
ly denied, stated that in April,
195S, the President and Sec
retary of State John Foster
Dulles agreed "that it ulti
mately would be best for all
concerned for the National
ists, with American logistical
support, to evacuate the off
shore islands.
THE persons chosen to per
suade Chiang to carry out
the President's wishes were
the Chinese Nationalists' best
friends in Washington, Adm.
Arthur Radford and former
Assistant Secretary of State
Walter Robertson. But the
Vice President now claims
the object of the Robertson
Radford mission was to secure
a mere military redeployment,
and not to obtain actual evacu
ation of the Islands.
On being queried, former
Assistant Secretary Robertson
somewhat amplified this claim
by the Vice President. The
aim of the mission, he stated
to this reporter, was to "re
Voters Will Choose
By ERIC SEVAREID
Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge.
who eagerly seeks the job of
putting his shoulder to our
c o nstitutlonal
fifth 'wheel,
the vice-presidency,
is not
c e le brated In
the land of
the knowl
edgeable for
prof undity.
Yet it is he
who has blurt-
SevareM , .. ed ut
lumpy, unpalatable truth-that
"we are in for 25 years of
international tension."
He might have stretched the
time-table even further. But,
while the Back Bay pecking
order may ordain that the
Lodges and Cabots speak only
to God, there is no evidence
that God has ever answered,
so 25 years is a bold enough
guess, even for a iJrahmtn
devoid of doubts, without the
double-check of a countdown
from on high.
Lodge is Dennis the Menace
in this campaign. In his barg
ing insouciance he fails to de
tect the raiment on naked
emperors, and with this blunt
prophecy he has cheerfully
denied the implication of near
ly everything Nixon and Ken
nedy have been saying. They
have been suggesting in their
sales pitches that they keep
remedies Just under the coun
ter for all our ills, from Latin
gunmen and African tribalism
to the Communist obsession
with world revoluUon, Now
Lodge has gaily announced
that all that stuff under the
counter is Just palliatives,
plasters and concoctions not
yet approved by the A.M.A.
Like most present day poli
ticians with the noble excep
lli'l ie """?
y Joseph Alsop
duce the number of troops on
Quemoy and the Matsus," so
that the loss would be less "if
the islands fell" under Chinese
Communist attack.
The Robertson phrase, "if
the islands fell," would seem
to be the key to the puzzle.
Obviously, the President can
not have wished to cut the
troop strength on the offshore
islands, so that the loss would
be less "if the islands fell,"
unless the President envision
ed the fall of the islands as a
quite possible and acceptable
eventuality. He cannot have
envisioned the eventuality, if,
in 1955, he considered that it
was essential to defend the
islands.
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EVIDENTLY, therefore, the
President in 1955 wished
Chiang to withdraw his major
forces to strengthen the de
fense of Formosa and the Pes
cadores. Some troops could
have been left on the offshore
islands, but they would have
been treated as expendable
outposts at best. In the out
come, Chiang adamantly re
fused to do anything of the
sort. As a result of the phony
"unleashing," he had commit
ted most of his best troops to
the islands, and he told Rad
ford and Robertson that he
meant to keep most of them
there, as he did.
This was one reason, In
turn, why Secretary Dulles
insisted on a strong stand in
the Quemoy-Matsu crisis of
1958.
In 1958 not so many Nation
alist troops were still com
mitted on the offshore islands
that their loss would have
gravely impaired Chiang's
power to defend the main is
land. The other reason for the
Dulles decision was to avert
the total loss of Asian confi
dence in the United States,
which would have occurred if
the islands had been given up
at the Chinese Communists'
gun-point. The gun-point evac-
" Don't Be Deceived
tion of Stevenson, the two
Presidential candidates have
been pandering, in effect, to
that deep glandular urge we
all feel but all know to be
false-the desire that history
come to a stop, at least for
a breathing spell. The Com
munists not only know It will
not stop but jam down the
accelerator at every oppor
tunity. Kennedy and Nixon
know it too, but only Lodge
proclaims it, in the tones of
the instrument that both an
nounces and penetrates fog.
There are no "solutions,"
no magic formulae, American
traditional belief to the con
trary. There are only pallia
tives, stop-gap preventatives
and new experiments to be
tried, for ours is the age of
limited opportunities. That is
why this campaign does not
really represent a choice of
"policies." The totally honest
voter has to admit to himself
that he just doesn't know
whether getting rough with
Castro will "solve" that prob
lem any better than adopting
what the British call "master
ly inactivity"; he doesn't know
whether giving up or defend
ing those off-shore islands is
the better way of avoiding
wcr with China; he has not
the faintest notion whether
delivering atomic arms to
Germany or withholding them
gives the better prospect of
quieting Russia in Europe,
whether we should encourage
De Gaulle to be tougher or
more lenient with the Algeri
an nationalists, whether tight
or easy credit offers the bet
ter long-term prospects for our
economy.
So only a relative few wiln
cast their vote on policy. More
will vote on pariy sad the vast I
IPOTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors) .
It was a near thing, 'this
week.
Potluck almost became a
casualty of politics again. But,
in the very nick of time, who
(or what) should come gallop
ing to the rescue, just like the
United States Cavalry? The
Hoover Hi-Lite, that's who (or
what).
So, friends, with Immense
gratification and relief, we
give you the writers for that
sterling publication, who are
little concerned at the mo
ment, bless 'em, with Amer
ica's prestige or lack thereof.
the farm problem, the ques
tion of medical care for tne
aged, or such-like.
Their concerns are more
along the lines of the coming
of Fall, Halloween, Colum
bus day, and so on.
Take it, kids:
I like fall because -I
love the pretty leaves.
I love fall because
I like to walk in the rain
and fog.
I love fall, all of fall.
uation of the other offshore
islands, the Tachens, in 1955,
had.shown how grave the loss
of confidence would be.
But from the knowa rec
ord, and judging by that tell
tale phrase, "if the islands
fell," President Eisenhower
certainly wished for a peace
able trooD withdrawal, not at
gun-point, after which the off
shore islands could be treat
ed as expendable. The feeling
that something should be done
to "get Chiang off the islands"
was again strong in the Eisen
hower administration after
the crisis of 1958. Once again,
the known record should be
supplemented with all the
documents in the case,
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
(Courteiy Oregon Journal)
Man, Not
majority will vote on person
ality. Woodrow Wilson once
said that the national instinct
is "for unified action and it
craves a single leader ... A
President whom it trusts can
not only lead it, but form it
to his own views." This is
still true, 50 years later. Even
in our age of pulse-taking,
endless committees and com
missions of experts dedicated
to "finding the way," we fall
back on the simple, tribal in
stinct of choosing a Man. '
In any case, the problems
of America and the world
are now so fluid and unpre
dictable that present "policy
positions" are almost mean
ingless. What counts are the
intelligence, understan ding,
emotional balance, and, above
all, the strength and will' of
the human mortal we assign
to the frightful task of trying
the new experiments. Little
wonder that in the television
debates the country has been
weighing two men, not two
arguments. I have been try
ing to do the same, reassem
bling my own impressions
of Nixon and Kennedy over
the years. They are these, in
part:
Both men have been deeply,
single-mindedly dedicated to
self-education in public af
fairs. Both are work horses;
either would accomplish in a
day three times what Eisen
hower accomplishes.
Kennedy has the wider lib
eral education, though he is
by no means the literary schol
ar his handy quotations from
the classics would suggest.
Kennedy is liberal by convic
tion; Nixon is liberal through
poliUcil pragmatism and has
no systematic, philosophical
base to his thinking.
Nixon assumes middle-class
Do you like fall? I do.
(Barbara Leavltt. Grade 8)
Halloween night is now in
session,
Out of the graveyard comes
a procession
Of witches and goblins and
many ghosts,
And all of those weird, un
i '' canny hosts.
Ohhl Look' out! They're
coming toward you.
Be careful! Be carefull
' They might devour you.
Comes dawn, they go back:
to graves so deep. 1
For one more year they'll
peacefully sleep.
(Jean Hinkle, Grade 6)
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On Halloween the witches
fly.
With their black cats in
in the murky sky.
They lip and loom over
our head.
They howl so much they
wake the dead.
' The dead turn over in
the grave.
The bats and vultures
rant and rave.
The headless horseman
steals along.
Chanting his weird and
scary song. .
Yeu may see this gory
sight
If you go out on Hallow
een night.
Ron Duce, Grade 8
We are boys and girls from
Mrs. Shepard's second grade
room. Mitchell Danielson
brought a model of a cricket
to school. We learned a lot
about crickets. These are
some of the things we learned:
Craig: Crickets chirp at
night. Mother Crickets lay
eggs, in the dirt.
Janice V: A cricket chews
rugs. A cricket is an insect.
Pamela: A crickets has six
black legs. He chirps at night.
Crickets have 6 parts to their
bodies. He can sing with his
wings.
Mitchell: You can tell how
hot or cold it is if you listen
to the number of chirps he
makes.
Mollie: The cricket chirps
at night. The cricket keeps its
eggs in a tube. The end.
Cynthia: When a cricket
chirps 129 times it is 70 de
grees. A cricket is black.
(
We had a turtle in our ,
room. Mark Sparso and
Joyce Holmes' found him
one day. We put it after
wards Into an aquarium. '
We fed him bugs, but he '
wouldn't eat. One day we
took him outside and watch
ed him crawl away. We .
miss him.
(Mrs, Colley's
second grade room)
Halloween is here,
All the children cheer,
Goblins are creeping,
Children are leaping.
(Robin Cossette, Grade 3)
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Witches are soaring.
Bats are roaring.
Moons are light.
Pumpkins are bright.
(Bobby Mayer, Grade 3)
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mores and values to be the
normal life-he has never
known any other; Kennedy is
fundamentally indifferent to
them. Neither is a religious
man (as Eisenhower is not),
all the public posturing to the
contrary, ,
Nixon's self-confidence Is
somewhat febrile; Kennedy's
goes to the roots of his being.
I would say that he is the
"whole man," save that in his
absolute lack of fear, self
doubts or awe of the preslden
cy'there is something disturb
ing, as with those medal-winning
infantrymen in the war
whom psychiatrists concluded
lacked some chord or nerve
cell normal to men. By the
same token, Kennedy is de
void of self-pity, while Nixon
can indulge in it.
e
In the sense that their am
bitions rule their lives and
the lives of their Intimates,
both men are intensely self
centered. Nixon is sensitive
to the hurts suffered by him
self; Kennedy is sensitive nei
their to his own hurts nor
to those suffered by others.
As President, Nixon would
act a great deal of the time
with an eye to the votes for
his reelection. Kennedy's su
preme confidence would make
him less cautious and calculate
ing In this respect.
I am not at all sure that
Kennedy is a more intelligent
or conscientious man than
Nixon. What I feel quite sure
of is that he is a stronger
man, the kind of human crea
ture who can make a fateful
decision and, like Harry Tru
man, sleep soundly in his bed.
. (Distributed 1980 by
The Hall Syndicate, Ine.)
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