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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1963 MEBFWRD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON ew Book Describes Kennedy as Rolling On Political Tides WASHINGTON (UPI)-A new book has come out about Pres ident Kennedy which depicts him as a cold, hard and change able tactician who has rolled back and forth on political tides with but one final destination in mind the White House. "He has been all things to all men, is one of the milder and terser analyses in the volumin ous, copiously-documented J. F. K. the Man and the Myth" (Macmillan Co., $7.fl5). The author is Victor Lasky, a newspaperman and columnist who served as publicity advisor to Kennedy's Republican I960 opponent, Richard M. Nixon and in that campaign year wrote what could be considered a skel etonized version of the present work. Lasky's criticisms of Kennedy range back to the Boston pre cinct politics of the President's grandfathers, cut through the philosophies and tactics of his brother Bob, and rip into the senatorial campaign and quali fications of his other brother Ted. Ruthless Manipulator The President's father, Joseph P. Kennedy is described as a ruthless financial manipulator who poured untold amounts of dollars into his life's dream of having his son become the first Roman Catholic in the White House. Throughout the book, and re lying upon hundreds of quoted news articles and other source work for background, Lasky por trays tne president as a man who began his political life with no firm philosophical leanings, and who kept changing those he acquired as it suited his pur pose. The abortive Bay of Pigs in vasion in 1961, Lasky says, pro vides "a perfect example of how conflicting advice led a young .president, thoroughly inexper ienced in diplomacy, military af fairs, and psychological warfare, into a doomed adventure that would have worldwide repercus sions long after its tragic de nouncement." "Basically," Lasky says, "Kennedy failed in Cuba be cause he tried to ride two horses and fell between them." Effort Weakened These were the allernallves of throwing the full resources of U. S. military strength behind the exiles' invasion attempt or opposing it completely. As Las ky sums it up: "Finally, and typically, he compromised be tween the extremes. He ordered changes in the original Eisen hower plan which, to say the least, considerably weakened the effort." This reference primarily was to Kennedy's refusal of Ameri can air power to back the in vasion. And Lasky maintains that the President and his broth er. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, viewed the tragic de feat "primarily as a personal affront" with the slaughter or capture of 1,500 young Cubans "a secondary consideration." Starting back with Kennedy's college days, Lasky describes the President as one who got his ideological and political stands from others and then, for his own advancement, updated his views. These included his stands on civil rights, economics, labor, and various aspects of foreign policy. "Preoccupied with appear ances rather than with realities, Jack Kennedy epitomizes mid century man," Lasky says. "Ob sessed with how he appears to others, he resists indentification with issues, but he is responsive to national status of mind. If it is a McCarlhyile period, he is prudently pro-McCarthy; it an anti - McCarthy period comes along, then he is prudently anti McCarthy. No Coherent Viewpoint "Roosevelt, Hoover, Lafolletle. Truman, Eisenhower, or Taft their names immediately evoke a political philosophy. As for Kennedy, no coherent viewpoint comes to mind. "Kennedy's name evokes no substantive position. He has been all things to all men." Lasky even raises a question about the celebrated wartime PT-boat episode in which Ken nedy emerged a hero, wondering how so manetiverable a craft could have been "rammed and sunk by a much slower Japanese destroyer." The PT-KW story was only part of a gigantic, well-financed "buildup" that the President's father and oilier relatives mounted to get Kennedy to the ft 'v lJZTr I J: 'kf V 1 ; -.( --"" ; r ? c I j ' vh 7 p I ! I t4 - I - HI I " - ; ROYALTY STROLLS Great Britain's Prince Charles, kilted and with a dirk tucked in his stocking, avoids the camera's eve as he and his sister, Princess Anne, take a stroll wnile attending the Royal Games at Braemar, Scotland, with their parents, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Kdenburgh. (UPI) Portland Loan Office Robbed by Two Men PORTLAND (UPD-Two men wearing bib overalls held up the Menlo Park branch office of the Oregon Pioneer Savings and Loan Association in north east Portland Monday after noon and escaped with $1,828.75 after tying up a woman em ployee. White House, Lasky avers. And he adds: ". . . With the Kennedys, the grooming of Robert F. to suc ceed John F. is no laughing matter. The succession is al ready taken for granted hy Ihose on the inside. The buildup al ready is under way." Three Humanities Courses Are Added ASHLAND Three new courses have been added to the human ities division this fall at South ern Oregon college, Dr. Arthur Kreisman, chairman of the di vision, has announced. They are intermediate French composition and conversation. RL 314, 315, and 3IH; intermedi ate Spanish composition and conversation, RL 347, 348, and 349; and intermediate German composition and conversation, GL .134 , 335, and .136. . . 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Courses starting in September, 1964, must come to a close Jan. 31, 1965. Congress set this cut-off date for the Korean readjustment program of education and train ing for veterans without service connected disabilities. The law gives no authority to the VA to extend these benefits beyond these dates. Originally, Korean Conflict veterans were eligible for 36 months of readjustment courses, but now only 17 months will re main before the final deadline when school classes resume this month, Novotny said. To be eligible for such educa tion or training a veteran must have had service at any time between June 27, 1950, and Jan. 31, 1955. He also must have served at least 90 days and en tered training within three years from his first discharge from that service. Re-enlistment does not extend the three year limit. First step is to obtain the nec essary application form at the Veterans Administration region al office, 208 SW Fifth avenue, Portland, Ore. 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