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Griffin Daily News Saturday, February 28, 1976
Chairman Strauss
raps Ford record
ATLANTA (UPI) - National
Democratic Party Chairman
Robert Strauss said Friday
night he would like the
Democratic presidential no
minee to face President Ford
because of his “bum record,”
but said any Democrat can also
beat Ronald Reagan.
In a speech to the state
party’s annual Jefferson-Jack
son Day dinner, Strauss treated
about 2,000 Democrats to a fist
pounding attack on President
Ford and his Republican
challenger, former California
Gov. Ronald Reagan. His
assault included a whole litany
of GOP presidents who did not
seek re-election or left office
misfortunately.
“I’ve watched these Repub
licans pursuing their minority
constituence, offering their Cal
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Harding rhetoric to Herbert
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Nixon appointees,” shouted
Strauss. “They ought to be
fired, the whole damned bunch
of them — the Kissingers, the
Earl Butzes — but they
wouldn’t do it for all the tea
Richard Nixon brings them
from China.”
With a pause, he added, “For
that joke, I’ll beg your pardon
— if I can use that word
‘pardon.’”
The chairman said he has to
remain neutral toward all
candidates seeking his party’s
presidential ticket, and refused
to rule any of them out of the
“mainstream of political
thought” from which he said
the New York convention next
July 12 will pick its nominee.
He said both Ford and Reagan
are too conservative for the
mainstream, but said he would
rather see Ford.
“Normally, you’d think you’d
want to run against a non
incumbent, and you’d tend to
think about Reagan,” said
Strauss. “But I think the Ford
performance has been weak
enough that he’s pretty well
destroyed the value of incum
bency.”
Strauss said, “I’d kind of like
to run against his record, and I
think our candidates would. It’s
a bum record.”
Strauss said former Gov.
Jimmy Carter’s emergence as
the front-runner is just the
reverse of Maine Sen. Ed
Muskie’s 1972 campaign, which
began as the leader and flopped
in Florida.
“Ed Muskie broke on top two
years earlier, when he made a
speech during the (1970)
Congressional campaign,” said
Strauss. “It put him way on
top, and he stayed on top, and
he fell in New Hampshire.
“Now, Jimmy Carter was a
regional candidate in the eyes
of many people, until New
Hampshire, if you will,” said
Strauss. “Even lowa, which is
a caucus state, didn’t satisfy
that.”
Strauss said, “New Hamp
shire showed, finaUy and
positively, that a Southerner
can run for office and not be a
regional candidate.”
Archbishop
appeals
for equality
VATICAN CITY (UPI) - The
Roman Catholic archbishop of
Cracow appealed Friday for
equal treatment of believers
with nonbelievers in Poland,
the most CathoDc of all
Communist countries.
“It cannot be that a group of
men, a social group (no matter
how well deserving) should
impose on all the people an
ideology, an opinion contrary to
the convictions of the majori
ty,” said Cardinal Karol
Wojtyla in an article in the
Vatican newspaper L’Osser
vatore Romano.
The Vatican estimates that
up to 80 per cent of the 32
million Poles are Roman
Catholics.
Wojtyla said, “one can
understand that men deny
(God) but one cannot under
stand how one can impose on
aD men: you are prohibited to
beUeve if you want to hold a
public office, reach a public
position, you are prohibited to
believe or at least your are not
permitted to show that you
believe.”
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County Commissioners Reid ChUders (1) andP.W. Handl (c) discuss federal
agreements with Hospital Authority Chairman O. M. (Pete) Snider in
another step toward converting the old Post Office budding into a mental
health complex. The county and the Griffin-Spalding Hospital Authority
Ford’s Florida effort comes alive
By NEA/London Economist News Service
MIAMI - (NEA) -
President Ford recently
published a statement of his
not very interesting personal
financial affairs; that done,
he set off for a campaign tour
of central and southern
Florida. The sequence was not
accidental.
Ronald Reagan, Mr. Ford’s
opponent for the Republican
nomination, has a bigger,
more zealous body of support
in Florida than he does in
most states,and its presiden
tial primary election on March
9 comes very early in the
game. Mr. Ford does not want
an early setback in a big state
like this.
Clad as it was in all the ap
propriate statesmanlike,
presidential and Republic
trappings, Ford’s trip was a
sortie against Reagan. The
finances of candidates are a
matter of particular interest
at the moment in Florida,
where the Democratic gover
nor, Reubin Askew, is cam
paigning for a state con
stitutional amendment to re
quire full financial disclosure
from candidates for office —
— state judges.
Reagan has a lot more
money than Mr. Ford, his
financial affairs are more
complex and his disclosure of
them has so far been distinct
ly less complete.
When the general elections
come in November, the
Republicans of Florida will
not have much say in deciding
for which party the state casts
its electoral votes; the voters
registered as Democrats out
number those registered as
Republicans by two and a half
to one. The registered
Democrats can, however, be
persuaded to vote for a
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Checking agreements
Republican for president, as
they largely did for Richard
Nixon and General
Eisenhower — but not for
Barry Goldwater.
This requires the
Republican candidate to be
somebody whom they think
acceptable, a matter over
which they, the Democrats,
have no control; there the
registered Republicans do the
choosing, on March 9. An
attempt to alter the state law
to enable Democrats to
change their voter registra
tion for the purpose of the
Republican primary election,
reverting to their traditional
party for the choice of state
and local candidates in
September, was made but
failed. So Ford and Reagan
are left competing for the
mantle of Republican authen
ticity.
Reagan's response to this
particular challenge is much
the same in Florida as in the
country at large — to repre
sent Washington, the federal
government, as politically
soft and unprincipled but
bureaucratic and spendthrift.
Oddly enough these have
been the main themes of
Ford’s political life, but now
he is the man in charge in
Washington. For some of the
doings of Washington Ford
can, and regularly does,
decline responsibility,
transferring it to the
Democratic Congress. Other
actions of the federal govern
ment he has to defend to some
extent, since they are, after
all, his own.
For the purpose of appeal
ing to the relatively narrow
Republican electorate, with a
view to winning the nomina
tion, he feels he has to deny
Reagan any monopoly of the
signed agreements as part of the plan. Representatives of the two local
boards reviewed the agreements yesterday during a session at the
courthouse and signed them after changing tee language in a couple of
places.
designation of “conser
vative.” For the purpose of
getting elected he will need to
look rather different, but that
has to wait until after the
Republican convention in
August.
The truth is that not much
difference of political
philosophy exists between
Ford and Reagan, but their
situations are different. Mr.
Ford, as president, has to make
momentous decisions every
day. Reagan has shed even the
responsibilities of governor of
California. He can speak up
for ideas, or, to be more
precise, for a mood. In addi
tion Reagan is a charmer and
a showman, while Mr. Ford is
a plodder who, to be fair, has
never pretended to be
anything but a plodder.
Quickly as they were seized
upon by political journalists
on the lookout for a
difference, President Ford’s
attacks on Reagan on his
Florida tour were not
strikingly direct. He managed
to suggest to the eldery
retired people who abound in
St. Petersburg that their pen
sions and their health care
benefits would be safer in his
hands than in those of some
unnamed person who wanted
to dismantle the federal
budget wholesale. He told the
city fathers and party leaders
in Fort Myers of the ad
ditional funds that the
revenue-sharing system
would be bringing them,
whereas others might bring
Medic raps
doctor beards
in O. R. unit
CHICAGO (UPI) - The past
president of the American
Medical Association says young
doctors with unkempt hair and
beards can contaminate operat
ing rooms, and that “caring”
can help prevent malpractice
suits.
Malcolm Todd, also president
of the International College of
Surgeons, told the Chicago
chapter of the Associaton of
Operating Room Nurses Friday
that despite modem technology
in the operating room, “it has
been my own experience that
on occasion an intern or
resident...has come into the OR
with unkempt hair or beard...-
not to mention dirty fingernails.
“Certainly impeccable per
sonal hygiene is among the
elementary precautions that
should be second-nature with
every member of the surgical
team.”
Todd said “caring, as well as
curing, can help prevent patient
dissatisfaction and subsequent
malpractice suits.”
T*ostmen
protest
arrests
DESIO, Italy (UPI) — Italian
National police went through
the trashcans outside of the
Desio post office and arrested
11 mailmen for throwing away
the mail.
The post office director
retaliated by closing his win
dows. Postal and telegraph
workers have threatened to
stop all mails for 24 hours on
Monday.
The postmen were formally
charged with suppression and
destruction of correspondence
and abuse of their jobs.
The unions said the postmen
were being made scapegoats
for the “disorganization against
which the Milanese post and
telegraph workers are strug
gling against.”
them “higher local taxes, or
reduced service, or both.”
When he mentioned foreign
policy he dwelt on a strong
national defense, but, he said
at Fort Lauderdale, it was
better to keep your powder
dry than to “come out with
your finger on the trigger” of
nuclear war. So an attempt
was perceptible to
“Goldwaterize” Reagan, as
somebody on Ford’s cam
paign staff put it, but it was
kept within mannerly limits.
Regularly taking his right
wing positions so far as
rhetoric was concerned, while
as regularly proposing no very
uncomfortable change in the
present course, Mr. Ford
declared that his record con
formed to “the moderate
Republican philosophy that is
necessary to win.”
Not precisely calling
Reagan an extremist, he
suggested as much:
“Anything to the extreme
right of that philosophy,” he
said, referring in an indistinct
phrase to his own indistinct
position, “cannot win a
national election."
Before his visit to Florida
Mr. Ford was believed to be
lagging behind Reagan,
perhaps as badly as by 45-55
per cent, in Republican voter
preferences. When he left,
without having created any
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great excitement, he had
evened things up or a little
better, he had acquired a
reality for the voters that he
had not previously possessed
and his not very lively cam
paign organization in the state
had gained an injection of
vigor.
For the president to say, as
Mr. Ford did, that a setback
or two would not deter him
from fighting on until the con
vention is not an unreal state
ment (provided, one should
add, that the setbacks are not
so severe as to be
humiliating). For a
challenger to say the same
thing would not carry convic
tion.
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