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John Marsh Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Jack-
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Washington Post - Sunday, April 20, 1975
attached article says if all !
is
QERALI
Digitized from Box 23 of the John Marsh Files
at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
Reagan 13, Ford 0
President Ford's top political ad-
"Under today's conditions, Ronald Reagan
(PLO), in Israel's own interest and
visers were issued a private warning
long-run security.
last week calculated to shatter the
The Percy report, to be submitted
pollyanna climate at the White House:
Under today's conditions, Ronald
would sweep delegates from the 13 southern and
to the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee soon, also warns Israel - in
Reagan would sweep delegates from
carefully temperate language that
the 13 southern and border states
border states against Gerald R. Ford."
it must exhibit more flexibility in
against Gerald R. Ford in a race for
negotiating with the Arabs or risk
the Republican nomination.
losing some U.S. support. American
That assessment came from the
aid is essential to Israel's military
Republican chairmen of those 13
strength and economy.
states. meeting secretly at the Shera-
These results were presented to the feld flared un at that as casting. as-
When Perry returned from a Mid.'
Washington Post - Sunday, April 20, 1975
Jack Anderson
The Unsung Heroes of Vietnam
Along the Vietnam retreat routes
- these are stories which deserve to be
At this writing, Ms. Taylor is trying
the world has caught glimpses of panic
told.
to bring out 70 more orphans. Robert
stricken civilians clawing for a ride
To get the details, we have contacted
Macauley, a co-founder of the "Shoe-
to safety, undisciplined soldiers shov.
the major American adoption agencies
shine Boys Foundation," a home for
ing women and children aside, cor-
and the government's rescue opera-
Saigon street kids, is putting up $45,-
rupt officials flying out their valuables
tions. We have learned that private
000 for the flight. Other benefactors,
and leaving their neighbors behind.
citizens, in the American way, haven't
William and Connie Boil, of the
But there have been heroes, too, who
waited around for the government to
Friends of Children group, signed a
have taken great risks and have made
do the job but have taken the initia-
loan to come up with the additional
great sacrifices to help the refugees.
tive themselves. Here are just a few
$45,000 needed.
of their stories:
In Banang, U.S. Consul-Genera A1-
Macauley has sponsored several or-
bert Trancis and his staff worked
Stan Mooneyham left for Southeast
phan flights, including the one that
Asia on April 3 to coordinate the re-
around the clock while the city, was in
picked up the survivors of the C5-A
paniq, trying to help move refugees
lief efforts of World Vision, a private
crash. That flight cost him an incred-
south. The Americans waited until the
humanitarian organization, Operating
ible $251,000.
out of Bangkok, he delivered six tons
last minute, almost too long, to eva-
There have been hundreds of stories
of food and medical supplies into
cuate.
like these, stories about the unsung
Phnom Penh while the airport was un-
who never seem to make the
New York Times - Sunday, April 20, 1975
Ford, Lexington and Concord
his prepared speech. When he was
dreadful muddle themselves, and
is in trouble, the modern equivalent
WASHINGTON
asked if his switches from higher tax-
meanwhile, Ford's personality and
of Herbert Hoover, but unlike Hoover,
ation to bigger deficits didn't make
polities are proving. to be better than
he is not to blame, and the Democrats
By James Reston
him look inconsistent, he denied there
the Democrats expected.
have no Roosevelt. Ford is in a no-
was any inconsistency, and when it
He is not only plain, honest, and
lose situation: He can run for the
was suggested then that maybe his
decent, which is refreshing after
WASHINGTON, April 19-On the
Presidency in 1976, but if he loses, the
critics in the press had been wrong
Johnson and Nixon, but he is lucky--------------------
week when Cambodia surrendered and
blame will be on Nixon, and if he wins
and inconsistent, he denied, with mock
and the accident of luck in politics
South Vietnam tottered, President Ford
the victory will be his.
sincerity, that it had ever crossed his
may be more important than anything
found time to preside over the crisis,
mind that the press could ever be
else. He was appointed and not elected,
For a time, shortly after he came to
address the D.A.R. and the American
wrong!
and he inherited the unlucky mess of
the White House, Mr. Ford seemed
Society of Newspaper Editors, meet
Washington doesn't quite know how
Vietnam and Watergate, but he was
to be thinking of himself as an accl-v
with the full membership of the Senate
to deal with this natural man. Almost
not to blame personally for either of
dental and interim President, con-
Foreign Relations Committee, make a
everybody is mad at him for some-
these disasters, and he was lucky in
cerned primarily about the health of
out the -* the
his wife and remembering his promise
was not speaking out of fantasy but "out of recollection.")
The Skeleton in
Certainly, Ford would have been a logical choice to at-
tend at least one of the strategy meetings that followed
Gerald Ford's Closet
the Watergate break-in. After all, he had known G. Gor-
don Liddy since 1968, and had recommended Liddy, then
a defeated independent Republican congressional candi-
By Frank Fox and Stephen Parker
date in upstate New York, to Eugene Rossides, who gave
him a job in the Treasury Department. When, two years
S
later, Rossides dismissed him, Liddy went to work as a
ince Gerald Ford's ascension to the presidency, he has
member of the White House "plumbers." In December,
made a number of disturbing decisions in foreign and
1971, Liddy was assigned as counsel to John Mitchell's
domestic areas which are more properly of personal con-
Committee for the Re-election of the President.
cern to Richard Nixon than they are to the country.
On Thursday morning, June 22, 1972, five days after
Incidents such as Ford's request that Congress allocate
the Watergate break-in and three years after Gerald Ford
$850,000 for Nixon's transitional expenses; Ford's main-
had brought G. Gordon Liddy to Washington, Liddy
tenance of Nixon's San Clemente staff with his own White
seemed on the verge of destroying the party's chances of
House funds; the secretly negotiated Ford-Nixon tapes
winning a national election. If any two men at that June
agreement; the pardon of Richard Nixon; Leon Jaworski's
22,1972, Thursday-morning meeting would have felt a
refusal to prevent or to challenge the pardon; Ford's sud-
profound sense of responsibility for what had happened,
den revival of an abandoned and discredited Vietnam
they would have been John Mitchell and Gerald Ford.
policy-these and other domestic and foreign actions have
Ford's association with Gordon Liddy would not have
so far baffled political observers. Given Ford's reputation
been the only reason for his presence at the June 22 meet-
for political caution, if not timidity, it is difficult to believe
ing. There was also the CIA connection: (According to a
that he has been acting voluntarily.
White House tape of a meeting between Nixon and Halde-
The explanation for Ford's bizarre behavior may lie in
-man on Friday morning, June 23, 1972, Mitchell had for-
evidence which indicates that Gerald Ford was present at
mulated the CIA cover-up plan the day before, and Dean
a meeting of high Nixon administration cofficials during
had analyzed it that night.) From 1955 through 1965, Ford
which support payments for the Watergate burglars and
had been a member of a small committee overseeing CIA
John Mitchell's plan to use the CIA to head off the FBI
appropriations, and, according to his own testimony, had
investigation into the Watergate break-in were discussed.
detailed knowledge of CIA covert activities. When Ford
The meeting, which appears to have taken place on June
assumed the post of minority leader, his responsibilities
22, 1972, five days after the Watergate break-in, was
in this area ended, but there is no reason to believe that
attended "by Nixon, Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman,
his knowledge of CIA operations and his closeness to
Colson, and Clark MacGregor, among others. The meeting
CIA officials had diminished. On the contrary, they may
began in the Roosevelt Room at 9 A.M., moved at 10 A.M.
have increased. We know that in 1970, Ford, in his efforts
to Nixon's Executive Office Building office across the street
to impeach Justice Douglas, worked closely with John
from the White House, and continued until 11:30 A.M.
Mitchell (then attorney general and a member of the "40
President Nixon was present for the last hour and a half
Committee," the country's top national security intelligence
of the meeting, and a tape of that portion exists.
organization, one of whose five members is head of the
The White House has persistently failed to either con-
CIA); Ford received information on Douglas from Mitch-
firm or deny Ford's presence at this crucial Watergate
ell, who had gotten it from the FBI and the CIA.
meeting, but Ford himself has indicated that some such
Thursday, June 22, was the last possible day that Ford
meeting did indeed take place.
could have been briefed on Watergate and still have had
During Ford's vice-presidential hearings in November,
time to convey the administration's position on Watergate
1973, Congressman George Danielson asked Ford whether
to his congressional troops. The next day, Friday, Ford was
he had had any discussions with Nixon or with Nixon's
scheduled to leave with Representative Hale Boggs, the
aides about raising bail money or defense funds for the
Democratic majority leader, on a long-planned two-week
Watergate burglars. Ford said that he had not. Then the
trip to China at the request of President Nixon. Even
following extraordinary exchange took place:
though Ford was to breakfast with Nixon on Friday morn-
MR. DANIELSON: Have you at any time since June
ing, before boarding a plane at Andrews Air Force Base,
17, 1972; the day of Watergate, spoken personally or
the meeting would also have been attended by Boggs.
by telephone with the President, Mr. Mitchell, the
Ford's trip to China could not have come at a worse time
for the White House. It would have been far more ide-
former. Attorney General, Mr. Haldeman, Mr. Ehr-
lichman; Dean, Mr. Colson, Mr. Magruder, or
sirable to have Ford at his post and in a position to help
anyone else at the White House concerned [sic]
orchestrate Republican congressional and party responses
The raising of funds for the support of the families
to Watergate developments. But to cancel the trip might
of the Watergate defendants?
have suggested White House anxiety over what Ron
Ziegler had termed "a third-rate burglary."
MR. FORD: None whatsoever. Where I may have
called, I might have casually said, in a meeting
The meeting on Thursday, June 22, was the first brain-
where there were a number of people that I thought
storming meeting since the break-in at the Democratic Na-
it was, if it was being done, it ought to be stopped
tional Committee headquarters on Saturday, June 17, 1972.
and if it was thought of as an undertaking, it ought
(The meeting which would have normally taken place on
not to be done.
Monday, June 19, had not been held; Haldeman had been
in Key Biscayne with Nixon; Mitchell and other CRP
This time, Ford's denial was in fact an admission of
officials had been in California.)
involvement, although couched in terms so vague that
The most complete record of the final 90 minutes of
Danielson and the committee failed to comprehend its
this two-and-a-half-hour meeting would be contained in
significance. (Congressman Danielson, commenting on
the White House tapes, but, for reasons best known to
Ford's response to his questions, recently told us that "one
himself, the only material pertinent to this meeting which
could infer that there was such a meeting," and that Ford
Leon Jaworski entered into evidence were the Haldeman.
42
NEW YORK/APRIL 21. 1975
THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1975
Bicentennial: A Political Potential for Ford
Moving Scene
Two Choices
On a simple technical level,
The question is whether he
By R. W. APPLE JR.
for example, the White House
will go to the other extreme
Special to The New York Times
appeared to have missed an ob-
and content himself with the
BOSTON, April 20 - This
vious bet by not pressing the
safe rhetoric of a hundred
weekend's events in Boston and
television networks to carry the
Fourth of Julys past, in which
environs demonstrated, to the
surprise of many who took
Friday night ceremonies in
Washington and Jefferson and
Christ Church, with its moving
the Adamses are celebrated as
part, the tremendous political
evocation of Paul Revere's
patriots without much atten-
potential of the nation's 200th
heroism and its relighting of
tion to their ideals, or whether
birthday celebra-
tion. Kevin H.
the lanterns that signaled the
he will try to achieve a na-
News
White, the city's
imminent British attack.
tional reconciliation based on
Analysis Mayor, remarked
The local television produc-
a frank acknowledgment that
on what he called
tion was spectacular, with shots
new common goals must be
'this whole new
of the President, framed in a
found to erase fragmentation
factor," and $0 did. several
Palladian window as he stood
and bitterness.
members of President Ford's
in the pulpit beneath a sus-
The American dream, said
entourage:
pended sounding board, that
Mr. Ford at Christ Church, "has
For Mr. Ford, who happens
would have delighted any
yet to be fulfilled."
through a series of extraordi-
image maker. In retrospect,
But he had little to say about
nary accidents to be the nation's
Ron Nessen, the press secre-
why and he outlined no new
Bicentennial President, the on-
tary, agreed when he said that
thrusts beyond observing that
the Ford staff had had no idea
"new ideas and new efforts"
portunities are great.
were needed:
Beginning with this week-
end's commemorations of the
how spectacular the ceremony
The point was dramatized by
initial skirmishes of the Revolu-
would be until they arrived at
the remarks of Robert W. Gol-
tion, and reaching a culmina-
the church.
ledge, the articulate young vi-
tion with the commemoration
car of the church, who spoke
Beyond such technical con-
of Old North's tradition of re-
of the signing of the Declara-
siderations, there are those of
in d next Tuby
ligious and racial pluralism, and
Washington Post - Tues., April 22, 1975
ego have been invested.
The possibility of employing Ameri-
Neil Sheehan
can troops to conduct an evacuation
of Vietnamese on any sizeable scale
appears to have already been mooted
The Right
by the swiftness of the North Vietnam-
ese advance, the congressional stric-
ture against the reintroduction of U.S.
military forces, and the lack of any
workable plan by the administration
To Be
to use those forces in time if Congress
were willing to lift the restriction.
South Vietnam's most important air
base, Bien Hoa, which is 15 miles north
of the capital, was rendered largely
unusable this weekend by North Viet-
Rescued
namese artillery fire and within days
the shells may be falling on the last
major airfield, Saigon's Tan Son Nhut.
The only remaining possibility would
The suddent resignation of President
seem to lie in taking advantage of the
Nguyen Van Thieu has created an op-
ignation of President Thieu to
portunity for the United States to
swiftly negotiate a settlement. In such
avoid an act of betrayal in Vietnam
an orrangement the United States
that will haunt us if it occurs. That
might terminate military and economic
act would be the abandonment of those
aid to Saigon and foster creation of a
Vietnamese whose lives or well-being
coalition government in exchange for
are certain to be endangered by the
the guaranteed right to evacuate those
Washington Post - Wed., April 23, 1975
LIBRARY
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
Jackson's Labor Dilemma
MILWAUKEE-Minutes after Sen.
speech, he sat in an elevated swivel
Henry M. Jackson left a breakfast with
"Jackson has not extended his base without
chair on a railed dias in the center of
top labor brass here last Saturday, the
the ballroom, fielding questions with
considerable skill for 75 minutes under
president of the Milwaukee County
Libor Council cornered Jackson na-
losing old support. Rather, he has
the hot glare of klieg lights.
tional campaign manager Robert J.
But Hanson's problem recruiting
Keefe with a fundamental question.
clearly antagonized much of his labor constituency
ticket-buyers on a Friday night re-
"How does Scoop stand with George
vealed another aspect of the senator's
campaign: his reliance as the Senate's
Meany these days?" asked Werner
in wooing the party's left."
pro-Israel leader on Jewish contrib-
Schaefer.
utors. Hanson's hope to sell tables to
Keefe, the smooth-as-silk pro who
business leaders was blocked at the
runs Jackson's campaign, gave a sugar-.
last moment by the new campaign-con-
Washington Post - Wed., 4/23/75
LIBRARY
Clayton Fritchey
avgs
The Rockefeller-Goldwater Switch
Politics may make strange bedfel-
much influence with Mr. Ford that the
lows, but funerals seem to make even
stranger ones, as witness the sudden
"Goldwater has made a cáreer of attacking
latter will not listen to those who ques-
tion Dr. Kissinger's hard line.
and surprising rapprochement of Vice
President Nelson Rockefeller and Sen.
Nelson Rockefeller. From time to time he has
Barry Goldwater himself discovered
the political limitations of hard-line
Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) at the last
hawkishness when, as a Republican
rites for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
virtually read the former governor out of the
candidate for President in 1964, he was
shek.
overwhelmingly defeated by Lyndon
Actually they are more plane fellows
Johnson, who campaigned against the
Republican Party. But all has changed overnight."
senator, claiming Goldwater was a trig-
than bedfellows, for they flew together
ger-happy warmonger.
to Taiwan as members of the official
Considering that it was Johnson who
US delary S
APR 28 1975
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 23, 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR:
SENIOR WHITE HOUSE STAFF
FROM:
JERRY WARREN g
.
I thought you might find the attached
article of interest.
FORD i LIBRARY GERALD
WASHINGTON POST
April 23, 1975
David S. Broder
That bill is a hodgepodge. Part of it
gives the President certain emergency
powers, which he might use in case of
another oil embargo, unless blocked by
Passing the
Congress. But to this marginally useful
grant of authority, the Senate Demo-
crats attached a complex provision,
full of high-sounding aspirations and
short of policy directions. It commands
Energy
On the one hand, it has commanded
the federal government and all 50
that the state conservation plans
states to devise energy conservation
should be approved by Zarb only if
programs (again subject to congres-
they "minimize adverse economic or
sional- veto) that will supposedly cut
employment impact" and "meet unique
Buck
energy use the equivalent of 800,000
local economic, climatological, geo-
barrels of oil a day without hurting
graphic and other conditions." On the
anyone.
other hand, the Senate has decreed
It is as near-perfect an example of
that the net effect of these varied
buck passing as Washington has ever
plans must reduce total domestic en-
Despite what you have been hearing
seen. The man who would have to ad-
ergy consumption by 4 per cent within
during this week's debate about gaso-
minister the act, energy chief Frank
a year of the bill becoming law.
line taxes, it is not true that Congress
Zarb, pleaded with the Senate not to;
has done absolutely nothing about the
So, if the regulations pinch in any
establish such "far-reaching but ill-de-
energy crisis. Just two weeks ago,
state, Zarb will have violated one Sen-
fined mandatory energy conservation
while public attention was distracted
ate command; and if energy use is not
programs"
11-- he will have via
Washington Post - Thurs., Apr il 24, 1975
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
THE WASHINGTON POST Thursday, April 24, 1975 G13
Chile's Junta Invades the Schools
By Jack Anderson
tion for foreseeable future are
"denunciation" form, which the
parents are summoned to attend
extremely small."
junta has distributed to stu-
meetings. "Failure to attend."
and Les Whitten
The embassy was wrong. The
dents and teachers for use in re-
warns one notice, "will be more
generals moved against Al-
porting on the attitudes and be-
than sufficient reason to pro-
It has been our lot to chroni-
lende, left him dead in the pres-
havior of their peers.
ceed. with your immediate ar-
cle the tragedy of Chile.
The form asks for a "history"
rest."
idential palace and imposed a
In 1972, we published secret
documents, which proved the
military dictatorship upon
of the individual, including in-
Watch on Waste-Tall, tweedy,
Chile.
formation that would help at
Secretary of the Interior Rogers
CIA and International Tele-
"the interrogatory." Persons
phone and Telegraph Corp. had
This most democratic of South
C. B. Merton, the country squire
filling out the form are asked to
from Maryland's Eastern Shore,
Washington Post - Thurs., April 24, 1975
The Harris Survey
President Leads GOP Rivals
By Louis Harris
sible nominees of the Repub-
Mr. Ford also shows some
lican Party for President in
weakness among older voters,
In a trial heat for President
1976. (Hand respondent card.)
industrial workers who are
among Republicans and inde-
If you had to choose right now,
Republicans, people who voted
pendents, President Ford beats
who would be your first choice
for Nixon in 1972, and Cath-
former California Gov. Ronald
for the Republican nomination
olics.
Reagan, his closet potential
for President in 1976?
But his worst showing by
rival, by 30-23 per cent.
Now which ones on that list
far is in the small towns of
This is the smallest lead an
do you feel you could not vote
the country, where Reagan
incumbent Drosidont bas ever
leads him by n substantial 22
Washington Post - Thurs., April 24, 1975
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
Weighing the Effects of Two Decisions
Policy decisions two weeks ago by
fact-finder and seeker of a winning
But during hectic speech-writing be-
President Ford in the wake of the
game plan. As a fact-finder, Weyand's
fore the State of the World address,
Vietnam debacle, made in an offhand
assessment of military ruin was deadly
Rumsfeld proposed, unsuccessfully,
manner despite grave misgivings high
realistic. As a game winner, his $722
one small change about detente. Ac-
in his own administration, now seem
million proposal to re-equip four
cordingly, Mr. Ford blamed Congress
to have worsened what at best was an
ARVN divisions to stabilize the mili-
instead of the Communist superpowers
impossible situation for him.
tary situation was wildly optimistic.
for Vietnam, presumably to save de-
The President's State of the World
Returning to Washington, Weyand
tente.
address April 10 contained two basic
ran into skepticism from Pentagon
The result: Sharp private criticism
decisions: Asking $722 million in Viet-
civilians including Secretary of De-
by Republicans, including some old
nam military aid, and blaming the U.S.
fense James Schlesinger. Feeling
Ford advisers. To no avail. Questioned
fiasco in Southeast Asia on Congress
Weyand's plan had only a miniscule
before the American Society of News-
then and Debing That
chance to work these skentire wanted
the
Washington Post - Thurs., April 24, 1975
Richard Dudman
The Cambodian 'People's War'
By accident, I witnessed the begin-
neutrality, an ostensible objective of
icy was wrong in disdaining the impor-
ning of the Cambodian insurgency that
the Nixon administration, it opened the
tance of Sihanouk as a national leader
gradually took over the countryside,
way for eventual victory by a greatly
and that the Communist side was
slowly strangled Phnom Penh and fi-
expanded Communist-led Cambodian
adroit in making him nominal head of
nally has taken control of the entire
insurgency and the transformation of
the insurgency.
country.
neutral Cambodia into a Communist
U.S. forces went in and, after two
This brief inside view of the start of
state with close ties to Peking and Ha-
months, came out again. They contin-
noi.
a Communist-led revolutionary army
ued bombing and long-distance artil-
was made possible when I was cap-
American bombs and tanks were a
lery bombardment, while the U.S.-sup-
tured by guerrillas when trying to
catalyst. Cambodians and Vietnamese
plied army of President Lon Nol did
drive from the South Vietnamese bor-
are traditional enemies, but we could
the fighting. As a result, the U.S. was
der to the Cambodian capital on May
see Cambodsan peasants turning to a
seen at a distance in safety while let-
friend in need in the form of the mili-
7, 1970, on assignment for the Post-Dis-
ting Asians fight Asians to serve U.S.
patch. With two colleagues, I was held
tary forces of the Vietnamese Commu-
rather than Cambodian interests.
nists.
40 days before being released.
Nixon told the American people,
All were fleeing together, and we
Our narrow but almost unique look
"Cambodia is the Nixon doctrine in its
watched. Vieteons querrilla soldiers
Washington Post - Fri., April 25, 1975
LIBRARY
George F. Will
FORD
The Bitter Taste of Recovery
If you think the recession is noxious,
government borrowing is harmless be-
brace yourself for the bitter taste of
"Government is incorrigible
cause private demand for credit is
recovery. Quickening economic activ-
slack in this recession.
ity will unleash inflationary pressures
and a scramble for scarce credit, which
but not infallible, so it won't be able to
The argument seems to be: Huge
deficits are good because they are
will produce a giant expansion of gov-
ernment control of the economy and
prevent some economic recovery."
stimulative, and they are harmless
our lives.
as long as the economy is slack. So
government can finance its extrava-
Of course, recovery is not an imme-
gance without suffocating recovery as
diate threat. Housing starts are at an
long as there isn't much recovery.
annual rate of 1 million, 60 per cent
for the government. In the last 10
in the private sector. In the next 10
below the 1973 record of 2.5 million.
years, 4.4 million Americans-1,200 a
years we need three times that-$4.5
Of course, the government can bor-
row less if it recklessly infletes the
Washington Post - Sat., April 26, 1975
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
Ford's Vulnerability
MARENGO, Ill. - The political vul-
rating, and his equally high scores as
nerability of Gerald R. Ford after
"the kind of decent, honest man the
nearly nine months as President is ap-
/
presidency needs," is only a base on
pallingly apparent in this conservative,
which to build a strong presidency.
rock-ribbed Republican farm town
The superstructure appears not to ex-
where he has still made no impact as a
ist.
forceful national leader or, even more
A middle-aged factory worker sum-
dangerous for him, as leader of his
med it up: "I like Ford as a man, but
party.
he doesn't put forth any surge of lead-
Indeed, Mr. Ford is perceived here
ership." That same theme was a bro-
as little more than "a damn good guy"
ken record. "He's compassionate," said
lesses
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Washington Star
Sunday, April 27, 1975
Gen. Louis Wilson in Line.
To Be Marine Commandant
Lt. Gen. Louis H. Wilson,
THE IMPENDING va-
commander of the 60,000
Marines of the Fleet Marine
cancy in the post of com-
Force in the Pacific, has
mandant has, as is typical
in the military, precipitated
ing for Marine interests at
tion's
highest military
been chosen by President
a distinctly political battle
the "tank" where the Joint
award, Wilson also holds
Ford to become next com-
within the Marine Corps for
Chiefs of Staff meet to chart
the Purple Heart with two
mandant of the Marine
the past year:
future strategy, tactics,
stars signifying he was
Corps, informed sources
Wilson was said to have
manpower and equipment
wounded in action three
disclosed yesterday.
the important backing of
requirements.
times.
The selection of the Wil-
influential Sen. John
Schlesinger, according to
son, 55, who was awarded
Wilson has largely been
Stennis, chairman of the
sources, not only overruled
the Medal of Honor for
distant from the Washing-
Senate Armed Services
Cushman's recommenda-
heroism in World War "
ton scene since 1972 when
Committee who represents
of
Anderson
Washington Post - Sun. , April 27, 1975
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is
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
Cambodia: A Letter From a 'Supertraitor
When the U.S. Navy and Marine
Corps evacuated the last American of-
"The letter spells out his sense of
President Ford invited members of
the Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
ficials from Cambodia April 12, the
betrayal by the Americans and hints that the
tee to the White House April 14 for a
U.S. embassy in Phnom Penh received
top secret briefing on the Vietnam cri-
an extraordinary letter that has prod-
uced a mixture of sorrow and forebod-
United States will somehow suffer the
sis and got lectured by junior Demo-
crats eager in the heady air of
ing in Washington.
consequences of that betrayal."
"reform" to tell the Chief Executive
The letter was written to Ambassa-
how to run his business.
dor John Gunther Dean by Prince
Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, a 32-
Sirik Matak, Cambodian high counse-
year-old first-termer with no visible
lor. He and Prime Minister Long
moved from real power (and was
Sirik Matak concluded with a cryptic
background in foreign affairs, in-
Boret two of the seven "supertraitors"
house atmost for o time
centrinina intimatione of nbh
structed the President on the logic of
areas of agreement with a terribly nos-
Washington Post - Sunday, April 27, 1975
tile Congress," Reagan says. "But
maybe this is the time to challenge
them and focus the blame where it be-
longs."
David S. Broder
Sometime this summer Reagan will
decide whether it is time for him 0
challenge Mr. Ford's asserted claim to
the 1976 nomination. It is "too soon'
Reagan's
for such a decision now, Reagan says.
But his advisers believe that anytime
after Labor Day will be too late, given
the and-raising and organizational ef-
forts needed to prepare for a challenge
'Sharp-Line'
to an inčumbent President in some 30
primaries.
The White House has made tentative
efforts to discourage his candidacy by
Formula
such steps as enlisting the sole remain-
ing Republican officeholder in Califor-
nia, Atty. Gen. Evelle Younger, as an
avowed Ford backer. But Reagan says,
"I don't feel at all fenced in," and
LOS ANGELES-This weekend
there is no reason to think he can be
finds Ronald Reagan midway through
bluffed out of the race, if he decides to
a speaking trip into Iowa, Mid igan,
go.
New Jersey, Mississippi, Florida and
Georgia. Last week he was visiting
"We all have to hope and pray that
New England colleges. The week be-
the incumbent President will salve the
fore that he was in England, and the
problems so capably that there will be
week then
no question about 1976." he savs in
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 28
Mr. Marsh --
Andy Newton called to draw your attention
to the attached article which appeared in
today's Washington Post.
Thanks.
donna
S'
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FORD in LIBRARY GENALD
Washington Post
Monday, April 28, 1975
Military Academy Battles for Its Life
By Jay Mathews
Enrollment hit a high
Washington Post Staff Writer
mark of 654 in the 1960s,
The Staunton Military Academy.
then rapidly plummeted as
once the largest private school in the
the unpopular Vietnam war,
South, alma mater of Barry Gold-
a galloping inflation and a
water Sr. and Jr. and John W. Dean
declining nationwide school
III, is fighting a rearguard action
population crippled military
against extinction.
schools throughout the
aentry. Leoffler said the
Layne Leoffler, who owns the
latest count shows 243 ca
academy, is a 54-year-old mining and
dets at the school, enrolled
real estate tycoon, and a partner in
in the 6th through 12th
the S. G. Leoffler Co. here, which has
grades.
for many years held the concession to
"I think supply and de-
operate Washington's publicly-own
mand is the number one
golf courses. Leoffler has announced
that he may close the academy this
p Joblem," said Leoffler, who
aduated from the acad-
year if financial help is not fortheom-
emy in 1940. "Some people
ing. This week, Leoffler is seeking an
like to say it's the military,
audience with Virginia Gov. Mills
but nonmilitary prep
Godwin Jr. to see if the state can do
hools
are also in trou-
anything to save one of its historic
bee."
landmarks.
Leoffler, who took over
its cadets on strict heating and hot-
the school in 1973 to save
gulations
out
its
"n
Washington Post Mon. , April 28, 1975
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Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
A
Wallace Victory in Tennessee
ASHVILLE-The first serious ef-
"The backstage effort to repeal primary elections
fied him in advance of coming to Ten-
fort to control Gov. George C. Wal-
nessee. Wallace replied blandly that he
lace's 1976 presidential surge collapsed
was so at home in neighboring Tennes-
here April 23, convincing even diehard
in states with Wallace strength has collapsed
see that he felt no need for formali-
doubters that he poses deadly, un-
ties. Translation: I'll come here any
solved problems for the Democratic
time I want. Asked whether he would
Party.
almost everywhere."
support Blanton's party registration
"That was really a show of people
bill (excluding non-Democratic Walla-
power," said a beaming Wallace mock-
ceites from the primary), Wallace said
ing the New Left idiom as he left the
he could never advocate taking away
Tennessee House of Representatives.
the people's right to vote.
He had just put on a vintage Wallace
ter that, repeal plans for Michigan
a committee room, Wallace was invited
Blanton told us he will try again
performance before cheering Wal-
foundered.
into the House chamber with the trap-
next year for party registration and,
laceite galleries and awed, somewhat
Nevertheless, Tennessee Democratic
pings of a formal state visit-much to
failing that, would again seek p pri-
frightened anti-Wallaceite legislators.
leaders still hoped a variety of forces
Blanton's disgust.
mary law repeal. But most Democrats
and dovernor drop.
would coalesce to reneal their primary
It was a field day for Wallace. who
feel the battle is lost.
Washington Post - - Mon., April 28, 1975
William C. Welch, 54, Dies;
Liaison Official With VA
William C. Welch, 54, direc-
an aide to three U.S. congress.
tor of the Veterans Adminis-
men-from Georgia, Henderson
ration Congressional Liaison
Lanham, Erwin Mitchell and
Service, died of cancer yester-
John Davis.
day at the Veterans Adminis-
"
Mr. Welch was a member of
tration Hospital here.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church in
He had been with the VA
Alexandria and president of
for the last 15 years. He also
Cameron News Limited, a
... -
ed
Washington Post - Tues., 4/29/75
Cables Warn of Viet Exit Nightmare
By Jack Anderson
A massive airlift, Martin con-
mated $1 billion worth of-mili-
ged down in an evacuation ef-
and Les Whitten
tends, would only panic the Vi-
tary hardware along the retreat
fort that could turn into a milt-
etnameşe and bring their de-
routes.
tary action.
Secret cable traffic warns that
feat. Therefore, he has limited
The Communists also have
The United States has
the great evacuation of Saigon
the airlift to about 3,000 persons
moved into some of the finest
searched in vain, meanwhile,
could turn into another night-
a day, substantially less than
U.S. facilities that money can
for new homes for the Vietnam-
mare.
the 5,000 claimed by the State
buy. They have taken over hos-
ese refugees. Only Taiwan has
Saigon's Tansonnhut airport,
Department. Military experts
pitals, barracks and ware-
offered to take some of them. Ja-
the military reports warn, is ex-
say they could have been bring-
houses. They are using 10,000-
pan, Thailand, Indonesia, the
tremsly vulnerable and could
ing out 10,000 a day.
foot-long American-constructed
Philippines and other Asian àa-
be put out of action at any time.
Martin also has resisted a
runways that would make many
tions sounded out informally
If Communist mortars, artillery
quiet Pentagon move to recover
American cities envious.
have refused to accept any refu-
:
...
Washington Post - Wed., April 30, 1975
Kenneth Crawford
"The Dominoes Are in Fact Falling'
the U.S.S.R. The implication is that
The domino theory, we have long
ture proves the folly of war any time
America has proved itself unreliable
been assured, is nonsense - merely a
anywhere. War, he says never in the
and that Israel should look to a relia-
subterfuge for adventuring in Indo-
history of the world accomplished any-
ble nation for security.
china. If that is so, what is happening
thing. Not even the war against
in Thailand, the Philippines and Laos
We are hearing much these days
Hitlerism? Well, maybe. But in that
must be illusory. For those three coun-
from those who knew all along that we
war a lot of unnecessary battles were
tries already seem to be tumbling out
were playing a losing hand in Vietnam
fought. So they may have been. But it
of the free-world orbit into the au-
and Cambodia. They told us so. They
takes an arm-chair 'amateur 30 years
thoritarian socialist orbit.
did indeed. Some of the same people
later to muster the gall to redo that
Unless President Marcos of the Phil.
are less talkative about their certainty
history.
ippines doesn't mean what he is say-
that the other dominoes would be
Then there is the expert on Vietnam,
ing, his country is leaning hard to the
unaffected. The dominoes are in fact
credentials in good order, who writes
left out of the perceived necessity of
falling and the end is not yet in sight.
in a national news magazine: "Our
getting on with China and its friends.
The clatter is no illusion.
Vietnam was dying, a corrupt, feudal
In Laos, the Communist Pathet Lao
Nobody can now foresee the ulti-
society; theirs, like it or not, was a
controls three quarters of the country
mate consequences of America's humil-
new, modern society born of the colo-
and is about to take over the other
iation. President Ford can admonish
nial war with the French." So Commu-
quarter. And the Thais, always sensi-
the country and the world to forget Vi-
nist dictatorship represents "modern
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Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
Israel's Battle for Congressional Opinion
head-on attack against President
dent Ford is scarcely remarkable in a
ing paper for the President before that
Letter," that "there have been
Ford by one of Israel's most respected
country which enjoys notable freedom
interview on a possible meeting with
some unjustified and needlessly shrill
jourhalists here has pushed White
of expression. What is significant is
Rabin. Thus, the President's answer,
reactions recently to statements made
House political temperatures closer. to
that high officials in the Ford adminis-
entirely his own, triggered Margalit's
by some members of Congress" critical
the boiling point and hardened this
tration are convinced that his criticism
report to Ha'Aretz the following day.
of Israel.
tentative conclusion: Israel's battle to
closely parallels private sentiments of
What raises the President's hackles
The immediate issue between Mr.
outflank Gerald Ford in his own coun-
some of Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak
about Israel's anti-administration cam-
Ford and Israel is the U.S.
try is getting rougher.
Rabin's top political advisers. As such,
paign is its assumption that pro-Israeli
"reassessment" of American interests