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News
Comment
The President's Daily News Summary
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
Leading The News
FOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
SEPTEMBER 29, 1976
Page
News Wrap-Up
1
FORD/DOLE
Strategy
A President To Be Seen But Not Heard?
NY Daily News 3
Gunning For Votes
Baltimore Sun 4
Dole: Carter Would Do Anything To Be President Morning Shows 5
Issues
For Punishing Young Criminals
Chicago Trib
6
Image
Monotone Gone As Ford Unveils New Image
Phil. Inq.
7
Ford And Congress
C.S. Monitor
8
Golf Is Not A Winning Issue
CBS Morn. News 10
Polls
Ford Home-State Lead Not Too Hefty
C.S. Monitor
11
CARTER/MONDALE
Strategy
Carter May Limit Contact With Press
Today Show
12
Jordan Criticizes News Media
AP;UPI
12
Carter Toughens His Attack
C.S. Monitor
13
Mondale Compares Ford, Nixon
ABC; NBC
14
Issues
Carter Unfazed By Crops, News
Baltimore Sun 16
Image
Some Georgians' Doubts On Carter
Chicago Trib
18
ii
Page
DEBATES
Debate Round 2: Format The Same
C.S. Monitor
19
As Our Columnists See It, Ford Won Round One
Phil. Inq.
20
The Power Of TV, Role Of Print
terHorst
22
Thinking Things Over
W.S. Journal
23
ELECTION
Impact of Special Interests Remains Enormous
CBS
24
Maddox Blasts Other Georgian
Phil Inq
26
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Anderson: CIA Believes White Regime Would Fall
ABC
27
Without US
Smith Anxious To Proceed
UPI
27
Rhodesia Peace Plan Given 60-40 Chance
C.S. Monitor
29
The US Stake In Southern Africa
Baltimore Sun
30
Black Suspicion Of Dr. Kissinger
Chicago Trib
31
US Should Not Succumb To Arab Boycott Demands
Phil Inq
32
CONGRESS
What Price Purity?
W.S. Journal
33
House Votes Stricter Controls On Lobbyists
AP; UPI; Nets
34
ADMINISTRATION
GAO To Dispute FBI Record
NBC Today Show 34
FIRST FAMILY
Susan Has Parents To Dinner
ABC
34
INTERNATIONAL
British Pound Recovers
AP; UPI; Nets
34
1
NEWS WRAP-UP
Carter visited his peanut-processing plant
World-Wide
in Plains, Ga., and studied CIA briefing pa-
pers to get ready for his foreign-affairs de-
SYRIAN FORCES in Lebanon began a
bate with Ford next Wednesday. The League
drive against Palestinians and Moslems.
of Women Voters said the debate will be
Syria pounded villages in central Leba-
held in San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts-
non with artillery and sent in troops and
and start at 9:30 n.m. EDT The learne also
"
Died: Marion B. Folsom, 82, Secretary of
and
Welfare
from
1953
to
2
NEWS WRAP-UP
Business and Finance
United Mine Workers dele-
EADING INDICATORS de-
gates voted to move the scheduled
L
clined sharply last month, but
December 1977 election up to mid-
a government economist asserted
June. The union's embattled presi-
that doesn't yet signal an eco-
dent unsuccessfully proposed a
Strategy
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
3
A President to be seen but not heard 6
during the 1972 presidential campaign. Instead, Ford
JAMES WIEGHART
struck the second major theme of his song to the
South - the need to keep America militarily strong.
Freely translated, this means that if he is elected,
W
ASHINGTON-It's perfectly clear, as
Ford can be counted on to keep defense dollars flow-
President Ford's predecessor used to
ing at the current record high levels to military bases
and-installations that dot the Deep South.
say, why Ford's campaign managers and poli-
lyzed and almost killed by a nut with a handgun
N.Y. Daily News, 9/29/76
Strategy
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
4
Gunning for Votes
The handgun is designed for just one.
Howard county police chief Mathews, who has
thing-to kill a human being.
advocated handgun controls, reflects a growing
Robert O. Mathews,
sentiment among police chiefs for strict gun
Howard county police chief.
control laws. The police chiefs are not alone.
Public opinion polls consistently demonstrate
President Ford exhibited a finely honed abili-
that the great majority of Americans favors
ty to demagogue during his Southern campaign
some form of gun control. Yet a vocal minority,
swing. Through most of his 140-mile Gulf coast
supporting a well-heeled and effective Washing-
motorcade Sunday Mr. Ford pandered to the
ton lobby. has been able to stampede Mr. Ford
Baltimore Sun, 9/29/76
Strategy
FORD/DOLE
5
Dole: Carter Would Do Anything To Be President
Sen. Dole charged Tuesday that Jimmy Carter wants to be
President so badly he will tell any group anything to get their
vote. (CBS)
Dole told an enthusiastic crowd in Newark, Ohio: "In 1972
Governor Carter is saying we shouldn't cut anything from defense.
In 1975 he's saying we ought to cut $15 billion in defense. This
year he is saying we should cut $5-7 billion in defense, at the
very time our Secretary of Defense is warning us about the Russian
buildup, the Russian progress, and the all-out missile effort
by the Russians," (ABC)
On the Playboy interview, Dole commented: "He's been giving
a great many interviews lately. Some I haven't read. Others
are still looking at the pictures. And others are still trying
to figure out what kind of judgment a man has who would grant
such an interview." (CBS)
Regarding Carter's AP interview on tax reform, Dole charged
that Carter has "weasled and squirmed and wiggled trying to get
off the hook," and he vowed to prevent that. (CBS) -- Morning
Shows (9/29/76)
ON STRIKE
UNFAID
AGAINST
FORD
CORD
IS
a
1000
Washington Star. 9/26/76
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Issues
6
For punishing young criminals
Speaking to the International Associa-
school.
They should knock down the
tion of Chiefs of Police in Miami on
whole age barrier, depending on the
Monday, President Ford advocated se-
type of crime and the past history of the
vere punishment for young criminals
kid involved.
The way it is now, it's
- now sheltered by their juvenile status.
a big game."
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Image
Monatone gone, delivery smoother
as Ford unveils new image
By James McCartney
Inquirer Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - A "new Ford,"
cent home in a decent< neighbor-
model 1976, emerged during the
hood," for every American and the
weekend on the President's first
"best health care for our people."
major foray beyond the White'House
He would close with an expression
rose garden since he formally opened
of his hopes for "a new spirit in
his campaign in Ann Arbor. Mich
America - a spirit of togetherness. a
such us nums LOLA quout MID under
for the future - more jobs, "a de-
"He thinks it was just terrific."
Image
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
8
GERALD FORD AND CONGRESS
Congressman Gerald Ford
ing bills, I will veto them again and again and
wanted to be speaker.
again
For nine of his 25 years in the House of Represen-
Mr. Ford occasionally varied the number of
tatives he had been minority leader, and all he
"agains" but never the basic message, which has be-
needed to be speaker was a Republican majority
come a major economic issue in the election and the
which would automatically promote him.
heart of his difference with Congress.
When the summons came, however, it wasn't from
In his 25 years in Congress the straightforward and
Congress; it was from the executive. Square-shoul-
uncomplicated congressman from Grand Rapids,
dered, reliable, predictable Jerry Ford became vice-
Michigan, deviated rarely from his basic conserva-
president
and after that president. And what
tism and loyalty to his party. Only for two years in
all
On Oct. 8 liberal econômist Walter W. Heller, for-
mer chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
Image (Cont.)
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
9
under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, gave Mr.
litical spectrum - when they said we needed a for
Ford "an 'A' for effort but a- 'D' for the program.'
government interference to get out of the recession.
In contrast I charted a steady. constructive course. I
E.S. Monitor, 9/29/76
Campaign Probe
FORD/DOLE
10
Golf Is Not A Winning Issue
One of the refreshing things about President Ford's White
House is a lessening of former Presidents' obsession with the
job, Bruce Morton commented Wednesday.
Referring to recent reports that Ford accepted golfing
invitations from lobbyists, Morton said: "So does almost
everyone in Washington who is in government, the press, or is a
lawyer or lobbyist who deals with government.
"No one has suggested that Ford voted this way or that
because of a golf game. Until they do, it is still possible to
like the President, who doesn't feel driven to work at the job
48 hours a day.
"There may be lots of other reasons to vote against Ford.
But golf does not look like a winning issue," Morton concluded. --
CBS Morning News (9/29)
CRATE
THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
Chicago Sun-Times, 9/21/76
Polls
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
11
Seven-point margin; 24% undecided
Ford's home-state lead not too hefty
By Richard J. Cattani
mer Gov. George Romney have ranked higher
mated 10 percent crossover vote from th
Staff correspondent of
in state identification than Mr. Ford, it is gen-
Democrats - effectively introduced Mr. For
The Christian Science Monitor
erally agreed.
as a statewide as well as national political fi
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Here are reasons Mr. Ford's favorite-son
ure.
With some 24 percent of Michigan voters
identity has been faint:
The Democrats agree Mr. Ford's home stal
still listed as undecided on their choice for the
Just as Mr. Ford has not run for national
identification gives him his current edge. The
White House, President Ford's seven-point
office before, so he has not faced all of Mich-
hope the undecided vote, and time, are on the
margin over Jimmy Carter in the latest Mich-
igan's voters in a statewide race. His first
side.
igan poll is surprisingly slim in his home state.
statewide test was chiefly within his own party
"I think it's basically a Democratic vote th:
Grand Rapids stockbroker Robert E. Dur-
- this May's Republican primary in Michigan,
is undecided," says Morley Winograd, stal
ham is rah-rah for President Ford
in'ubich
Democratic Party chairman
C.S. Monitor, 9/29/76
Strategy
CARTER/MONDALE
12
Carter May Limit Contact With Press
There are signs that Jimmy Carter's past efforts to be
available to reporters are coming to an end, Judy Woodruff
reported Wednesday (NBC).
While touring his shelling plant in Plains Tuesday, Carter
talked for an hour, but would not say a word on the newest
economic statistics, Woodruff reported.
Carter's apparent reluctance to talk came after several of
his comments to reporters came back to haunt him, Woodruff said.
Those included his remarks on Clarence Kelley, tax reform, but
most of all sex and Lyndon Johnson in the Playboy interview.
But deeper than that is a frustration in the Carter camp
about the press coverage they feel he is getting, Woodruff said.
Carter told a Los Angeles audience last weekend: "It's been
three weeks now since Mr. Ford faced the cross-examination of
newspeople or an audience. He can make the news, say what he
wants to, sign a bill, shake hands with visitors. And that's it.
And every day five, six, seven, eight, nine different times,
I'm in a crowd answering questions, facing newspeople, being
constantly exposed. I'm stripped down to my weaknesses."
Press Secretary Jody Powell said former President Nixon
made fools of the press in 1972 by hiding in the White House,
and President Ford is doing the same thing this year and getting
away
with
it.
-- Today Show (9/29/76)
Jordan Criticizes News Media
Jimmy Carter's campaign manager says the press has given
President Ford a "free ride" while scrutinizing the slightest
deviation in what Carter says.
Hamilton Jordan said "The press is preoccupied for three
or four days with the Playboy interview, where all Carter did was
to speak very candidly.
"At the same time Ford had proved and pretty well admits that
he has accepted these trips
these golf trips, trips to the
hunting lodges and so forth, and not that much is made of it. At
this point, Ford's had a free ride."
But, he said, "the press treatment has been balanced. I'm
just saying because Gerald Ford is an incumbent President, there
seems to be a reluctance to cover him."
Jordan also said polls indicate Micnigan and Illinois "could
go either way. Indiana looks close, Texas is probably going to
be hard fought. California could be tough.' -- AP;UPI
Strategy
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
be seen whether it will halt the steady erosion
Carter
toughens
his attack
Campaign speeches
rap Ford sharply
By John Dillin
Staff correspondent of
:
The Christian Science Monitor
With the Carter campaign
Jimmy Carter, his campaign sagging, has
put on the rhetorical brass knuckles against
President Ford.
After three weeks of disappointment on the
campaign trail, Mr. Carter has gone on the of
fensive with his toughest talk yet.
Strategy
CARTER/MONDALE
14
Mondale Compares Ford, Nixon
Sen. Walter Mondale compared President Ford to former
President Nixon Tuesday for Ford's recent avoidance of the press.
Mondale said: "In 1972 we had a candidate for President
that wouldn't answer any questions. He just merchandized himself,
ducked, ran. No one could put a question to him. We found out
after the campaign what we had on our hands. And never again will
we let anybody run for any office, unless he or she is willing
to answer the questions that people in the news industry and the
American people ask
For a week we've had a spectacle quite
the contrary. That's the point I'm making." (ABC/NBC)
Don Farmer reported thatMondale apparently decided the best
way to attack Mr. Ford is to either pressure him into talking
about this issue or criticize him for not doing SO. Either way,
Mondale believes the Democratic will benefit. -- ABC Good Morning
America; NBC Today Show (9/29/76)
Baltimore Sun, 9/25/76
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
15
AVTH
SCARTE
is
This is the first political campaign which has stimulated my interest.'
Chicago Tribune, 9/29/76
Issues
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
16
Carter
unfazed by
crops, news
By ADAM CLYMER
Sun Staff Correspondent
Plains, Ga.-Jimmy Carter read last
caused them to work harder. If his com-
week's newspapers and visited his peanut
ments on lust and adultery hurt anywhere,
processing factory yesterday. He pro-
Mr. Jordan said, it was in the South, where
remarks VII was amu THE WILLS
Playboy, neither episode had cost the
Baltimore Sun, 9/29/76
campaign any significant number of votes.
He suggested the Playboy interview-
might even be a blessing in disguise be-
cause it "made our people nervous" and
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
17
"
096 CHKAGO TRIBLIE
Frank Starr
Some Georgians' doubts on Carter-
and the New South
[Eighth article in a series on the New
son's action, that Trooper James Young
South. The next will appear Thursday.)
was known to be abusive and to start
fights. that in that seconds-long tussle
CORDELE. Ga.-The old man's false
over Young's revolver, Patterson did be-
teeth clacked a little askhe said it. A
Dixie
lieve he'd be killed.
limp $100 bill went down on the pile of
gunny sacks. Then down went another.
diary
The papers." observed the barber,
printed a whole lot of lies-trying to
Chicago Tribune, 9/29/76
Chicago Tribune, 9-29-76
DEDAILS
Debate Round 2:
format the same
By Godfrey Sperling Jr.
Staff correspondent of
The Christian Science Monitor
Washington
There will be no major changes in the
format for next week's presidential de-
bate. So says the League of Women Vot-
ers.
League sources say that the reporter-
panel concept remains firm. The only ad-
Widely tagged as 'boring'
C.S. Monitor, 9/29/76
If there was any one consensus on the eve
ning performance, it seemed to be that the
DEBATES
As our columnists see it,
Ford won round one
By Garry Wills
At a third level, perhaps deepest of
By Harriet Van Horne
The President won the debate by a
all, the question is not what is being
NEW YORK CITY The historic
said; or whether any mistakes are
vest. He just had to stand there while
first debate between President Ford
made in the process of saying it, but
Carter fidgeted. He won because we
merely: How do they look and act?
and challenger Jimmy Carter made
expect so little of him. If he does not
Messrs. Ford and Carter were both
one thing perfectly clear.
fall over, we tend to think of it as an
well aware that their encounter was
No matter who wins in November,
achievement. He gets the standing-
taking place at these three levels si-
the White House will continue to be a
still prize.
multaneously, and personally- I
castle of cliches and an abode of dull-
There were actually three debates.
thought both acquitted themselves
ness. For four more years it will be
After the TV breakdown, Carter won
reasonably well at all three.
the last place you would visit to hear
the exchange of final speeches. Be-
At the level of substantive content,
sparkling dialogue, graceful wit or
fore the breakdown, over the course
both contestants hewed firmly to
trenchant argument.
of the 12 questions, he drew up even
their pre-established positions, with
It was a toss-up as to which man
with Ford. But the battle of first im-
Ford accusing Carter of proposals for
was duller. I'd say that President
pressions Carter lost - and that is
reckless overspending and Carter de-
Ford was, but he won the evening
the only impression many people car-
nying this while charging Ford with
anyway. In politics, dullness can be
ried away from their television set.
lacking both leadership and compas-
reassuring. It's so old-shoe honest.
The debates proved what people
sion.
The President spouted statistics as
have said about them all along. They
At the second level, neither made
a computer spouts tape. He gave us
established the electoral importance
any serious, bloopers at all - quite
everything but the freight car load-
of unimporant things. The purr of
an achievement, under the conditions
ings in Michigan for 1902.
Carter's homiletic rhythms was
of a. -minute debate 50 heavy with
There was, in truth, a great deal of
stalled at the beginning. They resem-
potentially evil consequences.
repetition in this long-awaited en-
bled the grind of a Rolls Royce en-
That left most of the impact to
counter. There was none of the
gine that could not quite get started.
crackling drama, the sense of discov-
Both men showed they had studied
take place at the third level: the
ery, remembered from the first Ken-
the 1960 debates too closely. Each
level of gut reaction. And here I
nedy-Nixon debate in 1960. Television
wanted to make a hit with statistics,
thought President Ford emerged with
still wore the gloss of novelty then.
as Kennedy did. But Kennedy had a
way of punching out statistics, by his
a slight edge, in part because prior
There were only 40 million sets in the
treatment of him by the media had
country. People hadn't become jaded
speech patterns, that made them dra-
been 30 savagely unjust.
-by the medium or by politics.
made
When the cameras first zeroed in
Both Carter and Ford made them
Ford came over, at the third level;
on Jimmy Carter he looked young
soporific. But Ford was so boring,
as a man every bit as decent as he is
generally conceded to be, but also no
enough to be President Ford's son.
one just forgot him. Carter interested
So slight, so scared and vulnerable!
us by his unexpected nervousness.
oaf by a long shot. He was obviously
He could have been a high school
And since neither man could win, but
in earnest, obviously trying to do the
valedictorian. One longed to send
one could lose, Carter lost.
right thing, and by no means obvi-
him a message of reassurance.
ously failing to do it. One got the
("There, now, you're going to be just
By William A. Rusher
feeling that, if life wasn't always
fine.")
smooth, that wasn't Ford's fault-it
Alas, Carter was not so fine. He re-
NEW YORK CITY-The first of the
was life's.
minded one of an over-rehearsed
debates between President Ford and
Ford probably gained & bit more
actor, undone by a sudden access of
Jimmy Carter was, among other
than Carter in this first encounter,
terror.
things, a brilliant demonstration of
largely because the media's previous
Carter lost because he still doesn't
the multiple levels on which any such
image of Ford was so grossly unfair.
know how to pronounce his vowels,
encounter takes place.
But both men were in the uncomfort-
phrase his sentences or call on the
Only the top level - the substan-
able position where, as Churchill said
old, established tricks that mask
tive content - is concerned with
of Admiral Jellicoe before the Battle
stage fright and endow stock phrases
what the protagonists are actually
of Jutland, they "could lose the war
with charm.
trying to say.
in an afternoon." And, like Jellicoe,
Carter had his moments, of course,
At another level (dare I call it's
neither did.
scoring a few neat victories. He ap-
"lower"?), the emphasis is on any
peared highly expert on the energy
sheer blunders they make mis-
questions, explaining how nuclear
pronunciations, slips of the tongue,
power can be made safe. And he
loss of a train of thought, etc.
Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/29/76 (Cont.)
DEBATES
Reaction (Cont.)
21
himon
Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/29/76
Reaction
22
DEBATES
The power of TV. ,
role of print
WASHINGTON-The quadrennial run
New York and Washington for the night-
for the White House, in a classic sense.
ly network newscasts.
:- otill " political compaign The winner
And for what other nurnase than TV
By Gerald
terHorst
political behavior in 1976 certainly
Chicago Tribune, 9-29-76
proves his moint
Reaction
DEBATES
By Vermont Royster
THINKING THINGS OVER
Debates and Divination
Maybe that's not show business. It
What those scorecards foretell for No
would be far more revealing all the same,
vember, deponent-knoweth not. They ma
The desire to know what's going to hap-
of the political thoughts of the two men,
be irrelevant, anyway. It was the journali:
pen before it happens runs deep in the hu-
forcing them to organize those thoughts in
tic consensus at the time-and the conclu
man psyche, if one can judge by the durabil-
coherent fashion. They couldn't just rely. as
sion of later historians-that Lincoln out
ity of diviners. In ancient times men
both did the other evening. on computer-
scored Douglas in those famous debate
looked to the oracles at Delphi to divine
ized oninnate for quick answers to familiar
a
,
-
6000
-
domestic policy (or whatever the
Issues
ELECTION
24
Impact Of Special Interests Remains Enormous
The impact of special interest money on the American political
process remains enormous, Dan Rather commented Wednesday.
The stories about Gerald Ford as a Congressman and his
alleged connection with money and favors from a steel company
and a maritime union are complex, and perhaps when considered
in full context, even unfair. Certainly Ford's explanations of
what happen and why should be considered before anyone makes a
judgment on how those stories would affect the presidential
campaign.
It must also be borne in mind that the Carter campaign,
both in the primary and general election phases, has received
money and favors from many special interest groups, including
big unions and the rock and roll music industry.
There seems to be a public impression that the new so-called
campaign reform law makes it much more difficult, if not impossible,
for special interest money to influence election campaigns and
public officials. This is not necessarily true.
First, there are so many presidential primary elections,
and they have taken on so much more importance, that special
interest money poured in early and at critical moments along
the way is vital to most presidential candidates.
Second, and perhaps more important, the new law was written
and passed by incumbent congressmen. In the opinion of many
observers, it has increased, not decreased, the advantages of
incumbency to House and Senate members in elections.
The whole problem of special interest money and what it buys
in our political process has been addressed more in recent years,
mostly because of Watergate. It has not been solved. -- CBS
Morning News (9/29/76)
ELECTION
25
STAYSKAE
TRIBUNE
"Well, then, on who you'll vote for
why don't I just put you down as undecided?"
I
Third Parties
ELECTION
26
Maddox visits area, blasts
the other Georgian in the race
By Leslie Wayne
caught him telling the truth."
Inquirer Staff Writer
Maddox said he could not make a
SEWELL, N. J. - American Inde-
Campaign 76
strong showing without the attention
pendent Party presidential candidate
of the media. "I've been blacklisted
Lester Maddox brought his campaign
by the national media in an effort by
to South Jersey yesterday and said
the 20 states where he is on the bal-
them to supress the truth," he com-
that Jimmy Carter would give Amer-
lot. Maddox campaign aides say they
plained. "It looks as though the
ica its first dictator.
are optimistic about Maddox'
League of Woman Voters, the Demo-
Philadephia Inquirer, 9/29/76
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
27
Anderson: CIA Believes White Regime Would Fall Without US
Jack Anderson reported Wednesday that the CIA believes only
US intervention could save the white regime in Rhodesia.
Anderson said: "The CIA has reported that only US intervention
can save the white Rhodesian regime in Africa. The secret CIA
assessment warns that bloodshed would mount and the black insurgent
forces would prevail. The CIA predicts that by 1978 the situation
would be totally hopeless for the white regime."
Anderson added: "There's also danger that Cuban troops
operating out of Mozambique would join in the fighting. These
are the harsh facts that Secretary of State Kissinger laid before
Rhodesia's Prime Minister.
"My sources say that after the formal discussions Kissinger
took Smith aside for a private 10 minute talk. Kissinger
reportedly told him bluntly that his white regime would be
overthrown within two years. Presumably, this was the reason
Smith agreed to a voluntary transfer of power to the black
majority.' - ABC Good Morning America (9/29/76)
Smith Anxious To Proceed
Prime Minister Ian Smith says he is "anxious to proceed"
toward black majority rule and has invited a top British diplomat
to help resolve the growing dispute between Rhodesia and black
African leaders over setting up an interim government.
In the latest snag in the US-negotiated plan, Tanzanian
President Julius Nyerere said Tuesday black leaders expect
majority rule in "four to six weeks" while Smith had spoken earlier
in terms of two years.
"We are talking about majority rule in four to six weeks,
when, with the formation of an interim government, the powers of
the government of Rhodesia will be passed to the majority,"
Nyerere said in Dar Es Salaam.
The complications began surfacing Sunday when Nyerere and the
four other presidents of "front-line" black states rejected
Smith's outline for setting up the transitional government.
Smith had said the plan was mapped out by Secretary of
State Kissinger, chief negotiator in the agreement.
But Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs William
Rogers said in Washington Monday that what Smith depicted as
an agreement was only a Rhodesian negotiating position.
Tn Smith's office virtually the US Tuesday
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
28
of acting in bad faith, saying the US government had assured
Smith the plan had received black Africa's approval before he
outlined it to the nation Friday.
Despite the latest developments, Kissinger said Tuesday in
Washington that he believes negotiations will move rapidly toward
setting up a constitutional conference. - UPI (9/29/76)
Dr. Kissinger, I Presume?'
X
Africa
29
FOREIGN POLICY
Rhodesia peace plan
given '60-40' chance
be seen whether it will halt the steady erosion
Quick settlement
that has eaten into Mr. Carter's lead over the
President in every section of the country.
would foil Soviets
For the past 10 days, reporters traveling
with Mr. Carter often have judged his perfor-
mances to be lackluster, his speeches rambling
By Geoffrey Godsell
and without focus. Staffers agree there has
Overseas news editor of
been a problem. The new, hard-hitting style ap-
The Christian Science Monitor
parently is designed to snap the campaign out
Washington
of a bad case of melancholy.
British Prime Minister James Callaghan's
Partly, the problem has stemmed from polit-
urging of the quick formation of an interim
ical blunders, like the controversial Playboy in-
multiracial government for Rhodesia - "say
terview. In state after state, Carter. field coor-
within four to six weeks" - fits well with think-
dinators report their phones are ringing with
your back.' Public officials, lobbyists, special-
interest groups go to the same private club,
C.S. Monitor, 9/29/76
they go to the same restaurants, they play golf
at the same golf courses.
African
FOREIGN POLICY
30
The U.S. Stake in Southern Africa
The winds of change are at gale force in
Rhodesia. It takes no great imagination to see
southern Africa. While the world awaits hard
how damaging widescale racial conflict in
negotiations on a quick transition from white to
southern Africa could be to black-white rela-
black rule in Rhodesia, the real power struggle
tions in this nation.
between rival black groups already has hegun
Therefore Secretary Kissinger's dinlomatic
Baltimore Sun, 9/29/76
Vernon Jarrett
Black suspicion
of Dr. Kissinger
IT IS REMARKABLE how Collins Ra-
"These men are: no fools," Bennett
Northwestern University in 1963.
musi, 50, and Robert Bennett, 29, two
said. "Don't think that they have for-
THE MENTION of Northwestern
lawyers from different backgrounds in
gotten Kissinger's secret memo to Presi-
different parts of the world, could
dent Nixon in 1969 urging Nixon to give
brought a mist to Ramusi's eyes. This
come to similar conclusions on a grave
racist South Africa the United States'
jovial, husky African, who can laugh
international confrontation.
all-out support-but in a veiled manner
even. while speaking of revolution, re-
called with sadness a Northwestern
Ramusi was horn and reared in South
-everywhere South Africa is threat-
Chicago Tribune, 9-29-76
FOREIGN POLICY
OPEC
32
U.S. should not succumb
to Arab boycott demands
That report that Saudi Arabia was by the next administration. Mean-
threatening to impose a new oil em- while, though we are unenthusiastic
bargo against the U.S. seems to have about the sale, it amounts to only $30
been exaggerated. It came from million, scaled in half from the ad-
Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/29/76
33
Lobbying
CONGRESS
What Price Purity?
While a good many important
Common Cause, which seems
matters hang fire, Congress is
to devote itself mainly to the task
spending its last week before ad-
of trying to reduce the influence of
journment devoting much time to
organizations other than Common
another one of those frustrating
Cause, apparently has whipped
W.S. Journal 9-29-76
CONGRESS
34
House Votes Stricter Controls On Lobbyists
The House voted 307-31 early Wednesday morning in favor
of a bill which requires lobbyists to disclose every three months
who they work for and how much they spend trying to influence
Congress and federal agencies.
Present law requires lobbyists to report their income and
expenditures twice a year. --- AP; UPI; Morning Shows (9/29/76)
ADMINISTRATION
GAO To Dispute FBI Record
A GAO study, scheduled for release Wednesday, says that
only nine per cent of the FBI's cases are ever accepted for
prosecution, Carl Stern reported. (NBC)
Many of the cases are dropped by the FBI, but the GAO
thinks not enough, Stern said. The GAO also reports that the
FBI distorts the number of its convictions. ---- NBC Today Show
(9/29/76)
FIRST FAMILY
Susan Has Parents To Dinner
Susan Ford had her parents over for supper last night.
It was the first time President and Mrs. Ford have seen the
apartment she shares with three college roommates in suburban
Washington. The President himself cooked the steaks.
ABC showed film of the Fords and Susan's roomates greeting one another.
The camera also caught the President serving the steaks.
ABC Good Morning America (9/29/76)
INTERNATIONAL
British Pound Recovers
The value of the British pound Wednesday increased by about
three cents in London, recovering much of Tuesday's four and a
half cent loss.
The upturn of the pound came as British Chancellor of the
Exchequer Denis Healy announced he will seek nearly $4 billion in
credit from the International Monetary Fund. The move is being
made, apparently, to assure investors that Britain can finance the
re-payment of about $1 billion in credits extended by the US
and other central banks. -- AP; UPI; Morning Shows (9/29/76)
News
Comment
R.
GERALD
DROA
The President's Daily News Summary
LIBRARY
Leading The News
FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1976
Page
ECONOMY
Index Drops 1.5%
AP, UPI, Networks
1
Ford Motors Ups Prices
AP, UPI, Networks
1
Stocks Lower
AP, UPI, Networks
1
S&P Profits Optimism Index Down
UPI
2
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Mondale: Ford Avoiding Finance Questions
AP, UPI, Networks
2,3
Issues
Carter Isn't Any Bogeyman
C.S. Monitor
5
Playboy Interview
Lusting After Feminists' Candidate
Washington Star
6
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Issues
Dole Campaigns in Midwest
AP,UPI,ABC
8
Strategy
Dole's Scare Tactics
St.Petersburg Times
9
Campaign Probe
Ford Was Golfing Guest of Corp.
AP, UPI, Networks
10
A Look at the Maritime Union
CBS
11
ELECTION
Polls
GOP Candidates Ahead in State Poll
Omaha World-Herald
12
Low Turnout Could Hurt Carter
St.Paul Pioneer Press
12,13
McCarthy
McCarthy May Carry 9 States
UPI
13
Strategy
Campaign Pitfalls
Eric Sevareid, CBS
15,116
Image
Will Real H. Truman Candidate Stand
St.Paul Pioneer Press
16,17
PRESIDENCY
Ford Signs Parks Bill
AP, UPI, ABC, CBS
17
Ford: His Fiscal Track Record
C.S. Monitor
18,19
Shouldn't Veto Indian Health Bill
Argus Leader (S.D.) 20
ii
Page
FOREIGN POLICY
Senate Reviews Saudi Missile Sale
AP, UPI, Networks
22
Smith Invites British Envoy
AP, CBS
23
Soviets Want MIG Back
AP, ABC
23
Rhodesia: Repairing the Rift
C.S. Monitor
24
ADMINISTRATION
Not Nice to Cheat Mother Nature
L.A. Times
25
A Post-Kissinger Era?
Dallas Times Herald 26
OSHA vs. Noise
W.S. Journal
27
Kelley Criticizes Media on Reporting
UPI
28
DEBATES
VP Debates Scheduled
AP, UPI, NBC
28
Reaction
The Making of an Image
W.S. Journal
29
Carter Frittered Chance to Win Debate
Phila. Inquirer
30
Poll Reveals Ford Bested Carter Handily
Mich. St. Journal
32
CONGRESS
Congress Sends Ford Chemical Bill
NBC, CBS
33
Senate Approves Foreign Aid Bill
AP,UPI,ABC,CBS
33
U.S.
Grand Jury Indicst 16 on Medicaid
NBC
33
Schorr Resigns
AP, UPI, Networks
33,34
INTERNATIONAL
British Pound Drops Again
AP, UPI, Networks
34
CORRECTION:
The article "Catholic Defection", run on pages 20-21 of
Tuesday's Magazine Supplement, was published in the
National Journal, NOT Time magazine.
ECONOMY
1
Index Drops 1.5%
The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that the
composite index of leading indicators fell 1.5% last month,
the first decline since February 1975, and the largest since
January 1975 when it dropped 3.4%.
The department said the drop was due primarily to a higher
layoff rate in manufacturing and reduced business spending.
The decline puts the index back where it was in May of this year.
A decline in the index is generally a sign of slower
growth in the economy, but most economists say a three-month
drop or increase in the index is needed before an economic
trend is established.
In his filmed report, Dan Cordtz reported that "the
next index will be out just a few days before the election,
and if that one is lower, it'll be a political bombshell.' (ABC)
AP, UPI, Networks --- (9/28/76)
Ford Motors Ups Prices
The strike-bound Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it is
increasing prices on its 1977-model cars an average $310, or
5.1 percent, giving some of its top-of-the-line full sized cars
lower prices than competitive General Motors models.
Ford said the increase would have averaged just $132,
or 2.2 percent, if the new and smaller 1977 Thunderbird would
have been included. THe intermediate-sized Thunderbird for
1977 will carry a $5,063 price tag, compared to a $7,790 price
on a much larger and better equipped 1976 model.
GM earlier announced that its average price hike for a car
equipped with the normal array of options was $338, or 5.9 percent
over 1976 models. AP, UPI, Networks --- (9/28/76)
Stocks Lower
Prices closed sharply lower Tuesday in active trading on
the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow Jones Industrial average
was off 18.20 points to 994.93 shortly before the close.
Prices were lower in moderate trading on the American
Stock Exchange. AP, UPI, Networks -- (9/28/76)
ECONOMY
2
S&P Profits Optimism Index Down
Businessmen are less optimistic about the economy for
the fourth quarter than they were about this quarter three
months ago, according to Standard & Poor's Corp.
The business information service noted "a mild ebb in
confidence" among the 1,424 executives interviewed about sales,
profits and employment prospects during the fourth quarter.
S&P said its sales optimism index dipped 5 points from
quarter to quarter, with much of the decline attributed to
durable goods manufacturers and retailers. The index had
climbed in the previous quarter to 79, a point off the pre-
recession level reached in the third quarter of 1973.
The S&P index measuring profits optimism also slipped
5 points to 63, with durable goods producers again displaying
the largest loss of optimism. UPI --- (9/28/76)
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Mondale: Ford Avoiding Campaign Finance Questions
Sen. Walter Mondale said Tuesday President Ford was
avoiding answering questions about probes of his campaign
finances and golfing weekends in which he was the guest of
a U.S. Steel lobbyist.
Mondale at first declined to comment on the investigations
at an airport news conference here. But when asked by a reporter
if he thought Ford was ducking reporters' questions, the senator
said: "I don't think there's any question about it."
When first asked about the subject, Mondale said, "I don't
think I should be commenting on that until I'm personally sure
what the situation is." Mondals spoke at the start of a three-
day trip to Ohio, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Mondale, at an airport press conference, said, "Those
questions shouldn't be put to me. They should be put to the
person in the White House against whom those charges have been
made. I'm talking now about the questions on the vacation,
visits to the lobbyists, and so on. I don't know what the facts
are, but I'm told the President is unavilable to answer questions "NBC
"I believe in the presumption of innocence, but in a
campaign with serious issues like that, it's up to the people
involved, who know most directly what's involved, to answer the
questions." (ABC)
"I think the time has come for the President of the United
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
3
States to just come on out, let new people ask him the
questions and let's find out what really happened." (networks)
Mondale continued: "I'm proud of the fact that the head
of my ticket is available to the press, and is answering questions.
Sometimes, he gets in trouble doing it, but at least, he's doing
what a candidate for a national office should do. He's answering
questions." (ABC, CBS)
Campaigning later in Cleveland, Mondale said he was talking
only of the golfing outings, not of the Michigan investigations.
His demand that the President answer questions is consistent with
his theme that President Ford is hiding behind his desk in
Washington refusing to go out to the people. (NBC)
Mondale told a group of labor leaders that at the moment,
he rates the election a toss-up. "Both parties feel Ohio is one
of the critical battleground states, a swing state, with one of
the biggest chunks of electoral votes. The race here is said
to be very close. That is why both Monday and Carter plan to come
back here several times between now and election day," Charles
Quinn reported. (NBC)
On another subject, the senator, in his airport news
conference, said there was "no question" that the Ford adminis-
tration had failed to deal with "the dramatic rising rate of crime."
Mondale said Ford Monday had spoken primarily about areas of crime
in which his administration had little responsibility.
Mondale said that President Ford's record on crime is a
shambles. "If he were to talk about crime, he should talk about
those areas in which he has direct responsibility, and where they
failed: drug enforcement, organized crime, FBI, the reorganization
of the intelligence agencies, the law enforcement assistance act,
every place that this administration has responsibility under the
law to enforce the law, they failed." (ABC)
He said the drug enforcement agency and FBI were disorganized
and demoralized and that in the area of antitrust and white collar
crime "the Justice Department isn't moving at all. We see the
administration, with a miserable record, trying to deal with the
politics of the issue," rather than seeking solutions to rising
rates of crime and its causes.
NBC's #4 report, following the Ford story, ran 2:00, and
showed Mondale arriving at the airport, speaking on film, and
campaigning in Cleveland.
CBS' 1:45 report, which ran #3, included film of Mondal at an
airport news conference, and continued with a comment by Bill Plante.
ABC's #5 story, following the Ford report, showed Mondale
arriving at the airport and speaking to newsmen. AP, UPI, Networks - (9/28)
4
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
CARNEP
THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
Memphis Commercial Appeal,
9/23/76
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Issues
5
To 'bureaucrats' he'd shift,
Carter isn't any bogeyman
By Peter C. Stuart
The relationship between
number of federal agencies
Staff correspondent of
organized federal employees.
from 1,900 to "no more than
The Christian Science
and Mr. Carter poses one of
200" and by introducing
Monitor
the supreme anomalies of
"zero-based
budgeting,"
Washington
this campaign: The major
which requires each agency
Would a Jimmy Carter
unions of Washington bureau-
to justify its entire annual
presidency dismantle much of
crats (a term they dislike)
budget instead. of just pro-
the federal bureaucracy?
are backing the candidate
posed increases in funding.
Despite the Democratic
who is running against what
Such techniques. while Mr.
nominee's pledge to reorga-
he calls Washington's "hor-
Carter was governor of
nize the Washington bureau-
rible bureaucratic mess."
Georgia from 1971 to 'T5. re-
treatment UI employees
C.S. Monitor
9/28/76
Playboy Interview
6
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
Lusting After the Feminists' Candidate
Jimmy Carter's remarks about sin and sex were
thetic man; more than just a stud or father, per-
so embarrassing one didn't know where to look.
haps even someone who might make a fairly de-
A few weeks ago I wrote that it was inheritently
cent president. He loves and admires his wife and
impossible to be a feminist and a Republican. Now
mother and he might eventually be persuaded that
Carter has made it embarrassing to be a feminist
they are not a unique species but are part of one
CARTER/MONDALE CAMPAIGN
NDODTO
PERFECT!"
Louisville Courier-Journal,
9/22/76
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Issues
8
Dole Campaigns in Midwest
Sen. Robert Dole spent time in the farm areas of Ohio
and Illinois Tuesday, trying to salvage the electoral votes
in those two states.
Dole tried to ease farmers' anger over the grain embargo,
which President Ford invoked last year. Dole told farmers
that unless there is a national emergency, or critical crop
shortgages, the Ford Administration won't do it again.
Dole tried to assure farmers that the Ford Administration
would be better for farmers than a Carter administration. "I
understand that some of you and probably some of everyone in
America are less than totally happy with this administration.
And I don't say that defensively 'cause I want to kind of
contrast what I think has been a good administration with what
could be a very bad administration for America's farmers." (ABC)
Dole blames the ticket's low standing in the states on
the embargo. (ABC)
The ABC #6 spot, which ran 2:27, showed Dole talking
with farmers in the area. AP,UPI,ABC - (9/28/76)
Strategy
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Dole's scare tactics
The record simply does not support
words was caused by the Associated
Republican vice presidential nominee
Press. In transcribing the interview, the
Robert Dole's exaggerated charge that
AP dropped the words "and middle-
Jimmy Carter will raise the taxes of fam-
income" from the sentence in which Car-
ilies with incomes over $15,000. Dole's
ter described those whose taxes should
St. Petersburg Times 9/21/76
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Campaign Probe
10
Ford Was Golfing Guest of Corporation
President Ford played golf as the guest of at least
four corporations during his career in Congress but stopped
the practice when he became vice president, Ron Nessen said
Tuesday.
Nessen said Ford declined further corporate hospitality
as vice president even though he saw nothing wrong and still
feels he has "lived up to the spirit" of a congressional ethics
code passed in 1968.
In an exchange with reporters, which Bob Schieffer called
"acrimonious" and "intense," Nessen said he had no details of
the financial arrangements but indicated that the outings were
not in the Washington area. (CBS)
According to Nessen, Ford, while a congressmen, played golf
at the expense of the Bethlehem Steel Co., the Aluminum Corp. of
America and the Firestone Rubber Corp. in addition to previously
reported outings paid for by United States Steel Corp. (CBS)
Nessen said that "as an avid golfer, the President over
the years has accepted invitations to play with friends at
different clubs around the country and has invited friends to
play at his club," the Burning Tree course in Bethesda, Md.
But Nessen said the exchange of hospitality stretched back
over Ford's long service in the House of Representatives and "it
is truly difficult to go back 26 years and reconstruct each and
every golf game." (NBC, CBS)
He said "there are no records" readily available and that
"the President can't just come forth and say, beginning in 1948,
I played here and here and here."
Although government and industry sources have said the
Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating hospitality
U.S. Steel offered to Ford and others in Congress, Nessen said the
SEC had not "to my knowledge" contacted the President for its inquir
Nessen promised to clear up the situation, but later he
had an aide broadcast over the White House loud speaker that he
would be unable to get the information Tuesday, Schieffer reported.
NBC's #3 story, an anchor report, ran :30.
CBS' #2 story, which ran 2:30, included an anchor report
on Ford's golfing.
ABC's #4 story, which ran 2:00, included film of the
bill signing ceremony and Tom Jarriel outside the White House
reporting on the golf trips. AP,UPI,Networks - (9/28/76)
FORD/DOLE CAMPAIGN
Campaign Probe
11
A Look at the Maritime Union
(By Robert Schakne, CBS)
The maritime unions have supported a lot of candidates
of both parties over the years. Four years ago, they backed
Richard Nixon. This year they're backing Jimmy Carter.
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA) raised an
estimated $150,000 for Mr. Carter in a fund-raising dinner last
June 30. Four years ago, MEBA and a political allie, the
Seafarers International Union, contributed $105,000 for
President Nixon's reelection -- most of that money from the
Seafarers. And that same year, in 1972, MEBA also contributed
$7500 to the reelection campaign of the congressman from Grand
Rapids, Gerald Ford.
What seems to interest the two unions, not party labels,
although they've given more to Democrats than Republicans, but
positions on maritime legislation. As a congressman, Mr. Ford
was considered a friend of the maritime unions. But as
President, Mr. Ford vetoed. a bill in 1974 that the unions
wanted. A bill that would have required that a portion of
imported oil be carried on American tankers, manned by American
crews. In other words, a bill that would have created jobs for
union members. That angered the unions. And while no union
official would comment to CBS News, it's widely believed that's
why the unions, in particular MEBA, are backing Mr. Carter.
Carter told the unions last May that he favored a
national cargo policy assuring a fair share of cargo for
American ships. However unspecific that Carter promise was,
it was followed by the union endorsement. CBS --- (9/28/76)
ELECTION
Polls
12
GOP Candidates Ahead in State Poll
(Excerpted, Omaha World-Herald)
As President Ford and Jimmy Carter were preparing for their
first nationally telecast debate Thursday night, persons inter-
viewed in the Nebraska poll last week gave Ford a 19 percentage
point lead. More than half (52 percent) polled were for the
President, and one in three (33 percent) were for Gov. Carter.
The poll was taken by telephone Sept. 15-18 by research
consultant Joe B. Williams, exclusively for the World-Herald.
In the Nebraska poll, 878 registered voters were asked
by telephone: "If the election for president were being held
today, would you vote for Jimmy Carter, the Democrat; Gerald
Ford, the Republican; or someone else?" Ford's greatest strength
was in the 2nd District, which includes Omaha. He led Carter 58-28.
Independent candidates Eugene McCarthy received 1 percent
support statewide. Libertarian Party candidate Roger L. MacBride
and American Independent Party candidate Lester Maddox each re-
ceived less than 1 percent.
The results:
Ford
52%
Carter
33%
Undecided 14%
The breakdown was almost identical for men and women.
Of 436 men interviewed, 52 percent were for Ford, 34 percent
for Carter; among the 442 women questioned, 53 percent were for
Ford, 32 percent for Carter. - (9/22/76)
Low Voter Turnout Could Hurt Carter
(By Philip Meyer, excerpted, St. Paul Pioneer Press)
The more voters who stay home on Nov. 2, the more things
will look good for President Ford and bad for Jimmy Carter.
The turnout rate could be the crucial factor this year, ac-
cording to a new Knight-Ridder survey.
High turnout elections traditionally benefit Democrats
because of the poor and the uneducated who vote only when highly
motivated. But few election surveys take that into account.
The Knight-Ridder survey of 890 adult Americans shows
Carter led Ford two weeks before their first debate by a com-
fortable margin of 12 points. But, if you drop those who seem
least likely to vote out of that sample and look only at the re-
mainder, about half the total sample, Carter's lead becomes a
less comfortable eight percentage points.
A turnout as low as 50 percent is expected by many political
observers. The survey shows that for every 10 percent increase
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Polls
13
above that, Carter could expect to stretch his lead over Ford
by one additional percentage point.
Distributing the undecided vote and throwing out those
not likely to vote yields a bottom line for the Carter-Ford
contest of 54-56 in favor of Carter. That's not close; but
it does show a narrower race than indicated by the 50-38 division
in the raw responses. - (9/24/76)
McCarthy
McCarthy May Carry 9 States
Presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy said Tuesday
he might carry as many as nine states Nov. 2. If that tipped
the election to Republican Gerald Ford, "I wouldn't lose a
night's sleep."
McCarthy said an order by Supreme Court Justice Lewis
Powell placing his name on the Texas ballot might open the way
to eight or 10 other states.
"We may very well get on the ballot in 40 to 45 states,"
McCarthy said.
McCarthy did not predict he would carry nine states, but
said "We've got an estimate that we could win in nine." Asked to
identify them, he listed seven -- Massachusetts, New York, New
Jersey, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington.
He said the nine would not be able to supply the
270 electoral votes needed to win the presiency, but could
put the election in the House. UPI -- (9/28/76)
ELECTION
14
Lane
QUIGNER
1976
ELECTION
15
Strategy
Campaign Pitfalls
(By Eric Sevareid, CBS)
Presidential races differ from horse races. In the
neck-and-neck political race, the candidate who sticks his
neck out the farthest does not always gain, and may lose.
Jimmy Carter has been courting this danger. His
campaign is so open, his id has been showing. While Mr.
Ford's been mostly campaigning in the Rose Garden, without,
despite his proclivities, any serious fall amongst the thorns.
Maybe the race will become closer. Undoubtedly, it
will become more feverish. Candidates suffering fever tend
to become incoherent, and the tendency seems well advanced
already.
Mr. Mondale points out that crime in America has
increased 60 percent under eight years of Republican
administration. But most crime is strictly a local and
not a federal responsibility. Mr. Ford, echoing the Mondale
premise that it is, points out that the rate of increase in
crime has slowed down in his two years as President, and
promises to rally the nation to diminish crime, however
that is to be accomplished.
In the Midwest, candidate Robert Dole is having his
own brand of fun, telling farmers, who nearly always vote
their pocketbook, that if Carter is elected, he'll have a
hot-line to George Meany of big labor so he can get his orders
on a day-to-day basis.
That, of course, refers to Meany's support of the
maritime unions' refusal to load grain ships to Russia last
year, which was followed by Ford's embargoing of the shipments.
If anything seems certain about that, it is that no political
leader should ever promise never to embargo grain, which could
be an effective short-of-war move in an international crisis.
And that no union, or any other private group, should never
interfere with foreign policy in such a manner.
But fevers are fevers, and words spoken in delerium
are not usually admitted in a court of law where they can
affect the verdict in the court of public opinion.
So Mr. Carter, out in Oregon, claimed that the national
leadership has been bogged down for the last 25 or 30 years,
going to the same clubs and restaurants, living with and on
the special interest lobbies. It's unclear just who belongs
to this permanent floating leadership. We've had six presidents
in 30 years, scores of different cabinet officers, and a vast
turnover among congressmen. Anyway, there are many more clubs
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Strategy
16
and restaurants in Washington now, so that unidentified enemy
must be divided and not conquered.
It should be clear why reporters love to cover campaigns.
It's like sports writing -- wild, free, full of surprises and
color, marvelously preposterous statements and pratfalls. Prose
will do when facts fail, and there are bushels of statistics to
use. You can even find out who won. CBS -- (9/28/76)
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Will the Real Harry Truman Candidate Please Stand
(By Clayton Fritchey, excerpted, St. Paul Pioneer Press)
One of the peculiarities of the presidential election is
the way both major candidates have likened themselves to former
President Harry S. Truman, although it is a likeness that few
others can see.
Mr. Ford's lifetime political record is the absolute
antithesis of that of the man he says he admires so much. In
the case of Jimmy Carter it is hard to detect any similarities
in personality, method or political style, although the Georgian,
if elected, may pursue the same liberal, quasi-populist objectives.
In campaigning, Carter resembles former President Franklin
Roosevelt more than Truman. The man from Missouri was sometimes
too outspoken on the issues, too blunt and direct, for his own
good or his party's. Truman is now well posted historically,
but in his last year in office (1952) he was far down in the
public opinion polls.
In contrast, Roosevelt always sensitive to the faintest
shifts of popular sentiment, won four terms. On the hustings,
he seldom fully disclosed his hand, and he was not above trying
to be most things to most voters.
Gerry Ford, in the White House, has resembled no one so much
as Gerry Ford in Congress, where he served for 25 years without
ever being accused of a positive action. If he were to be likened
to a former president it would not be HST but Calvin Coolidge, who
thought "the business of America is business."
In the light of Ford's consistent do-nothing record, some
of his friends still wonder why, on Aug. 20, 1974, only 11 days
after becoming President, he resurrected from the White House
archives a 1948 portrait of Harry Truman, the 100 percent
activist president.
When Ford identified himself with HST, he apparently had
in mind emulating the latter's 1948 success in running against
the 80th Congress. Like Truman, Ford has engaged in a running
battle with Congress, but for very different reasons. Truman
attacked the 80th as a "do-nothing" Congress, whereas the activist
94th Congress sees Ford as a do-nothing President.
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If anything makes Carter akin to Truman, it is that the
Georgian in his own way is also an activist, which tells us a
lot. Activists are often invariably progressive, so if Carter
is elected look for action --- and change. -- (9/24/76)
PRESIDENCY
Ford Signs Parks Bill
President Ford Tuesday signed a bill substantially in-
creasing the funds authorized for land and water conservation
and historic preservation.
In a Rose Garden ceremony he gave his enthusiastic support
to the measure, although he said there were some procedural re-
quirements in the measure that he will ask Congress to correct. (CBS)
Bob Schieffer commented: "It was a demonstration of the
old political axiom that while challengers can only propose,
incumbents can act." (CBS)
Some Senate Interior Committee staffers found the ceremony
ironic since they said the administration had opposed the legis-
lation during congressional hearings, Schieffer reported. (CBS)
Since then, however, polls have shown that Americans are
concerned about improving the quality of leasure time, and last
month the President decided to make expansion of the parsk a major
campaign theme, Schieffer added. (CBS)
The 2:30 report, which ran #2 on CBS, included the President
on film during the Rose Garden ceremony and concluded with an anchor
report by Schieffer on Nessen's comments on the President's golfing
outings.
ABC's story, which ran #4, included film of the bill signing
ceremony and concluded with a report by Tom Jarriel on the President's
golfing trips. AP,UPI,ABC,CBS - (9/28/76)
PRESIDENCY
FORD: HIS FISCAL TRACK RECORD
way. It had begun, analysts later concluded, III No-
vember, 1973. Before it ended in May, 1975, economic
output dropped 17.5 percent, and unemployment
soared to 8.9 percent of the labor force - higher if
discouraged workers who had stopped looking for
jobs were counted.
President Ford's economic policies began with a
A. preview of economic indicators in November,
trumpet call to action, blown too late - the WIN
1974,1 the President to concede, "we are moving
campaign.
into a recession."
The time was autumn, 1974. Inflation was roaring
What was to be done? The ill-timed WIN campaign
through the land. The consumer price index, broadest
was dropped without fanfare, leaving Mr. Ford free
measure of the cost of goods which, all Americans
to urge limited stimulation of the economy to put
buy, would measure a 12:2 percent increase for the
people back to work.
year, following an 8.8 percent rise in 1973.
He proposed a $2.2 billion program to create up to
Such inflation, thundered Sen. Hubert H. Hum-
500,000. public-service jobs. But the President still
phrey (D) of Minnesota, was dynamite, portending
was determined to reduce government spending and
"umbelievable social and political. trouble," if un-
keep the annual budget deficit from ballooning.
checked
Behind this strategy lay Mr. Ford's conviction
Mr. Ford agreed To him, thrift was part of the an-
wasteful government spending had played a major
swer thrift by government, cutting its spending to
role in feeding inflation.
match income, thrift on the part of Americans at
large.
Only 12c, but
So, on television, the President, sporting a red pin
Government spending at all levels; said Mr. Ford's
with the white letters WIN on his lapel, appealed: to
forceful supporter, Treasury Secretary William E.
Americans to "whip inflation now" by balancing their
Simon, consumed only 12 cents of every dollar at the
family budgets, saving instead of spending, and:
beginning of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
bragging "about the fact that you are a bargain:
Today, says Mr. Simon, government spending eats up
hunter."
35 cents of every dollar. By the year 2000, if present
However, at an economic summit called by Mr.
trends continue, it will swallow almost 60 cents of the
Ford shortly thereafter to help him* grapple with an
dollar.
economy apparently out of control, economists,
Alice M. Rivlin, director of the Congressional Bud-
trade-union leaders, and some industrialists warned
get Office, says the federal budget, over the last two
that the United States, though indeed beset by the-
decades, grew faster than the economy - - expanding
worst inflation in many years, also was plunging into
from 18 percent of the gross national product (GNP)
recession.
to 24 percent. By 1981; she concludes, federal outlays
Many Americans, unable- make ends meet, were
should drop back to 20 percent of GNP, assuming the
buying less.- as the President advised. But this had a
economy recovers stride.
boomerang effect. Inventories stacked up on mer-
The study prepared by the Senate budget com-
chants: shelves; orders to manufacturers were cut;
mittee shows that non-defense parts of the federal
plants closed down machines, and people were let
budget comprised 6.7 percent of GNP in 1967 and will
go; unemployment began to soar.
be about the same- in fiscal 1977.
"Inflation," warned Senator Humphrey at: the eco-
To cope with the twin evils of inflation and reces-
nomic- summit, "erodes income, but recession de-
sion, a conservative President, abhorring deficits,
stroys income."
was forced to see record red ink written into his bud-
External shocks
gets, much of it to. finance jobless payments. to
Inflation, said economist Walter W. Heiler, had
Americans out of work.
been fed by five- "external shocks," which could not
Inflation subsides
have been foreseen a 400 percent rise in the world
Mr. Ford's cherished hope of holding the fiscal 1975
price of oil, a 40 percent jump in the cost of food..
deficit to $9.2 billion evaporated, as recession cut into
double devaluation of the dollar, the repeal of wage
tax revenues, and billions of additional dollars went
and price controls, and a doubling of commodity
to jobless Americans in unemployment com-
prices.
pensation. The final- 1975 deficit was $43.6 billion.
Such shocks, said Professor Heller, "were unlikely
Horrendous as this figure was, to use Mr. Simon's
to recur." So, to keep people at work, jobs must be
term, it paled before the record $65.6 billion deficit
created through government pump-priming.
chalked up in fiscal 1976, which ended June 30 of this
Mr. Ford did not agree. "The U.S.," he said in Oc-
year. The 1977 budget, still being debated by Con-
tober, 1974, a month after his economic summit. "is:
gress and the White House, could end up $50 billion in
not in recession."
the red.
He was wrong. The longest, steepest recession.
Policy disagreements between Mr. Ford and Con-
since. the Great Depression of the 1930s was under
gress, foreshadowed during the summit conference
of September; 1974, became more clear as months
rolled by.
Inflation, though still high, began to subside. The
consumer price index. after its 12.2 performance in
PRESIDENCY
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Ford Shouldn't Veto Indian Health Bill
The United States Senate has now agreed
A veto is considered likely because the
with the House on a measure to provide
legislation has been opposed as too costly
$475 million for a three-year program to
by the Department of Health, Education
herter medical carvices for
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"Now, therefore, I grant a full, free and absolute pardon
unto Congressman Ford for all offenses he, Congressman- Ford,
committed or may have committed while a member of Congress."
FOREIGN POLICY
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Senate Reviews Saudi Missile Sale
Secretary Kissinger succeeded Tuesday in turning back a
Senate effort to block the sale of $30 million worth of Maverick
missiles to Saudi Arabia before Congress adjourns Oct. 2.
In a hastily arranged appearance before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, Kissinger asked the panel to reconsider its
8-6 vote of last Friday recommending the 650 missiles not be
sold. The issue had been returned to the committee from the
Senate floor Monday in a surprise move by Sen. John Sparkman (D-Ala.
As a result of Kissinger's pleading on top of a weekend of
heavy State Department lobbying, the panel took no formal action.
The parliamentary situation which has now developed in the House
and Senate makes it extremely unlikely Congress will block the
sale by passing a concurrent resolution of disapproval by Friday,
the last day it can so act. (CBS)
Asked if the ban might have produced an oil embargo,
Kissinger replied: "I doubt that it would lead to an embargo
by Saudi Arabia. But, of course, Saudi Arabia is in a position
of using its influence in many other ways with respect to oil
and with respect to the peace process in the Middle East. No
threat has been made by Saudi Arabia, and I do not believe that
this particular decision would lead to an oil embargo." (ABC, CBS)
Kissinger added, "Saudi Arabia has been a good friend of
the United States, it has played a stabilizing role in the Middle
East, it has been helpful in peace efforts and it is in our in-
terest to retain the friendship and the possibility of moderation
with Saudi Arabia as excellent." (ABC)
Sen. Clifford Case (R-N.J.), who led the fight against
the sale, said: "Unless we get hold of our foreign arms sales
and our arms programs generally, we're going to have such a
ballooning of it that only catastrophe can result. If we are to
remain true to our commitment to the survival of Israel, it means
that every time we arm a confrontation state or a possible con-
frontation state, we have to up the ante as far as Israel goes,
and we're just enormously escalating an arms race in an area
which is already a tinder box." (ABC, CBS)
The 1:30 report, which ran #7 on CBS, included film of
HAK and Case following the Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting,
and concluded with a comment by Bernard Kalb.
ABC's 2:25 report, which ran #8, included film of HAK
and Case at the Capitol.
NBC's #11 report, running 1:45, showed HAK speaking after the
session, then speaking to congressional leaders. AP,UPI,Networks - (9/28)
FOREIGN POLICY
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Smith Invites British Envoy
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith said Thursday he was
"anxious to proceed as soon as possible" on talks with African
leaders to set up an interim government leading to black majority
rule.
A spokesman said Smith had sent a message to Britain inviting
an envoy to come to Salisbury to "clear up any confusion" and
speed the talks.
Pro-Western leaders of both black and white African
governments, meantime, where said to be increasingly concerned
about what were called Soviet efforts to sabotage the U.S.-British
peace efforts in Rhodesia and to escalate the guerrilla war against
its white rulers.
The spokesman said Smith also "expressed surprise" at the
U.S. State Department statements suggesting he had misunderstood
details of power-transfer package negotiated by Secretary
Kissinger. AP,CBS - (9/28/76)
Soviets Want MIG Back
The Soviet Union Tuesday stepped up pressure on the U.S.
and Japan for the return of MIG25 fighter pilot Viktor Belenko,
producing Belenko's wife and mother at a tearful Moscow news
conference to plead for his return.
Reading from prepared statements, their voices shaking
with sobs, Lyudmila Petrovna Belenko, the first lieutenant's
25-year-old wife, and his 49-year-old mother Lyudmila Stepanovna
Belenko declared that Belenko was a "Soviet patriot" and never
could have defected.
In Paris, dissident Russian historian Andrei Amalrik told
newsmen the defection of Belenko and that of another Soviet pilot
to Iran illustrates growing dissidence in the ranks of the
Soviet military.
He said rebel political groups were also at work in the
Soviet submarine corps and among middle-echelon army officers.
AP,ABC --- (9/28/76)
FOREIGN POLICY
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Rhodesia: repairing the rift
Keeping up. momentum, or the appearance- ing the vital posts of defense minister and mini
of it, now is the objective in London and Wash- ister of law. and order for whites is certain to
ingtom as. far as the delicate Rhodesian negoe? be, unacceptable. to blacks who over the years
tiations are Roth Rritish and Amori
have
C.S. Monitor,
9/28/76
ADMINISTRATION
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It's Not Nice to Cheat Mother Nature
There were more visitors last year to the 287 $1.5 billion program to expand the park system and
areas administered by the National Park Service
restore its failing facilities. But some skepticism
than there are people in the United States, and an
about Ford's interest may be in order. His plan was
even greater number of visitors is expected this
submitted to Congress so late in its session-ad-
L.A. Times,
9/28/76
HAK
ADMINISTRATION
A post-Kissinger era?
WHETHER Jimmy Carter or have promised to work closely with
Gerald Ford wins in November, the Congress in the future formulation
presidential election is likely to of our foreign policy. And Mr.
mark the end of the Kissinger era
Carter has called for a new "moral
of American foreign policy.
authority" - a dedication to hu-.
Dallas Times Herald, 9/20/76
ADMINISTRATION
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OSHA VS. Noise
Of all the issues of occupational
form standards and solutions for
health, few are more complex than
every company in every part of
the impact of high noise levels on
the country. Engineering changes,
the hearing and the general well-
after all, often mean nothing less
being of employes. Both the dam-
than buying and installing new
ADMINISTRATION
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Kelley Criticizes Media on Reporting
Clarence Kelley criticzed the news media Tuesday for
reporting only the faults of his agency, saying there has been
little interest in "reporting our success in bringing thousands
of dangerous criminals to Justice."
Kelley said the media has concentrated on critical past
activities of the bureau and has not presented "a true picture
of what we are accomplishing,' he said. "We have taken
significant steps and adopted significant reforms to remedy
those things that were justifably criticized. We're determined
to prevent any recurrence," he said. UPI - (9/28/76)
DEBATES
VP Debates Scheduled
The debate between vice presidential candidates Robert Dole
and Walter Mondale will take place Oct. 15 at a yet-to-be determined
site, the League of Women Voters announced Tuesday.
Republican Dole, campaigning in Illinois, complained quickly
that designation of 9:30 P.M. EDT on a Friday nihgt would compete
with thousands of high school football games for a live audience.
It will be telecast "when every high school team in
America will be playing football," said the Kansas senator in
Decatur, Ill. "Maybe we can hold it at halftime."
There was no immediate comment from Democratic candidate
Walter Mondale on the debate time. AP, UPI, NBC -- (9/28/76)
Reaction
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THE MAKING OF AN IMAGE: FORD, CARTER TV CAMPAIGNS DIFFER IN TIMING,
BUT BOTH EMPHASIZE LEADERSHIP AND INTEGRITY
By HOMALD G. SHAFER
Staff Reporter of Tax WALL STREET JOURNAL
WASHINGTON-The first televised de-
bate between President Ford and Jimmy
Carter is over, but their $20 million advertis-
I
Ford's openness as President to lead-
The Carter adman says his major worry
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DEBATES
Carter frittered away chance
Several- polls taken since last
week's televised presidential debate
reached a general conclusion that
to win Ford debate
President Ford won. Why he did is
probably worth talking about a little.
Many politicians are reported to
follow.
Philadelphia Inquirer
,
9/28/76
DEBATES
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SAMBLE
211
Gitts 1
Nashville Banner
,
9/22/76
Reaction
DEBATES
Poll reveals Ford bested Carter handily
When asked which candidate seemed
President Ford did substantially bet-
"confident and forceful," Ford again
ter than Jimmy Carter in Thursday
edged Carter, drawing 31 per cent to
night's first debate, although many
Carter's 16 per cent, with 37 per cent
Americans considered it a draw, ac-
saying both and 11 per cent saying nei-
cording to a nationwide poil conducted
ther.
for Cannert News Service.
the mastine of which debater was
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Congress Sends Ford Chemical Bill
Congress sent to President Ford Tuesday a bill to cut
down on the use of new chemicals until they are thoroughly tested.
The legislation would also require the manufacturers to
tell the government what the chemicals are likely to do to
humans, and environment three months before they are put on
the market. NBC, CBS -- (9/28/76)
Senate Approves Foreign Aid Bill
The Senate Tuesday approved and sent to the White House
a $5.1 billion foreign aid appropriations bill. About one
third of the amount will go to Israel for military and security
assistance.
The bill, approved 56 to 24, is the last major appropria-
tions measure for fiscal 1977 to clear Congress which hopes to
adjourn at the end of the week. President Ford is expected to
sign the legislation. AP,UPI,ABC,CBS - (9/28/76)
U.S.
Grand Jury Indicts 16 on Medicaid
A federal grand jury in Chicago indicted 16 people and
six medical laboratores charging them with illegal kickbacks
and fraudulent medical services. (NBC)
Authorities in Chicago have estimated that those
indicted may be involved in $20 million in medicaid fraud. NBC --
(9/28/76)
Schorr Resigns
Reporter Daniel Schorr, suspended from CBS News for leaking
a secret congressional report on the CIA to the Village Voice,
resigned from the network today.
In a letter to CBS News president Richard Salatn, Schorr
said he was leaving with "great regret but convinced that no other
alternative remains for me under the circumstances. " Schorr said
he would work outside the daily broadcasting industry.
In an exchange of letters with Salant, both indicated that
the parting was amicable. In his letter, Schorr said he believed
his "reinstatement would be a source of tension within CBS News." "
Walter Cronkite said he was alluding to the reason for his
original suspension -- letting a colleague be suspected as the
source of the leaking of Senate Intelligence Comm. report. (CBS)
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Cronkite said that "in the 23 years that Dan Schorr worked
for CBS News, he worked with a dilligence and a skill few can
match. He'll be missed." (CBS) AP, UPI, Networks -- (9/28/76)
INTERNATIONAL
British Pound Drops Again
The British pound sank to a new low Tuesday, equal to
$1.63. In the last seven days the value of the pound has gone
down 15 cents. AP, UPI, Networks -- (9/28/76)
Times of TV News Items
September 28, 1976
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NBC
CBS
ADMINISTRATION NEWS
1. Ford's day
2:00 (4)
2:30 (2)
2. HAK/Saudis
2:25 (8)
1:45 (11)
1:45 (7)
3. Ford/Golfing trips
2:00 (part of 4)
:30 (3)
4. Economic indicators
1:55 (lead)
:15 (8)
: 25 (10)
5. FBI agent conduct
1:45 (13)
OTHER MAJOR NEWS
1. Lebanon
:30 (7)
:30 (12)
4:00 (lead)
2. Mondale campaign
2:05 (5)
2:00 (4)
2:00 (3)
3. Maritime union
1:35 (4)
4.
Dole/Illinois
2:30 (6)
1:00 (6)
:30 (5)
5. Callahan/British lb.
:20 (10)
:25 (10)
1:25 (6)
6. Senate/foreign aid
:20 (9)
:15 (8)
7. Smith/Rhodesia
:30 (9)
8. Stocks
:20 (2)
:15 (9)
:15 (11)
9. Ford Motor Co.
:20 (3)
2:30 (10)
:15 (12)
10. Herkiner, N.Y.
2:35 (13)
11. Senate/chemicals
: 20 (14)
12. Folsom dies
: 10 (15)
13. Schorr resigns
:20 (13)
:30 (14)
: 45 (16)
14. Campaign
(Sevareid)
15. Medicaid indictments
5:00 (lead)
16. VP debates
:40 (5)
17. Chemical bill
:30 (7)
18. Ali-Norton fight
2:35 (15)
2:00 (16)
19. Russian defector
:25 (11)
20. Youngstown police strike
:35 (12)
21. Hearst
2:05 (14)
22. L.A. Dodgers manager
:35 (16)