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Draft Speech written by Buchanan RE:
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Draft Speech RE: Muskie. 8 pgs.
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
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DRAFT:1:PJB:1/19/72
Ladies and gentlemen.
As a people we have come far since the days when politics stopped
at the water's edge. We have traveled far from the time when Democrats
and Republicans alike rallied behind Presidents of either party who were
carrying their nation's hopes into conferences with foreign adversary heads
of state. In my judgment, distance traveled has been backward not
forward.
The weeks and days preceding the President's historic summits
in the Communist Capitals of the world, have no been marked by calls
for an end to partisan attack on the President. Rather the reverse is true.
In these weeks and months the President has been made the target of
some of the abusive, partisan, slanderous rhetoric visited upon a
President in our modern times.
The opening of the primary season cannot justify this retreat from
political responsibility on the part of so many. But the infant
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Indeed what is this man's claim to be President of the United States?
Upon what does it reside?
His experience in foreign policy, hardly. This is the gentleman
who had the incredible effrontery to tell Soviet Chairman Kosygin that
he could get a better deal, if Mr. Muskie were President of the United
States
Where President Nixon has been a central figure in American
foreign policy, since the days of the Marshall Plan, Mr. Muskie's
foreign policy experience amounts to a Contenential Tour with
Averill Harriman as tour guide and
a couple of Ford Foundation
junkets to Nigeria and Japan.
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For in character of leadership the Great Equivocator Mr. Muskie
is light years away from the Great Emancipator. Where Mr. Lincoln's
most significant decision was to free the American slaves, the only
decisive position Mr. Muskie has taken this election year is to rule
all blacks off the Democratic ticket, if he is nominated. And even
on that stand, Mr. Muskie has spent the last four months backpedaling
and explaining.
A week ago, four exasperated national correspondents sought with
dilligence but without success to pin Mr. Muskie down on where he stood
on some of the most crucial issues of the day.
Asked where he stood on bussing to achieve racial balance, Mr. Muskie
equivocated. Asked where he stood on amnesty to army deserters and
those fraft dodgers who fled to Canada and Sweden, Mr. Muskie equivocated.
Asked where he stood on American aid to South Vietnam, so long as the
Soviet Union poured military aid into North Vietnam, Mr. Muskie equivocated.
The Washington Post
October 3, 1971
dissenting from Muskie's view that the Attica Prison
shooting showed a moral failing in America. "We are a great
people, " Jackson said in New Castle, Pa. "I don't buy this
nonsense that because there is trouble in Attica, we are a
sick Nation. 11
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Mr. Muskie who would want blind cuts of $12 billion from defense and
an incredible $20 billion in the present fiscal budget, who does not want
the United States to have an F-14 fighter aircraft is anxious that Israel
have all the Phantoms that it needs.
Like many of his friends in the Senate, Mr. Muskie wants the
United States to beat a retreat from Europe, Southeast Asia and the
Pacific, but to stand fast in the Middle East. He would like us to cave
in to the insulting offers of a barbarian regime in Hanoi, but stand up
to the Soviets -- where the interests of Israel are concerned.
One wishes that these liberal Democrats who publicly daily profess
their concern for the security of Israel might occasionally express an
equal measure of concern about the security of their own country -- the
United States of America.
But it is not only America's military leadership that is jeopardized
by a Muskie candidacy, but the American leadership in the coming world
Muskie excesses:
-- Gut the FBI
-- Endorsing trotskyite demonstrations
-- Against Space Shuttle - wants to be number 2; wants to
disband the greatest technical team ever put together
-- Blacks need not apply on ticket
-- Cut defense spending to dangerous leve
S
-- Curries to the left-wing (his youth advisor says he
has no discernable differences with McGovern)
-- Waffles on busing, yet agrees he likes it as a tool for
integrating schools (though his children attend private school)
-- Leading bug-out brigade on
Vietnam
-- Let Kosygin push him around in Moscow (hinted that
Kosygin would have a more sympathetic hearing if he
(Muskie) were President.
Plank. Led the floor fight for the Mapority
Only
Do you want as President a man whose foreign policy experience is
limited to Contointnetal Sight sceing
with Ave Harriman and
Ford Foundation Junkets to Japan and Niceria.
T.et mc tell you something. This Vice President has had a bellyful
of these politicians
rying
to
scramble their way to newet abv
Ticking their country in the face.
Listen
There is nothing urong with
American "r. "uskie: there's
something wrong with you to
like¹ and slander your won country he
fore the the world, just to cater to the anti- American radicals on
the left wing of your party.
Senator "uskie claims to
conscious imitation of the Great "mancinator: the Creat
Equivocator.
"OM can you conderin a creat nation 700 society of
forty million
Americans, simply Lecause of the
outrageous conduct of forty
convicts.
Finerprints
have been found at the scene of every Vestern for
eign policy disaster in the nost-wer
era. Thos octoconarian
HAS
a foreign
advance man forhte Soviets in the Foreign
POlicy Pstablishment
Chief Advance Man
Lost America's
shirt at every intornational conference "r. Harrinan has attene
he has lost America
America has lost jts shirt.
Like a had
this octogenarian has turned up at "uskie's primary foreign
Military
riding around on Muskie's airplane. At. Paris in 1962. and at
Geneva in 1962, the
North Vietnamese Communists too him
to the
cleaners. Every time we send Mr. Harriman to
an intenrational conference to represent the interests of the
United States, be comes as the prinapcal advocate for hte point
FY of view of the
Communists.
radiol "shut")
The Kennedys and "uskies who try to build therselves by tearing
^merica down. Scoop Jackson hit the nail on the head the
Exempt 77 Scoon Jackson from that criticism: I expect Fubert
Humphrey form that criticism
Kennedys and Muskies nad
Lindsays.
Thought
The very
of George NeGovern sitting down at the summit
with brezhnev
or Mao Tse-tung; you can start building the bomb
send this pansy
No one takes Mr. NcGovern seriously; Kennedy
is ednain all his plays in the from the
bench. "he Kennedy
henchmen have a lock on this, and
while HcGovern may be on
Coach
the plaving Field
Konnody is sending
is sending in all the plays
from the bench.
Nahida
the
World.
Grand designs to integrate everybody else's neighborhoodd
YOU will never hear Senator Kennedy
Scatter site housing out
in McClean Virignia, or Hickory.
Scatter-site low and middle income housing
scatter- -out there throwing brocks with the est of then
You
will not
Senator Kennedy recommend scatter site housing for
Myanissport
or Plam Beach, McClean With these bypocrisv of
Hypocrisy is rapidly becoming the hallmark of
American
Tibezalism.
They are forever integrating the central cites schools
with somebody esle's children and propsoing
phlic housing
for somebody's else's
neighroods.
3 Paragon of victure, spends thousands to send his city to suburuban
schools: the smae is true of Muskie
Senator Muskie is concerned about the security of Israel. More guns
for Israel more weapons for Israel more Phantoms, more Pahntoms for
Israel.
Scuttle and run from Southeast ^sia
but hang tough in the Middle East is the foreign golicy of Senator
Muskie, and one can be sure that if Miami Beach were
vactation
One wishes he
care as much about the security fo the
United States as he doparently does about the security of Israel.
These two salesmen for the politics of 1968, and the
war of escalation: these are the men who
brought you that
wonderful year 1968 a year of riots and assassinations
and tudents disorders, streets riots
The same grang that ran vmerican into bankruptcy and choas ***
wants to manage the story again. The gang that applauded and
hooted and
applauded the five vears of escaltion is now busy
saent 550,00 soldiers into the junglesof Southheast is now
backstabbling the President, who bourght 450,000 of them home.
The men who ballyhooed the policy of escalation are of the'
war are hardly the
in the moral or political position to criticize
the President who has de-escalted fromteh first Havs he gook
office. Let's face it, ladies and gentlement Muskie-and Muskie,
champsion saleswmen of the politics of 1968 and the
foremost
salesmen are escalation
are at as tied up with the failures and
disaster of Vietnam as B'rer Rabbit was with the Tar Baby.
There is no way this gang
the Muskies, and Humphreys and Harrimans
and EIS Cliffords and O'Briens
these were the collaborators of the
escaltation of the Middle Sikites and now, PIlate like they seek to
wash their hands of their responsiblity history will put them all
in the dock. Their SVM squirming apologies will not exonerate them
for the MMI their collation in the policies of failure in Vietnar
while the President of theUnitd States is the lone arthitect of
American withdrawal.
Instead of backing a President hw ( has succeeded where they failed,
they engaged in the politics
of sour grapes. They dabotaged
and dogged
President's
every mile along the road to de--
escalation and withdrawal.
and in the second term of the Nixon
Administration, it will be said of predicted, what Chruchill pre-
dicated of Bein,
that
Laides and Gentlemen: The President has more things to worry about
today to answer the scurvy assaults of these Kennedvs and Muskies.
That assignement he has left to me.
Going up and down the country shilling for the politics
of escalation
That pair of shills for
the escalation of the
Middle Sixties is as wrppaed up with
as B'rer Rabbit was with
the Tar Baby.
The
profuse apologies, mea culpas of Mr. Muskie
in
1972
do not exoenrate him and his collaborators for
responsibiliti for their failures in 1966 and 1967 and 1968.
Shilling for hte policies that left America cities campuses rioting
cities hurning, crime exploding, They sowed the seeds of economic
disaster in the middle sixties and only
their rejection by the
American prevented their reaping the whirlind in the 1970s
You Republicans, Democrates,
Imposhiel task he inherited and the icnredible job he has NMMMX
done.
Our President is traveling to Peking and
Moscow, Richard
Nixon's not going to give a way the
store. Do you
sit down at the bargaing table no want McGovern, Harriman or
the Great Equivosator. That $ the question which the American
people are going to answer To you want the leadership of the
Preisdent who brought America out of the national cricis of 1968
or do you want to return to the same discredited that bourch MS
gave us riots, campuse violence, XMM the De ocratic Covnention of
and 300
X Americans a week dead in the jungles of Victnar.
They
forcibly to integrate everybody else's neighborhood
but their own. They want forcibly to bus every body else's children
but their
own.
When did you ever hear Teddy Kennedy call
b eside hhe family compounds
for integrated public housing in
McLean, Hyannisport and
Palm Beach. YOU can believe
Senator Mushie
and McGovernor
arcnot hypocrites when they put their own children not somebody
elses
on a bus and send them to the District of Columbia publicx
schools instead of demadning that everybody* else's children be
buseed
Radiol chic
Liberal
!
Super bherals, he is
right 4 the Mark
But Senator Kennedy seems to have
adopted a strategy of
having others take the test for him. People who live houses
Should it then stones.
When the President of the United States, representing the Unitd
States, travels abroad to meet with heads of
hostile Communist
States
then, in my perhaps reactionatorv view, every American
Senator ought to stand behind
him. The carping and sniping and
knifing from Senators Kennedy and Muskie are beneath the dignity of
a United States Smator
Refused to run in the Democratic Primar8ies, refused to contest
for the nomination.
talks about a great crusade, but
refused to step out and lead it
he is running according
to form, Senato Mennedy has long preferred to have someone else
take the
his tests for him.
The fact. that Senator Kennedv was spending those years in the
ski slopes, or in the discotheaues is not excuse for his lack !
of knowledge of history, IN
the event the Senator has forgotten.
it was
American complicity in the the Vietnam, complicity
by the smale men that surrounded his borther and now advise him,
avvised President* Konnedv on his global crisis and MSW more
recently advised Senator Kennody on his personal crisis who were
guilty of complicity in an earlier coun.