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Congress
Nick Thimmesch on the Moratorium
Gol.
S Leaders
Newsday Syndicate
celloun
WASHINGTON -- President Nixon, who inherited the most unpopular
war in American history, deserves our national admiration for the way
he conducted himself on "Moratorium" day.
He has worked hard and effectively to get us out of the Viet Nam
mess, and being Richard Milhous Nixon, he might have lashed back
at the intemperate forces ganging up on him. But he didn't. He rates
a salute for enduring the vexations of Viet Nam and the emotional and
sometimes demagogic reaction to it by our generation of soft Americans.
It took no courage this week to cry for peace. Everybody except
Hanoi wants to stop bloodshed in Viet Nam now. Nixon has pulled out a
substantial number of troops, will pull out even more soon. Under his
shrewd Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird, Americans engaged in
minimal fighting, as greatly reduced casualties figures show.
Hanoi has been offered a peace "deal" like none ever offered before,
and all that the United States has asked is that the South Vietnamese have
some say-so about their own future, including the right not to be murdered
by the Communists. Nixon has gone about as far as any reasonable man
can go.
Those who revere dissent displayed understandable emotion and
revealing hypocrisy when they hooted Vice President Agnew's ordinary
American's dissent to Hanoi's blessing of the moratorium. If Morator-
ium Day is in the tradition of the American town meeting, why shouldn't
Agnew have the right to get sore at Hanoi for horning in and telling Sam
Brown and his Moratorium Committee that the Vietcong wish success to
"your fall offensive. "1"
The Vice President reflected the gut impulse of most Americans,
saying that Hanoi's "dictatorial regime should be repudiated by American
leaders of the peace demonstrations. Dissent and demonstrations are
freedoms in the United States which don't exist in Hanoi, and Agnew, with
Presidential approval, is right for telling Hanoi that.
Senator Eugene McCarthy, a courageous figure last year for arousing
the American conscience on Viet Nam, lost his own admirable cool in
saying he was distressed that "the Nixon Administration would revert to
using techniques which Mr. Nixon himself used when first elected to the
congress 11 This is the kind of attack the late Joe McCarthy, not Gene
Mc Carthy, might have made. Nixon said nothing critical of the Moratorium.
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