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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 19, 1970 Worth reading MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM: Herb Klein Hut Vlein H. Ray McHugh of the Copley News Service recently returned from a trip to Europe and the Middle East, which included a stop at Rabei, Lebanon and an interview with Dr. Charles Malik. I thought you would be interested in a few of the key Junior quotes from the McHugh column. They follow: "President Nixon's calling in history, 11 he said in an interview, "is to reinstill pride in America. If he can't, God help you and God help us all. 11 E "Your liberals and intellectuals in both parties have betrayed the United States, not wilfully, but nonetheless disastrously, 11 Malik said. 't' "Why is America in trouble in many parts of the world? Simply because there has been a retreat of Western ideas, coupled with a parallel retreat of conscience within the United States." "People are no longer sure the United States is what it used to be." "The hippies, the student demonstrations, the neo- isolationism, are only the most alarming aspects of a softening of your inner fiber and an absence of strong voices."