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OCR Page 1 of 47Digest of Recent Press Comment
September 4, 1971
THE PRESIDENT
Whether or not you like how he S done it, RN has reasserted the
simple truth that the US President can still exercise more power than any
other man on earth. He has again made liars out of pundits who rushed to
write his political obit. RN is seeking to revitalize the Presidency and he
has done it none too soon. After limping thru the 60s, the nation came to
believe that "Presidents are for -shots. 11 But with two swift moves,
RN has 'turned the nation S back on that disemboweling decade. 11 RN is moving
the US in the only direction it can go, forward to change; he has moved the
US off dead center. "One waits for a Presidential encore. 11 And judging
from his past performance, it could be anything; China and the economy
sent the conservatives howling but Cambodia and Laos did the same for
liberals. In effect, the US once again has a President. RN's will not be
the sorry legacy of LBJ. "He will gamble on change and seek to leave a
presidency without cowardice and a nation without fear. 11 (8/27 Richmond
News Leader edit)
Summertime TV is becoming livelier with RN coming on every so
often with a bold new program. He has displayed a masterful use of TV
and it would be "sheer nitpicking" to criticize simply because RN has
succeeded in fooling the press; it would be impossible to deny him the
right to come up with dramatic surprises. Nevertheless, RN knows that
denials never catch up with the original story and likewise the little fish-
hooks in a new policy are often obscured by the dramatics. So the VC
proposal is unanswered, the war is on the back pages, the contention of
Edgar Snow and James Reston that the PRC visit will mean little on
specific issues is largely unnoticed -- as is the charge that job creation
thru NEP's tax credits is "exceedingly dubious. 11 The housewife in the
store wonders how the government can help her with what she knows is a
higher price
but that matter hasn't been discussed. In fact, AG Mitchell,
who is supposed to enforce the freeze, wasn't at RN's meeting with MCs
but in the tumult "no one noticed. 11 (Saul Friedman in 8/19 Miami Herald)
ECONOMY
It was VP Agnew who convinced RN not to take the bludgeon to Meany.
Few know of the VP's intimate friendship with RN, or the real nature of
Relations
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