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    "ocrText": "18\nOTHER ADMIN-RELATED\nRiesel says Saxbe's not guilty of anti-Semitism re: suggesting\n\"Jewish intellectual\" ha been in impast \"enamored of CPUSA\"\nhe just didn't do his homework, 11 an oversight neither RN nor US\ncan afford. Then \"compounding and confounding it all, Saxbe\nshifted mental gears, 11 saying he meant Jewish intellectuals are\nnow anti-Communist because USSR's shifted its position and suggesting,\nin effect, that battles against Communists of the late '40s and early\n'50s were witch hunts and anti-Semitic. \"Well, for Saxbe's info,\nit was the Jewish community which 1st swung into the fight against\nUS Bolshevism. 11 Men like Garment Workers' Dubinsky and\nStulberg were fighting the Stalinists pre-WWII and actually saved\nEurope from Communism in post-war period. AFL-CIO's Meany\nand Lovestone\" have done more damage to world communism and\nUSSR in particular than any other global force. 11 The Jewish\nLovestone's \"worth 50 Red Army divisions. 11 Among the Jewish\nintellectuals who battled Communism Riesel cites playwright\nMorrie Ryskind, author Isaac Don Levine, the late columnist George\nSokolsky, Irving Kristol, Dan Bell, Leo Cherne. And the man who\nexposed Hiss was HUAC's Ben Mandel. And CPUSA leaders neither\nare nor were Jewish. ¹¹W/ a Cabinet member like Saxbe, RN needs\nno enemies, 11 concludes Riesel.\nVic Gold says Saxbe hasn't yet said some of his best friends\nare Jews \"but what's depressing is that if he did it wouldn't come\nas a surprise. 11 Saxbe's always been this way and RN asked for\ntrouble in appointing him. Now his verbal gaucheries embarrass\nAdmin and Justice, not just Ohio.\nEdwin Newman in Charlotte Observer says it's a real question\nwhether media in pursuing W'gate are destroying Pres and the\npresidency. Press cannot engage in vendetta because of Admin's\nattitude toward it. And what RN-STA take to be hell and hostility\nfrom press are simply skepticism and detachment. But \"it's an\nunfortunate truth that press uses presidents. 11 As soon as a man's\nelected Pres, we write stories showing him as a masterful pol,\npretending he's inordinately interesting, finding qualities in him\nthat he doesn't have, suggesting he provide country w/ moral leader-\nship -- \"which would be presumptuous for anybody and is impossible\nfor somebody engaged in day-to-day business of politics. 11 Newman\nnotes that having helped him to create great expectations, a year\nor 2 later, predictably, press writes about how disappointing he's\nbeen. A textbook example was JFK, w/ the millions of words\nwritten about Camelot, Versailles, style (¹¹a term we not been\nable to get rid of since\"), \"Grand Design¹¹ and Multilateral Nuke Force."
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