March 5, 1964 (24 pages)

. Page 11 .March 5, 1964..The Nugget. . Page 11; after a Goldwater victo ry, he and those like him who are true Re publican conservatives will soon be swept aside, The extremists will control the entire Party machinery ascompletely as they now apparently control the Young Republicans. The result will be even more tragic. All who donot give 100 percent devotion to the Rightists Neo-Fascist doctrines will be excluded from the Party councils, Fine leaders like Cap Weinberger will be pushed aside. The voice of the Party will be the voice of the Birchers andthe minutemen. Only candidates with extremist views will receive Party support. Completely losing touch with political realities, the Party will deteriorate into an angry faction. This cannot be permitted to happen. The Republican Party offersthe only reasonable alternative to the flabby promises and irresponsible fiscal policies of the Brown. administration, California needs a strong, united, aggressive Republican Party based on the philosophy of the . National Party platform of 1960. In short, the stakes in June are nothing more or less than the survival of our Party. A loss to the Radical Right will destroy the possibility of Republican. effectiveness for many years, if not forever, : I, therefore, am delighted to join Governor Rockefeller, who has no support, and wants no support from the ex~tremists of either the Left or the Right. I hope that this action may induce Republicans to examine the future of their Party, Republicans must realize that the basic ques~tion to be decided in the June Primary is not "Who will the California Delegation support at the 1964 Convention?" It is "Will the John Birch Society gain control of the Califofnia Republican Party?" lam proud that I can stand on the same side with such eminent Americans as Senator Kuchel and George Christopher. WASHINGTON CALLING JOHNSON HAS GREAT FAITH IN DECISIONS OF RUSK WASHINGTON ---The party out of power enjoys the luxury of telling the party in power how to run the world, Overthrow Castro, stand firm on the treaty of perpetuity in Panama, get tough in Viet Nam, these and other simple prescriptions come from Republican candidates in a campaign year ; They donot bear the awful burden of responsibility, It is a burden to which President Johnson, with only three months of experience in the office, has not yet adjusted. He is plagued in conduct of foreign policy by the same confusion of lines of authority that troubled his predecessor, President Kennedy. In hiscase there is an added complication. Two layers of authority exist in the White House, With two or three conspicuous exceptions the Kennedy advisors are still at work, Johnson has brought in his own people to work with them. Withthe best will in the world -and little if any evidence of jealousy or rivalry has come to light -no one is sure where continuing authority rests, And it is scarcely an answer to say, as some of the President's ardent champions have, that he has made X number of telephone calls dealing with foreign policy, has talked with Secretary of State Dean Rusk for Y number of hours and has brooded for Z number of midnights on the crises before him. Add to this the fact that the President is an intensely political animal, In a campaign year with only eight months until the election he would like to believe in a kind of moratorium on foreign-policy with the tide of WELL , I FINALLY GRADUATED FROM DENTAL COLLEGE. as events held back abroad and criticism suspended at home. One tendency, with the troubles in various corners of the world pressing harder, isto put up a new power structure. This was done for the conduct of Latin-American affairs as the riots in Panama exploded into the headlines. The President appointed Thomas C, Mann, a career foreign service officer who had been Ambassadorto Mexico, to be Assistant Secretary for Latin America in the State Department and at the same time to holda special brief in the White House for dealing with all interAmerican business, This arrangement has not worked as well as had been anticipated, The vital decisions have not been forthcoming. The new layer of authority has seemed to increase the volume of talk and the bulk of papers to be shifted from desk to desk, Panama is still in limbo, For another even more crucial area -Viet Nam -the same treatment is in prospect. With no more than twotothree months of grace before hair-raising either/or decisions -to pull back or go in deeper with American forcesin an undeclared war -must be taken, a special authority has beencreated for Viet Nam, It has been moved out from under Assistant Secretary ‘of State for Far Eastern Affairs Roger Hilsman who has endured a rugged buffeting in a well-nigh impossible office. * What, one may ask, is the role of the Secretary of State in the new Administration? Rusk served President Kennedy well as builder and moulder for the architect whoknew from day to day and almost from hour to hour the kind of structure he wanted, He was the able and faithful agent of a chief executive who was his own Sec~retary of State. The new President has great confidence in Rusk who, had on many occasions gone out of his way to keep VicePresident Johnson up to date on foreign policy 4nd to guide him on his several foreign tours. In the transition it was saidthat Rusk would emerge as a new type of Secretary of State asserting himself as he had not done before. Thishasnot happened. If only for reasons of temperament perhaps the modest and unassuming man who is Secretary of State has not asserted a public presence, he has not discussed policy in broad new terms, he has not made pe headlines that have in the past often originated in an office considered second only to that of the Presidency. It would have been an abrupt transition which Rusk has apparently not elected to make. In the White House McGeorge Bundy, the President's adviser on security affairs, was Kennedy's alter ego and when he spoke he was known to be speaking for the President. However hard they may both try, nothing like the I'M A FULLY QUALIFIED FOR-REAL DENTIST WORT ., AND. I°VE GOT $10,000 OF same closeness could exist with the new President. So.the poles of power are still uncertain, which is hardly surprising. The grim historical fact might be noted that President Kennedy had been in office only three months when on the recommendation of advisors he had inherited he ordered the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, (Copyright 1964) ---Marquis Childs LETTER T0 THE EDITOR PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULD NOT HURL CHARGES. To The Editor: Inthe February 27thissue of the “Nevada County Nugget" the Gold Quartz Democratic Club officers indicated their intentions regarding the 1964 campaign, but just how do these. views jibe with the facts? I believe the Gold Quartz Democratic Club is a member of the California Democratic Council (C.D, C.), a group who only a short time ago at one of their conventions passed resolutionsto "abolish all loyalty oaths, State and Federal"; abolish House Committee on Un-American Activities; “Demandthe United States disarm even if negotiations to achieve world disarmament fail", etc. Just where does the Gold Quartz Democratic Club stand on these proposals of the extreme left? The "Public be damned" attitude of these democrats in vacating the State 6th Assembly seat of «democrat Assemblyman Lunardi just before the important budget session is an example of Democrat Power Politics at its worst. Assemblyman Lunardi knew it was impossible to elect a new assemblyman in time for the budget session and he knew it was against the law to fill this seat by appointment for he is a member of the Party that passed this restrictive new election law in the last session of the State legislature. Just recently this same. California Democratic Council (C.D.C.) group saw fit to ignore the wishes of their incumbent California U.S. Senator Clair Engle, and endorsed a past president of the California Democratic Council (C.D. C.) instead. : It seemsto me that the Democratic Club's fears should be directed to individuals in their own party. The Republican Central Committee, Young Republicans and the United Republicans of California are dedicated to the freedom of the individual under the Constitution of the United States of America. Any registered Republican is welcome to join these organizations to help in defeating the Democrat Administration that on the one hand tells us we have toarm to the hilt to the tune of $53, 000, 000, 000.00 (53 billion dollars) a year to protect ourselves from the “we'll bury you" Russians while at the same time the President says we should sell wheat to these enemies that promise to exterminate us. If feeding our cold war enemies is not aiding Communism, then what is it? To my knowledge the members of this local democrat club have not spoken out warning the local democrats of these “favors to Communists” policies of the Democrat Administration, It is little wonder we have individuals and groups trying to stop this madness of being kind to our enemies. None of these Republican organizations you deride has a person high in the State or Federal government while there are plenty of A.D, A. (Americans for Democratic Action) and other liberal far left men holding high office in the democrat administration in Washington. "People who live in glass houses should not throw stones!" Ralph Schorr, Chairman Nevada County Republican Central Committee .. IF ONLY T WASN'T AFRAID OF PEOPLE -.——

. Page 11 .March 5, 1964...The Nugget. . Page 11; after a Goldwater victo ry, he and those like him who are true Re publican conservatives will soon be swept aside, The extremists will control the entire Party machinery ascompletely as they now apparently control the Young Republicans. The result will be even more tragic. All who donot give 100 percent devotion to the Rightists Neo-Fascist doctrines will be excluded from the Party councils, Fine leaders like Cap Weinberger will be pushed aside. The voice of the Party will be the voice of the Birchers andthe minutemen. Only candidates with extremist views will receive Party support. Completely losing touch with political realities, the Party will deteriorate into an angry faction. This cannot be permitted to happen. The Republican Party offersthe only reasonable alternative to the flabby promises and irresponsible fiscal policies of the Brown. administration, California needs a strong, united, aggressive Republican Party based on the philosophy of the . National Party platform of 1960. In short, the stakes in June are nothing more or less than the survival of our Party. A loss to the Radical Right will destroy the possibility of Republican. effectiveness for many years, if not forever, : I, therefore, am delighted to join Governor Rockefeller, who has no support, and wants no support from the ex~tremists of either the Left or the Right. I hope that this action may induce Republicans to examine the future of their Party, Republicans must realize that the basic ques~tion to be decided in the June Primary is not "Who will the California Delegation support at the 1964 Convention?" It is "Will the John Birch Society gain control of the Califofnia Republican Party?" lam proud that I can stand on the same side with such eminent Americans as Senator Kuchel and George Christopher. WASHINGTON CALLING JOHNSON HAS GREAT FAITH IN DECISIONS OF RUSK WASHINGTON ---The party out of power enjoys the luxury of telling the party in power how to run the world, Overthrow Castro, stand firm on the treaty of perpetuity in Panama, get tough in Viet Nam, these and other simple prescriptions come from Republican candidates in a campaign year ; They donot bear the awful burden of responsibility, It is a burden to which President Johnson, with only three months of experience in the office, has not yet adjusted. He is plagued in conduct of foreign policy by the same confusion of lines of authority that troubled his predecessor, President Kennedy. In hiscase there is an added complication. Two layers of authority exist in the White House, With two or three conspicuous exceptions the Kennedy advisors are still at work, Johnson has brought in his own people to work with them. Withthe best will in the world -and little if any evidence of jealousy or rivalry has come to light -no one is sure where continuing authority rests, And it is scarcely an answer to say, as some of the President's ardent champions have, that he has made X number of telephone calls dealing with foreign policy, has talked with Secretary of State Dean Rusk for Y number of hours and has brooded for Z number of midnights on the crises before him. Add to this the fact that the President is an intensely political animal, In a campaign year with only eight months until the election he would like to believe in a kind of moratorium on foreign-policy with the tide of WELL , I FINALLY GRADUATED FROM DENTAL COLLEGE.. as events held back abroad and criticism suspended at home. One tendency, with the troubles in various corners of the world pressing harder, isto put up a new power structure. This was done for the conduct of Latin-American affairs as the riots in Panama exploded into the headlines. The President appointed Thomas C, Mann, a career foreign service officer who had been Ambassadorto Mexico, to be Assistant Secretary for Latin America in the State Department and at the same time to holda special brief in the White House for dealing with all interAmerican business, This arrangement has not worked as well as had been anticipated, The vital decisions have not been forthcoming. The new layer of authority has seemed to increase the volume of talk and the bulk of papers to be shifted from desk to desk, Panama is still in limbo, For another even more crucial area -Viet Nam -the same treatment is in prospect. With no more than twotothree months of grace before hair-raising either/or decisions -to pull back or go in deeper with American forcesin an undeclared war -must be taken, a special authority has beencreated for Viet Nam, It has been moved out from under Assistant Secretary ‘of State for Far Eastern Affairs Roger Hilsman who has endured a rugged buffeting in a well-nigh impossible office. * What, one may ask, is the role of the Secretary of State in the new Administration? Rusk served President

Kennedy well as builder and moulder for the architect whoknew from day to day and almost from hour to hour the kind of structure he wanted, He was the able and faithful agent of a chief executive who was his own Sec~retary of State. The new President has great confidence in Rusk who, had on many occasions gone out of his way to keep VicePresident Johnson up to date on foreign policy 4nd to guide him on his several foreign tours. In the transition it was saidthat Rusk would emerge as a new type of Secretary of State asserting himself as he had not done before. Thishasnot happened. If only for reasons of temperament perhaps the modest and unassuming man who is Secretary of State has not asserted a public presence, he has not discussed policy in broad new terms, he has not made pe headlines that have in the past often originated in an office considered second only to that of the Presidency. It would have been an abrupt transition which Rusk has apparently not elected to make. In the White House McGeorge Bundy, the President's adviser on security affairs, was Kennedy's alter ego and when he spoke he was known to be speaking for the President. However hard they may both try, nothing like the I'M A FULLY QUALIFIED FOR-REAL DENTIST WORT ., AND. I°VE GOT $10,000 OF same closeness could exist with the new President. So.the poles of power are still uncertain, which is hardly surprising. The grim historical fact might be noted that President Kennedy had been in office only three months when on the recommendation of advisors he had inherited he ordered the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, (Copyright 1964) ---Marquis Childs LETTER T0 THE EDITOR PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULD NOT HURL CHARGES. To The Editor: Inthe February 27thissue of the “Nevada County Nugget" the Gold Quartz Democratic Club officers indicated their intentions regarding the 1964 campaign, but just how do these. views jibe with the facts? I believe the Gold Quartz Democratic Club is a member of the California Democratic Council (C.D, C.), a group who only a short time ago at one of their conventions passed resolutionsto "abolish all loyalty oaths, State and Federal"; abolish House Committee on Un-American Activities; “Demandthe United States disarm even if negotiations to achieve world disarmament fail", etc. Just where does the Gold Quartz Democratic Club stand on these proposals of the extreme left? The "Public be damned" attitude of these democrats in vacating the State 6th Assembly seat of «democrat Assemblyman Lunardi just before the important budget session is an example of Democrat Power Politics at its worst. Assemblyman Lunardi knew it was impossible to elect a new assemblyman in time for the budget session and he knew it was against the law to fill this seat by appointment for he is a member of the Party that passed this restrictive new election law in the last session of the State legislature. Just recently this same. California Democratic Council (C.D.C.) group saw fit to ignore the wishes of their incumbent California U.S. Senator Clair Engle, and endorsed a past president of the California Democratic Council (C.D. C.) instead. : It seemsto me that the Democratic Club's fears should be directed to individuals in their own party. The Republican Central Committee, Young Republicans and the United Republicans of California are dedicated to the freedom of the individual under the Constitution of the United States of America. Any registered Republican is welcome to join these organizations to help in defeating the Democrat Administration that on the one hand tells us we have toarm to the hilt to the tune of $53, 000, 000, 000.00 (53 billion dollars) a year to protect ourselves from the “we'll bury you" Russians while at the same time the President says we should sell wheat to these enemies that promise to exterminate us. If feeding our cold war enemies is not aiding Communism, then what is it? To my knowledge the members of this local democrat club have not spoken out warning the local democrats of these “favors to Communists” policies of the Democrat Administration, It is little wonder we have individuals and groups trying to stop this madness of being kind to our enemies. None of these Republican organizations you deride has a person high in the State or Federal government while there are plenty of A.D, A. (Americans for Democratic Action) and other liberal far left men holding high office in the democrat administration in Washington. "People who live in glass houses should not throw stones!" Ralph Schorr, Chairman Nevada County Republican Central Committee ... IF ONLY T WASN'T AFRAID OF PEOPLE -.——