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Wallace's victory will doubtless be an inhibiting factor for Deep South candidates who might consider moving toward a moderate position on racial issues. But Alabama is neither the whole South nor the region's bellwether. Along with Mississippi and Louisiana, Alabama may in fact represent a vestigial resistance with far more past than future (see following story). Kevin Phillips, a theorist and codifier of the Nixon Administration's largely misnamed Southern strategy, believes that "Wallace has become too gross for the Southern middle class. Where before he was a conservative regional candidate...
That criticism is less than fair. Doubtless, the range of Richard Nixon's contacts outside his official circle is not so great as it might be, but to blame that upon his staff is hardly accurate. A President's staff is his own creature, and each President devises his own system. Nixon is far less isolated than Dwight Eisenhower was; for most of his Administration, Ike sat walled behind Assistant Sherman Adams. John Kennedy was undoubtedly more accessible than Nixon; he deliberately organized his staff to circumvent the massive federal bureaucracy. By contrast, Nixon has concentrated on trying to make...
...Johnson, were the top two staff men on domestic affairs. Each pushed his own ideas, Cabinet members pressed for theirs, and Nixon found himself in need of a coordinator of domestic programs comparable to Henry Kissinger in foreign affairs. The President put Ehrlichman in the job and will doubtless upgrade him further on July 1, when the Domestic Affairs Council?a counterpart to the National Security Council?comes into being...
...sign, conceived in an earthy moment of beer-hall bonhomie, read: LINDSAY DROPS THE FLAG MORE TIMES THAN A WHORE DROPS HER PANTS. While there were no comparable uprisings elsewhere in the country, the rebellion of the hardhats seemed only the surface of a resentment that doubtless runs deep across the nation...
...Surprisingly, the sentiment is also strong among older and more successful blacks, some of whom may see the Panthers as surrogate revolutionaries, willing and able to do the things that they would like but are unable to do themselves. They also inspire considerable fear in the black community, which doubtless explains some of their newspaper sales, if not more substantial financial support...