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Regardless of the questions that would haunt the U.S. for years?whether this kind of peace could have been achieved earlier, whether all the violence, the death, the deviousness of the last four years were ultimately worth it???he had accomplished the American exit from Viet Nam. He had not achieved the terms he had originally proclaimed, but the U.S. was out and Thieu was still in office in Saigon...
...thus diluting the purity of the "clearest choice in a century" between two programs and philosophies. If McGovern is turning off the voters to the extent that the latest polls suggest, it is nearly impossible to determine to what degree they are resisting his program?or their perception of it???and to what extent they merely distrust his effectiveness as a leader...
...Washington late last month, a stop-McGovern coalition formed, centered around Hubert Humphrey and organized labor; Edmund Muskie's supporters joined along with George Wallace, Washington's Senator Henry Jackson, Arkansas' Wilbur Mills and even New York's Shirley Chisholm. The "A.B.M. movement," some of them called it???"Anybody But McGovern...
...objected to more than anything else was Nixon's failure to freeze profits along with wages and prices. Unlike employees, they point out, corporations are still free to make as much money as they can. What is more, they contend, business has been given several new ways to make it???by taking advantage of the new 10% investment credit, by using the liberalized depreciation rules announced by Nixon in January, by increasing production as the economy picks up and by not paying previously contracted wage hikes. Although the Administration claims that its rules will stimulate the whole econ...
While the controversy was building, the man at the very center of it???Richard M. Nixon?had retired from the battle. From the Western White House, near Casa Pacifica, his oceanside home in San Clemente, the President kept in close touch with his economic advisers back in Washington. He scheduled stops in Ohio and Illinois on his return trip, during which he will undoubtedly resume a strong defense of his program. But for the time being, Nixon was content to remain serenely above the fray. He took a daily swim in his pool (a tanker had spilled oil near Nixon...