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Show December 3, 1971 and Party Nixon Continued from Page 8 in conservatism in both bouses, particularly among Republicans. The Star went on to quote A.C.A. President Charles A. McManus, who sadly noted: There is no question that we are disappointed at the ratings received by a number of members of Congress, mostly Republicans, and particularly as the new ratings fall far below the mark achieved in the ACA high-wat- uation abound. Regarding Vietnam, for instance, Senator Barry told the Goldwater Republican National Committee meeting in Denver this past July: Loyalty of ninety-fiv- e percent prior to the 1968 election to sixty-seve- n percent during President Nixons first year in office. Here are twenty additional A.C.A. comparisons which are indicative of the trend across the nation: Cumulative The National Observer for July 21, 1969, contained an important er ratings by the conservative members of Congress covering the final session (1968) of the liberal Johnson administration. Even the late Congressman a James B. Utt e long-timchampion of Conservatism and one of the finest Con Even a), found Your Christmas They will themselves in the odd position of promoting renaissance of tbe agency along new j lines, tbe liberals defending tbe status quo. Old guard Republicans who last year tbougbtrazing was too good for tbe Job Corps camps this year passionately defend tbe Administration's decision to keep half tbe camps open. love you more j ... for it. Tbe conservatives want to merely double tbe federal com- mitment to feeding tbe poor. Tbe liberals want to triple tbe Sweaters Toys, Collais Good Selection of Pets and Supplies PH. 364-193- 1 ijowers . BnwKKSBu khs Budgets, three g a) Liberal columnists such as Stewart Alsop have noted that the Nixon withdrawal policy 'is quite obviously the greatest retreat in American history. (Newsweek, January 11, 1971.) Others have recognized that what President Nixon calls winding down the war is exactly .what many of the pro-Commun- elected in 1968 and had announced a visit to Red China, we would be rising up in historical oppositipn.- But, - ued, this is a President. The immense im-moral- ity of the proposed trip, and the destructive and demoralizing impact it will have on anticommunists everywhere, seemed to be entirely ignored by Mr. Reagan. Again, would that have been the case if a Democrat. President were making the trip? Increased trade with the Communists is another area where many Republicans who opposed radi- ist he continRepublican cals who disrupted the 1968 Democrat convention in Chicago were demanding. Certainly it is a policy which makes the sacrifice over the years of fens of billions of American dollars and tens of thousands of American lives appear to have been in vain. Would Senator Goldwater have praised such 4 policy of with- such policy when Lyndon. Johnson was President have modified their position to please drawal if Hubert Humphrey had Richard Nixon. In 1968; for been elected in 1968 and were instance. Republican support carrying it out? helped attach to the Export-, - The National Observer was - 131 E. 3rd So., S.LC. record-breakin- monstrous deficits, the ignominious planned trip to Red China, wage and price controls, an endless trail of broken campaign promises, etc., etc., etc. It is I say that President Nixon bas exactly the sort of record Barry oerformed miracles in Southeast Goldwater would undoubtedly Asia by bringing back more than and rightly condemn if the perhalf of tbe troops wbicb bad been petrator were a Democrat. A similar example of the unsent by bis Democratic predecessors and in moving just as quickly fortunate effect which unqualias logistics and security permit in fied party loyalty can produce occurred on October 2, 1971, bringing an end to Americas participation in that war. Isay that if when Governor Ronald Reagan be bad not done one other thing of California defended President in tbe three years be bas held Nixons planned trip to Red office. President Nixon's place in China. Mr. Reagan told a State history as a great peacemaker Republican Central Committee convention in Los Angeles that if would be assured. Hub.ert Humphrey had been (R.-Arizon- gressmen elected to the House in recent decades, slipped from ' a cumulative A.C.A. voting record Page 9 The UTAH INDEPENDENT : j 'compelled to conclude: On the., entire range of domestic issues there is scarcely one on which conservatives are not occupying ideological ground that was held by liberals only. a year. or two' Mr. Goldwater. went on to say in his Dpnver address that one of the tasks facing good Republicans in the near future is to Import Bank Act a crucial amend-me- sponsored at a Fair Price Quality ' : nt bythen-Congressma-n Paul A. Pino ( York). Among other things, the Pino Amendment pre-- . eluded the Eximbank from extending assistance to nations which furnish goods, supplies, military assistance, or advisors to any nation with which we are engaged in armed conflict. Earlier this year, however, legislation in- -' (R.-Ne- w build up the President of the . United States- for the enormous ti achievements he has recorded. ago. Additional examples A list of those achievements illustrating this unfortunate sit-- would include three' consecutive BOWERS e - . . ; . a Bank volving the Export-Impo- rt was reported, from. Committees in both the House and Senate, which called for abandonment of the Fino Amendment, leaving it to decide if up to trade should be conducted with those nation? supplying our enemies. The Senate, to its discredit, voted for the legislation as reported. But the House took a firmer stand and, on July eighth, adopted (by a vote of 207-15an amendment sponsored by Congressman Chalmers Wylie which had the effect of the important Fino Amendment. It thus became necessary to send the legislation to a House-Senat- e Conference Committee to iron out differences. In the meantime, the President announced his proposed tnp to Red China, and also allowed the impression to trickle down to the House-Senat- e conferees that the Administration opposed the. Wylie Amend-- . ment.. Soon thereafter, House the-Preside- 3) (R.-Ohi- o) ng ' conferees capitulated to the . . s Hours: 9 to 6 Doily FREE PARKING SOUTH OF STORE ms. STATE BoweSBWK"S BowerS tow- For oor coifomon vorSomo. wo will bo OfM O 35o-t)33- b HomikS'X Senate on this important pro vision, and a Conference Report was approved which struck out the Wylie Amendment. The Senate quickly approved the Conference bill, and on August 5, 1971, the House followed suit by Thus the a vote of 219-14President may now lift all embar- 0. Bank goes on Export-Impoloans to all Communist countries (including Red China) except rt Continued on Page 16 - |