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Show the area unsightly, the President disagreed. Nowadays, we can "make trailer courts that look just like motels." Maybe the President is right. Nobody would ever pn-ket pn-ket the While House if it looked like a Holiday Inn or a Howard Johnson's. PHIR Bv Kurt Nutting visited Saigon as a special Presidential Presi-dential envoy last week, California Governor Ronald Reagan professed pro-fessed himself mystified as to the uproar over the Vietnamese elections. elec-tions. "I find myself unable to understand" why the liberal news media at home was so down on President Thieu's unopposed reelection. re-election. After comparing Thieu to George Washington, who also was elected unopposed, he pointed out that nobody gets mad that Soviet Russia, Czechoslovakia, Czechoslo-vakia, Albania, and several emerging emerg-ing nations in Africa all have unopposed elections as well. At the risk of being obvious, may I say to Governor Reagan that in none of the nations he listed has the United States spent hundreds of billions of dollars, lost hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of wounded men, had 45,000 soldiers die in combat, and devastate the lives, countryside, and society of the nation we were saving for democracy. demo-cracy. Needless to say, we have done all of these in Vietnam, and even Mr. Reagan can find out about them in daily newspapers. Finally (as long as I'm discussing the present administration in Washington) is the President himself. him-self. "Newsweek" magazine recently re-cently did an article on the "newest" Nixon, and how he was cultivating a more relaxed, friendly image than the wooden one of old. The magazine related an incident where the President, visiting Kalispell, Montana, last month, reflected that it was a shame that more people couldn't see the beautiful country there. Someone, he said, should build trailor courts so that more could come. When a reporter objected that the trailor courts might make U judging from recent news ts Vice President Agnew has J been unleashed to spread his J special glow aross the land. may remember that Mr. Ag-1 Ag-1 spent the summer quietly, li g permissiveness in .action tnya, where he watched two Los mating, and exchanging lifts with foreign leaders, such as ie beloved despot Francisco Franco of Spain. The total results of his 31-day, 10-nation trip ffwnd the world seemed to be ( 2-million-worth of golf in 13 rounds, which averages out to over $90,000 per round or more than $5,000 per hole. Said Kansas Senator Robert Dole (the Republicans' Repub-licans' National Chairman), 'There must be a reason for the Vice-President's trip. But I just don't know what it is." Now, however, Mr. Agnew is returning re-turning to his old form of yesteryear. yester-year. Following the Attica and Soledad prison tragedies, he wrote in "The New York Times" that "our penal system remains among the most humane and advanced in the world," which (needless to say) conflicts sharply with the observations of virtually all criminologists, crimi-nologists, not to mention convicts, con-victs, who know something about the situation. But the convicts in Attica and Soledad probably felt better knowing they were incar cerated in top-notch, "humane" prisons. He soon topped even this. To preview the 1972 Presidential campaign, he denounced efforts to cut the $80-billion defense budget and said that the efforts along these lines of Democratic Senators Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey, Hum-phrey, George McGovern, and Edward Ed-ward M. Kennedy (note the amazing coincidence: these four are considered the leading contenders conten-ders for their party's Presidential nomination next year!) exactly coincided with those of Gus Hall, the chairman of the American Communist Party. Remember the magical paintbrush of Joe McCarthy? McCar-thy? Oh, by the way, Mr. Agnew delivered his speech before an association of large military contractors. con-tractors. Another prominent person known for near-constant talking, Mrs. Martha Mitchell (the wife of Attorney At-torney General John Mitchell) also appeared in the news recently. re-cently. When asked her opinion on the Vietnamese war, she replied, re-plied, "Oh, that's all over now." Too bad nobody tells that to all the people getting bombed, strafed, and booby-trapped by the thousands in Indochina right now, and get a worry out of their lives. In a related 'ncident, when he |