| Show T ' S' A Zk f'l " i ' 4 ' -- yr v t i :lli - 4? $ kf £- - co rs r - I? — ? is vt f jf4 y Standard-Examin- er “18 A Sunday June 18 1995 Standard-Examine- r? it 4 ' JMVS-- PINION r I Our View : 5 t J Utah and Olympics -winning combination “The most important thing in the Olympic games is not to win just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle The essential thing is not to have con ” quered but to have fought well : "' i -- - j w i J i vi " You can coin slogans such as ‘A Pretty Great State’ or The World is Here’ but there is something more meaningful in saying we are an ‘Olympic City’ ” Welcome Olympic Games Creed Spencer Stokes Utah is basking today in the glow of the Olympic sun “This is so great for Utah Now we can make the first payback to the citizens who backed the Olympic movement with the use of tax dollars Receiving the bid triggers the sale of the venues to the legacy fund which is an assurance to citizens that there is no liability Utahns also for the next seven years have access to odyssey an emotional kaleidoscope for nearly three decades reached a pinna-cl- e with the announcement that Utah will host the 2002 Winter Olympic Games The voting was historic: It has been 30 years since a competition between more than two cities was decided by the International Olympic Committee in a single round of voting A roller-coast- er wonderful winter sports activities they give them up for 16 days and then they are theirs to use for the next 30 or 40 years ” Randy Montgomery executive director the Utah Sports Authority “This is a golden moment for all The response from the thousands of Utahns eagerly awaiting the announcement at Salt Lake of Utah for the Olympics to come to City’s “Party of the Century” was a ' city that belongs to the state - we electrifying: must never forget that Our focus has "Isn’t it wonderful to win? A half been on the economic benefits today dozen people never quit believing esit is on the ideals of the Olympic pecially Spencer Eccles and Tom movement ’’ Welch They inspired us all to conRobert Hunter public relations tinue pushing forward And it paid director for Utah Olympic off with the sweepstakes today ” Bid Committee Dr Rodney Brady president "What success! What a great opand CEO of Bonneville portunity to find out all about ourInternational selves This is perfect timing for “This is a great moment I have we’ve experienced never felt more pride in my son ” failure we hung on now we must Harold Welch former Weber learn to experience success ” County Commissioner San Francisco 49ers quarterfather of Tom Welch back and Superbowl MVP “We’re the world’s choice! Gosh! Steve Young Biggest days ever are ahead for of Brigham Young Utah The world spotlight will be on has Utah truly achieved promiOgden three days with the downhill nence on the world stage We at Snowbasin ” share this excitement James Beardall chairman and As the deserving congratulaCEO of Anderson Lumber tions flow in please add ours to and chairman of finance the Utah Olympic Bid Commitand audit of the $8 million fund tee and the dedication belief and of the Salt Lake City Olympic commitment to Utah’s unyielding Bid Committee quest that was accorded “ Utah already has exciting faciliinternational acclaim Friday ties ready to go and world-clas- s The Utah Olympic Bid Comdownhill runs at Snowbasin that top athletes love Ogden’s Snowbasin is mittee from now on will be the building a ‘wicked’ downhill for the Utah Olympic Organizing ComOlympics that’s ‘wicked’ like in mittee ‘great’ Be proud You’ve got a What great opportunities are world-clas- s area ” ahead for all Utahns to be instruTommy Moe winner of gold mental in preparing for the excitand silver medals at the 1994 ing adventures that will unfold in Lillihammer Games our state in the next seven years on great-great-grands- on 29-ye- ar N H I -- i 18 1975 WEATHER: Showers and cold tonight with partial clearing tomorrow lows tonight in the upper highs mid-60- s 40s I LAYTON - Ensign Les Edgar son of Mr and Mrs Walter I Edgar has graduated from the US Naval Academy Annapolis Md Ensign Edgar is a graduate of Davis High School OGDEN Flood control industrial development and a raise in the dog license fees top the agenda for the Ogden -- JUNE WEATHER: Clear except for high cloudiness this afternoon tonight and Tuesday continued rise in temperature THE UTAH ASF depot motor pool’s choice for war bond queen is blackElda Kley daughter haired brown-eye- d of Mr and Mr LW Kley Miss Kley is 20 years old and drives a truck in support of the war effort SSGT Fay W Bryner 24 son of Mr and Mrs WJ Bryner is home on furlough from Germany where he had been a prisoner for the past 10 months EARL L JENSEN of Ogden has re “As a matter of fact” a union spokesman said “most of us are registered Democrats but we want the Governor to feel welcome" WASHINGTON City Council meeting A BEN LOMOND teacher and a graduate have been selected to attend the research participation program this summer in Buffalo NY Attending will be Debra Smith daughter of Mrs Diane Whitby and science teacher Dean Thompson SUPT G LELAND Bumingham said today he will recommend a substantial reduction in the Weber School District property tax levy at next Wednesday’s public hearing on the 1975-7- 6 budget a direct commission as a second lieutenant in recognition of his work as a military investigator in the European theater of operations ceived OKINAWA Tenth Army troops reinforced by a second Marine division squeezed the last 3000 Japanese on death Okinawa into a pocket today le KAGOSHIMA A fleet of 450 Super Fortresses burned the part of Kagoshima to the water's edge and set fires visible up to 150 miles in three other cities e front in Japan today along a 500-mil- - New Richard Nixon was not there in 1964 but he had agents in the state advocating write-i- n votes A Goldwater man said “I haven’t seen the Nixon agents but I’ve Hampshire has now added to its prodigious political folklore the tale of a Democratic president and Republican Speaker of the House making big national news by appearing together up there and actually being nice to each other Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich each playing his own game with an eye on 1996’s first presidential primary did not go as far as they might have in clarifying their differences about the hard issues But grace changes moods And many people were left feeling better we are told New Hampshire itself seems to have a way sometimes of making politics seem spontaneous almost hopeful even human In my collection of the state’s folklore there are notes from 1964 when the western conservative Barry Goldwater arriving in New Hampshire to campaign was n a repolite almost formal “soft-spoke- markably man among mild-mannner- fans who so obviously regarded hint as the boldest dragon-slayin the land” At the airport he slipped away from a group of loud adult admirers and talked quietly with some Boy Scouts who looked a little nervous But he reassured them earnestly: “You young people would do a better job in politics right now than us older er ones” That same year Nelson Rockefeller had a marvelous time touring a bottling company in Manchester not just because he was fascinated by raspbeny soda but because every employee in the place was wearing a Rockefeller button soft-drin- k seen their tracks They are like Abominable Snowmen” In 1976 Rep Morris K Udall iz went to New Hampshire to announce his candidacy for president Television crews were put on notice that he would make the announcement in Manchester to an ordicitizen on the sidewalk nary in front of a small shop with a big old barbesemi-rando- m r-pole But there was heavy rain and the event was moved inside The barber sitting in his own barber chair would receive the announcement When the lights cameras and mikes were ready Udall ambled across the room shook the barber’s hand and said “I am Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona and today I am a candidate for president of the United States” The barber looked into the evening-new- s cameras and said “I know you are A bunch of us were sitting around laughing about it just this morning” Udall in a The same book called “Too Funny to be President” included stories like that about himself and other candidates in New Hampshire In good-humore- d one taken from my 1964 Goldwater collection the setting was the community where Clinton and Gingrich would meet 31 years later: In Claremont a little city of 13000 at the foot of a swooping ski slope the Hotel Moody gives a birthday party for its oldest resident Miss Milfy Avery who is 90 As her eyes shine in the glow of the candles who comes in to wish her a happy birthday but Barry Goldwa ter all the way from Arizona? He is followed into the dining room by a microphones large troop of newsmen three television networks blinding floodlights and two wire services Miss Avery as it turns out is not at all sure who Barry Goldwater is but says he looks like a nice young man New Hampshire’s political folklore becomes known far and wide Ruth M Hamilton now of Sanford Fla a reader of the Udall book wrote to me in 1988 she knew all about the 90th birthday party at the Hotel Moody because she organized it A teacher writer painter world traveler and member of the New Hampshire legislature Ruth Hamilton was living in the hotel in 1964 while her nearby house was being remodeled Milly Avery lived in a room set aside for welfare recipitop-floents They became friends “The day she was 90 we gave her a surn hotel dinprise party in the old Hamilton wrote in memMrs room” ing or run-dow- oirs that are now part of the Iowa Women’s Archives “A lovely cake adorned a table with a While money tree and other useful gifts we were singing ‘Happy Birthday’ someone whispered that Sen Barry Goldwater was upstairs conferring with local Republicans I “Quickly I ran up and invited him was scared pink of him because of his insane conservatism but he showed warmth and even hugged Milly signed a birthday card ate cake and ice cream and no doubt made a few votes” Milly Avery died in 1965 Ruth Hamilton who wrote her memoir of Milly in 1983 continued to write not just for the archives but for the Sanford (Fla) Herald for example about a reporting visit to Costa Rica And she still keeps up with the political folklore of New Hampshire Ruth Hamilton is 97 hopes budget gamble pays off Clinton -i'l 50 years ago 18 1945 New Hampshire political folklore grows r- 20 years ago JUNE I Weber County Commissioner DAVIDS BRODER Washington Post WASHINGTON - President Clinton’s decision last week to join the Republican Congress in search of a 1995 budget that would eliminate the deficit early in the next century is one that will resonate right through Election Day 1996 He will have to beat heavy historical odds to make the gamble pay off For a president battling a reputation for is particinconsistency this latest flip-flo-p ularly costly For months he and his Democratic allies on Capitol Hill have been battering the Republicans for promising a balanced budget by 2002 - a step that Democrats claimed would certainly wreck Medicare and other cherished programs That campaign was working Just when polls showed that the majority of voters disapproved for the first time of the Republican Congress Clinton switched signals and said that with a few adjustments timetable the budget can be and a balanced Medicare and education saved - and a modest tax cut provided voters the rebellion centering around the offices of House Majority Leader Dick o and his deputy Rep Gephardt D-M- David Bonior could have consequences In 1993 those two men led a rebellion by most House Democrats against NAFTA - the free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada - that split the Democratic Party They could well do the same thing against a Clinton budget deal with the GOP The last two Democratic presidents were challenged from the left in Democratic primaries Lyndon Johnson withdrew and Jimmy Carter was subsequently defeated Clinton has spent much effort in 1995 trying to avoid the same fate But now organized labor senior citizens and minority groups all see their interests jeopardized by the program cuts that Clinton has put on the table If they find a candidate to express their grievances they still have eight months to launch an insurrection Furthermore the history of presidents who are forced by Congress to revise their budget plans has been one of policy and political disaster Liberal Democrats and spokesmen for core Democratic constituency groups were furious “There wasn’t much loyalty to the president to begin with up here" one senior House Democrat told me “but I’ve never heard as much public criticism of him as there’s been in the last 24 hours" In 1990 George Bush abandoned his pledge and made a deal with congressional Democrats for what he rehoped would be a duction in deficits over five years His advisers told him the pact would assure him a healthy economy in 1992 But his own party rebelled in the House much as the Democrats are now doing against Clinton and by 1992 Bush was blaming the deal for his presidential defeat While some White House advisers gloated that Ginton had finally achieved "a political divorce" from the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill a group that with the these advisers think is In 1982 Ronald Reagan allowed Jim Baker to negotiate a budget deal with the "Gang of 17” representing the Democratic House and Republican Senate He was maneuvered into accepting $98 billion of 10-ye- out-of-st- s” tax increases over three years and ever afterward complained that Congress reneged on its promised spending cuts The Republicans were shellacked in the 1982 election In 1980 a Democratic Congress sentiment forced Jimspooked by anti-ta-x submit a brand-neto Carter budget my just two months after his original January spending plan this one promising (on paper) to eliminate the deficit The liberals rebelled it was defeated in May revised and passed in June but in November Carter was skunked by Ronald Reagan w Maybe Leon Panetta will drive a better bargain than John Sununu or Jim Baker or Hamilton Jordan did for their presidents but history suggests otherwise To avoid these perils Clinton and Panetta will have to find a way to split the GOP Senate Republicans are clearly re- luctant to endorse the big tax cuts and some of the large-scal- e spending reductions their House counterparts want A top House Republican told me he is worried that Ginton’s alternative might appeal to moderate GOP senators If their defection should leave Bob Dole outvoted in the Senate Clinton would gain the upper hand in the bargaining and be able to dictate the terms of the final budget half-a-doz- Then he could claim to have minimized the damage to Medicare and education and still have set the country on a course to a balanced budget satisfying both core Democratic constituencies and the Ross Perot supporters If the budget deal also reduces interest rates and thereby prolongs the current economic growth cycle Clinton could be sitting pretty in 1996 deficit-conscio- But it is a hell of a gamble us ! f 1 |
