| Show Grin and Bear It James Reston The Salt By Liclity C L Kennedy Inherited US in Violence C New York Time Service WASHINGTON Nov 22 -A- merica wept Friday night not alone for its dead young President tut for Itself The grief was general for somehow the worst in the nation had prevailed over- - the best The indictment extended the assasfor somein the nasome strain of itself madness and violence had destroyed the highest symbol of law and order Speaker John McCormack now 71 and by the peculiarities of our politics now next in line for the presidency expressed this sense of national disrriay and “My God my God! What coming to?” he The Irony of the President’s death is that his short administration was devoted almost entirely to various attempts to curb this very streak of violence in the American character WHEN THE historians get around to assessing his three years in office it Is very likely that they will be impressed with just this: His efforts to restrain those who wanted to be more violent in the cold war overseas and those who wanted to be more violent in the racial war at home He was in Texas Friday trying to pacify the violent politics of that state He was hi Florida last week trying to pacify the businessmen and appealing to them to believe that he was not “antibusiness” And from the beadginning to the end of his was ministration he trying to of violence down the damp the extremists on the right IT WAS HIS FATE however to reach the White House in a period of violent change when all nations and institutions found themselves uprooted This central theme was the to necessity of change and adjustinghim this brought into conflict with those who opposed change THUS WHILE his personal instinct was to avoid violent conflict to compromise and mediate and pacify his programs for taxation for racial equality for medical care for Cuba all raised sharp divisions in the country ance vicariously imparted from reading Richard “Presidential book Power” soon discovered the two truths which all dwellers on that lonely eminence have quickly learned Neu-stadt- ’s bitterly condemned The President somehow always seemed to be suspended between his ideal conception of what a President should be what the office called for and a kind of despairing realization of the practical limits upon his power HE CAME INTO office convinced of the truth of Teddy Roosevelt’s view of the President’s duties— "The President is bound to be as big a man as he can” And his inaugural — “Now a g n g p acquaintance agrees that a hobby for the retirement "ears would be great His only question is how he "could afford to retire when he can barely afford the hobby tic ar er Tv r- - J iy iy d e- - He Reads Do You? BOOKS FROM Deseret Book COMPANY M EAST SO TEMPLE AT COTTONWOOD AND MU salt lake city It is significant that unlike many presidents in the past the people who most liked and respected im were those who knew hiqt the best He was a rationalist and an intellectual who proved in the 196(1 (Campaign and in last year’s crisis over Cuba that he jfras at his best when the going was tough NO DOUBf HE would have been reelected as most one-- f term 'presidents have been and the subtle dualism of his character would have had a longer chance to realize his dream BUT HE IS GONE now at younger than when most presidents have started on the j 'An Wings on a space ship to Mars wouldn’t get you there any faster a scientist reports but would get you back quicker That’s the part that interests us A powerful figure in Washington reports that he is almost embarrassed to drlvfe through the streets His limousine has only one tele- phone - Nelson Rockefeller's official announcement that he is running gave him a day or so of respite lq which to get the spikes on his track shoes re 47 ’ great adventure In his book “Profiles In Courage” all his heroes faced the hard choice of either giving Into public opinion or of defying It and becoming mar- tyrs He had hoped to avoid this bitter dilemma But he ended as a martyr anyway and the nation is sad both about him and about itself There Is one final tragedy about Friday: Kennedy had a sense of history but he also had an administrative technique which made the gathering of history extremely difficult HE HATED organized meetings of the cabinet or the National Security Council and therefore he chose to decide policy after private meetings usually with a single person The result of this Is that the true history of his admin- istration really cannot be written now that he hi gone He had a joke about this When he was asked what he was going to do when he retired he always replied that he had a problem IT WAS HE SAID that he would have to race two other members of his staff Bundy and Arthur Schlesinger Jr to get into Print- Unfortunately however he was the only man in the White House who really knew what went on there during his administration and now he is gone sharpened 1 haven’t “Trust me to handle any situation Mrs Truffle forgotten how to kick and scream myself!” Mary McGrory e Me on My Record WASHINGTON-So-- of me John Byrnes’ colleagues in the House advised him his was a case" of “least said soonest mended” But Rep Byrnes a dark and brooding "man who takes affairs Party decided that the House had committee‘ he is one who al- a y s f commands respectful attention for his pronounce-ment- s on tax and tariff matters He has b e e n mentioned as Wisconsin’s favorite son candidate for the presidency! w to judge him and McGrory not simply h 1 a purchase of stock in a company in which Bobby Baker was also a stockholder AND SO HE went before the House in an emotional speech that lasted more than an hour he bared his soul to the world Sjt'ld a muted Republican friend when It was over "Oh s very moving and we All felt that he had exonerated himself but I still think it was a tactical mistake I think a simple statement of the facts would have been better" heard on the basis of his whole record rather than on one stock purchase of his life irwasa'difflcult hour fop everyone painful and embarrassing Some 56 Republicans had turned out to support brother in his hour of need A dozen Democrats looked on ' dispassionately their The faces of the other members were a study “There but for the grace of God go I” was written all over them The classic in the field of full financial disclosure Is of course Richard Nixon’s immortal 1952 “Checkers speech 'While Mr Nixon’s throbbing exposition kept him on the naf THE FACTS as presented tional ticket the backlash has subsided “Respectable by Mr Byrnes were that In never Republican cloth coat” and 1960 on the merits he Inter“Checkers” have passed Into ceded with the Internal Revenue Service for a Milwaukee the facetious folklore of Amerinsurance concern Some six ican politics But Mr Byrnes who felt he months later a friend who was ah officer of the company had been “crucified” and viladvised him to purchase stock ified by judges” apparently saw in the company Not knowing e only in a full He a was he getting bought $2300 worth of Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Co “I SAY” he cried towards stock He saw no conflict of the end "that you have the — interest 'responsibility in common deJust two days ago minority cency to look at the whole man Leader Dirksen had stood up and the whole record and all in the Senate and the facts before you Include against a resolution calling for me among the ‘sleazy fixers full disclosure by all members who are periodically found be“I am not going to be taken neath upturned rocks around In by a resolution which makes Washington’" people think that we cleanse His chances as he well ourselves when we disclose knows of being looked at as a our every asset” stormed Senwhole man In the current atator Dirksen mosphere of Washington polluted as it is by the Bobby But Mr Byrnes did not case are a bit slim Baker see It that way He is a man “It was galling to me” said of considerable consequence a friend “to hear John Byrnes and reputation in the House go all through that when you Ranking member of the ways know what he did was nothing and means committee chaircompared to what goes on man of the Republican policy around here all the time” d self-portra-it — “Yon have to know the men themselves in order to be able to evaluate their " words” “I His initial De Gaulle was fusing because ing admiration impression of somewhat conwhile confessfor the Gen- eral’s courteous and grandiose manner he noted that “his and go way back and feeling suspicions are very deep rooted” — The President always ained the essence of first impact “But he doesn’t want to only an idiot wants war” It is interesting that both De G a u 1 J e and Khrushchev seemed to have more affection for Mr Eisenhower but a hint of more respect for Mr Kennedy Certainly the late President proved to each troublesome ally and dangerous rival that he did not lack res— olution THE tact he sought De Gaulle on his part expressed himselfsomewhat diffidently about Mr Kennedy and seemed to be holding a true evaluation in abeyance until history itself had had a chance to judge Thb b De Gaulle’s habit Street IN A been” (Please print) GIRARD early much because can be Sine PERREGAUX 75‘ Model Homes at BENNION'S BOYD PARK CRESTFJELD PARK 1M South Mala IMpire4-3M- 7 Girard Ptrreqaux Heodquartert In Utah 4700 louth 3200 Watt done to pre- terms: serve sight But it is easy to make a wrong diagnosis considering the number of babies and toddlers who are Certhought to be cross-eye- d tain facial features common to infants may be responsible for the confusion THE BROAD nose bridge and prqminent folds at the Inner corners of the eyes may give the false impression that one eye and then the other Is out of line "depending upon whether the baby is looking to the right or left ' cast and squint tropia CLOSED j? 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Basic questions about stars sun moon planets and the universe are answered in our booklet "Astronomy" Indexed Send for your copy today 50 cents plus 5 cents — In es Ilcre’re Replies And so he insisted on being n - Republican ' Mr Sulzberger accidental that on his first TRYING TO analyse his opjourney Aboard in 1961 he Khrushchev told me: ponent chose trf meet the Frenchman “The advantages former whos role as an ally so perPresident Dwight D Eisenplexed him and the Russian hower had over Mr Kennedy United Who the although were that he was an older States’ principal adversary a hero of World War n man to show signs tjjnately began who commanded great a man of wording toward an accomrespect in the United States modation and therefore if he said the ' United States should not go to DURING THAT trip President Kennedy told me: “I war no one would dare accuse him of being afraid think it is tremendously imrea for man with portant my sponsibility to know something about the people I have to deal with That helps me make up my mind when the moment for decision comes b position “Politically he has a much broader outlook He himself conducted the talks without depending on Rusk the way Mr Eisenhower always depended on Dulles Mr Kennedy formii-lathis own ideqs That is his superiority to Mr Eisenhower Why’s of Skies? Burned Byrnes Pleads cut-rat- EUROPE AND Latin America had become increasingly dubious of his leadership but their capacity to indulge in independent courses of action outside the Western Alliance was largely due to the fac that he had managed to reach a somewhat better adjustment of relations with the Sovjet 1 j He was even to his political enemies 4 wonderfully attractive human being - SoaperSays fleet- The center of the mind was on the dead President on his wife who has now lost both a son and a husband within a few months and on hiy family which despite all its triumphs has sustained so mapy personal tragedies since the last war in Korea the Formosa Strait Viet Nam and Berlin is if anything more tolerable than when he came to office it - These howevr were ing thoughts The state of truce existing es li- FOR AN ALL too brief hour was not clear again what would have happened if the young President instead of being mortally wounded had lingered for a long time between life and death strong enough to survive but too weak to govern A reasonable balance of power has been established on all continents AT nOME Mr Johnson’s tasks lie in' the Congress where he Is widely regarded as the most skillful man of his generation f This city was In a state of was scanty 1 Friday it THERE IS HOWEVER consolation In the fact that while he was not given time to finish his work or even to realize his own potentialities he has not left the nation in a state of crisis or danger either in its domestic or foreign affairs j j mier Nikita Sy Khrushchev It a leading part has touched Despite the severe Illnesses of President Dwight D Eisenhower just a few years ago nothing was done by the Congress to deal with the problem of presidential disability hand The passage of power from one man to anothec'is more difficult in other countries and Britain West Germany Italy India and other friendly nations are so prgbccupied by that task at the moment that drastic new policy initiatives overseas are scarcely possible in the foreseeable future note of conscience face the worst But Khrushchev himself as he later confided was Impressed When I talked with him in Vienna I found him a worthy partner” he said de Gaulle and Pre- quietly In the the capital in their rage I having hold of both They whirl asunder and dismember me” “WE HAVE MADE” up our minds to square every process r- - and 'And Thns President Johnson Is not confronted lmmedl-ately with urgent new de- cisions al A THEN TO THE astonishment of his listeners he suddenly concluded his talk by pulling from his pocket" scrap of paper and 'reading the famous speech of Blanche of Spain in Shakespeare’s King John: “The sun’s o’ercast with blood: fair day adieu! Which is the side that I must go withal? I am with both each army Union WAS mainly because Mr Johnson has sustained a severe heart attack and the constitutional line of succession places directly back of him first speaker McCormack and then the president pro tern of Sen the Senate Carl Hayden of Arizona rights riots were at their height and passions were flaring he spoke to a group of representatives of national organizations He tolled off the "problems that beset him on every side the trumpet summons us again” — stirred an echo of Wilson in 1913 when the latter said: ie THIS n He came away coldly disillusioned and determined to Presld ent back of many minds Friday LAST JUNE when the civil AND EVEN where his policies of adjustment had their greatest success— in relations with the Soviet Union— he was same time per haps most interested were YET IT IS CLEAR (hat the entire outlook has changed for both parties and the unexpected death of President Kennedy has forced Washington to meditate a little more on the wild element of chance in our national life HE GREW fond of quoting Lord Morley’s dictum— “Politics is one long second-bes- t where the choice often lies between two blunders” Did he have a premonition of tragedy— that he who had set out to temper the contrary violences of our national life would be their victim? Mr Kennedy left Paris for Vienna and his Khrushchev confrontation was at the Charles “President Kennedy a different -- trouble and in whom ho the assassination appointments find Itself Jhcreasingiy pushed towards dirigisme This is a necessity of our times There is no' escape" most FRIDAY’S EVENTS were so tragic and so brutal that even this city which lives on the brutal diet of politics could not bear to think much about the political consequences of The second was that the decisions— as he himself so often said— “are not easy” Since he was never one to hide his feelings he bften betrayed the mood brought on by contemplating the magnitude of the job and its dis- hat a as- - The first was that the powers of the president are not only limited but hard to bring to bear Sulzberger C New York Time Service NEW YORK Nov 22-- The two foreign statesmen witfv whom President Kennedv had sumption that there will be no major agreements on taxes or civil rights this year probably will have to be revived It is of course too early to tell but it is typical and perhaps significant that the new President's first act when he arrived in Washington was to greet the congressional leaders of both parties and to rheet with1- them at once in the White House ‘ be- the ACCORDINGLY And from his reading from his intellectual approach to the office it seemed if not easy at least possible But the young man who came to office with an assur- yond sin thing tion are we asked always carried at our hearts” This is what the President set out to do 23 23 19G3 Kennedy Won Dc Galule Niki ja Respect shock Friday night and everywhere including Capitol Hill men are of a mind to compose their differences and do what they can to help the new President of our national life with the standards We so proudly set up at the beginning and' have pike Tribune Saturday November ENGH FLORAL 2098 EAST 39TH SOUTH each All |
