Show :s- - ei f Maria mt SPECIAL OFFER TO OUR READERS ! Could You Picture These Men In the White House? By Peter MacDonald ! ByAlEisele When the last speech wound drearily to a dose at the Republican National I showered and made Convention ' ready for what i thought would be a A smiling Senator Walter Mondale flashed the thumbfrup sign at a bevy d anxious aides gathered in his New York City hotel room last July 15 as he heard Jbmuy Carter asking Mm on the telerunphone to be his mate 'w ning old Minnesota Demo-crFor the who has led one of the most charmed lives in contemporary American politics it was a gesture sleep But I soon was awakened by a tele--: phone call from an East Coast friend who asked: : ‘What about Dole? What do they think about him in Kansas?' My mind dulled by repetitive rhe- -' toric shook itself awake and I realized' Since his first involvement in politics for the first time that Senator Bob Dde as one of HUbert Humphrey’s college-studemight become our next President if allies in the late 19408 the the law of averages has not been ' strait-lace-d son of a poor country' repealed' ' : President Dolet Somehow the ques-tio- n preacher has displayed an uncanny knack for being the right person in the didn’t trade AsA "A-'How was I to answer my friend? r&it place at the right time Mondale was a struggling young After all for more than 20 years our less than fouryears out of law newspapers had for die most part" opposed Dde every time he ran for school fai 1960 when office Sometimes damning him Some- - Orville Freeman ignortag the warning ' times damning him with faint praise— of party leaders that Mandate was too a more subtle attack young and inexperienced appointed him Attorney General of Minnesota Why did we oppose him? On phllo- Four years later when Senator sophical grounds mostly To us he represented die school of thought Humphrey was elected Vice President which teaches that the Puritan ethic is Karl Rohraag resisted the ultimate answer to the fate of die the temptation to appoint himself and d nation It seemed that he blithely gave the Senate Job to Mondate Now the fact that as the nation grew with Cartel's decision that Mondale the heart of the Puritan ethic— equal would provide the best balance for the opportunityr-vanish- ed 1976 Democratic Presidential ticket he With that basic disagreement estab- has been placed once again by apHshedit was no chare to fault Dole on pointment on the road history shows is other counts He gave the impression the surest path to the White House that to question the integrity of the Given Ids friendship with Lady Luck President was at best unpatriotic deand his meteoric growth curve the odds are good that Mondate someday spite growing evidence that there was little integrity left That those who op ' Drill succeed where a long Une of fellow : posed the war in Vietnam were ComPresidential aspirants from Minnesota munists or traitors or both That inducting Humphrey Eugene McCarthy laws meant and Harold Stassen have failed opposing one was the tod of the Unions (color If that should hqppot the American them pink) but there was no thought people may be in for some surprises given to the opposite proposition-h-at from a man whose image Is that of a to support such laws made one the tod Demodevout believer in of Big Business cratic liberalism j In sum we opposed him for all the During his almost 12 years in the reasons that moderates oppose the Senate Mondate has become one of fte ultraconservative foremost Congressional advocates of This was reasonable in weighing a ‘ social reform and defenders of the discandidate for legislative office But “pragpnatic advantaged A : what of the executive? Isn’t that a dif-liberal” who says he believes in Ire- Continued o pas 8 well-earn- ed Vice-Presidenti-al at 4&-ye- ar r j nt Vv 4 :'l then-Govem- or SKRUDLANDRHOXO gBRONlittlNQIS' 6003-- f then-Govem- or ’5 ? efisre-garde- Good KouMkMping bmubs ) Wr - - n ia We use Kodak paper Here is my cartridge of Bhn I am enduring llJSrrim this film Rirfit-to-Wo-rk an SKNJMAND PHOTO WM I am endoring S2M I ondeiatand failurea will be credited ' self-styl- ed |