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CRISIS IN CONFIDENCE SAM ERVIN Personally, wish Watergate had never happened. You can not found a sensi- ble government on suppressing the truth. The university students understand what is involved here in the Water- gate crisis better than some White House Aides. COMING OF AGE IN A POLITICAL BROTHEL By Kevin W. McCartan This is an exerpt from Mr. McCartan's term paper written for the Crisis in Confidence Course Richard Nixon won the presidency on his famed law and order and secret plan to end the war planks. People be- lieved or at least hoped in him. Hope meant we still felt and that was encouraging. And Richard Nixon was elevated by our feeling of ambivalent despair-hope, hope-despair. His first four years in office were controversial, but nothing truly out of character for him. He unleashed his vice-president to attack the press, an old nemisis; he commenced with his Vietnamization plan and when no one was looking, intro- duced American tropps into Cambodia only recently was it disclosed that American pilots did a bit of Cambodian land- scaping when the Defense department was categorically denying it; he annointed the silent majority as his working mandate and unpredictably or perhaps predictably he vis- ited China and Russia. His summoning'' of allied leaders to a series of summit conferences was a masterful ploy, for now he was running for re-election. And the war continued. And the crisis in confidence was no longer an amorphous specter. A plumbers' unit too, began its inroads on privacy 14
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MR. GARRY WILLS There is one Nixon only, though there seem to be new ones all the time - he will try to be what people want. and decency. Now we have a visible, audible and tangi- ble crisis. What is suggested by this all too brief history of some past crises and semi-crises is a gradual erosion of public confidence. Somewhere deep within the infrastructure of our society, talent, below the threshold of our con- sciousness, we knew that extra-legal and despicable ac- tivities occurred in our pristine institutions. Even in the highest office of the land. Watergate was the catalyst, the last straw of tolerance and acquiesence. We cannot pre- tend to be innocent children under the auspices of a paternalistic and pure government anymore. SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN . If the system is screwed up it is your fault, not just mine. The crisis in confidence is topped off by Watergate and its subsequent inoperatives. The floodgates of ad- versity were opened; the Rubicon had been crossed. Now, the magic of the oval office and the forcefulness of the man in it are diminished; the hierarchy of command is virtually shattered and the confusion in the administra- tion is beyond our political comprehension. The Presi- dent's culpability in the Watergate affair is suspect and, yes, his silent majority is transposed into a restless minority.
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