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Lirfu Mi. ctw- swt, jty i. if7i INDEPENDENT PRESS-TELEOjAftHM i aSi zZ V'V Or secretly of state Mceorge Bundy would make and he told me' there. Were, some fine young Californians he wanted to bring on the White House staff. v.i-.A, r-In general, all you have to do is tell the truth and youre on, but you can qualify if you are against the bombing of Cambodia or keep talking about the Water- And of course, if you say any-.

ekolseitr Question: Mr. Reston, do you iwear to tell the the whole and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Answer: I do. Q. You are charged in the Watgrgstghearings with Senate Q. Whats the point of a list like this? i A.

It gets around this government and everybody knows tyat being ah enemy of the White Housed Do you have anything to say about that? A. It's an offensive but it could be worse. Considering whats been going on there, I could have been accused of a Q. Have you ever been accused of being a friend of the House? A. Never, its 'our job to watch them, not to be friends with long time then? A.

Yes sir, charter member. I got on it 20 yean ago for. suggesting we should negotiate with the Russians and the Chinese. Q. Why does the' President have se many enemies? A.

All presidents acquire enemies in the heat of politics, but Nixon has a special gift for making enemies. He works harder at it than anybody else, I guess. Q. What do you have to do to-get on his list? VU 1119 Hoi i talking to anybody on the list would ngtbe very helpful to a mans ca- Q. Whats likely to happen to the Top Twenty enemies of the WhiteHouse? A.

I understand. theyre going to organizes society of benevolent criminals and have a big Mow-out-once Watergate. UllvC A Cell At MIC a year at the afW5W8CQ.How'.you? charge of being an White House? A. Innocents Q. Do you deny that you have written articles critical of Presi-dent Nixon? books I A how many gallons is to tho nest gas station?" --1- articles have sometimes embar-rassedihePresidentandeven given comfort to his enemies? Janes Restmm NBWYMK TINES NBVI SERVICE A.

No sir. iat you nave Deen an enemy of the White House? A. No sir Good houses often have bad tenants. Q. What did you think of the White House list of its enemies? A- Very unfair, Q.

To the people on the blacklist? 'A. to. the people who were left off. Its, really outrageous that people like Father Hesberg of Notre Dame and many others who have tried for years to tell the truth about these political twisters shouldnt be properly recognized. Q.

I must warn you that anything you say under oath here may be used against you. A. Thats an improvement. -For. years been, using 1 1 didnt say against me.

Have you ever been' ha- President last? A. During the Oregon primary election of 1968. Q. What did you discuss? A. Nixon told me he was to win the primary and the election.

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EVEN SO, I was also amazed in reading, the master, list, the smaller Dean list, and a priority, list of enemies prepared by Charles Colson, another Nixon to dir cover how ludicrous' all this listing was. Not that most of the people cm s' Todays BIG-MEN AND BUSINESS. By Ben Finney. Univ. Press of Hawaii, $10.

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down the. names of to 'movie' stars, reporters, business- Q. When did you talk to the ences might become, political opponents could maintain a civil relationship and be mutually respectful at least of the rights and integrity of the other. In his last years in office, for example, President Johnson would' -have had' every-reason--' if he thought about it at all to be tom Wicker sy I in Vietnam. But it never occurred to me then that I or anyone would be placed by him oh a list of enemies to screw through tax investigation or other abuses of governmental power.

Nor do I believe the Johnson administration did any such thing; the Nixon administrations determination to get, or screw political opponents, even potential opponents, by any1 means illegal or otherwise, seems to me far beyond 'reasonable vie of the nature1 of Vi Could you toll me I have had a mixed reaction to being: named on a long master list of enemies of Richard Nixon and his administration, and on another, list of less than 20 particular enemies that John Dean for warded on Sept 14, 1971, to an aide' of 'My first' emotion, was1' plain ably too much so in any case to identify file President with the na tion, hence with its people, I know of the nal am not an enemy of the nation or of the people, and I resent any such suggestion. i BUT I ALSO felt a flash of fear. I have relatives, children, who could 'be hurt; libs anyone else, I -have human flaws that clever investigators. might. exploit, and a reasonably good name of which I am jealous.

But "natural indignation and ignoble fear quickly faded in a kind of puzzlement I would never have expected the Nixon administration to list me as a friend, nor do I want any administration to do-so. But I had. always thought that political -conflict was in the nature" erf. agreeing to disagree that no matter bow bitter and vigorously expressed their political differ- It is apparent the Watergate scandal has changed a lot of peoples ideas on how to finance presi- dential and congressional cam-. patgnsAs testimony concerning howc for'im; funds had been used pUiposes was dis- 'closed tallup poll was token and ambunt of money for the election i campaigns of kandidates for the presidency and Congress' and that' all private contributions from other sources be prohibited.

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They are sad. They are sad because they show that even great power could not make of Nixon and his aides anything but small and fearful men. They are sad because they disclose a great nation being led by men unworthy of her and her history. They are sad because 1 they represent so graphically, for so many people, the last crumbling -of illusion the final evidence that there is. nothing-magical or enno--Ming about the presidency, nothing about American power that makes it less corrupting than any other brand of power.

BUT-IF THE enemy lists are sad for those reasons, like jo many aspects of the Watergate revelations, they are too. Disillusionment is to know things as they, are is tatter secunty plan anfiie EUsberg break-in suggested that the Watergate burglary itself was only the tip of the knife, American democracy has been retrieved in the nick of time from the pitawstatoit jo MarlyjMcamg. That'is My," once indignation and had the temptation who' not the and the difference in their names may indicate a change in our society, for good brill. SAFETY PROVISIONS such as air bags in cars sound wonderful, if the driver can resist the temptation to-hit something to isee if they work. THE LAW of supply and de supply and ihard to xpe while at the same mind is sometimes hard to under-, Farmers expect a-record bumper crop, wives to do the housework.

SHOTGUN SCHULTZS brother-in-law admits he is a loafer, but points otot he is a dedicated loafer. thiefo a gm idea a poor idealtLteijroHBrge a eom Under the British system candidates for Parliament are given several thousand dollars for their campaign. They are not permitted to spend more. There have been very few election scandals in Brit- ain. This is largely due to the fact that members of Parliament do not hare to raise campaign funds from private sources.

Tneir prime minis- uCUalOr OOUCr ter is chosen by Parliament so no campaign, funds are involved as they are in a presidential election. fear passed, to laugh had been overcome, and puzzlement had turned to sadness, I knew I belonged on. those lists. Of such people as those compiled them, and the man they served so zealously, who would be an SECRETARIAT may be greatest horse since Man OWar The replies were 58 per ceAt a good idea, 29 per cent a poor idea KT aavUk VIA MMuSaiI 'and lyper cent with no opinion. of those with an opinion 69 per cent were in favor of the idea.

A larger percentage of Democrats and independents favored the idea than did the Republicans. But a mi ajority of those with an opinion in ten party favored the idea. It ton eaci Mg switch in puMic opinion from previous polls on the idea when it was opposed by latge majorities of al? three parties. The change is at-'tributed to the disgust' expressed over the Watergate disclosures. THE ILLICIT programs'' brought to light and the millions of dollars in these programs has opened the eyes of many, who have ignored them, in the past It to realized that, most political cam-' paigns and parties have been guilty of illegal use of funds collected in the millions each two years for congressional candidates and in hundred or more millions when presidential 'and congressional' campaigns are in the same year.

The June' Gallup poll token at a highly emotional period indicated the apathy of the people -at other This was. demonstrated in the previous months, of this year when income tax payers were given the opportunity of specifying Cekmaists the apinloa pages are. ehesea to represent Averse viewpoints and do net necdsserihr reflect the editorial position of tl position efthts newspaper. WE LIKE OUR -system better with power and authority -being divided between the President, Congress and Supreme Court But we are endangering that system by the massive fund-raising by often irresponsible party leaders and the use-of these funds for improper poses. It applies to both major' parties.

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