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18 Section 1 Chicago Tribune, Sunday, October 7, 1984 Natfonworld eagari borrowing glow of past Democratic heroes '84 Reagan told a crowd of comparable size Dut bathed in sunlight on Sept. 19, "and even though it was the fall, it seemed like springtime, those days. "I see our country today," Reagan said, "and I think it is springtime for America once again so many new beginnings. And I think John Kennedy would be Mass. recently broke a longstanding reluctance to talk about his slain brother, telling a Boston radio station last week, "One of the things that has bothered me the most in the last few days is that President Reagan quotes President Kennedy.

"I wish that he would follow President Kennedy's lead on civil rights, arms control, the environment ana the many different issues that affect the quality of life and the hope for the future. A week after the Waterbury rally, Kennedy asked: "Why doesn't he quote Richard Nixon? After all, he was a leader of 'Democrats for Nixon' in 1960." Roger Stone, Reagan's campaign director for the Eastern region, argues that "the President has a very strong appeal to a number of traditional Democrats. If you were a Kennedy Democrat in 1960, you'd have to be for Ronald Reagan today." Wrong, reply Sorensen and Clif ford. "It's because I was a Kennedy Democrat in 1960 that I am strongly" opposed to Ronald Reagan today, Sorensen said, noting that Kennedy "cut from the defense budget the same kind of extreme weapons and redundant systems that Ronald Reagan has added to the defense budget." Clifford also argued that "on major policy questions, Mr. Reagan and President Truman were as far apart as the poles.

since. ON WATERBURY'S old town green, where an exhausted John Kennedy addressed 30,000 people at 3 a.m. in I960, Reagan pointed to the balcony where candidate Kennedy spoke as rain fell two days before his election. "The night was bright with lights" welcoming Kennedy, aroud of you and the things you pr be! lieve in. "Only in 1984 could onyone who was part of 'Democrats for Nixon' in 1960 go around parading himself as the new JFK." Sen.

Edward Kennedy By Storer Rowley Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON Wherever Ronald Reagan's affinity for the legacy of John Kennedy started, perhaps its most emotional expression was his appeal to the Irish Sarliament in Dublin to remember FK's promise to return to that Emerald Isle "in the springtime." "It was a promise left unkept for a spring that never came," Reagan said, his voice cracking in the still chamber. "But surely in our hearts there is the memory of a young leader who spoke stirring words ahnilt hriohtoi acta far manlrinH SEN. EDWARD Kennedy 220 AD wO i v. mv aw, iiiuiiniiiu, about a new generation that would hold high the torch of liberty and "This is the task before us," Reagan concluded in his June speech to a joint session of the Dail, Ireland's parliament. It was the second speech ever by an American president before that body.

President Kennedy made the first one 21 years ago. REAGAN HAS MADE a campaign habit of invoking the memories of this century big-name Democratic presidents Kennedy, Harry Truman and Franklin Rooseveltin an effort to woo Democratic voters a'way from rival Walter Mondale in the November election. He also has honored onetime presidential hopefuls Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson in recent white House ceremonies. This week Reagan will re-enact Truman's 1948 campaign whistle-stop tour of Ohio on the same railroad car, the famed Ferdinand Magellan. Mrs.

Reagan will host a White House luncheon in observance of Eleanor Roosevelt's birth centennial. A White House spokesman, asked Friday whether Truman and Mrs. Roosevelt would be spinning in their graves if they knew, said, "No, 1 think they'd be pleased." Lost in this carefully crafted cozyine up to bygone Democrats are references to recent Republican presidents such as Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon or Dwight Eisenhower. White House officials insist publicly that Reagan's deliberate identification with Democrats is sincere, legitimate and gaining him support among independents and centrist Democrats. BUT REAGAN'S recent cam- fiaign tactic has drawn considerable ire from Mondale and Mondale running mate Geraldine Ferraro, and it has outraged others, who charge that it is at least disingenuous and at most hypocritical.

"I'm insulted by it. It's clearly fraudulent and insincere," said Theodore Sorensen, special counsel to Kennedy and a Kennedy historian. "In part, I have a sense of pity for a man who reads what his speech writers prepare for him without paying the slightest bit of attention about whether it's consistent with Country French xiJi, xSps' Colonial Shell Vx. Lilv English Crown Yy Vy VL -itr Dresden Rose iIIWIMWI1 "I'm his past statements and views. Sorensen, a senior partner in a New York law firm, said, "It's clear that his Reagan's whole philosophy today is inconsistent with what Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy stood for.

"He has turned his back on the little people in this country who were truly championed by Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, and it is the height of hypocrisy for him to make such statements," Sorensen said. "The other reaction I have when I hear these statements is it truly is George Orwell's CLARK CLIFFORD, special counsel to Truman who later prepared a transition report for Kennedy, said Reagan and Truman "were 180 degrees apart in their attitude towardthe responsibilities" of the presidency. Clifford, a senior partner in a Washington law firm, said Reagan was diametrically opposed to Kennedy, Truman and Roosevelt on a range of issues from civil rights and foreign policy to protection of the poor. However, Clifford said in an interview, "I do not have any proof that the American people do accept him (Reagan in the same light in which they respect Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy. Nobody has proved that to me.

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