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The President's Daily News Summary

Leading The News...

FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1976

NEWS

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| **Economy** | | |
| Greenspan: Admin. Will Keep Orig. Forecasts | AP,UPI,Nets | N-1,2 |
| GM to Raise Prices | AP,UPI,NBC,CBS | N-2 |
| **Administration** | | |
| Ford Nominates S.Temple Black Protocol Of. | AP,UPI,ABC,NBC | N-3 |
| **Foreign Policy** | | |
| Ford Meets with Sudan President | AP,UPI | N-3 |
| Moynihan Says U.S. Strength Depends on Jobs | CBS | N-3,4 |
| **Intelligence** | | |
| Rocky Warns of Russian Eavesdropping | NBC | N-4 |
| **Election** | | |
| Money Tight at Ford Campaign | NBC,CBS | N-4,5 |
| Ford, Reagan to Appear at Missouri Conven. | ABC,NBC | N-5 |
| Moynihan Announces for Senate | AP,UPI,Nets | N-6 |
| Carter Receives More Endorsements | AP,UPI,Nets | N-6 |
| **Congress** | | |
| Wayne Hays Hospitalized | AP,UPI | N-7 |
| Rhodes Attacks Albert on Hays Case | AP,UPI | N-7 |
| **United States** | | |
| Majority Ambivalent on Welfare | Chicago Tribune | N-8 |
| **International** | | |
| Pro-West Vietnamese to Be Tried | UPI,CBS | N-8 |

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COMMENT

Election

Primaries Leave GOP in Tight Race
GOPs Suffering Postprimary Aggression
Carter Versus Who?
Primaries Gone, One Decision Lingers
A Cheer for the Primaries
Losers and Winners
One Election Coming Up!
The Not-So-Silly-Season
The Final Stretch
Ford Team Claims 'It's All Over'
Reagan's 'Nice Guy' Image
No. 2 Spot Remains Second Rate

Foreign Policy

How Reagan Stands on Rhodesia
Kissinger's Call for Rights
Kissinger at the OAS
More One Way Detente?
Economic Summit
Rambouillet II

Energy

Energy's Mixed Bag

Congress

'Full Employment' Issue

Television Commentary

Low Key Issues Help Carter

PERSPECTIVE: Foreign Policy

Media Hopes Summit Will Produce Real
Economic Benefits

W.S. Journal C-1,2
N.Y. Daily News C-2
Baltimore Sun C-4
Phila. Inquirer C-4,5
C.S. Monitor C-5
C.S. Monitor C-5,6
L.A. Times C-6
W.S. Journal C-6,7
Chicago Tribune C-7,8
C.S. Monitor C-8
Arkansas Gazette C-9
Baltimore Sun C-10

Arkansas Gazette C-11
C.S. Monitor C-12
Baltimore Sun C-12,13
Chicago Tribune C-13
Atlanta Journal C-14
N.O. Times-Picayune C-14,15

Atlanta Journal C-15
Memphis Com. Appeal C-19,20
Howard K. Smith, ABC C-20

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Economy: News

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NEWS

Greenspan: Admin. Will Keep Original Economic Forecast

Alan Greenspan said Thursday that a mid-year review has prompted the Administration to stick with its original forecast for 1976, including that of continued high unemployment, despite the nation's "sustained and durable" recovery from recession.

Greenspan, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, said that the nation should not expect the large gains in economic output of the last nine months to continue at such a high level. And despite substantial improvements in recent weeks he said the Administration still believes the jobless rate may be 7 percent or more at the end of the year.

"As of mid-year, there did not appear to be compelling reasons to make major changes in the overall outlook for 1976," Greenspan told the Joint Economic Committee.

However, Greenspan said the rate of inflation probably would be slightly higher than the 5.9 percent increase forecast by the Council last January.

Greenspan said (on ABC/NBC film): "The recovery is progressing at a better than expected pace. Both unemployment and inflation are still too high. Investment, measured by probable future needs is probably still too low. But progress is very clearly being made and this progress is very likely to continue."

Greenspan added (on NBC film): "We must be doubly certain that the fiscal and monetary policies followed in the period ahead avoid underrisks of setting off another round of inflation in the future.

Dan Ceichtz said, "What Greenspan's prediction means is that the Administration does not expect the recovery to be as strong in the last half of the year and is worried about demands from Congress for more government spending to stimulate the economy. If the federal budget deficit is allowed to rise, Greenspan warns, we can't count on lower inflation. In fact, we can't count on avoiding another serious recession."

Economists analyzing statistics at the Council on Wage and Price Stability find there is the danger of a higher inflation rate next year, Irving R. Levine (NBC) reported.

Council Director William Lilley said (on NBC film): "From six to ten percent. So it's quite a staggering rate. From a level that we are predicting now for this year, some people project that as continuing in 1977. Other people project us as going to double-digit inflation."

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Levine said, "A just completed council report shows that prices of auto crash replacement parts have been going up at a 10 percent annual rate this year, pushing up auto insurance costs by 55 percent. Medical costs are another symptom of worse inflation, climbing at a 14 percent rate this year. A six percent increase in many steel prices this month is expected to be followed by increases in other key industries -- chemical, cement, glass and paper.

"The auto industry will be particularly affected by higher steel prices. Also auto worker negotiations next month for a higher wage raise could drive up prices further. Higher prices for foreign oil expected in 1977 would contribute to a new inflationary spiral," Levine said.

"Inflationary dangers have traditionally been confronted at the White House by jawboning, but President Ford and his economic advisors reject trying to talk corporations out of price increases," Levine reported. Instead, Lilley said, the White House is "backboning," giving consumers the information needed to refuse to buy goods when prices were raised without justification.

"But backboning hasn't worked very well because people needed many of the products regardless of price," Levine said. "Now White House economists acknowledge that backboning won't prevent the new round of higher inflation that threatens for 1977, and what's worse, they're not sure what will." AP,UPI,Nets -- (6/10)

## GM to Raise Prices

General Motors Corporation, the nation's largest automaker, is hinting new car prices may go up this fall as much as six percent, or roughly $350 for a car with average equipment.

But several financial analysts are betting the actual price boosts on 1977 models, which the industry will announce late this summer, will be more modest -- about four percent, or $250 per car. AP,UPI,NBC,CBS -- (6/10/76)

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# Ford Nominates Shirley Temple Black to Protocol Officer

President Ford said Thursday he is nominating Shirley Temple Black to be the nation's first woman to serve as Chief of Protocol.

Upon confirmation by the Senate, Mrs. Black would succeed Henry Catto, who is being nominated to represent the U.S. at the European office of the United Nations in Geneva.

Both Mrs. Black and Catto would hold the rank of Ambassador.

Catto has been Chief of Protocol since April 1974. Mrs. Black has been Ambassador to Ghana since September of that year. AP,UPI,ABC,NBC -- (6/10/76)

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### Ford Meets with Sudan President

President Ford conferred for 40 minutes Thursday with President Jaafar Numeiry and afterwards said the Sudanese leader is a constructive force for peace and stability in both the Arab and African worlds.

The White House said that, during the meeting, Ford thanked Numeiry for the successful efforts of the Sudanese government in helping to secure the release of five American citizens kidnapped in Eritrea.

It was the first meeting between Ford and the Sudanese President, who is on a private visit to the United States. He plans to visit eight states over a 20-day period. AP,UPI -- (6/10)

### Moynihan Says U.S. Strength Dependent on Jobs

Former UN Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan Thursday said that the most important issue in the national elections is employment.

"What the American labor movement has been saying for 25 years is true. You've got to keep America at work," Moynihan said.

In an interview on CBS Morning News the former Ambassador asserted that the position and influence of the U.S. in international affairs was directly dependent on economic strength at home. "If we are not a strong economy at home, we are not going to have the role in the world we have got to have," he said. "America is slipping into a secondary role in the world. If we don't think it, there are people in the rest of the world who do think it."

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Moynihan further said that the United States stood for
liberty and that this country must remain the leader of the
coalition of world democracies. CBS Morning News -- (6/10/76)

Intelligence: News

Rockefeller Warns of Russian Eavesdropping

Vice President Rockefeller warned Wednesday that the
Russians are listening to U.S. phone calls, and said President
Ford is taking steps to protect federal employes from Russian
eavesdropping.

"If you don't want it known, don't use the phone,"
Rockefeller said (on NBC film).

Sources say the Soviet intelligence agency is using space
satellites to listen in on phone calls by monitoring microwave
antennas, Ford Rowan (NBC) reported. A Senate intelligence study
released earlier this week reported that it is very easy to monitor
phone calls.

"That's why Russian eavesdropping on government phone calls
has the White House so worried," Rowan said. "And that's why the
National Security Council is considering a highly secret plan to
increase the number of scramble phones in government offices...
One problem with the proposal is that it would route all such
government calls through a central coding facility. Sources
say that would permit the National Security Agency, which is
in charge of codes, to listen in on all the calls of federal
employes." NBC -- (6/10/76)

Election: News

Money Tight at Ford Campaign

The Ford campaign estimates that it can spend less than
$2 million between now and the GOP convention in August, John
Cochran (NBC) reported Thursday.

"To save money, Ford campaign officials have already fired
54 workers in Washington, and another 30 will be gone by the end
of the next week," Cochran said. "The belt-tightening includes
keeping a close watch on expenses for the President's campaign
travels to convention states, which starts tomorrow in Missouri.

"But Ford aides are equally concerned about a less-publicized
meeting in North Carolina this weekend of Southern Republican
chairmen. Ford aides are worried that some uncommitted delegates

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may decide that Reagan is the party's only hope to prevent a
disaster in the South now that Jimmy Carter is virtually certain
to get the Democratic nomination. And the President's men are
also worried that some Ford delegates may switch to Reagan if
there is a second ballot in Kansas City."

The CBS News delegate poll now shows President Ford with 869 delegates, 20 more than Ronald Reagan. Dan Rather (CBS) called the figures "motivation enough for the Ford campaign to go after those 267 delegates whose political wishes are as yet undetermined."

Ford delegate coordinator James Baker says he is finding
various degrees of uncommitted delegates, Phil Jones (CBS)
reported. Baker said (on CBS film): "I think that a lot of
them are uncommitted. Some of them, of course, are waiting.
They want to go with a winner. Others are leaning one way or
another, and they're really not true-blue uncommitted."

"Ford committee workers are also calling delegates already considered in the President's camp," Jones reported. "The excuse for the calling is to update biographical files, but it also provides a subtle vehicle to keep in touch and make sure the Ford support doesn't soften.

"Besides working on the uncommitted delegates and travelling to some of the convention and caucus states, Mr. Ford is telephoning delegates. As one of his campaign advisors put it today: 'There aren't five Republicans in the country who wouldn't sweat a little if their telephone rang, and the operator said, 'The President of the United States is calling you.'"" NBC, CBS -- (6/10/76)

Ford, Reagan to Appear at Missouri Convention

President Ford will travel to Missouri for the state's
convention. Ronald Reagan will also be at the convention, but
will not meet with President Ford, ABC reported.

The President will deliver an address Friday night and will
meet with delegates during the day.

Reagan will meet with groups of delegates Friday night. ABC, NBC
-- (6/10/76)

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## Moynihan Announces for Senate

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, announced Thursday that he will seek the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate.

He said he decided to make the race "at the urging of friends in the party and in the labor movement of New York State."

Five other Democrats already are in the race to become the challenger to the Senate incumbent, Republican-conservative James Buckley.

Moynihan said that working for Republican Administrations will not hinder his performance as a Democrat.

Moynihan said (on ABC film): "I've served in the cabinet or sub-cabinet of President Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford. I have been a Democrat throughout that time. I have never supported any political way, a Republican although I have done what others before me have done and will do in the future if this country is to be what it has been which is to say when a President has urged me to come to work for him I have done so. Him, or speaking of the future, her. AP,UPI,Nets -- (6/10/76)

## Carter Receives More Endorsements

Jimmy Carter Thursday collected more endorsements from Democratic leaders.

-- Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp, who won 19 delegates during his presidential bid, released them and endorsed Carter.

-- Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) released the 31 West Virginia delegates committed to him. The delegates would be free to back Carter but Byrd did not make an official endorsement.

-- Kentucky Sens. Wendell Ford and Walter Huddleston endorsed Carter as did Mississippi Sens. James Eastland and John Stennis.

-- Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, whose support in the Penn. primary Carter said he was proud not to have, endorsed him.

-- District of Columbia Mayor Walter Washington, whose slate lost to Carter's in the D.C. primary, endorsed Carter.

-- The National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association endorsed Carter after receiving a letter from him containing pledges to work for four specific aspects of a "maritime program which will return us to the seapower status we deserve and need."

-- Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.) released his delegates Thursday.

Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, however, released 16 delegates to Gov. Brown. AP,UPI,Nets -- (6/10/76)

Congress: News

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Wayne Hays Hospitalized

Rep. Wayne Hays (D-Ohio) was hospitalized in a coma
Thursday morning from an apparent overdose of tranquilizers.

In mid-evening, his doctor said 65-year-old Hays was still
unconscious and in guarded condition.

"He has been in an extremely weakened condition the past three days due to lack of food intake," Dr. Richard Phillips said. "He remins in a coma, but his vital signs remain stable. His condition is considered guarded at the present time."

Hays' press secretary in Washington, Carol Clawson, said
it was unclear whether Hays took an overdose of the tranquilizer,
called Dalmane, by accident or intention.

There was no suicide note, she said. AP,UPI -- (6/10/76)

House Minority Leader John Rhodes Thursday attacked Speaker Carl Albert's handling of the payroll scandal involving Rep. Wayne Hays and called for a sweeping investigation of all House payrolls by a bipartisan committee.

"This recent scandal has proven to be a black eye on the
entire House that can only be healed by a complete, thorough
and more important, bipartisan investigation," Rhodes said.

Rhodes criticized Albert's selection of three Democrats
and now Republicans to study House payroll and staffing procedures.
He said he would try to get through a resolution creating a 10-
member select committee, evenly divided by party affiliation to
audit payroll and expense account vouchers and to make sure every-
one actually was assigned duties. AP,UPI -- (6/10/76)

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United States: News

# Majority Ambivalent on Welfare
(By Louis Harris, excerpted, Chicago Tribune)

Eighty percent of the American people feel the problem of welfare is "very serious," and large numbers are critical of the way the system now works, a recent Harris Survey of 1,512 adults indicates.

But, most are against either handing welfare back to the states or having it taken over entirely by the federal government. Instead, they opt for continuing to have the costs shared by both.

Fundamentally, the nationwide survey results show, people are ambivalent about welfare. They have compassion for the less privileged, but they are deeply disturbed by the operation of the public aid system. -- (6/10/76)

International: News

## Pro-West Vietnamese to Be Tried

South Vietnam said Thursday it will bring to trial some of the 40,000 Vietnamese, now held in re-education camps, who fought against the Communists during the Vietnam war.

Hanoi radio said punishment would be handed out to those who stubbornly refuse to re-educate themselves and those who have actively served the U.S. imperialists owing blood debts to the people.

The broadcast, monitored in Bangkok, was the first time since the end of the war that any official Communist statement had spoken of punishment for pro-American Vietnamese. UPI, CBS -- (6/10/76)

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COMMENT

Primaries Leave GOP in a Tight Race
And Hurt Party's Chances in November

(By Dennis Farney, excerpted, Wall St. Journal)

About all the Republican primaries accomplished was to hurt Republican chances to retain the White House next fall.

President Ford and Ronald Reagan, still locked in an extremely tight race, have staggered out of the primary season looking like two over-the-hill prizefighters. Each has battered the other nearly senseless while bungling opportunities to land a knockout blow. Now, while the Democrats unite around Jimmy Carter, the Republicans face an increasingly bitter struggle.

The Wall Street Journal's calculations indicate that Mr. Ford probably has within his grasp at least 1,110 delegates, or only 20 fewer than needed to win -- including those he already has and those he seems likely to win in the coming weeks. These calculations reflect pessimistic projections, from Mr. Ford's point of view, in each of the states where delegates remain to be chosen or remain uncommitted. Mr. Ford's aides believe the President, by wielding the power of the incumbency, can pick up the rest of the delegates he needs to squeak out a victory.

Still, the erratic Ford campaign has blown leads before. It had Mr. Reagan on the canvas early in the race, but let him up again in North Carolina. And in calculation and strategy the Reagan campaign hasn't proved any better. So, calculations notwithstanding, the nomination ultimately may go to the man who avoids making the last mistake.

It appears that Reagan strategists erred badly when they decided to all but write off such big states as New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ohio to Mr. Ford. New York and Pennsylvania account for more than 200 of the President's delegates and as it developed, Mr. Reagan was stronger in Ohio than he thought he was.

But Mr. Reagan did wallop the President in California. And he holds some high cards in the coming state convention battles with the President. His delegates are everywhere more firmly committed to him than Mr. Ford's are to Mr. Ford. The Reagan people have out-organized the Ford forces in some states and hold iron-clad majorities in others.

In Washington State, whose June 18-19 convention awards 38 delegates, the President can count on only six or so. Mr. Ford is backed by the chiefs -- GOP Gov. Dan Evans and other state party officials -- but Mr. Reagan has the Indians, controlling some 60% of the delegates to the state convention. As a result, Reaganites may even deny Gov. Evans a seat on his own delegation.

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Mr. Reagan also holds commanding leads in the convention states of Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. The President, meanwhile, is counting on majorities in Connecticut, Delaware and Minnesota.

Reagan loyalists are believed to enjoy a slight edge as Missouri convention maneuvering begins, but top state GOP officials backing Mr. Ford, are making strenuous efforts to overcome. -- (6/10/76)

## GOPs Are Suffering Postprimary Aggression

(By Jerome Cahill, excerpted, N.Y. Daily News)

The long primary season is over, and the Democratic Party, which has a tradition of epic family fights, has come through in far better shape for the November election than the Republican Party is in. Democrats managed to avoid an irreparable party split as they battled through 30 primaries. One cannot say the same thing with any degree of confidence of the Republicans, and the price could be costly in the fall, whether the GOP nominee is President Ford or Ronald Reagan.

Historians of the 1976 campaign may conclude that the turning point in the Republicans' already slim prospects came when Reagan gave a hypothetical answer to a hypothetical question on the possibility of a U.S. peace-keeping role in Rhodesia. The Ford campaign jumped on Reagan's rather mild comments -- they were so tentative and speculative that five out of six national reporters covering Reagan didn't bother to file stories on them. Not since 1964 had one leading Republican dealt with another campaign rival so harshly and with so little justification.

The Reagan campaign is likely to couple its drive for uncommitted delegates between now and convention time with a spirited effort at Kansas City to write into the party's platform hard-right conservative positions designed to embarrass Ford if he is the nominee.

It's a plausible strategy because the platform committee, which is composed of two delegates from each state, is likely to be considerably more conservative than the run-of-the-mill delegates who will occupy the convention floor. -- (6/10/76)

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Carter Versus Who?
(Editorial, excerpted, Baltimore Sun)

With the advantages of incumbency and a 100-vote edge in the current delegate count, President Ford remains the favorite. But many of the convention states are in the northern plains and mountain states where the former California governor has exhibited considerable strength.

The near-coronation of Governor Carter and the head-to-head Republican struggle at the close of the long primary season reflect mixed results from our system of selecting presidential nominees. On the Democratic side, the primaries produced a nominee who emerged from virtual obscurity to trample a pack of better-known presidential hopefuls.

Does that mean the indecisive Republican primaries have been a failure? Does it mean the state conventions should not have so pivotal a role? Not by a long shot, in our view. Just as the Democratic primaries accurately reflected a consensus for Mr. Carter, so the Republican primaries accurately revealed a fairly even division of opinion in the GOP. This worries Republicans who are concerned that the bitter cut and thrust between Mr. Ford and Mr. Reagan will be to the advantage of the Democrats.

Mr. Ford's job now is to prove to state conventions and uncommitted delegates that Mr. Reagan would be a disaster as a candidate and a President. In the more direct forum of the state conventions, the President must get over the idea that only he, as a mainstream Republican, has a chance to beat the very formidable Georgian the Democrats have all but nominated. -- (6/10/76)

The Primaries Are Gone, But One Decision Lingers
(Editorial, excerpted, Philadelphia Inquirer)

The Republican Party has emerged with not one but a distinct pair of problems. One, obviously enough, is that with their convention not beginning until August 16, the leaders of the Republican Party are left with a serious contest for their presidential nomination while the Democrats are increasingly free to consolidate their labors on the general-election campaign.

The other major problem is in the nature of the contest -- or rather the natures of the contestants. Gerald Ford is not only an incumbent President, he also is closer to the party's middle ground, in terms of both ideology and policies, than Ronald Reagan. And it is from that middle ground that American presidents classically emerge.

For the Republican Party to nominate Mr. Reagan over Mr. Ford would be to reach to the right, to hand the party's national standard to its extreme splinter. If the lessons of 1964 and 1972 are not

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taken to heart by the Republican Party, it is more than likely
that 1976 will be a bitterly disappointing repetition of those
experiences. That would not only deprive the American voter of
a clear but reasonable choice; it would strike a deeply wounding
blow to the future of the Republican Party itself. -- (6/10/76)

A Cheer for the Primaries
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(Editorial, excerpted, Christian Science Monitor)

One cannot extract much cheer from the division within
Republican ranks. It is in fact harmful to the overall two-party
political process. For if ever there is a need for a revitaliza-
toin of the languishing Republican Party, for a new sense of pur-
pose and cohesion, it is now, after the travail of the Watergate
years.

That Mr. Ford should be having trouble sewing up the
nomination perhaps should not be surprising. Much has been made
of the so-called power of incumbency. Without detracting from his
creditable performance in office, it can be said that his lack of
experience in fighting a major political battle is showing up.
And his advisers have not been much help.

It still looks likely that Mr. Ford will get the nomination
at Kansas City. But the division and needless acrimony that now
besets the GOP weakens the party and will make it all the more
difficult for Republicans to wage a vigorous election campaign.
The Democrats, meanwhile, have the opportunity to go into the
campaign powerfully united behind a fresh candidate who has more
than demonstrated his capacity to appeal to a broad spectrum of
voters. -- (6/10/76)

Losers and Winners
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(By Joseph C. Harsch, excerpted, C.S. Monitor)

The outstanding quality of Jimmy Carter is his remarkable
ability to find and to stay on the center position on all the
subjects which make for factions in the American body politic.
Call it straddling if you like. But it was also the secret of
the political success of some very successful American presidents.
Prominent among them were Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

President Gerald Ford does not have the avoidance of faction-
alism down to as fine an art as does Jimmy Carter. But compared to
Mr. Reagan, Mr. Ford is a nonfactional political figure. Yes, he
is a conservative by inclination. And he slipped into factionalism
on antibusing during the campaign. But by and large he tries to be
a President of all the people, not just of some people.

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The primaries, taken all together and added up, prove, I think, that at this stage in history the American people do not want factional leadership. Which is why Mr. Carter and Mr. Ford have done better in the primaries than their respective rivals. -- (6/10/76)

## One Election Coming Up!
 Editorial, excerpted, _Los Angeles Times_

The Democrats have their presidential nominee -- Jimmy Carter. The Republicans have yet to choose between Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan, but the delegate count -- and the political realities -- favor the President.

The prospect, then, is for a competition between moderates in November, and also for more relevant debate than took place in either the Democratic or Republican primary.

Carter's victory matches in significance the acceptance of John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, as the Democratic nominee in 1960. It is right that the country should put another of the old prejudices behind it -- and white Southerners had old prejudices of their own to banish in choosing Carter over George Wallace.

But the Republican forces are still in disarray. Reagan, unlike Carter's opponents, is conceding nothing to the front-runner, and will battle the President all the way through the state conventions and caucuses that still remain. The prospect of divisive floor battles at the Republican convention is also more likely than at the Democratic convention. -- (6/10/76)

## The Not-So-Silly-Season
 (Editorial, excerpted, _Wall St. Journal_)

The just-completed primary season has revealed much more about the state of the nation than a mere tabulation of votes for rival politicians. In their conduct of the campaign, the aspirants and their supporters demonstrated that they have sensed, perhaps unconsciously, that the American people are no longer in a mood for vituperation, divisiveness and extremism. The manner and tone of the race have been more significant than the outcome, although the results are interesting enough.

Much attention has properly been paid to the details of the primary campaign, and particularly to the Carter phenomenon, but we think there is a wider significance to the campaign that has been overlooked. This is the first race since 1960 that is not virulent and highly polarized. Mr. Carter has been careful to avoid giving offense to any significant element of his party. Neither his supporters nor his opponents are implacable.

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Unlike Sen. McGovern, Udall does not frighten moderate folk, and his liberal supporters are by no means as irreconcilable as they seemed in 1968 or 1972. They no longer see Humphrey or even Sen. Jackson as a perfect orge. Meanwhile Gov. Brown's worst critics may depict him as silly, but not as subversive. Even Wallace seems relatively benign this year compared with 1968 and 1972, and the collapse of his campaign is the most striking evi-dence of the de-polarization of politics.

Among the Republicans there is also a firm trend toward moderation. No liberal aspirant has appeared. No one despises President Ford as some despised President Nixon. Most of those who disapprove of Gov. Reagan's principles view him as a serious person; attempts to smear him as a muddle-headed warmonger in the Goldwater image have flopped. Conversely, Mr. Reagan's supporters are less obstreperous than their predecessors of 1964.

Unless some unforeseeable event or issue appears, it looks as if the electorate in November will have a real choice between two qualified men firmly in the American mainstream. The winners will rejoice at the election of their preferred candidate, and the losers will only be downcast, not desolated. -- (6/10/76)

The Final Stretch
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(Editorial, excerpted, Chicago Tribune)

With Tuesday's elections in California, New Jersey, and Ohio, the two parties have wound up their primary contests in exactly reversed positions. The Democrats started out in a state of utter confusion -- a free-for-all involving a dozen possible candidates. Now a month before their convention opens, they in effect have their candidate: Georgia's Jimmy Carter. He could be denied the nomination only through some shattering party upheaval.

The Republicans, who entered the election year with calm assurance that President Ford had the nomination, face a no-quarter battle between his supporters and Ronald Reagan's; and a possible casualty is the party's chance for victory in November. We do not think Mr. Reagan's services to his party will seem great in retrospect.

Between now and the GOP convention in August, Mr. Reagan will be doing all he can to raise doubts about Mr. Ford's ability. He will go on doing so, no doubt, by presenting complex national problems in a dramatic stage lighting flattering to himself.

This may attract large numbers of discontented voters. It can hardly persuade Republican political planners who are aware of hard facts such as these: Mr. Reagan's chief strength as a vote-getter lies in the southern and western states. Outside of California, there aren't many votes in the West. In the South,