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THE JOURNAL EDITORIAL PAGE JACK ANDERSON PAGE 14 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7,1971 THE JOURNAL welcome to Senator Brydges LBJ Tells How Kosygin Once Threatened War Ogdensburg and St. Lawrence County warmly welcome Senator Earl W. Brydges today. Senator Brydges is Temporary President and Majority Leader of the State Senate, and is generally con- sidered the second most powerful Republican in the State next to Gov. Rockefeller. He represents the 52nd Senatorial District which includes Niagara and Orleans County. Senator Brydges is coming to Ogdensburg and St. Lawrence County at the invitation of Mrs. Betsy Kaplan, Chairman of the St. Lawrence County Republican Committee. This is his first visit to St. Lawrence County as far as we know and we congratulate Betsy Kaplan on securing a speaker of his stature to talk to the Republicans of the County before the election on Nov. 2nd. Senator Brydges was born in Niagara Palls in 1905 and educated in the public and parochial schools in that city. He attended Niagara University and was graduated from the University of Buffalo Law School in 1926. Since his graduation Mr. Brydges has continued to practice law in Niagara Palls. He was elected to the State Senate in 1948 and re-elected in each . successive election since. He was chosen Minority Leader of the Senate in 1965 and elected Temporary President and Majority Leader in 1966. Senator Brydges is Past President of the Associated School Boards of Niagara and Orleans Counties, past President of the Niagara Frontier Planning Association and the Niagara Falls Community Chest. Senator Brydges has served as a member and chairman of a number of the most important special and standing committees of the Senate. In 1958 he was the recipient of the Alfred E. Smith Award given by the New York State Teachers Association for his work on behalf of education. He is married to the former Eleanor C. Mahoney of Niagara Falls. They are the parents of seven children. One daughter Mary Lynn, now Mrs. William B. Barden, resides in Watertown. As Majority Leader he is Chairman of the Rules Committee of the Senate and ex-officio chairman of all other standing com- mittees. He is a member of all Joint Legislative Committees and ex-officio of all statutory commissions. Ogdensburg and St. Lawrence County are honored indeed to have Senator Brydges visit us. He is a very close associate of Governor Rockefeller and a man of commanding influence in the affairs of New York State. We welcome him and will look forward to his message to the Republicans and all of the people of St. Lawrence County. FRL Washington - In his memoirs, Lyndon Johnson describes in harrowing detail how he maneuvered the Sixth Fleet in response to a hot-line threat of Soviet military action against Israel in 1967 and how he faced down Premier Aleksei Kosygin over the Middle East during their subsequent meeting at Glassboro, N.J. Here are the highlights from our bootleg copy of the Johnson memoirs: At the height of the Arab-Israeli Six Day War, the President received a grim, hot-line message from- Kosygin threatening \necessary actions, in- cluding military\ unless Israel halted its operations unconditionally within a few hours. There was other provocative language in the message. Declares Johnson: \In an exchange between heads of govern- ment, these were serious words: 'very crucial moment,' 'catastrophe,' 'in- dependent decision,' 'military actions.' \The room was deathly still as we carefully studied this grave com- munication. I turned to (Defense Secretary) McNamara, 'Where is the Sixth Fleet now?' I asked him.\ The fleet had orders to stay at least 100 miles from the Syrian coast. The President told McNamara \to issue orders at once to change the course and cut the restriction to 50 miles. \The Secretary of Defense gave the orders over the phone. No one else said a word. Some of the men in the Situation Room later recorded their memories of that morning. (Ambassador to Russia). Llewellyn Thompson recalled it as a 'time of great concern and utmost gravity.' (CIA Director) Richard Helms remembers that 'the atmosphere was tense' and that conversation was con- ducted 'in the lowest voices I had ever heard in a meeting of that kind.' KREMLIN GETS MESSAGE \We all knew the Russians would get the message as soon as their monitors observed the change in the fleet's pat- tern. That message, which no translator would need to interpret to the Kremlin leadership, was that the United States was prepared to resist Soviet intrusion in the Middle East.\ The crisis faded and, not long af- terward, Johnson and Kosygin held a friendly, face-to-face meeting in Glassboro, N.J. \At only one point in our first session did Kosygin seem close to becoming really heated,:' recalls LBJ. \He said we had talked about territorial integrity before the Middle East war, but we had ended by protecting aggression. He insisted that Israeli troops go back to the original armistice lines... \At that point, he came close to issuing a threat. Unless we agreed to his formula, he declared, there would be a war-' a very great war.' He said the Arabs would fight with arms if they had them and, if hot, with bare hands... \If they fight with weapons, I replied, we would know where, they got them. Then I leaned forward and said slowly and quietly: 'Let us understand one another. I hope there will be no war. If there is a war, I hope it will not be a big war. If they fight, I hope they fight with firsts and not with_guns.' \I told him that I hoped both our countries could keep out of any Middle East explosion because 'if we do get into it, it will be a most serious matter.'... \Kosygin noted that we now had the 'hot line' and could use that whenever necessary as we had to good effect during the recent Six Day War. Kosygin apoligized- for having wakened me so early in the morning through the 'hot line.' But, he added, together we had 'accomplished more on that day than others could accomplish in three years...\ DECISION TO BOMB Kosygin was also involved, indirectly in an earlier crisis. He was in Hanoi on Feb. 6,1965, when communist guerrillas struck a U.S. barracks at Pleiku. This led to President Johnson's decision to bomb North Vietnam. He recalls: \As we talked, there was an electric tension in the air. Everyone in the room was deadly serious as he considered the possible consequences of this decision Each man around that table knew how crucial such action could be. How would Hanoi react? Would the Chinese Com munists use it as a pretext for involving themselves? What about Kosygin and the Russians in Hanoi? \Someone suggested that Ho Chi Minh had mousetrapped the Soviet leader by attacking us during his visit. If we failed to respond, we were 'paper tigers'; if we hit back, Soviet prestige might be fur ther involved.\ The President went ahead with the first bombing attack while Kosygin was Still in Hanoi. LBJ explained at a secret briefing for congressional leaders: \We have kept our gun over the mantel and our shells in the cupboard for a long time now. And what was the result? They are killing our men while they sleep in the night. I can't ask our American soldiers out there to continue to fight with one hand tied behind their backs.\ More than three years later, Johnson ordered- with futile bombing stopped. His recollection of the moment: \I looked, one by one, at the men assembled arpund the long cabinet table and asked their judgments on my decision. The reactions were quick and unanimous. 'Absolutely,' said one. 'The thing to do,', said another...I had the feeiing that I was perhaps the most doubtful man in the room.\ Footnote: During me deep crises of his presidency, Johnson often sought refuge at St. Dominic's Cathedral. \This was one of my favorits churches,\ he writes, \a somber, gray Victorian- Gothic structure, with twin spires rising above the modern construction that was going up around it, in a poor section' of southwest Washington. Inside, St ; Dominic's was simple and restful. I had gone there on many Sunday mornings, and on numerous unreported occasions 1 had dropped in for a few minutes of prayer late at night. I went there with (daughter) Luci just before midnight in June, 1966, when we sent our bombers to hit the fuel dumps in Hanoi and Haiphong.\ Weeding Out the Cheaters WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. All is not quite as bleak as it seems with welfare costs. Nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, costs jumped a record 27 per cent in the fiscal year that ended last June 30. But a lot has happened since June 30. A cost-cutting trend that was evident before the end of the fiscal year has accelerated. Urged to economy measures by a public that has become tired of the tax burden, states have done some necessary belt-tightening. Simply by being prudent, New York State, for example, has affected useful savings in the cost of supporting employable recipients. State Social Services Commissioner George K. Wyman says that more than 4,200 persons who failed to report to state employment offices were dropped from the welfare rolls last month alone. Of the state's 2.5 million welfare recipients, 54,725 were sup- posed to get their checks at employment offices and be given job counseling or job referrals at the same time. All those who didn't show without good reason have been assumed to be involved in fraudulent claims. In another move towards a more practical approach, the state has asked federal approval for a demonstration project that would require welfare mothers with children over the age of six to go to work or to care in their homes for children of other welfare mothers who are working. A test program is planned for St. Lawrence County. It's not a question of failing to meet the needs of welfare families. It's a case, rather, of protecting the rights of those genuinely in need by weeding out the cheaters and at the same time giving a little relief to the overburdened taxpayer. Published Daily Except Saturday and Sunday by Northern New York Publishing Co. Inc. 308-314 Isabella St., Ogdensburg, N. Y., Telephones 393-1000, 1002, 1003. Franklin R. Little, President and Editor; Charles W. Kelly, General Manager. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper. Poff s Withdrawal From Supreme Court Decision The decision of Congressman Richard Poff to withdraw his name from con- sideration for Supreme Court Justice is a triumph of what nowadays is 'called McCarthyism. The implications of his withdrawal are various, and they touch on several aspects of the ongoing struggle to achieve interracial har- mony. The day that Mr. Poff made his decision to withdraw, which issued from a reluctance to defend his voting record on civil rights legislation, it happened that I spent an hour or so with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the black leader of Operation Breadbasket and by in- Creasing agreement, successor to Martin Luther King as leader of the moderatermilitant black community. Mr. Jackson, who is very young, very able, and extraordinarily intelligent, has contrived a superb blend of rhetorical intransigence and analytical sobriety. On the one hand he avoids anti- white racism and the invidious anti- American despair that ma/ie some of his brothers fleetingly popular during the turbulent sixties. On the other hand, his rhetorical belligerence and his irascible mien (he never smiles, avoiding af- fability with total success), suggest to his followers that there is nothing of the conciliator in his system, that as regards what he considers the rights of his const!tutency, he is as adamant as Gromyko. It will be a long time before a • Negro insurrectionary movement will make way with the charge that Jackson is playing the honkey's game. Jesse Jackson deals heavily in symbols. And it is of course symbols that beat Richard Poff, who wanted to be a Justice of the Supreme Court, and who was considered highly qualified to serve on. the Supreme Court even by Emmanuel Celler, the principal figure in the House Judiciary Committee, whose credentials as a liberal are un- challenged. I doubt that anybody sincerely believes that Richard Poff would have undermined the civil rights legislation of the sixties, notwithstanding that he voted against it. But it was necessary to fight against him, because many liberals believe that it is necessary to cause to suffer those who, in the fifties and sixties, interpreted the Constitution of the United States in such a way as is now considered historically atrocious. One thinks, by contrast, of the debate prompted by the nomination of Hugo Black by President Roosevelt. It transpired, after his nomination, that Hugo Black had belonged to the Ku Klux Klan. The only serious point raised against Black was that that membership disqualified him as a point of character. But Poff was not forgiven for having opposed the civil rights bill, not- withstanding that in doing so, he un- derstood himself to be making formal points considering the allocation of political responsibility as distributed by the Constitution of the United States. It became clear to everyone who knew Mr. Poff that he loathed Jim Grow; so that in making him pay for his opposition to the civil rights bills, there was-the injustice that would arise from the charge that a Supreme Court Justice who believes that the Constitution authorizes the showing of I Was Curious Yellow, is iii favor of pornography. Last week a group of Princeton University professors were circulating a petition to graduate students begging their help in researching the political record of Richard Poff. They announced their intention quite openly: they wanted to make it impossible for him to reach the Supreme Court, in punishment for his having voted his conscience when the civil rights bills came up. One cannot imagine the same group of people concerting to demonstrate, let us say, the disqualification of Owen Lattimore to serve in the Department of State, given the historical misjudgments of Professor Lattimore during the 40's and 50's. I think of Jesse Jackson as a symbol of what Professor David Riesman (in connection with Owen Lattimore) once referred to as retroactive viii- dictiveness. It gives the Jacksons, and their white epigoni, a sense of satisfaction — of emotional satisfaction, even as the extefision of the terms of the denazification courts continue to give satisfaction. It is appropriate to observe that one hopes that this is not a game which the other side, in search of future satisfactions, \will want to play. Ask Jesse Jackson about the Black Panthers and he sounds like Ilya Ehrenburg defending the purge trials. Let us hope that in the future he will be let off more lightly than southerners who aspire to the Supreme Court. A point to consider, as we say goodbye to the aborted career of Richard Poff. ART BUCHWALD Washington May Move Due To Lack Of Interest ll > T9 1971 by NEA, Inc \Mark my words, Charlie-^-Put one woman on the Supreme Court, and the floodgates will be open. They'll turn EVERYTHING into a hen party!\ WASHINGTON-The Washington Senators baseball team, after playing in the Capital for 71 years, has left for Texas. The elation in Dallas and Fort Worth over this turn of events can only be ascribed to the fact that no one in that part of the country has ever seen the Senators play. The reason for the exodus was poor attendance, which Mr. Robert Short, the owner of the team, said was costing him a fortune. What worries people here is that the Senators may be the first of many insitutions that might decide to pull out. Perhaps in the' next few years we will be reading the following press releases: WASHINGTON, D.C.,~House Speaker Carl Albert announced today that he was moving Congress to Fort Wayne, Ind., at the end of the seasoii. \The Washington fans just don't seem to want to support Failure Of Prison System ByRAYCROMLEY WASHINGTON—(NEA)—Without tr- ying to justify those prisoners who led the Attica and San Quentin riots, such tragedies bring to national attention a situation too lone ignored. Prison rehabilitation is so infrequent that two-thirds of our 200,000 present prison inmates are already \alumni\ of correctional institutions. No man is harsher in his indictment of prisons today than Chief Justice Warren Burger. This is what Burger, a con- servative and a respected member of the Establishment, fyas said on the prisons issue: \We take on a burden when we put a man behind walls and that burden is to give him a chance to change. If we deny him that, we deny his status as a human being, and to deny that is to diminish our own humanity and plant the seeds of future anguish for ourselves.\ This was Burger at the Midwinter Meeting of the American Bar Association in Atlanta, February, 1970. He added: \A visit to most prisons will make one a zealot for prison reform.\ That same month, for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Burger again described \ a typical American prison\: \...Buildings erected 50, 100 and even 150 years ago are not un- common...Industrial operations used, for training purposes are likely to be old, and the skills taught are limited and often obsolete...It is no help to prisoners to learn to be pants pressers if pants pressers are a glut in the labor market, or bricklayers or plumbers, if they will not be admitted\into a union... Congress,\ Albert said at a press con- ference. \At our last night session we had only five people in the gallery and our cafeteria has been running a deficit for two years. Fort Wayne is very ex- cited about having a major branch of the U.S. government in its town, and we're looking forward to playing there for many years to come.\ WASHINGTON, D.C.-The British Embassy has just made it Official. It is moving from Washington, D.C., to Palm Beach, Fla. A spokesman for the em- bassy said the decision was made reluctantly by the ambassador but the turnouts at the Queen's birthday party reception had been so poor that he had no choice. \It's obvious to us that Washington doesn't want a British Embassy, despite all the talk,\ the spokesman said'. \We've had offers from all over the country to move.our team and we've decided on Palm Beach because they've guaranteed a full turnout for every one of our receptions.\' LAS VEGAS, Nev.-Mayor Byron Lovemaster has just confirmed that Las Vegas has finalized a deal to bring the U.S. Supreme Court to Las Vegas. The mayor told Hand Greehspun of the Las Vegas Sun that' he considers the Supreme Court one of the best tourist attractions in the country, as it will bring in lawyers and defendants from all over the land. \We sent a delegation to Washington, and we think we made the\ best presentation. Miami and San Juan, P.R., both made bids for the court, but we won out when we promised to build an all-weather Supreme Court building with Astroturf in each of the justices' chambers. We can get 50,000 people in the new court building at one time.\ (Chief Justice Burger confirmed Mayor Lovemaster's announcement. \We're going to miss Washington,\ he said on the Today Show. \But while most people here said they were behind the Supreme Court, they wouldn't come out for our decision. Las Vegas sounds like a great Supreme Court town,\) WASHINGTON, D.C.-A blue-ribhdh delegation consisting of lawyer Edward Bennett Williams, Mayor Walter Washington and City Council Chairman • Gilbert Hahn paid a visit to President Nixon this morning in a lasfcminute effort to persuade him not to move the White House to Lincoln, Neb, Mr. Nixon said he had no choice. The people in Washington did not appreciate a President in their town, and be blamed criticism by the news media for the lack of support for the present Ad- ministration. Mr. Nixon said: \It's always a tragedy when a city loses a White House, but there are other things that have to be taken into con- sideration. Nebraska has the No. 1 football team in th'e country, and I believe a President of the United States should always be in the town -with the No. 1 team.\
