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Post lalfr 1973

An

Ap

peal F

or Fairn

ess (Fifth in

a Series)

An

ato

my o

f a S

mea

r in less than fifteen m

inutes Presidential speech-w

riter Patrick J. B

uchanan "beached" the Watergate C

omm

ittee, DE

BR

IDE

D Sam

Ervin,

DE

-LIT

AN

IZE

D L

owell W

eicker and DE

OD

OR

IZE

D the air of "the rankest com

pound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril."

According to one D

emocratic m

ember of the Senate Select C

omm

ittee, Pat B

uchanan "MA

DE

US L

OO

K L

IKE

A B

UN

CH

OF

FO

OL

S" (W

ashington Post, September 28). T

wo other D

emocratic Senators "A

DM

ON

ISHE

D T

HE

STA

FF AFT

ER

YE

STE

RD

AY

'S HE

AR

ING

NOT TO PRO

DUCE M

OR

E W

ITN

ESSE

S LIK

E M

R. B

UC

HA

NA

N" (N

ew Y

ork Tim

es, September 28). W

HY

NO

T? W

hy should not the Ervin com

mittee staff produce m

ore w

itnesses like Pat B

uchanan? And w

hy should an honest, forthright witness m

ake the Ervin com

mittee m

embers "look like a bunch of fools"?

Are they m

ore comfortable w

ith errant, imm

unity-bribed witnesses subject to judicial blackm

ail? Is this why the T

V netw

orks are backing off? H

as Ervin w

ithout his villainous witnesses ceased to be an attraction? T

HE

QU

EST

ION

S AR

E R

HE

TO

RIC

AL

—FO

R W

E K

NO

W, A

S WE

KN

EW

AL

L

ALO

NG

, THA

T THE PU

RPO

SE OF TH

E ERV

IN C

OM

MITTEE W

AS N

OT TO

BRIN

G O

UT TH

E TRU

TH, BU

T TO BR

ING

DO

WN

THE PR

ESIDEN

T. Harpooned

by Buchanan, the "beached w

hale, the Senate Watergate com

mittee is w

heezing and blowing in its final throes a hulk that has begun to pall as

a tourist attraction and poses a problem in its disposal." ("The D

irtiest Trick," by William

Safire, New York Tim

es, Sept. 27, 1973.). Following is a partial text of M

r. Buchanan's statement before the Ervin com

mittee:

"Mr. C

hairman, m

embers of the com

mittee:

For a v

ariety o

f reasons, I ap

preciate th

e opportu

nity

to ap

pear b

efore

your select comm

ittee. But in candor, I cannot speak w

ith the same enthusi-

asm for the m

anner in which the invitation w

as delivered. A

t the P

residen

t's perso

nal d

irective, h

is White H

ouse staff h

as been

called upon, and has cooperated, I believe, fully w

ith this comm

ittee. S

pecifically

, this w

itness h

as certainly

.done so

. Nev

ertheless, th

e sur-

prise an

nouncem

ent th

at I was to

be called

as a public w

itness b

efore

these h

earings w

as mad

e over n

ational telev

ision—

befo

re even

the ele-

mentary courtesy of a telephone call of notification had been extended. O

f greater co

ncern

to m

e, how

ever, h

as been

an ap

paren

t campaig

n,

orch

estrated fro

m w

ithin

the co

mm

ittee staff, to m

align m

y rep

utatio

n in

th

e public p

ress prio

r to m

y ap

pearan

ce. In the hours im

mediately follow

ing my w

ell-publicized invitation, there. ap

peared

—in

the W

ashin

gto

n P

ost, th

e New

York

Tim

es, . . . and o

n th

e natio

nal n

etwork

s—sep

arate stories, all attrib

uted

to co

mm

ittee sources,

allegin

g I w

as the arch

itect of a cam

paig

n o

f political esp

ionag

e or d

irty

tricks. A

ccord

ing to

the P

ost, co

mm

ittee sources w

ere in p

ossessio

n o

f my

mem

oranda recomm

ending "infiltrating the opposition." In

the T

imes, th

e charg

e was th

at the co

mm

ittee had

a series of B

u-

chan

an m

emoran

da su

ggestin

g "p

olitical esp

ionag

e and sab

otag

e again

st (S

en.) Edm

und S. M

uskie of Maine and other candidates for the D

emocratic

presidential nomination."

One w

ire service stated "that Mr. B

uchanan-w

ould

be q

uestio

ned

about

'blu

eprin

ts' and 'p

lans' co

ncern

ing 'th

e scandal.' " . . .

Mr. C

hairm

an, th

is covert cam

paig

n o

f vilificatio

n, carried

on b

y staff

mem

bers of your comm

ittee, is in direct violation of rule 40 of the rules of pro

cedure fo

r the select co

mm

ittee, which

strictly p

rohib

its staff mem

bers

from leaking substantive m

aterial. R

epeatedly, I have asked of Mr. (S

amuel) D

ash (majority counsel for**

com

mittee) an

d M

r. (Terry

) Len

zner (assistan

t majo

rity co

unsel) in

form

a-tion that they m

ight have to justify such allegations. R

epeated

ly, th

ey h

ave d

enied

they

hav

e any su

ch d

ocu

men

ts. W

hen I asked Mr. L

enzner who on the com

mittee staff w

as responsible, he resp

onded

: "Mr. B

uch

anan

, you o

ught to

know

that y

ou can

't believ

e ev

eryth

ing y

ou read

in th

e new

spap

ers." H

IS JOK

E. M

Y R

EPU

TA

TIO

N.

So it seem

s fair to me to ask: H

ow can this select com

mittee set itself up

as the ultimate arbiter of A

merican political ethics, if it cannot even control

character assassins within its ow

n ranks? F

or th

e record

, Mr. C

hairm

an, let m

e state the fo

llow

ing: I d

id n

ot re-

com

men

d o

r auth

orize, n

or w

as I aware o

f, any o

n-g

oin

g cam

paig

n o

f po-

litical sabotage against Sen. M

uskie or any other Dem

ocratic candidate. I d

id n

ot reco

mm

end, eith

er verb

ally o

r in m

emoran

da, th

at the re-elec-

tion co

mm

ittee infiltrate th

e campaig

ns o

f our o

ppositio

n . . .

Now

, let me m

ove q

uick

ly to

the h

eart of th

e public alleg

ations, ag

ainst

me—

but m

ore g

enerally

again

st our p

residen

tial campaig

n.

It is bein

g arg

ued

that illicit R

epublican

strategy an

d tactics w

ere re-sponsible for the defeat of the strongest D

emocratic candidate for P

resident —

and for the nomination of the w

eakest.

It has been contended publicly that the Democrats were denied—by our. campaign and strategy—a legitimate choice at their own convention.

It is being alleged that the campaign of 1972 was not only a rigged campaign, but an utter fraud,,a political coup by the President of the United States.

These contentions, Mr. Chairman, are altogether untrue. Republicans were not responsible for the downfall of Sen. Muskie. Republicans were not responsible for the nomination of Sen. (George) McGovern (D-S. D.).

To suggest the is first of all to do a grievous injustice both to Sen. Mc-Govern and his campaign organization.

Sen. McGovern was nominated, because his men wrote the rule book; his men were in the field earliest and worked hardest; his campaign was precisely targeted on the primaries they could win; and because he was possessed of the best political organization the Democratic Party has seen in at least a dozen years.

It was not Donald Segretti who put together the organization that car-ried for Sen. McGovern the•crucial Wisconsin primary.

It was not any agent of the Committee to Re-elect the President who was out winning McGovern delegates in states like Georgia, Virginia and Loui-siana.

It was not our -personnel, but theirs, who worked out their victorious campaign and convention strategies. The McGovern people won their owl nomination—and they lost their own election.

Theodore H. White haS written in his latest and best campaign history: All of the dirty tricks of 1972, added together in the ultimate balance, had the "weight of a feather." . .

As for the general election, Mr. Chairman, the President of the United States did not achieve the' greatest landslide of any minority party candi-date in history because of Watergate and dirty tricks—but in spite of them.

The reasons for the landslide of 1972 are chronicled elsewhere; they need hot be repeated here at length. Basically they are these:

• The President read the- mood of the nation better than his opponent.

—The President has conducted an Administration, for four years, that had won the confidence or support of millions of Democrats.

—The President's stand upon the issues of defense and welfare, upon taxes and government, upon coercive integration and bussing were closer. to what the American people wanted than those of his opponent.

But we won as well, Mr. Chairman, because of the quality and charac-ter of our candidate.

If one looks back over the political history of this country, there is only one other man, other than Richard Nixon, who has been his party's nomi-nee for President or Vice President five times. That is Franklin Roosevelt.

No other individual in our political history has served in both of the same high offices for so long a period of time as has the incumbent President.

He is not the leader of a majority party. He has been—since 1946—a member of the Minority party in American politics. And thus, this political career, I believe, is all the more impressive.

That political record, Mt'. Chairman, is no Occident. . . . And the man-date that the American people gave to this President and his Administra- • tion cannot and will not be frustrated or repealed or overthrown.

We deeply regret our inability to bring you the full text of M

r. Buchanan's statem

ent and his testimony D

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