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NEW BERN, N. C. 28560, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1972
NUMBER
There is little evidence here in
New Bern that voters will
switch from Nixon to McGovern
because of the Watergate affair.
The average citizen has grown
cynical and considers both
major parties politically
crooked.
No longer can the Senator
from South Dakota, or any other
candidate, adopt a pious pose,
and successfully point the
finger of scorn at his opponent.
Americans, better informed
than ever, simply won’t buy it.
Certainly Nixon’s Ad
ministration has not been
without its pollution, but we are
finding it hard to believe that
anyone high up in White House
circles was stupid enough to
initiate the Watergate crime.
That Republicans and
Democrats dike do all tiie
snooping they feel is profitable
to their cause is an assumption
few will dispute. Let’s face it,
was bugging at Wateniate a
project worth undertaking?
Not only Nixon and his closest
associates, but the general
public, can be charactarized as
well informed about the current
state of Democratic
headquarters in Washin^n.
Democrats themselves insist it
is a place of povoiy.
No one accused the burglars
of stealing any money. If indeed
there was cold cash on hand, it
possibly was hidden under all
those unpaid telephone bills that
inspire much of tM party’s poor
mouthing.
It is ironical that Senator Ted
Kennedy, of all people, is
pressing for fidl disclosure of all
that hq>nened at Watergate,
and deploring the secrecy
surrounding those who possibly
were involved.
Can it be that Kennedy has
had a change of heart about
covering tq> things since he
deserted a drowning ^1 in his
company one night, took great
steps to hide the fact, and
hasn’t, so far as we know, ex
plained why no autopsy was
performed.
Isn't this also the same Ted
Kennedy, now so devoted
to revealing all, who was in
volved in a nit and run accident
in Washington, and later
arrested and convicted for
fleeing from the scene?
Kennedy’s shortcomings
don’t make the Watergate
bur^dtury less a crime, but they
do affoid fairly recent evidence
that Republicans, high and low,
have no monopoly on
disgraceful behavior while in
puUic office.
As for Mr. McGovern, his
memorv is hazy and his
knowleoge of hist^ woefully
limited, when he denounces
Nixon’s Administration as the
most corrupt ever saddled upon
the nation.
Conveniently, he makes no
mention of Bobby Baker, who
turned out to be a decided
liability in the Johnson Ad
ministration; Billie Sol Estes,
who sprouted in John P. Ken
nedy’s Administration; and
Sherman Adams, who made
Eisenhower rather unhappy.
Best remembered by most of
us who are well along in years
are the scandals of the Harding
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A WONDERFUL WORLD—^Any season is a happy
one for four year old Michael Homer Miller, Jr., of
Newport News, Va., whose paternal grandmother,
Mrs. Mildred Miller, lives in New Bern. Mac, as he is
nicknamed, has the same easy going disposition that
his father, a native New Bemian, is blessed with.
Michael, Sr., before moving to Virginia from
Greenville, had already gained quite a reputation for
designing floral arrangements, and his creative
talent has made him well known in Newport News.
Michael's wife is the former Barbara Allen of
Greenville, where the maternal grandparents, the
Howard Allens, reside.