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VOLUME 13
NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1970
NUMBER 10
New Bernians who strongly
admire Alabama’s George
Wallace, and there are still
quite a few around, aren’t happy
over the posslbUity he wUl
lose his run-off race against
Gov. Albert P. Brewer.
Not everyone on the local
scene who leaned toward Wal
lace in the last Presidential
election favored him with a
vote. A considerable number
figured he couldn’t win, and
fearful that Humphrey might
emerge victorious, gave their
support to Nixon.
Just how much Jim Gard
ner’s courting of Wallace sup
porters, here in the East, con
tributed to his loss to Bob
Scott in North Carolina’s battle
for governor is a subject for
endless debate. Staunch Repub
licans in the West reacted ad
versely to His strategy.
Gardner, of course, was
caught in the middle- If he
should run again, it would ap
pear to his advantage to have
Wallace out of the picture. De
feat in the Alabama run-off
might not kill the Wallace
movement here and elsewhere,
but it would be a severe blow-
Hie White House continues to
deny there is a Southern
strategy in the Administra
tion’s maneuvering. Of one
thing there can be no doubt.
Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew
has become tremendously
popular in Dixie, and he, not
Wallace, is the man most list
ened to, and quoted with vigor
ous approval.
We’re not suggesting that
Agnew’s speeches carry weight
only below the Mason-Dixon
Line. Eor better or worse,
depending on your point of view,
he has millions of admirers
from coast to coast. He says
what they want to hear; the way
they like it said.
Liberals who tried to de
stroy him by picturing him as a
clown have, Instead, qualified
for the dunce cap themselves.
’’Better believe that 135 IQ,
hard as it is to check,” ad
vises Brock Brower, writing
in Life Magazine-
’’There may be considerable
opinion around to the effect
that the Vice-President is a
fool, some of it expert, but in
fact, he is not,” adds Brow
er. ”In fact, taking Spiro
Agnew for an oaf has been a
snare and a delusion all along,
the press’s biggest damfool
mistake from the beginning.”
Television’s biggest mis
take, it seems to Hie Mirror,
came when the three major net
works, apparently expecting
Agnew to deliver a blundering
speech, carried in full his
attack on the medium’s al
legedly prejudiced news cov
erage.
He came up with a master
ful performance that con
vinced the great majority of
Americans, and from that
moment on the jokes aimed at
him by second rate stand-up
comedians had a dull and hollow
sound. Ridicule didn’t dwarf the
Vice-President, it made him.
To this extent, television ex
posure proved it is Indeed a
powerful force. Nixon discov
ered as much, years earlier,
when he appeared, poorly pre
pared, in debate with John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, and un
questionably as a^irect re
sult lost a Presidential elec-
(Coiiliniied on page 8)
Srw (lottWlH Silirarg
THE OTHER SIDE — Television commentators and
cameramen, eager to publicize violence unleashed
by student minorities, wouldn’t find this peaceful
campus scene at the University of North Carolina very
newsworthy. How can you make headlines out of a
boy and girl, serious about their education, strolling
together happily among giant trees on the grounds of stroying what has already been handed you,~reveaT8
the historic Chapel Hill school? Don’t get us wrong, lack of maturity.
UNC has its share of bearded, long-maned militants.
but overlooked are thousands of decent, law abiding
youngsters. Believe it or not, they appreciate sacri
fices made by struggling parents, many of whom
never had the chance to go to college; and they even
agree with oldsters that, establishment or no estab
lishment, expecting something for nothing, and de-