The Daily Tar Heel
Tuesday, April 30, 1974
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by Ken Alien
News Editor
Robert Morgan has run for state
wide office twice before and he thinks he
knows how it's done.
Twice elected state attorney general, a
former North Carolina Assembly
member and clerk of court for Harnett
County, Morgan has been a politician
most of his adult life.
Under the urging of I. Beverly Lake,
one of Morgan's professors at Wake
Forest Law School, Morgan ran for and
won the position of clerk of court while
still in law school.
Now a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for the U.S. Senate,
Morgan is running his own type of
campaign.
Basically a courthouse politician,
Morgan has traveled from county seat
to county seat, speaking at rallies and
shaking hands. Mindful of the youth
vote, Morgan has visited every campus
in the state University system.
In Fayetteville recently, Morgan paid
a surprise visit to the students of
Fayetteville State University after
meeting with Chancellor Charles "A"
Lyons Jr.
On his way out of a building, Morgan
grabbed a young woman's hand and
said "Young lady, how are you? Are you
going to say hello? I'm Atty. Gen.
Robert Morgan and I'm running for the
Senate."
And off he went, always moving. His
pace sometimes leaves his aides looking
a little wilted, but Morgan contends it's
necessary in order to campaign properly
and keep up his work in the justice
department.
For Robert Morgan, always the
politician, recognizes the danger of
resigning as a Democratic attorney
general with a Republican in the
governor's mansion to appoint his
successor.
Morgan has come under repeated
attacks for this stand, from both
Republicans and Democrats.
"1 have chosen to continue to serve as
attorney general while running for the
U.S. Senate," Morgan testified before
Sen. Sam Ervin's subcommittee on
separation of powers, "to ensure the
continued independence of the office, its
staff and its commitment to the effective
administration of justice."
Morgan tries to spend part of every
day in his office in Raleigh, but says that
most of his work is done by
subordinates.
Morgan augments his personal
appearances with advertising, about
$200,000 worth of it, according to
campaign spending reports filed in
Raleigh.
"In these days and times, a candidate
is almost in political isolation," Bart
Campbell, Morgan's advance man, said
in defense of advertising. "How does a
candidate get his message across? He's
practically cut off from spontaneous
coverage by the media."
The Morgan campaign shies away
from scheduled press conferences. "You
go into a city, say Greensboro, and you
announce a press conference,"
Campbell said. "Then you're back in
that same city two weeks later and you
have another press conference. And
then another one. Finally, it's like
yelling 'Wolf, Wolf, you know. Nobody
pays any attention to you."
Morgan relies on printed press
releases sent to newspapers and
purchased radio and television time,
including broadcasting entire political
rallies over local radio stations.
Morgan's aides say he pretty much
ignores charges leveled at him in the
campaign, such as his working as
campaign manager for I. Beverly Lake,
who ran for governor in 1960 as a
segregationist and his refusal to resign
as attorney general.
"They (Morgan's opponents) are
reaching pretty far back for an issue
with the '60 campaign," an aide said.
"Hell, nobody was campaigning for civil
rights in North Carolina in 1960."
Morgan has made public his
testimony before Sen. Ervin's
subcommittee.
During his campaign, Morgan has
spoken-out onissues which he sees as
important. They include:
Taxes: Favors closing "loopholes"
which he says allow the very rich to pay.
little or no taxes and calls for legislation
to allow single, widowed and divorced
persons he treated as heads of
households for tax purposes.
Oil: Wants a rollback in the price of
petroleum products.
Housing: Favors resumption of low
cost, low-interest federally subsidized
housing.
The presidency: Wants a
Congressional watchdog committee to
oversee the executive branch. Also does
not favor the impounding of funds by
the President.
Budget: Wants "budget reform"
which includes ending deficit spending.
Veterans: wants increased benefits for
Vietnam war veterans.
Social Security: Favors increasing
from $2,400 to $3,000 the amount a
person on Social Security may receive
without jeopardizing his benefits.
Mental Health: Wants community
mental health centers.
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U.S. Senate candidate, Robert Morgan (left), confers with his advance man, Bart Campbell (right)
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Nick Galifianakis
by Ken Allen
News Editor
Nick Galifianakis is running for the U.S.
Senate for the second time.
He doesn't plan on losing this time.
In 1972, after a hard-fought primary race
with incumbent Sen. B. Everette Jordan,
Galifianakis lost to Jesse Helms by a
substantial margin.
I felt I had two presidential candidates
riding on my shoulders," Galifianakis said
recently. "We had it, I'm sure we had, right
up to 150 to 200 hours before the election.
Nixon came to the state Saturday and
WHAM, Sunday, WHAM, Monday,
WHAM, everybody, all the media, were
talking about Nixon. By Tuesday it was
election time."
Galifianakis faces an equally tough
primary before he can even get to the general
election in November.
The last of the three major candidates to
enter the Senate race, Galifianakis has had
organizational and money problems, plus
the stigma of being a loser in 1972.
Organization problems sprang up with the
hiring of Martille, Payne, Kiley and Thorne,
a Boston political consulting firm.
Ideological friction had Galifianakis' staff in
Raleigh rotating week by week and
eventually forced his original campaign
manager to go back to private business.
Money has been a traditional problem for
Galifianakis. Outspent 7 to 1 by Helms in
1972, April campaign spending reports filed
in Raleigh indicated he is being outspent by
an equally large margin in this year's primary
race.
But through it all, Nick Galifianakis,
Durham son of a Greek immigrant, three
term U.S. congressman, campaigns the way
he always has on a person to person basis,
meeting people, shaking hands and holding
press conferences.
"I don't think people should take all this
damn money to run for office," Galifianakis
said. Just, maybe, travel expenses, you
know, to get around the state and maybe
something to eat on."
And so he travels around the state in his
"Folkswagon," a rented Winnebago camper,
meeting people at factory gates, shaking
hands and talking about the issues during
press conferences.
On a good day, Galifianakis estimates he
shakes between 3,000 and 4,000 hands. He
gets in two to three press conferences each
week.
"1 think I'm running a more issue-oriented
campaign this year," he said.
Since the beginning of the campaign, he
has spoken out in areas the considers
important. Each pronouncement has come
at a publicized news conference, carefully
planned by Galifianakis tight-budgeted staff
to take full advantage of press and radio.
The issues and Galifianakis' stands
include:
Taxes: Favors an increase from $750 to
$1200 in personal exemption on income tax
and an v across-the-board tax cut. The
resulting loss of revenue would be made up
by eliminating foreign tax credits for
businesses, reducing foreign aid and
reducing military spending.
Budget: Favors a balanced budget.
Veterans' benefits: Supports legislation
currently before Congress to increase
veterans' benefits.
Elderly: Favors increasing the amount of
money those on Social Security may earn
without jeopardizing their payments.
Medicine: Wants to change the focus of
medical training. Favors a government grant
of up to 80 per cent of a medical student's
education costs if the student w ill practice in
an area not getting proper medical care.
Impeachment: Urges Nixon to release all
material subpoenaed by the House Judiciary
Committee and would consider
noncompliance with the subpoenas an
impeachable offense.
Energy: Charges the -oil companies
artificially induced the energy crisis and says
the only way to prevent it from happening
again is to bring Justice Department action
against the biggest companies and break
them up.
Agriculture: Proposes giving tobacco
farmers a six-month written notice of any
tobacco quota increase or termination.
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U.S. Senate candidate Henry Hail Wilson
by Bill Welch
Staff Writer
Henry Hall Wilson has been running for the
Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate longer than
myone else in the race, and he has spent most of his
ame trying to overcome some big obstacles.
Although a native of Monroe, Wilson has been out
of state since the early 1960s. In the 10 months of his
campaign, he has sought to overcome the inevitable
carpetbagger image his opponents have tried to pin on
him.
To do that, Wilson has stressed his experience and
service to North Carolina as a White House aide under
Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and his efforts as
successful manager of Terry Sanford's 1960
gubernatorial campaign.
Wilson's second major problem has been the taint of
large out-of-state contributions. After his White
House tenure, Wilson served' as president of the
Chicago Board of Trade and friends he made there
have donated heavily to his candidacy.
After resigning his Chicago job last year, the 53-year-old
candidate returned to his home state to
announce for the Senate seat before the incumbent,
courtly Sam J. Ervin Jr., made public his intention to
retire. Another campaign concern for Wilson has been
name recognition. Despite his years as a presidential
adviser and before that, in the N.C. General Assembly
Henry Hall Wilson remains something less than a
household word to North Carolina voters.
To get his name in front of the public, Wilson has
spent much of his time talking about his opponents in a
campaign in which issues have taken a back seat to the
personalities involved.
But Wilson has been talking about issues also, and in
a recent interview in Chapel Hill, he spoke about why
he left his comfortable job on Chicago's commodities
market to return to North Carolina politics and, he
hopes, to his friends in Washington.
"I had always intended to come back to North
Carolina," Wilson said, "and after the massive
Democratic losses in North Carolina in 1972, and after
Watergate, I felt it was incumbent on people with my
kind of background to set an example. If we don't, how
can we attract the brightest young people to
government?"
Because of his experience in Washington, Wilson
said he is the candidate who will be best able to get
legislation through Congress that would help improve
the state's federal fund allocations.
"Reconstruction was over 100 years ago, yet North
Carolina is still at the bottom of the totem pole. We are
48 th in per capita income, 38th in federal
appropriations and 51st, behind the District of
Columbia, in federal highway dollars," he said.
During his White House years, Wilson said, "I
learned how to move in the bureaucracy 1 think I can
bring some of that money back to this state."
On the question of the possible impeachment of
President Nixon, Wilson shied away from committing
himself, but said, based on what he now knows, he
would not vote for conviction if he was serving in the
Senate during an impeachment trial of Nixon.
Since the recent subpoena of the White House tapes
by the House Judiciary Committee, however, Wilson
has changed his position somewhat. A failure by Nixon
to turn over those tapes, Wilson said in a brief,
carefully worded statement, would in his judgment be
an impeachable offense.
Another matter where an impeachable offense may
have been committed, Wilson said, is Nixon's dealings
with the major oil companies and their relation to the
gas shortage.
"The government retained the quota on imported
oil, and I'm sure the $5 million contribution to Nixon
by the oil companies had something to do with it," he
said.
When asked if he suspected collusion by the
President and the oil companies, Wilson said, "I don't
know what else it could be," and added that Congress
should investigate the possibility.
To solve the longer range ramifications of the energy
crises, Wilson said he favors cutting the oil depletion
allowance, increasing federal expenditures for building
mass transit and exploring solar energy possibilities.
One issue that has confronted Wilson repeatedly has
been the charges by his opponents that, because of
heavy out-of-state contributions to his campaign,
Wilson will be subject to special interest pressure if
elected. In a recent speech in Chapel Hill, opponent
Robert Morgan said 75 per cent of Wilson's
contributions have come from Chicago commodities
market businessmen.
Reacting to. the charge, .Wilson said, "I haven't
worked out any percentages, but that is probably right.
But that's early money. If I had worked with these
people on the board of trade, and I had none of their
support, it wouldn't speak very well of me."
Turning the tables, Wilson has charged Morgan
with using his state attorney general's office for
political benefit. He also charged Morgan with
managing "a mean, racial campaign" during I. Beverly
Lake's unsuccessful try for the governorship in 1960.
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