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once governor of N<i*h Caro
lina, was considered late last
year for appointment aspresi
dent of Duke University, some
of the alumni questioned whe
ther such a partisan polilican
could alter his nature to that
of a non-partisan university
head. I know that a member of
the class of 1954 brought up
the matter ip alumni circles,
1 pointing out Governor Sanford’s
activity for John Kennedy in
1960 and his leadership role in
Citizens for Humphrey-Muskie
in 1968. National Democratic!
leaders in Washington have long
considered Sanford as president
ial or vice presidential timber.
One of his close friends here tells
me that Sanford would be glad
to have one of the North Caro
lina Senate seats when the in
cumbent steps down.
There is nothing wrong witli
political ambition or activity in
the ordinary walks of life, but
it is considered unseemly in a un
iversity president: Accordingly,
I am told, members of the Duke
University board of trustees ask
ed Terry Sanford to reassure
them that he was finished with
politics, and I understand that
he did so. Came November 17,
however, and Terry Sanford’s
iby-line leaped like an angry
jaguar off the op-ed page of the
New York Times with large
hunks of Spiro Agnew’s reputa
tion in the academic claws of
the president of Duke Universi
ty.
n s tne craziest penormance
imaginable. You expect that
Larry O’Brien, Democratic na
tional chairman, might make a
completely uinprovoked attack
on a prominent GOP office-hold
er and presumptive candidate in
1972. O’Brien’s motives would
Republicans are Ms natural ene
mies and they are fair game to
be shot at on sight. Does Mr
Sanford, then, have the same
political motives as O’Brien? Is
the Duke president doubling as
Democratic pal? Does he deem
it Ms duty to try to knock Ag
new off the Republican ticket
and somehow collect some cred
its for himself among Demo
crats.
It isn’t only that President
Sanford wrote Ms political creed
in a northern or national paper
(I don’t believe he’d have done
it any closer to home), but he
plucked Ms subject matter out
of the blue and was not at all
accurate with his facts. Sanford
opens up on Agnew for the de.'
bate. with several students on
the David Frost show well over
a month ago,. Any editor I know
of would have sent the writer
back to the reference books to
,check out some dates
On the TV debate, wMck was
such a good show that it Was
later re-run, Vice President
Agnew acquitted' himself with
skill and> good humor, in mark
ed contrast to the rudeness and
ignorance of one or more of
the students. Sanford doesn’t
deny that Agnew “won” the de.
bate, but by' the most illusive,
standard of logic I ever encount-’
ered, he says that if the yke
President were a “real leader,”1
he’d have thrown the fight and
let Ihe students win Then in
a bare - faced falsification San
ford remarks, “It seems almost
cruel to answer the Vice Presi
dent now, after his political tech
nique failed so badly at the
polls.”,I would suppose that Al
bert Gore mid Charles Goodefl,
two of Agnew’s prime targets,
•would wonder where this fail
ure came about.
v«. lie . , . implanted sus
distrust and aflenation...
and made ad) effort to stir up
doubts aibout our institutions.”
Since he gives no dates, places
or incidents, it’s impossible to
know what. Sanford is raging a
bout •
Hb rage , loses a lot of credi
bility when he makes whopping
mistakes. Sanford writes: “No
one charged the Governor (Ag
new) with ^permissiveness” be
cause in 1959 Baltimore ranked
seventh in the country in the
number of serious crimes.” But
Agnew livps in Towson, Md., and
not in Baltimore, and he was
executive officer of Baltimore
County, which is a separate po
litical entity from Baltimore
City. Spiro Agnew was elected
Governor of Maryland in 1966,
took office in 1967, the same
year that Terry Sanford wrote
a book, “Storm Over The States,”
with this paragraph on page 146.
“In 1967, Maryand, under the
leadership of Governor Spiro T.
Agnew, enacted a wholesale re
form of its fiscal structure that
will stand as a model of respon
sibility and fiscal soundness for
a long time to come.”
Sanford doesn’t mention this
in his New York Times article,
ibut he comes out with an un
specified and, I think, unrecord
ed, set of campus riots during
the Agnew governorship. “It
would be fair, in this context,”
Sanford writes, “to recall that
the immediate past governor of
Maryland (Agnew) was himself
caught by this kind of surprise
(campus disorders), and many
felt that he did not do very well
in dealing with his demonstra
tors.”
It could be that President San
ford is thinking about the gen
eral race riots following the Mar
Raymond Stone Named Chairman Drive
Rake Funds for Baptist Children Homes
Dr. Raymond A. Stone of
Southern Pines, president of
Sandhills Community College,
has been named chairman of a
five-and-oneJialf-million-doEar
campaign for funds to expand
Baptist Children’s Homes of
North Carolina, Inc. which is
headquartered here.
Lauched this fall, the solicits
tion seeks $2,500,000 for capital
improvements and Another $3,
000,00 for endowment purposes.
More than 1,400 youngsters. . .
85 per cent of them from brok
en families . . . are currently be
ing served by eight Baptist
homes in the State.
We are most grateful for the
leadership of an outstanding
North Carolinian like Raymond
Stone at the forefront of efforts
to improve Baptist child care
and family services in the east
ern half of the State,” Dr. Wag
oner said in announcing the ap
pointment. “Dr. Stone acquired
a total commitment toward this
important work through service
on our Board of Trustees.”
A graduate of Wake Forest
University, Dr. Stone earned both
his Master’s Degree and Doctor
ate at the University of North
Carolina. He taught in the pub
lic schools of Wallace and Char
lotte before becoming a prin
cipal at Wilson. He has done
teaching at Atlantic Christian
College and at the University in
Chapel Hill.
Recognized by the News & Ob
server as a “Tar Heel of the
Week” in February of 1962, Dr.
Stone served as the first Chair
man of the N. C. Association of
Community College Presidents.
He has held committee chair
menships in the N. C. Education
Association and in the N. C- As
sociation of Colleges and Uni
versities.
School enrollments among
Vietnam veterans increased dur
ing FY 70 by 31 percent bring
ing the number of enrollees in
VA training programs to 1,211,
000.
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tin Luther King murder, and in
any event the opposite of whal
he says is true. Few, not many,
thought Governor Agnew did
badly in dealing with those
troubles. In fact, he did so
well that Richard Nixon picked
him as a running-mate after a
close study of the happenings,
On the basis of this piece
Terry Sanford is either off his
rocker and should be removed
from his campus, or he’s using
his university presidency to leap
back into national politics, and
that also is grounds for remov
al.
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Under a new law, there is no
longer a terminal date for a GI
home loan for any eligible vet
erans, including WW II and Ko
rean Conflict veterans who nev
er used this benefit.
Nurses who obtained govern
ment-sponsored student loans
while in school -may earn credit
toward loan cancellations by
serving in a professional capaci
ty in VA hospitals.
A new law removed the “in
ability to pay" requirement for
all veterans 65 years of age or
older having war or peacetimei
service, and for veterans who
receive VA pensions.
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