Bob Dole

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WASHINGTON, Aug .. 28-,­Rob~rt .J. DoJe, the junior Sena­~or fr.om, Kansas and former chairman or the Reoublican Na­tionai: Coi;ninlttee, survived . the. political· devastation of the Watergate and I.T.T. affairs ap­parently unscathed. ,. . · But the records of the two investigations' leave several questions about Mr. Dole's role unanswered. and potential. ground' for political rhetoric in the next two months. . . . · Mr. Dole became chairman of the Repu):>lican, committee in January 197J. Four and a half months later the I.T.T.·Shera­tori Corporatiqrt offered: the Republicans a $400,000 ''guar­antee" ostensibly as part of an ' effort to attract the 1972 Republican National Conven­tion to San Diego; wher~ the corporation . was building a hotel.· . .

At the sa!Jle time, the Depart­ment of J.ustice was considering· whether; to ask the conglomer- · ate to .divest itself of several of its major, profitable hold,­ings. John N. Mitchell,: ·then . President Nixon's key :political' adviser, was Attorney General..

I.T.T.'s offer was made pub)ic in late February I 972 by the columnist J11ck Anderson in the· publication of the .. "Dita Beard. m~l'llo;1• 1.w4icJ1'su'ggest~d~· t,na_t the' money was 'lo 'in<luce the Nixon Administration to press the Justice Department to make.· .· a decision favorable to the In-·: ternational Telephone and Tele- · gfaph Corporation: · · .. Hearliigs Reopened .

At that time,· the Senate Ju­diciary Committee was consid-ering the nomination of Richard ·. · . united Prou.1ntorn1tlonli1 0. Kleindienst to. succeed Mr.: . Senator Robert J. Dole and wife, Mary Elizabeth, sl:tOp· MitcheH. It reopened its hear- ·ping in Vail, ~olo., before flying back to Washingten.

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ings to ·investigate the I.T.T.' .. . . . .· .· . matter. ·Mr. Dole was not called would cost. $2,00D or. so and land, to. observe: the· 'progress as ~ witness, although )'le was that Mr. Dole had rejected pay- of the Vtetnamization program; ch~1rman o~_.the committee to men.t f9r it with ejther Republi- treatment of P.O.W.'s and .drug which the 1.T.T. offer _ wa~ can committee. , funds or abuse problems among, service-rnade. . . · · · · . . men, personal expense. · . ·

Ed Reinecke, t'hen California' through a Senate ~ommi\tee. If Mr. Dole) was never ·called Lieutenant Governor, received it was paid . for. with party as a witness before the Senati the I.T.T. offer early in May fonds, the memo said, Mr. Dole Watergate ·committee and ther and transmitted it by tel~phone wo~l_d be. C:riticized for pla. ying is n? record that c. o?'mit~e i_n to Mr. Mitc~ell. Mr .. Rem~cke politics; if Senate funds were vest1gatOrs . ev.er mterviewe was later tried and convicted d ·· ·. . . · . . · · · · · for perjury because he ,lied to u~e · he. co~!~ be q1ti_c1zed for him on the matter:. One forme l the senate committee about m1sappropr1ation Of!. J3overn- staff member. suggested· that telling Mr. Mitchell. The convic- ment money .. · . · ·. <· '\ . he· was not asked becausej tion was overturned on. the The memo s,uggested,th:at the ".there were bigger. fish to fry"j ground that no quorum was I re-election committee W,ould se- and ~he commi~tee did.not hav~ present in the committee when cretl:( .supply·4he,Jyn~~ and the time to.foll~w up what ap he gave the testimony. · th~.u' 5,eI).8.tor Dole,y;as ~ked, peared to be pe~1pheraLmatter .

·Mr. Reinecke later told . a he. -~ould; reply, -.· Jl . private . ?e_nator Doles _opponent, Dr.! grand-Jury here that along with source,, supplied; his, travel W1lha~ R. R9Y:· m the. Knas~s.I Mr. Mitchell he was surehe)lad f.u.nds. He appare~tly choljeto s~n~~or1alrac.e.1n 1974 fou~d it informed ·Mr. Dole and Daniel do that. ' · . . · ' .. ·· difficult to. turn these. questions Evans, Mr .. Dole'.s assistant,·'.~"-: On. Aug. I, 1972,:t)\e ~on- and;,. others .. stemmmg; Jrom I aboutthe offer. . _ .. '.:,_; >>: _ gres~1onal. Quarterlt" routinely Waterg~te to any. _P0!:1t1ca\_ a~-!

Josephine. L. '.Good; _:one:- of p~bltshed , Mr.:· Dole s. r,eport of vantage., .In .one ,m,c!dent ~1s1 Senator·P.ole's a!lSis.tants .. a~ ~e }:i.1s 1.971 .. ; trav.els .. Th.~:,:,repor·t\efforts to. ma. ke p. o. I.1t1.c .. al.: m·. 1le~ 1 Republican committee,:_testtfte,d _noted.·· .. Aug .. ·· 17'.~22. ; ~ap_a~, ag.e on a Wat~,rg~te, . matter; 'thiifsne·gave Mr. Dole a' memo" sout!J.y1etna~~ ~an;ib9:4!.~.:.'~~fl,1_: ~a1le~!; . , .. ·A. <· · . :-.-.:;!! .. :,.,;.:_;I randum on July 2,. 1971,' that; I ··- ... ., .. . ,

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~ offer and, sh_e ,said it was1"c~n- ~ ce.iva. ble'.' ·tJ1.at. 'he. c.ould have give~ a:,copy·tc(Mr: ~~ch~.11. 1

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Had Mr. Dole been a party to infor,ming Mr. Mitchell of the offer, he might have been aware that there was an at­tempt to manipulate the Justice Department's' I.T.T., case. He was never asked these questons by an official body. ·

Senator Dole has made sever­al responses on the matter in news conferences, on March 10, 1972j he acknowledged that the party had receivecl the offer but denied it had any connection ·with the antitrust case. He said he had rebuffed an effort by Miss Beard, a consultant for I.T.T., to meet with him in 1971. In 1974, when he was running for re-election, how­ever, The Kansas· City Times quoted him as saving he never knew about the offer.

. A check of present and for-· mer Senaate '.Judiciary Commit­tee· staff members who worked on· . the . I.T.T. investigation

, found that there was ·no cle.ar ! reason why he was not called 1 to testifv. · · ·. · One staff man suggested pri­vatelv that the ·thrust of the investiJ?ation centered . main·ly on I.T.T.'s relations with Mr. Nixon's· White House . and the

.. staff believed that Mr. Dole and the partv.· committee . were "on the peripherv" of what was goine: on in Washington.

Replaced as Chairman . Senator Dole fehl out of favor

with the ·Nixon ·White House -•late in 1972 and was asked to

, step down. He was .r~placed by i George Bush. now the Director of Central ·Intelligence. ·

Dul-in~ the Senate Watel"J!ate he~ri·ngs in. the summer of 19.73. it was disclosed that while Mr. Dole was at the RepubHcain

·commit.tee he received .$3,000I i from .the same· secret cache of 1monev .. tJhat la~er firlanoed thej Watergate burglary;. · Hu~h Sloan, -:the treasurer of.

the Committee:,f.or the Re-;elec-1 tion of rtle President, .testified that he gave ~3,000 to Sena.torJ Dole for a trip to ·South Viet­nam. · · .

"Internally within the · staff1 we could .not understand why, we were paying 'for Mr. Dole's\ trio," he testified .

Committee · investigators, I however, found a memorandum/ from Bart Porter to Jeb Stuart: Magruder, both elections com-! mittee officials, that more fully\ exolained the transaction. I

The memo noted that Senator I Dole ·had been selected by i President Nixon as a spokes-I man for the Administration's! Vietnam policy in the summer of 1971. It was thought that to enhance' his credentials he I -should make' a trip to South: iVietnam. The memorandum I noted that Senator J. W. Ful-1 bright, Democrat of Arkansas, i then the sever.est critic of the/

ar, had never been to Viet-am. Mr. Fulbright was chair­an of the Foreign Relations ommittee. ~he ~emo estimated the trip

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Kansan Say~.- Public_ Has Doubts

~About the· :.weird Performance' ).1' -~f the Democratic Candidate · •.Jff\~lll. I ~<;~~)°!I, • • , . . n:'<" • ByJAMES M. NAUGHTON .

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,. WASHINGTON,·oct. l-Senator Robert tJ, Dole said today that the Republican t:ampaign ticket.was a beneficiary of the'· electorate's doubts about Jimmy Carter's \ ''weird performance" as the -Democratic Presidential nominee. . . . .

The Republican ·candidate . for Vice' !>.resident sa:id at ·a White House news ·.· oonference that Mr. Carter'.s •discussion of lust in a PlayiJlOy magazine ·interview, his derogation of former President Lyn- · <ion B. Johnson and his imprecise plans ·· for tax revision were "rather.· strange."

_ se·~rtor ,Robert_ J, .DoleJs &.~used ~ya comment of President Ford during'1'.thelr

The exc·hange with,the Senator from.· ~ansas, who had emerged f.rom a 40-fl).inute !l)eeting with President Ford, j11-tluded the following: · · . • · .

:~Et~:p~~:!:~:.·f{~;21:rf.~ Pr~Sfaenttb F1y< f ;B.I.0 IS Said t01Fin . paign. The Republican Senator then did · · · · "q\

·!!1~es~~e~s~~tg :~b~:1~~ c~n~!~cd~~r !~~ .West on Monday. ·Of Wrongdoingfin . before I even opened my rilputh" as a "

~a;~i:.~t=~ator twice ~eclined to offer an '•:'On :a 6-Day Trip Continued From. Page I : '~~\·ord, llpol~gy to Charles F. Ruff, the Watergate · · . . . _:· •·: !:~ agm 1>pec1al prosecutor, for having insinuated .· \ he .had "absolutely no ... knowledge•~· that Repw earlier th\l!t Mr. Ruff's inquiry into Repub- WAS~INGTqN, Oct. I (AP)-Pres1dent Mr.· Ford was ·the ta,rget of the. speciaJ' that iican campaign· financing in the Presi- F~rd will l~ave _on Monday for a six-day. prosecutor's investigBJtion. · mot.ii dent's -home county. in Michigan w·as trip to Ca! 1 forn~a, Oklahoma and Texas, However, lhe noted that the local~ of .· He politically inspired. Yet Mr~ Dole acknowl- Ron Nessen, his press secretary, said the allegatiQl]l was Mr. Ford's Congres- .~hart

. edged reports that the inquiry sitemmed today. . . , sional district. in Michigan, which sur·'·an el_ !from an allegation passed Qn to Mr. Ruf( The centerp1ec~ of'the journey will be rouncls the city of Grand Rapids. "One; the f, by the Attorney General's office and Mr. the. second tel.~v1sed deb.ate, on. forejgn has to assume when -you mention Gra•nd tion 1 Dole said, he "wouldn't have made the p_ohcy and national security affairs, with Rapids, you'd think of Gerald Ford" he 'of pol same comment" about Mr. Ruff had he ~1mmy Cart~r. the Democratic nominee, said. · ' '

. known that at.the time. m San Francisco on WednesdaY.. , , ,· ·. Other Jnfonnatlon • :·)i•\/'. ~:~ fJMr. Dole blamed Mr. Carter for having·· Mr. Ness~n said that Mr. Ford would Th' . fl' ... "•' ... r.

''got Billy Graham in· the act" becau.se leave Washington lat~ Monday afterno~n is con 1cts with. informatiOn -"de~. the n< the Democratic nominee's son, Jeff, sug- and f_ly to S_an Francisco, where he yvlll veloped by The Nw York Times ill inter-~ 1sessio g~s~~ that the evangelist had bought his stay in !l pnvaite home for a three-night views here_ and in Gra!Jd Rapids in 'whiih' the ot d1v1mty degree for $5. Jeff Carter "proba- .st~y._ On Tuesda):', _ lyl.r.~ ?':lessen said Mr. sour~es _said the special prosect1tor's in•. the I•• l>ly heard it at home," Senator Do1e said. Ford_ would. part1c1pate rn at least one vest1gat1on· was to determ~ne wftletfuer' excha: ,. . • . . pu_bhc event, although he added that de- ~ampa·ign roritributions had been illegally er ~ 11 V A Question on a Contribution, tails ha~ not b_een worked out. · and covertly diverted to J\1r.·Ford th11ough or' an

The Kansan volunteered his ap_prafsal . After Wednesday's debate; the Presi- Kent County Republica_n cQffimittees. . him (j,

~f the "~eird" Carter campaign in seem- de~t plans 1to drop in on: a part'y of. cam- Mr.· Tyler said that when bureau. offi• :: Mr. mgly trying to change the subject of the pa1gn supporters who will.watch the pro- cials brought the allegation to his afren~; ence ti news conference after repeated question- ceedings on television. He did the same iion he discussed the matter. with At· that l' ing about the Watergate special prosecu- thing i11 Philadelphia aft~r the first debate torney General Edward H. Levi and then,. taxes tor's inquiry into an allegedly illegal on Sept. 23. . . . . ~ with Mr. Levi's approval, referred it to his tat $5,000 corporate contribution to Mr. Mr. Nessen said that the, President Mr. _Ruff's office. Mr .. -Tyler said, "I did ..-.~Foll< Pole's re;eJection campaign in 1973. · woulcj leave San Fr.ancisco early Thurs: not mform Mr. Ford ... I never told the a·ccord

After a question abOut the inquiry, Mr. day for Los Angeles, where he will tour White House" about the allegation. lar wi• Dole repeated that tie had done nothing a plant ~f the North American Rockwell He said 'that he and Mr. Levi were the three ; improper and then added tliat voters were Corpora_t1on that has been set aside for only itwo officials ·in the Department of ton a11 responding to the Ford-Dole campaign be produ_ct10n of the B-1 bombe_r. Later that Jus.tice who knew about the allegation menL:; cause of "great doubt that Governor car- m_orrnng, the spokesman saJd, Mr. Ford and that he had never termed it "serious" record· ter-his weird performance his judg- :mil take part m a "voters convocation" or "significant" in discussions with news- The :ment." · : . . · · ' on the campus of the University of South- men. , , . . Kent t

Asked for ;an"-exptanadon, Mr. Dole al- ern California~ . After he made -the initial referral to rived 11 ~uded <to M_r: Caz;ter's use of a vulganism At Dinner With Reagan Mr. Ruff, he said, he never again dis- ~d for rn recent .1nterv,1ews. to . the Georgian's On Thursday night, he will join Ronald cussed the investi~ation with the special condu

. private meet1·ng w1· •. 1. reporters an" to R J . d f prosecutor nor had any knowledge of Kent u1 .. eagan, 11s e eated challenger for the h ·t ecJ d · h' h

what ihe called Mr. Catter's tendency to R bl' · ow 1

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..., epu 1can Pr-es.1dential nomination, at a tribuLiG

1 a ways ••J1d. fault in a very harsh way." fund-raising dinner. The President's re- 'Automatic Referral' ' '· ::,:. ancj l;;t

: The Senator said "it just st11ikes me marks will be broadcast by closed-circuit Mr. Tyler termed the decision t~ ask d 1· hs rather strange" that Mr. Carter could television to similar dinners around the ;yrr. Ruff _to inv(!stiNate the al.legation an t~i~~ei;'. question fol"mer President Jo·hnson's ve- country. · · autoi:iiat1c referral. be7ause 1t jnvolved;• ;t:• Iii. ai racity jn a Play;boy interview and "then . Mr .. Nessen reported that Friday morn- he said, the 1972 Presidential elections. with R• he can go around t(J tthe widow and say, mg would be devoted to meetings with "My job is to decide where to se'rid and otli 'I didn't really mean it.'" . · civic leaders and other persons from the these things and. the key words to me swer w

·After ;quar'reiing with one· questioner f:os ~ngeles area, followed by participa- were 'Presidential election ... 1972,". he- ; .. Offic 21bout llhe tone of. the inquiry and accus- t1on m a civic festival in suburban Glen- said. Under the original charter, the "i. the J fog The Washfogton Post of having con- dale. On Friday afternoon; Mr. Ford will Watergate. prosecutor has jurisdiction (:'aunty cocted "a sinister note" in repor.ting that fly•from Burbank to Lawton, Okla., for over all ~harges of campaign financitlj: Congff several page-s we:re missing from Mr. an overnight slop. · · 1Ilegahty m the l 972 Presidential election.: said in Dole's 1973 campaign !finance ledger, On Saturday, the President will fly on Mr. Tyler, who ·was nominated as be exo1, Senator .Dole struck a lighter note. to Dallas to take part in the opening of Deputy Attorney General by President ing. ~ · the Te~cas State Fair and, in the after• r noon, 1s expected to attend the Texas-

C arfer~ Was Guest Twice. Oklahoma footl1all game in .the Cotton No·_ rthe'ast Gove·rn'o'· ···r~·i· .Bowl. He plans to return to the White :'.'

I A C • R House around midnight Oct. 9. ' f Q OrporafrOn esorf · Meanwhile the President signed a bill

to gi·ve top employees of the legislative

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·.;,._ 1llh1"le Georgr"a Governor brnnch annual I·· y incre;iscs to lwcp pace t'J wi1!i pri\ 1 1111· ir1 1 1-i1· ..

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1;-j ::~R~birt:-iJ~~'~ri~l~~ th~. ~~~~t,'~~lican:; ~i-4e~ · This aggresgveness apparently was a major reason-for - 'date helped-mastermind the. Nixon convention nom~tion. . and economic tracts; h~ no known bobbies _exce~ ~n. ele-

:--.~-_-~:_"". _tprraes_ dl.1Cdti~O __ n ___ nt:15_.a_,_'~-_; __ "lso __ · tn.~8fn_:'e~e·_· ... ·l·l .. Q,_IS~--- ·ra~·,·:·.t·_,:.-:m_,_,..,.._.:··a·· SnSseOl,_ ·aC·~·n.e-. bis ~rise selection as Vice-presidenUal·nominee. Pre$•-'-·-.: .•_rtie new Si:!nawr soo"n ~came-the new Ptesidenf3 most , , pbantine~collection of (Republic~} elePba~UiIDii;-es.; shuns.-··-, ; 1.e """""' r Y dent Ford's ~hief of staff Ri~hard B. Cheneycsaid aqerw~ • , •. : ~ suppoi1eJ"iui._Cap~tol;.Hill - chiming ur on Vice·Pr~!!i· the W~fiingto~_social ~~i-~-Unger in bis offic.~ at night·.

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that among Mr. Dole's chief attributes were "!haMie was a . -·,dent _Spiro T.'A'gnew"s brbadsides against Hie-news me~, .- .. telephoning fafmers and-other Kansas constituen.ts:"'.:: · ':' .. '• ·.: -· or a ·COJl$8rvatjveA1beril?• fS':· he a tou~h . man wbo is a good speaker', who is a very ~ffective. cam• ,touting the unsuccessfut._Stipreme CoUrt nominations_,of G. · . . "He's not really~ workaholic;• says Wllllam, A. Taggii"rt. ; . : ·~a.t;che~ ,.;n,rJ.~ ,_~r~~;'.-·-~~;~:~?:~Qlfeag~es paigner, that he is a tough~minded man .. : /'. _ . _ . Harrold C~well" aild 91emerit F, Haynsworth, and defend- a political adviser tO ~SeDator fdr. 15 or 20 years who n«iw . -->9•.ve ,their· 1mp.i:_~ss19~' .of the OQ_e-ti(ne ... But tJie ''fough'.- facade contains cracks. His fir~t ~ajor · ing Mr. N~on. during~ _w~~rgat;e -sciiq~ (dis~in~- ii':- works Jor: hilli · on tbe---..Agrtcult~ . 'Committee. "It's. ·a ·

Nixon defender in this profUe by a Moni- speecli in the Senate. in 1969, on the _anniversafy of. bis as a mere Tes<:ue oper,auon co:°c1:Jcted b~ the Washington' ·. stronger motlv_ation.- Jle'.s;goaI orieli.tect He JNants to di'l the· . tor correspondent. . . , -J , World War Il. wouncfil1g in_ Italy whieh Jeft )li~ with _a .. _ Post fo_r -~he McGov~~ ~sidential cam~)' . . _ very best job he can.~'. .. - ·, :: 2-.. • • - . • • · : ·

.Q · ' · crippled right arm, urged creation of..a:presidential tasli- · . The grate~ Pre~"~t recipro~ated by ~PJ»Ofrll~ng-~a- - · ~ "!_siia~.~f ~ch~·deV°otiori'fo the j~~·- say,.iho~e in!!,., l..JO.:SfO~. · ·/f}ei_ s.s . ·. -. \ } force on the pby~ically handicappt!d.· PFeSideill. _NiXori did. ·_. ~ ~r DOie c~ Of;~ party from1t9711'o 1973,. a ~nure posltio_n to Imo~, was _Mr. Dole's first man;aa?e:·.The.eouple'· ;_.

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·-Slaff correspondent 0 ( · ""- " • .. ( . And h~ has teamed up with form~ De01ocra_t1c preSiden,- - :. Hgbt ·0c~ hiS · Nixon· ii~ (8:'11king~gn u:'~G ~erward: he made : bitter,'' ''j>olirt man." And bis ca{llp8igning since tiien has-_ · 'The.ChristianScienceMonitor t tial no~mee_G~rge ~- McGo~~_.(_wbm __ n_h~ o~ce_deride~. ;:_ :N· . ·.r..· J~. . t e 'wouldnt mind~ ~nelittletodispelhiS.adv.ance'billing. .. -,.".- '- ·:-._.o ,, ,,,

as having ·~limited himself to a. few nutrit1on_.1ssues"). to. · .. IXo~, new 0Y~~ th~~te. > and deftly .turne4 the Water · e· - -wbe· ·: · - · 1y· • · ..... - .. ----- ·-· · • .. • -.. _, __ ..••. -• ,Washln'1on . . · .· - . gatec ISSUe against)ifs .opponent (branding him a "mud- ut , ~ tbe.ne~ . ~o_n.unated 1candi~te mad~ a trmm~

Hubert Humphrey was late. ~ta reform of the_ food-~mp ~~gram ~b1ch ~e Ford,-. Sling~'.' ~hing"i1): ,_ ·• '. . · ~·- . . . - . _,,,.. • _,:.;,, .. :· ~.piat return willl ~e. ~$Jent_; to t~)'._;-Russeu •. wher~ ~O: ", : His less-senior colleagues on the Senate Agriculture Com- - Whiy tRee Hobuseli fou,~t asds ttha_ oo,tliberal. I am tryint· _ g t

1o .~press ':- . Haviiig siirVived ·Watergate, Ile now lives- in an apartn'lent - ·. ~ ago_ born~~~- frien~ ba4~:r.~~-$r,80() fo~ tteap f '. .

. mittee .. theSeCretaryofAgr!.culture:anatbeaudienc4an m pu can nen. wearenotan1-peope, rleex- ·there. ,_. -.~' .. _ · -- .. · c::_.. ·.: •.. " ~ -.:_ mentof·ll:is:war_.wo~~.~~e,r'be~vyhitter"stoadbeforea · - · __ ·_.·were ~Wirig re_ Sti_· ess w_·, aitmg·ror th._e liearing on m __ ilk-p,iice Pf"~- - _ . - - - - ,_;.-.,_· _.:~, , ,,- . . \ . ..:-· .. ·. ·;;.~!" ,, .'. · .. -. . : "·' · · ~urthouse ~rol.vtt and openly wept; ;., u;,,--,..,,.o.-I < .. 1~_,: ·· · <-' r

~portS:-to ~- . . . ... l . Claims Clark MacGregor, the former: White House-off1- .. ·.•A F~rd ~mat~. but a Ford cntic. The Pfe51cfent - ·,.,_-1{ _,, :·<.·: : ·. '." .-- -~~·~:.~' · . :, '!,''· :.::,~~-~ :,_,_':-c= r_ <'~' · 1( · · -~y. irl rn; b~~--:--and 'was:m·o~~giy toasted ~th cial· who served' eig1tt·:y-e3fS with Mr. Dole .in J!te.:~ouse oi -· s;1ys he' PfCked ~l'.Mc~pres~e~tiat can4i.cl.ate' because, . · - · · · ·· '1 --· __ ._,-_ • _..,_,.,·h':\': - · · ~ · ~",;· ... ·~;,· -~ ·· _ · ·-· . a glass of milk hoisted by Sen. Robert J. Dole. _·. :- i _ Representatives: ''When it comes to people, Bob is a-~ .among other- things,-!ie "has been a•team p~a.Yei;: (an~J Bob -

That is one side, the public side, of the .1976 Republican· softie." · · · _,_ · .. ·:: _.'.'': ";; ,_. · ; : J: :·L~ Dole's philosophy 311d'mine coincide identically';" - .· ·. <

vice-presidential nominee: the knife-:edged humorist,' the A- Nixon d~e~der; .. ,::, .-:= ~- : · ,, - : Yet this ''teain P.bt_~ _er"~atso'has been·a clubhouse_ ·cn_uc ' i needling partisan 1 · ·· and Monday mornioi;quarterback of. thl;! Ford .captaincy.. :. Tlie··wry: t'erbal,style of RepubUcan vlee-presi• . J

-_ But there is an~ther::more pri_vate si~e. Behind the ~bes, •A staunch coMe~ative, but a civil-~t&. liber~i, Se-~~- . D!!ring bis o~ nH!~on race·two years ago, he rated the _ dentfaf candidate -~obert J.' ·oole. has been aptly__ ( Senator Dole is a close friend of the m1tn he targeted,; Hu- tor_ Dole's politics.al'.e as plain as the.Kansas horizon.- He is . i>reSlaent "no grea¥t to Republican candidates,•Fand . . , ~rl~·.i;y_~- ~'.?I Ralph N~de~- ~o~g.rei > ! bert Humphrey. A sf)ectrum apart pbilosQphical,ly,) the a conservative from a conservative familr'. lii_'a :co'nserva- · Vo1Ced hope that " -. d doesn'Udck the ball awa . in the .• - slonal researebers a5 "aif appetJzer~ Of humor wUh' j '.

... would-be Republican vice-president and almo!;t-was: D~mo- . tive state, whosf.!_ \!ice-presidential nomination-. was .cleared. - · · ·· er. 's ad umbled a cou le of times. · . >" · twiHUll CiiurSei1if:Sai-casm;" .. ere Is a .sa~pler.'.:._ -:. · 11

'"'" ·crauc president share the saine small· town Midokestern: . by Ronald Rea~. and whose s~yen-year- Semlte cvoting _ . : ·faulted hiS .pargon. - former President Nixon ·as· 'pre- ; _ "'. :on SeD. ffutiert ff. Humphrey (D) oi ~lnne5oia:,~ .. , r :,~~;pfuins· 1:13c!Wow:id. zest for political combat, and a ·g~~uine ~. record wins a 75-pe~cent·approval rating (r.!)m the·'Amer-:-""f.,.,!!iture.;:,,. · · . · ,' ·"i·: .. · .-·-- ' . ----··-- .. --: ·~I'm. a.s rt.of-ff '. man myseli. i•m.stiek: ''~ \i ,_, __ • · nf" Mmdng t th · - . ,-. w · )~.for:_ (i'.o~tutionaLAction (average Senate ~~o_r§:! la5t .. );~ . BUt--il'::tf!e'..'.~ .. Can Vice,presidenttal ilo~ee . .on_en ,. rt.,l.tllfnk lle_.s a ser .. ~----_.--- - . - .: ~

/:t~l~·-~=:~~o:a!~~::~~r~~= :,::¥~::- year.:~ K5 J)erce~~. -~\~ frurly cons~~~t;ve ... ~·~~ s~ys a.-·: :~':iQtJ@i='.l!iJ::~litica~,c~eer has l>een.'det~r-.- . c~ ~--- ·e~":.a~e/~::::~~:J~!r~!~:_; i

.. tO be jUSt what'he ·iS so fond of accusing Democratic :~resi- -a8ses w cli is itself fairy · ~- ' lntrQdu~ed Jq f~'. ;beltJ><>litics as a boy liste~g to ·-: . (wh"' he was a ·HUie iate appearing):· ·.~ere heZ~. . -;- -~ ' j , dential ·no!'1ll1ee tiJi1my Carter of .being: "a ma~}ogcon-. ' _such categ~rization overlooks eviden~~ th-ar~th~ · Jarmers ~t.JiiS lathe'.~:-~ elev~t~r· m Ru5sell, ~an,a;as, ~ · _. c~mes They'~ ~gging_him In.now." ··' · · .. . !

. tradictions. "· .. -.'. . _'.. . . · - · :·;. . rvative l<ansan may be something of· a Uberal when i has donunat_ed Ro~ Joseph Dole s Ille. Returmng home. On~ _ lfit~rpte ;~tapes;: "Thank goOdness · j : : ,. · . · , · ; ··.;~. ·: · · · L comes to civil rights. Since. liis 5ec0nd term in the House ~~,_w.ai: ~--. ~~a,gt; (to _th!! physical therap(st who .. '!IJ..eneveo.:~ -~ _fiae _Q!'~ .• Ollfce:'I only nOdded. ;, . - l :_ A tough same:f,:~. ··. . -_lf. (fepresenting, a~ district where', wtt~ '~ ·1>1ack 'p0putatioi ·or _nursed him tM>ugh 39 m~~tlis in ~>'. ho,s~i~ );"the> 2«>.": : . ~ Presld~t ~~'..(~~~"the Senator's 11piil11. l r·:f•;·~~~e~'.f:ut~~~times a "soltie." A ·cl~:!' ie · barely 1 percent; race was not an isslie}; be has voted for · .Y~ar,-o1_d_~et W~ el~~ed._to-~e-~a11$3S Legislature. H~ has · . re-eiealon race):;-~'Presldent Ford has .. tried • . . 1 ?:says car!di<11y"ibe senator: has a "tmJOl'Jfillf' ~r ' most ~ajor. legislay~n broadening the. rig~ of; -b~ck' -· : 00~ I~ 31.!.~~on fllce.:-:· : · · · ·· · ,--;.-./ ·...:.- ·. _ . he me. Flrs&there was the t ~<:- .. ~ ~".benefitS himself and his party, bi,tt at other !fu.le~. Americans, except for school buSin~, which .he .• oiJposes. •:-- · Workatlollc ~tlon, . .. . ·. , . ·_· · :amnest and last week the ca o . ! _both~ It dainaged biin enough tO. eam .. -6

_, • . . _ He also has bol,t~ the co~ative ranks t? ~upport . , . During bis four terms in uie House, the demands of tend- ol tlie Wbeat to e' laDs.' · · · , ' . publican ow na or, am . :·:Saxbe.- of< O(Jlo, the:· .. _sed womens ~ual nghts am~ndment to t on" . - ·ing one of _the ~Q:lft.SPl"ClWHbg and rural constituencies in _ . . Oil . .oe.Doeratie .-~ldenbal nominee ·jifilri.'v· ~ i :iaoet"&atchetman." .· •' :,.:'\:,•-;"- ,. -'.·· · · . "· ,·"·' ~ "':''· '..· <'"' ,~ ··- .... :~ the'couhiry·~-~whktfie1d5~veriiig'more.t6aniiaif; .. ,: ~·'SOOUieni-triedMcGOvem." :.:.-.~:...,: :J : ; .. the f#R. dark K~JrWith the_b~.~i:.n.vofoe d~s' 'bes· _ •A~tter~:N.~~-defe~~~. but .a Waterga~.SUJ'Yjvor~'< the state 7,:~!~;:·.~r. Dole :~_f.YR.~~!i!l'LJ>ll .... £apitol.i....."' 10!'-,Z,,~t~:·~:rf!f.Uked "lchanl ~hl:o.~.-~~~·,~4.,, ,-> :] ~ ~ o:-vn -~!;!!!~re miJ~Y.-, "I::~theV~ ~~~:~says, f res,::; -~~~-Df>.!e hitc1J_~~ P.Jlitic~ wagontl! R~~~ard"~~~~·(::: Hill as ('~~lj~:" l\'\.St91 llaS it ... ,· ._." .· . _ · .. '' j _ . '"'"" . -~-- !_::..:..:....._~~ •. -. • )!:..{,,.§:~·. j ... ~y~~ a r"""""i.~sen5"..~~li:'-') _ .!1~ ·:- · --~ :; ~ . ._,".,star. m·-l~'A'.~.t,he am~1tious I<_a.ns~s-~11ate ~lf:~di:;,,z::· !(~~}~-, ,, ;:reads·in~y frorn DuJ~!ft'."'\'. ; ?;r.c:::vJ:l\i""- ;,~··.' :;;;~. /~·1~·.',;:? J

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Some Punching Po\iver for the Ford Ticket Based on recent precede!!~. vice presiJcnti~!I r.0111in:.:•;s appa:·cntly arc 'uppw.~d to assume a sclf-dcpn:catin~ role and supply the humor for tl-.e ticket.

Shortly after he ,vas tapped hy President Ford as his running mate, Sen. Rob..:rt Dole of Kansas. recalled how he was giver. wcrd of his selection. "John Connall/s suite was next door. I assumed they had the wrong number, so before I identified myself, I said, 'Yes, I accept.'" Fighter: In the real world of politics, Dole is less coy and his remarks have more of a sting to them. He is regarded as an outspoken. aggressive legislator and campaigner with a biting wit and a maverick spirit.

Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz.. known as being sparing in his praise, once said of Dole, "He's the first man we've had around- here in a long time who will grab the other side by the hair and drag them down the hill."

Dole's slashing partisan attacks and his ability to define :rnd sharpen the issues were decisive factors in his selec­tion.

The Ford-Dole ticket savors its nomination

A preview of what the Democrats can expect was given by Dole in his speech on the opt:ning night of the Repub­~n Natio1pl Convention. Sighting in on Jimmy Carter, I uok said, "He may have gotten his party's nomination by

default. But he's not going to gel the presidency that way. We haven't convened in the "Show Me" stale for nothing. The buck slops here and so does tht: baloney. I am amazed al the candidate's defensiveness about the purity of his in­tention~ Selection process: Dole's nomination was the culmination of an extensive selection process during which Ford sought the views of each of the Republican dr;legates and alter­nates, as well as the GOP governors, party leaders and Members of Congress. Once the list was narrowed to about two dozen names, each of the potential nominees was sent a detailed questionnaire on possible connicts of interest. financial background and health record. The process came to a head on tht: night of Aug. 18 when Ford. after con­sulting with Ronald Reagan, met with a group of advisers in a session that lasted until after 5 a.m. The group re­convened at about 9:35 and Ford made the decision shortly afterwards. ·

Yet. for all the consultation and internal debate. it is likely that Ford's decision was pure!~, a personal o'le based on pragmatic political considerations, not much differcn: from the traditional system of choosing vice presidential candidates.

Listing reasons why Dole was chost:n. Ford noted that

he was ··a team player.'' that they shared a similar political phil•)sophy, that Dole is a good campaigner and "will help he;tl an·: divisivcnes~ \~ithin the party." No mention was made o.f Dole's polrntiality as President or ~hat his role would be as Vice President shoulJ Ford win the election.

Thus. it can be assumed that Ford, with good reason. is first trying to marshal his forces to defeat Carter before looking beyond November lo a second lt:rm. Personzl background: Dole, 53, reached the political heights via the conventional route. Born and raised in Kansas, he was graduated from the University of Arizona and received a law degree from Washburn University in Topeka. He served 5 1/2 years in the Army during World War 11 and was severely wounded during combat in the ltali2n campaign. He was hospitalized for more than three years as a result of the wounds, whii:h left him with a crippled right arm and hand.

During his recuperation, he met and married his first wife, Phyllis Holden, a physical therapist who had at­tended him in the hospital. They were divorced in 1972 and three years later, Dole married Mary Elizabeth Han­ford, a member of the Federal Trade Commiss:ion.

Dole's political career began in 1951 w.hen he was elected lo the Kansas Legislature al the age of 26. He then served four terms as Russell County attorney from 1953-61. He was next elected lo the House of Representatives, serving from 1961-68, when he won a Senate seat.

Dole was narrowly reelected in 1974 after a bruising campaign battle against Dr. William R. Roy, which cen­tered on the abortion issue. Roy supported self-determina­tior. in abortion cases, while Dole took a hard line against abortion. Political stance: Dole is generally considered to be a con­servative. However, the record shows that he sometimes _ crosses the line from one side to the other. He himself has said, "I'm not as conservative as many would like. I have probably a moderate to conservative voting record."

During the early stages of the Nixon Administration, Dole mostly could be counted on by the White House lo support the President. as he did on such issues as Vietnam policy, the proposed anti-ballistic missile system and the unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of Clement ~-. Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell.

During the early stages of the Watergate scandal, Dole defended the Nixon White House, but then; after bitter criticism of the President's top aides. whom he referred to as "gutless wonders," he parted company with it. Al the same time, he was deprived of his chairmanship of the Republican National ComITJiltee, a position he held from 1971-73. Senate record: Dole's chief value lo Ford is expected lo be his identification with the farm bloc. He is the ranking Republican on the Agriculture and Forestry Committee and is a staunch defender of his farm constituents, often taking positions independent of the White House. In 1975. he supported the emergency farm bill, which FOrd vetoed.

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more liberal than the White House wanted. Dole is also d member of the Finance Committee, where his record is less distin­guisht;d. For the most part. he is considered a safe pro­business vote.

Above all, he almost certainly will add.color and con­troversy to the campaign.

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· ''':SALIS.BURY; N.ci;< Sept. 2-;-The ·townspeople at the barbecve for Dole's said Carter gets ·"his marching or- · ' '.t, d la · Dl · ,,···t · ~ b · ; • wife here:. "We can get behind Sen.·. ders" from labor leader· George . "~P: .P. Y-<'4 ". xie. li. t,h .. a~~ecue. ~le. 1''rom'\vhat I know about h;is v,o!: .. Meany: ·· . · ·: : , · · _The signs, read "We're .Sold .. on Dole" i!lg.record, the ticket could have. been · The Doles .,_,spent Wedll'esd~y. night · am;l the. governor of ,North Carolina turned 'around and served this coun- · at.Elizabetl{Dole's parents' h9me in'

.·tl~clared_,'i( to be .''EJi~abeth Hanford tr~\~·ery .well." ' . ' i · . $alisgui:y, a c~ty of 23,000. Today, the.! 1'.:bole.Day;·;· .. ~-· •"" ... ·· ·.,.·" ·, · ·· .· · Befo~e the barbecue, Dole·ac~nowl~: \ barbe~ue was ·held at _Cataw~a Col-:

{" ·.:Re ublican \vice· resid&ntlal~•;candi-i ::: .. e?~.e~- m .a.,news conference the. con·.. lege w1t!t, a country music ban~ .::~d a .. 'i date ~ob Dol«i'iin&HfSi l\.rkrtb'~Catofilia-~! }< ~.iCiera_)?!e ,w()rk the .¥epu_bl~~ans fii.ce 1 · ~andf~l of local ~nd state. pohtlClan~, · . (b · ·r . ~··;,:;e'"e't~d:'..-!t •.;;: ''t.'h·-., 1 't·. " 'i:·-.m'order, to .wOQ'-bac~·Reagan suppcjrt-: rncludmg Republican Gov. James E, ·

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1ryno_nwitheeiwet~,;~'..;·y"'•.t"'r·i~'~t'o' •"t:;s a; Jtce._:_ ....... i e'rs~an __ d_ :i l,liit_ c_ li_Jup_ i_o_ , rarter_. · in . the Holshouser _Jr>.· f· "· . ·'.::. ,;'·.· · " ' . . ' . r ,.Jfto., ., ~d '11'\•e s~a S . th_...... 'f"" · ... -«;.· . ' , .· Y.' , . . . . . . . . ' .~·where Itonatd':-neagai\ m;i~hiSi'~qqesrto:.i1 , .0 !:', { \!~~~~.," (" . -~: '' .''. ·:.· • ..... < ·~ ·.· SaHs~ury Mayof J:ames Summers, .a , '\take the GOP pr~sld'entlal'~omth'a'tion ':'· '·')~~i?ie8¥Z~~ there were very st1·ong: Dein~crat;.rf¥ld the ,pr~cl~mati~n: des;. , '.from :President Ford 1won tilsrcfirst J:ri· · pos1tJ_ons ;lJ:dd. i.t~~ut the tRepubl~c.anl. ignatmg toda.~ as Ehzabeth Liddy ! macy. ' . ., \' . i ·:. ' '; ~~§if,/(\ .. ' can<ljdates beforEf Jhe L conv~rit101~... }ian_fo_rd Dole ·,Day" for .. ' the 'woman; l . - · ' · : . · " ·· . .,", · Doie!said. "Bu\ the convention.is over:. •:who'lS' destin~d' to •pl~y a ·prominent , f. B1,1~ !~~.,.~lv,l~~~n. cre11;te~ by ~hat. now: Our ·com'mon objectiVe is to win·· role in thls~uJ;>cd~lng: great AmeriCan, . l close,;,:J?~~tl~t,~.a~.,;Wll: e.r1~ef:1.t am1~st i.n N~~ember.'!. . . .\ . . . . dl'.amat H~ \Present~,; ~er. ~ith :'a'.• i today'lifeStlv1ties.• i1 · , : .· . After an·:,afternoon VlSlt to Geora1 . large silver tray:·i:· •· · · '.,,~··' . '- ·· · , · . '

·.i Re'~l'n.'.~· .mos.~ rylsiJ;iJ,~· ... :supporter Yesterlffty, ;,:Dole flew· to_. Charlott<· · · The .. crowd. Of 25o. :induded · man_y , l here,'_ii~,!:(1 ;J_~!~'tAf uli_. e_ ,lql~ ... ~, failed_ to ·. . ; _w. edl}es_ day n_i. g·. ht fo~ a reception· ·· who knew E.l. (zabe_. th Dole long before .. ·l appear;· althou h the 'Sep,a,te .'Wis no.t · .·. h.o*,q j bY, .,~peal R~pubhcans. '/\bout . : -she went to-:Harvard La~ School, be.ti :[in ~~ss .. \9~;- R, .ga~~~·-~!>_rth c'a.rolina 35~))e1,"SOns:stood;,,1,1p4.i!p~~-·.~1!~. ba,~·:. came a _fedetal·t.rade commissioner, i cha1r~~%' Tom ~;E,lhs;:. :,WhQ , said he ne,r-: ~a~: read ":f~d·pq~,~1~µp(!tsws•t ! '.: ··~-~-~-ajQ,~,.~P!lths ag(I, .. l!larried: a U.S .. ! came· 1·at 'Hel.m'~ ·<~e<.Jal.~t. _carefully .. ancl ~PJ?l&\ld~ :qo~~·~>1~·~.e~*':::,~~AA,~.!\-.~~?M:'.i,SVM::"f?'\~·;'1.i','':·; ·\ ._, ·· ... ·; ' i · avoide<l·: mention mg i:Pre~ident Ford, : · of; 6n~l.ip.e ~htiCl11·Jo~~s~ \;'.".;·,-\ ;:1;;?'.~":'L'": !t+'.1S.l1e.:.wa~r~l}.eJof .tlie ·smartest f?nes :: and a~ded\ tha~ .. tbe,;c~servative Kan- . · '· ·~;'f·lthFor4 ~nd Dole you·~e got:tw:.o ;,·: Jll'~he;<C1a,s~;'}.<~.4\C}tarles ~owers, ·an 'isas.S!!-Mtor ",would})avemade a good ·• foµr~letter.word.s you can·hve w;1th,": · accountan~ who ·~ent•to high.school

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higi'tiy c1i1ntional. Heagan supporlt.:rs .~!aged one of the lo11~est, loudest dem­onstrations in the history of COP con­ventions when their ea11diclat1.,'s 11a111e was plaecd in no111inatio11, both to vent their frnslration over his incvitahic de­feat and-so many Ford supporters thought-to delay the President's victory until after prime time. "For what's sup­posed to be a party of serious, responsi­ble businessmc11, we sure do act like damn fools," one Illinois ddcgate com­plained over I.he din ofliorns an<l hoarsc­voiccd cheers.

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The vole differed only slightly from the one on l6C. As expected, Mississippi broke its unit rule to vote 16-14 for the President. Finally, at 12:30 a.m., Gov. Arch l\foore of West Virginia an­nounced the votes that put Ford over the top. At once, the Ford family was up in their seals and hugging one an­other as Ford supporters be­low cheered, Reagan follow­ers wept and the last fow states kicked in their votes to make it 1,187 for Ford-1,070 for his vam1ui shed opponent.

'ON THE SAME SIDE'

"I hope nobody demands a recount," joked Ford in his hotel room where he had fol­lowed each state's vote with gusto. After West Virginia, aides t!ad applauded for 30 seconds or more. At the' Ala­meda, Ly contrast, Reagan breathed what almost seemed a sigh of relief and wife Nancy gave him a con­soling kiss. "\Veil, that's it," he said. Replied Nancy: "I don't care, honey. You did what no one else had ever done." Moments later Ford

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1 rn ae '~•"'P. · · ... \i::j \il:b\ ·*li! fl n the s11.1ok~·-filled. Hoyal suite of Kan­M sas Cif\· s ( .row11 Cenl<·r I Intel, Cl' raid Ford a11.d 11i11c' 'i1dvisers <·1J11gn·g;11l'd around a $.5-.i,day rented conference ta­ble tussling over tl1c \'ice Presidency. Sipping c11fll:e beneath a wa II dotted with photos of tl1e Ford family (Vice l'reside11t Hockt·feller kc;lt slirring his cotli:e witl1 the l'arpiet:c of his eye­glasses) the shirtslcc\'cd group weighed optio11s as first one caudidate, then an­other ebbed a11d faded. At 10: 1.5 on the momi11g after Ford's nomination, the discussion suddenly crystallized. "All

Ford's final nrnnd ofcklilH:ratior~:i'::- , if gan at .1: 15 ;1.111., a li.:w hours after his ;I

110111inatio11 a11d a much p11hlicizcd meet-ing witl1 Hl'aga11. Throughout tl1e week, the President had dangled the possibility ofa F'ord-Ht:aga11 ticket before uncommit-ted dt:legatc;. Beagan, for his part, had insisted lie would not aecept a Vice Prcsi" de11tial job: a condition of their unifying tctc-a-tctc was that Ford woul<l not even make the offer. Thus the President, who had never really wanted to share a tick-et-or the limelight-with his rival, did not ask Reagan to assume an official role

either in the Ford carnpaign or a new Ford Administra-tion. He did, however, solicit Reagan's opinion about pos-sible Vice Presidential candi-dates, among th~m Dole and Sen. Howard Baker of Ten-nessee. Reagan was appar-ently most enthusiastic about the Kansan. But, said Reagan chief of staff Mike Deaver, to say that Reagan endorsed Dole warmly "woul<l be put-ting it strongly."

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over," said Reagan. "\Ve are on the same side and will go forth together."

They stood side by ~idc once again the next night as Ford, after his unexpected­ly rousing acceptance speech, beckoned to the Reagans to join him on the podium. Surprising even his own ad\'isers, the President stepped aside-and Reagan hushed the con\'cntiorfwith an eloquent excerpt from what would have been his own acceptance speech. The delegate~ erupted in a final, emotional communion between the Ford and Reagan forces, and then Ford walked out on tht: Hour into a crush of delegates and reporters. It was the first rough passage of a campaign that promised many more to c:omc.

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August 30, 1976

right," Ford wound up the con\'ersation. "Let's get Bob Dole on the telephone."

Unlike Jimm)' Carter, who entered his convention with the nomination in hand and plenty of time to contemplate a run­ning mate, Ford had been too preoccu-

' pied with Ronald Reagan to begirt" his winnowing process until the final weeks before the convention. On July 31, he requvsted Republican delegates to send him their top five choices for Vice Presi­dent. A week later he was working from a list of two dozen possibilities, and his aides were assembling health and finan­cial records of the leading contenders. Ultimately, however, the selection of Sen. Robert Dole of Kamas was the prod­uct of old-fashioned backroom politick­ing and the dictates of a conservative convention.

preference for him and his fom1idable campaign skills, the group soon eliminat­ed him. Connally's association with the milk-fund scandal was a clear liability; special White House polls also showed him hurting the ticket more than any other candidate.

It soon became evident that the Presi­dent had narrowed his Veep list to four­Baker, Dole, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain Anne Ann strong and fonner Dep­uty Attorney General William Ruckel­shaus-though one participant recalled that, at the time, "Dole didn't have any­one for his champion." Not even Ford mentioned him much, he said. Instead, the President's early favorite was Baker, whose Southern roots and high poll scores for integrity worked in his favor (the fact that his wife had been h·eated for

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HUBBARD: When did }10LI /ir~t !i'Uspect that Prnsident rord would pick 1':1ob Dole c.s his running m;otc?

DOLE: \V1· t11mcd !111 T\' tk1t 11wrni11g ;!11d [!ward] that I w;c-; ;1111rn1g f<H:r fi11;d­bts. \Veil, I knew l11•111· ,\rn1stro:1;.-: l'.'as in Scutla11d, a11cl 1)ruhalily !'011ldn't lw liadc l1y 110011, and I lw:Hd that [\\'illia111] H11c:l.;elsl1a11s was in Taco111a, and lie had it tight Lo gt't in there by 11uo11. l said well, this l'ould lH: down lo [ llmvar ] 13aker and Dole. l f' the.·~, do11't go air 1a­lietieally, I might h<O\'l~ a clia11ct.'. \\' did take a little interest tl1cn.

Q. You /lad an emoiio11al moment up podium in J'Olir homr:town.

A. You know, \'Oii Sl~e a lot or faces the crowd ~hat Y".11 I 1a\·cn't Sl'l'n fnr al< 1ng time. \Vhe11 J was wounded a11d 11l'eded some 11101iey for a11 oper;1liou they sort of

· had a solicitation aud raised $2,000 or $3,00(), and I could S<T different people

4 there that had helped. And I lost my father in the pa~l sevl'ral months and he

m was very proud ofrny standing i11 politics t'<i and he wasn't there lo sec this. The t;·.:1 com hi 11al iu11 or just being home among ~<';1 real friends that know you iuside and out,

I' t~r and ifyuu'n· done anything worthwhile fr\ · it's lieC"ausc ofpeopk like th:it. You look

A. I n·:ilh- !1:1H·11'1 1lt1111:!li! alio11t i~. I :;i;i~g,·~,t ·,q, i1:1\·1· a l11t ol'w11°rk 111 dll. lliglil 11<1\\', 1'111 still i11 a daze.

CJ. W/J;;! do you bring to tllis tlclrct? A. I tl1i11k a liridg!' witl1 tit(' H1·;11~an

foru·s. Sn11ic [d"l1:gatcs] al1stai11cd i11 lliv \·otv f11r\'ice l'rcsidc11l; itl1c~· \\'ere] ,.L'I')' upset ;il1011! tltc H!:agan lw;s. B11t l1y and large, l Jia,·c a 1~ood rel al in11ship \\·itl1 tlw kadcrsliip oftk· Hcaga11 1'11rcl's. S·.Tond­ly, I already had a bridge: with part)· kadr:r~: in cacl1 slate. Thc:y cl1a11g1-, of'

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Q. Is it fair to .c;ay you're not tong

''· l don't know about tlie sharp tongtw. That may be 1101 the right j:pi­lhcl, 11111] do rt'acl, and it sec111s to 111e if you're going to close tl1e gap 30 points yo11\·c gut lo gt:! people's allcnlirn1. You du11't do ii by glli11g out a11d sla11dt:ri11g anyone <•r attacki11g Fri . i\!ondak. or Go\'crnor Carlt:r. You do it by pointing up contTadictious. It seems lo 111e tl1ere are enough there lo keep us busy to Cl1rist111as, let alone Nove111bcr.

' -~~~~~: out and find one iii tl1c crowd anJ it stirs l V_:': . : you up inside. a. Will it be .a hardball campaign? I .,-.:.: A. I have a feeling that though Carter · ·.~j • 0. How do&s it feel to be on;; ticket that's publicly plays softball, he's eapable of

-.:'l · 30 points behind with only two months to playing hardball, and we just want him to ;;~:J catch up? learn how to catch as well as pitch.

. >j:~ On selling rhc ticket: 'You've gol to get at1c11tion' Q. Where is he vulnerable?.

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A. Hight. \Ve mentioned a few on \1011-i cLiy e\·cning in my speech. We talh·(L ahoul l,l(B~ [the "Hight lo Work" la\\']\ his various positions on that, and c\·c11i suggested next lime pl'rhaps lie i,; quizzed hL: would suggest it \\'as his sh(H:; size. Aflt.:r looking al the polls 1rniylic licll: size would be l1eltcr.

0. How about Senator Mondale? ' A. Moudale has a verv liberal rt·c:ord--!

we're probably two se1;ators who canlw; absent fr()m Congress without changi11!'. a \'Otc. We'll hc1,·c a live pai1from110\\' ti Ill the election. He's a sharp, able fello\•.) We're on good terms. He'll be selling hio'. wares and I'll he trying to sell ours. Bu': they're starting off with a big lead. t

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nt Ford. Can that be used against you? i A.,' . link J had the s iarpes .. ·f"i

ence on grain embargoes. I even refusL"d: to make a trir to Kansas with Ford. f didn't do it as an act of hostility. I just Ii.- Ii'. · that we had to get someone's attention-! not the l'r1:~ddent's, he tmderslood, li11tj others in : ! "-' Adniinislralion who nc\'l·rj cally felt tl1c embargo was a bad thing.,

a. OU criticized him over the Nixon par·1 don. How do you feel about it now?

A. At least it's behind us. Now you ma:1 not agree that it was tht, right thing to du.J But perhaps as for as the settling of t!.e' Watergate problem it was probably a, wise judg111c11t. I . I

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:J' Q. Why did President Nixon sack you as q GOP chairman? ··· A. J don't know. I didn't want to stay on :j as chairman 1111H.:l1 longer hut it seemed ;:~ after traveling thousands and thousands :.'.I of n1iles and \\'orking hard it just \\'asn't

total j~1sticc lo be gi.ven a Camp David jack<:t and a rather strong suggestion tl1al a good time l~1r me to :nakc a transition would lie rigl1t aftt:r the 197:3 Inaugural. Jn the lna11!-';11ral p;1radc the chainnan

ril nonnally rides behind the Prcsidcnt­I'm not certain I w;is in the parade--! was so far back, the parade had ended before I passed the reviewing stand. But I had to he I icve that a lot of that was t lie efforts of the unclcrli11gs like ;\lagrudcr. If they couldn't dominalf' you, they didn't \\ant you. A 11d I was, I guess, d c scribed a: i.,· R. 'C""l'"C"T-e-tt+.---~

Q. supported Nixon on the war thro • h 1972, didn't you? How does that loo/< In r trospect?

. I don't know what I wou Id do lo ch ngc it. ) f you knew then wliat you

· k1 (>W now, you could have changt.'d, but e crything was always a crisis whether i'. w is Ca111hodia, bombing or whate\·er. It w s always pretty well dressed up as ti rig t tl1ing to <lo.

Q. upreme Court nomina ions of Clement Haynsworth I and G. Harrold Carswell. Did you act out of 1 loyalty or conviction? r

A. I think I would ~tick by my guns on f. Haynsworth-I thi11k we've really niisseJLtlw---sen;j_~ding Southern judge. On Carswell, had""h lSeen properly evaluated hy the Justice Department, he probably never would have been submitted.

Q. Does your divorce make you politically vulnerable?

A. No, I don't believe so. I mean it's four or five years ago now and my ex-wife

· remanied two or three years ago.

Q. Aren't the Republican moderates going to feel excluded by a conservative ticket and a

. conservative platform? A. I hope not. We have to find room. I

believe I have a lut of support with the moderate senators like [Charles] ~lathi­as and Ed Brooke and others bet·ausc I recognhed that we could have different

. philosophies and still be compatible.•

a dri11ki11~~ proli!cn1 \\"as not considered a serious d1awha('k). Bui some Ford stall~ ers, e\"o sensitive lo the \Vatc-rgate issue, fdt volt' rs wou Id he con !"used al >Dill

whctlicr Bakl'r had s!dcd wit Ii the lwrnc·~ or thL' villains of tlH: scandal. Otht'rs criticized Baker as hla11d and loo canu:sl. "Politically speaking," said one strate­gist, "B;!~cr came oi1l pretty much as a eu11ucl1.

Sever;il advisers, including campaign director Stuart Spcnc<,r, toyed with the idea of Annstrnng. Choosing a woman, they saiJ, would derail Carter's strat­egy fur two weeks while he tried lo figure out huw to handle her. But then someone rem em lie red that pri vale ly com111issio11cd GOP polls had shown half the He11u bl ica11 women questioned about their Vice Presidential choices did 11ot want a woman a heartbeat away from the Presidency (40 per cc11t of the Dc111ocralit: women ulJjcded), a11d

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1,d one pa1iicip)\1. :>thers fig11r.,cl that Dulc hrn11ght cd 1sideralilc strc11gtli to tl1c ticket. Ill' is :L.'.'i1serv;1tivc, but not a lwrd-lint.·r, \\'ho is \1·t·ll liked tliro11gl1011t the p:irty. Ile ;tlso did \1-ell iii tlic \Vliitc Hn11sc Vc('p polls, ra11ki11g fifth in name rccognitio11.

PULLING THE SOUTH

Dole's ties to the Farm Belt seemed to further sway Ford, who is unpopular with many farmers because of his grain embargo against the H11ssians last year. "The President fell he had to have the Farm Belt as a base," csplained an aide. Also, the President knew he needed a strong campaigner l!J balance his own weaknesses. D~1le was one of the tough­est stumpcrs available.

While the President sipped coffee, his aides raised Dole's liabilities-his fail­ure lo provide geographical balance, his lack of appeal to moderates, !tis divorce, n

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Annstrong's candidacy faded rapidly. his stinging, shoot-from-the-hip humor. ~ Rockefeller reportedly supported "He jokes too much," complained one of

Ruckelshaus, whose Watergate role (he the conferees. "He's capable of putting was fired for refusing to fire Archibald his foot in his mouth." Others argued that Cox), unlike Baker's, clearly worked in Dole .was an i11telligent man-a11d that his favor. The f.mner head of the En vi- he would control his humor as a Vice ronmental Protection Agency also had a Presidential candidate. Another Ford positive image as a conseivatio11ist. aide felt that Dole "can pull as much out

t ~loreover, he was acceptable to the·mod- of the South as Baker," and the divorce eratcs and even lo Reagan, who had problem was played down by Nelson offered Ruckelshaus a spot on his ticket Rockefeller. ''I've gone through that," he before choosing Schweiker. Thus de- said. "It's nota political ha11dicap to be spite Ruckelshaus"s lack of campaign ex- divorced ... Public perceptions have periencc and the ~rdent feminism of his changed." wife Jill, most participants left their By 10: 15, Ford had his mind made up . meeting at 5 a.m. convinced he had an A few minutes later the phone rang in inside track. Dole's seventeenth-floor suite in the

Ford told his advisers to sleep <m the Muchlebach Hotel (he was right next decision for a while. But at 9:30 a.m. he door to Connally)." Bob, I want you tu be called them together again, and it was on the ticket,'' declared Ford. Dole, who clear that, after-sleeping on it, the Presi- said later he hadn't expected the call, dent had come to this meeting with Bob never hesitated. "Certai11ly," he replied. Dole on his mind. "Ford must have felt -SUSANFRAKEAwrthSAMUELSHAFFEAandTHOMASM. most comfortable with Dole," speculat-... , DeFRANK in Kansas Ci1y

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totally n'alistic in ll1at arr·a. So 111avlw J'!l have a d1a11tT t<> i'.l'I the Pn·sidcnt's (';11 now and try to t•xpl.ti11 tl1at we wa11t reforlll h11t it's two-sided-we wa11l to reform hut 11ot tu deprive pcoplt! wl10 shoukl benefit.

Q. Why did President Nixon sack you as GOP chairman?

A. I don't know. I didn't want to stayn11 as chairn1:1 n 1111wh longer hut it SC('J1J1:d after travelinr: tho11sancls and tl1ow;;111ds of miles and wnrking hard it j11st wasn't total justice lo lw given a Camp David jacket an<l a ratlot·r stmn.E: sugg,,s[ion tl1:tl a good time for me lo 111ake a transition would be right aftl'r the HJ7:3 lna11g11r:il. In the Inaugural p;1r:1de the chain11a11

• normally rides lichi11d the Prcsident­l'm not cc1·tain I \\'as in tl1l: parade-I was so far hack, the p;tradc l1acl end,,d before I passed tl1c reviewing sland. B11t I had lo believe th:tt a lot of that \\:ts tl1c effo11s of the underlings like ~fagnulcr. If tl1cy couldn't dnrninate y,rn, tl1ey didn't want you. And I was, I guess, clcserihcd as irreverent.

Q. You supported Nixon on the war up through 1972, didn't you? How does !hat look ill retrospect?

A. 1 don't kno\\' what I wo11ld do to change it. If you knew tl1en wh;it you

· know now, yo11 n>ulcl ha\'c chang1_•d, l111t e\'crylhing'was always a crisis whether it was Ca111hodia, hnmbi11g or whaLC\'l'r. I· was al\\'a}'S pretty well dressed up as the right thing to do.

Q. You a/so backed him on the Supreme Court nominations of Clement Hayns1·;orii1 and G. Harrold Carswell. Did you act oul of loyalty or conviction?

A. I think I would stick by my guns on Haynsworth-I think we've really missed the service· of an out.standing Southern judge. On Carswell, had he been properly evaluated by the Justice Depa11ment, he probably never would have been submitteJ.

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1 conservative platform? ~.

A. I hope not. Wt' have to find mom. I ' helicve I have a lot of supp6rt with the ! modt•mtc senators like [Ch,{rles] ~lathi- I!

as and Ed Brooke and otl1~rs hcca11se l l ·, rec.ognizcd that we ~011lcylrnve cli_fferent , .... -~ pl11losoph1es and still be cornpat1hle. '' -~

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a ,;~·i11l:i111'.1)r11li!vn1 \\'as ilOI c·11nsiill'r"d a sl'riow; .lr;i\'.'l ·:Ii f:). !loll ,;,:nw Ford :'Liff. ei'S, (:\'l'J' st:1isiti 1·c to llic \\';1ll'r;~:1l(· is.o;i11.", f.·lt \'ok:-s w,;,dr.l Ill.' cc111t'11s«·d :1h,111t wlwthci lhh:r had ~id·:d \\'ii:, tlw Ii.· roes rn· !ht' 1·i!L1iw; .,!' 11!,· .-;c:!11tL.I. c Jtlwr.-: t':·i!:ci;·.c·d l\;1k<"1 ;1s !1Li11d ;rnd lr>o •';\l'llt'.':l. "l'oliti!':ilL· -;p1·;:ki'11~ ... .-:aid on1: stralt'­~·;ist, "llakv1· 1·;1111" 011! prclly 11111ch ;os a l'.ll)J\l("ll."

St•n:ral ;tdvisers, inclucii11.L'. campaig11 di1·!·C'!or St1::,ri ~;:><·11u;r, toyed \'.'ilh tli · idea of ,\,·111stn111g. Clioosi11g a wu111:1 , they s;,id, would derail Carter\ st· tt­egy li1r t\\'o Wt'('ks while lie Irie' l11 figun· 011t how lo l1:111dlc lier. 1\111 then ~t1111eo11c n.·111t:mliercd ti.at pr·vately con1mi:;,.io11<".d (;()p polls hat slouwn hair the l\cp11l>lican wo111cn q cstioned about tl1l"ir Vice Presid1,1•ti I cl1uiet:.'; did 1101 \\';1nt a \Ulllo;1il a he· ·i!ll'al awa\' from the l'residL·11cy (40 pt:r ('(:nt ,;f the Dc111C1<:ralil' \\'ulllc11 >hjcclcd), a11cl

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Dole's lil's di tl1r.· Far111 Helt sec111ed to f11rther swa~/ Fmd, wll() is 11npop11lar witl1 111;1n:: farnwr.-; l>cc:n1sr! c,f his grai11 1:ililiar:~c1 a)'.:ii11sl tlit· H11ssians Ja,;t y1:ar. "T!w l'n,,;idc11t ti.·lt liL: l1ad to hav(: the 1"ar111 !kit ;1s a li:tsc," explained an aide. Al.so, tl1e Prcsidi:11t I.new 110: IH:t:dccl a str.-111g c:u11p:!it->:11cr to h;1Ja11cc his ow11 w1,ab1csscs. Dnk \'.'as one of tlie tciugli­est st11n1pcrs availal>le.

While tl1c l'rcsidc11t sipped coffee, liis ilidcs raisl'd D11k'~ lialiilities-his fail­ure to provick )'.•:ographieal l>alanec, l1is lack ed. ;1ppc;d to 11tr1dcralt:s, his divorce,

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Annstrong's candidacy faded ra1)iclly. Rockefeller reportedly supporll'd

Huckelshaus, whose \\'atergate role (he was fired for refusing lo fire Archibald Cox), unlike Baker"s, c:le;1rly worked in his favor. The fornwr head or tlie Envi­ronmental Protection Agcn,·y also l1ad a positive image as a co11scrvalio11ist. Moreover, he was acceptable to the rnnd­er;\tes ancl even lo Heagan, who had offered H11ckelsha11s a spot on his.ticket before choo,;ing Schweiker. Thus cl(:­spite }{ucke!shaus's lack or campi!il:n l'X­

perience aml the ardt:11t fe111inis111 of l1is wife Jill, most participants left their meeti11g al .5 a.111. convinced he bad an inside track.

Fon! told his advisers lo sleep on ti1e dec:isio11 for a \\'hi le. But at 9::10 a.111. he called th1..·m together ;1g;1in, and •it was clear that, after.sleeping on it, the Presi­dent had come to this meeting with 1:3oli Dole on his mind. "Ford n1us! k1\'e felt most comfortable with Dole,"' speculat-

his stinging, shoot-from-tlie-hip humor. "I le jokes too m11eh," complai11cd one of the conferees. "l-f e's ca pal 1le of putting his foot i11 his mouth." Others arg11e<l that On!..: was an intelligent man-an<l that he would co11trol his humor as a Vice Presidential candidate. 1\notlicr Ford aide felt tl1at Dole "call pull as much out or tlic South as Baker," an<l the divorce prol.1le111 was played down liy Nelson Hockefoller. "'J 'vc gone through that,"' he saitl. "It's 110! a political handicap to be cli\·orcecl ... Public perceptions liave changed."

By IO: 15, Ford liacl his mind made up. A few minutes later tl1e phone rang in Dole's seven!ct•nth-lloor suite in .the ;-.-tuehlehach Hotel (he was right next door to Connally)." Boh, I \\'ant you to lJe 011 tl1c ticket,'" declared Ford. Dole, who said later he hadn't expected the call, llt:\'Cr hesitale:d. "Certainly," he replied.

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tl1c 1~ras.1·111·1111rtlw11se .\111111ri:. Tiu: /1ig/1-sdwol l1t111d swlde11/11.1·fnwk 1111 .. Jloif 111 t/1.: C/1icf"_,111c/ l'rcsidi:rl/ C:l'rnl</ hin/ 1~ri1111cd iwck. U11t tl11· 1-e11/ ~'.lll~sl 11f/1u1wr tlr11t dtll/ IUIS tire tall, /1•1111 llll;n 1c/111 slt:Jl/ir:tlf1ncartl lo grcr:f lti., l10111cfiilks. 'To11tl/{tdr:111c 1clwt I <1111. \\'hen I 1w<·dccl lu:IJ1 !l1is l<11c11 c1111w tl1n111;::,l1," said Sc11. Holwrt /. /)u/e, r1J1~rri11g /11 !tis "/cl.\V11rld \\'ar lt"u:11111uls. ~/'111'11 l1is 1:11icl' ln11ke­a11d Ire 11:q1f.

fJ!'or Ilic junior scnat.n· from Kansas­i'.),i"'"' and the 11cw Vice l'rcside11tial candi­date of tlic Hepulil ican Party--!! 1c louch­ing ho111eco1ning was lio1md lo def)' dry eyes. Dole rose to liis e111iue11<:e in Kau­sas City last week out of tl1e ~1 idwcst world of :\lain Slreel politics. He was reared ou liea1tla11d virtues, Fanner's Alma11ac cornmou sense a11cl the Taft tradition of the COP. At 53, he is a

·politician wilhoutjnwl~-a hard, athletic conser\'ati,·e. His thin lips can curl with equal speed into a boyish ~rin or an iron sneer. He deploys his quick wit both in friendly camaraderie anrl in flinty parti­san attack. "He is 011e of the toughest

I've ever met," said Oregon's libcr­epublican Sen. Bob Packwood. s the kind of guy I'd like to stand to back with in a knife fight."

This Dodge City image clid11't hurt Dole in Kansas City last week-though a few critics predict that his ro11~:h-'em-up style ruay hurt more than it helps before the fall is over. (Fonner S1:n. William

Saxh· •.• r< Jlii•· 011Ct: c;illcd J),,j,. :1 "h:.lcl1-r:t 111:111'" ~;,, oft-p1111i11g he ···.:(;uld1,'t S(:ll lll'e:· 011 a lroop d1ip.") B;1t Dole h:!s :1 11u111ill'1;, of r•lhcr, 1non· po~;ilivc :ittri­liu!i:s. He is ;1 s11rvivor-·a 1:1:1J"J with a ri:p;il:ilion for li!'ating hlt:ak odds. In \\';isliingl•HI, a city of" po111p :11HI prolrn·1)l, Ill' is a !.'(l(>l li:iml who reg1darl1· l11ks his ow11 diri\· sl1irts [,, tl1c la111Hli~'. lie l1as c11lti1'<11C'~] a Sl'llSt: of fi11111nr Jii;l"ll or p; 1 i11 a11cl a fi'(·lin.1~ f(ir tliv h:1.11dicappl'd liurn of his m1·i1 pa1·alvzccl riglit ;!!T11. I k is s111arl and d:1ri11g: lie oner: oul111:1111:11ver._•d li1r­mer liberal SL'11. J. \\'illi<l!

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'CAN'T' NEVER COULD

Co1111lry mctapllllrs conw nal11rally lo Dole. I !is gr;111dEitl1er was a l:1rn;c:r who 11101·ecl Ilic Dole fa111il\' to wcsl Kansas frorn Ohio in the Hl80s .. llis 111oll1crwas a sl11nh· ho111L'boclv whose 111ollo was: ·· ·ca;1't' 11c,·cr c1;11IJ do a11ylhi11~." She passe<l thal ethie 011 to lier son, who was born in Hussell (today's population: 111ore tiian .5,000) 011J11ly2:2, H-!23. Dole's conservative Republican fatl1cr ran the White \Vay Cafe 011 l\lain Street, then an eggs and creamery store, and Ihle local grai11 ele\'ator. Young Dole got his first lessons in Farm Belt politics then:: fann­ers dropping their grain wou!d ;dso stop to sne.1k a drink of bootleg whisky and talk weather and politics. "Our father's life was· work," says his sister Gloria Dole Nelson, 54. "He ne\'cr w:rntcd lo give up and sit in a rocking chair-a11d Bob's just like ltim." ·

The Sinclair Lewis selling sltapcrl an early and lasting regard for authority as well as Dole's faith in the work ethic. One day when tl1c family alarm went off at 3 :1.111. by mistake, Dole's falhl'r groggily

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Dol1;'s tick:·! 0111 of H11sscll was col lc:ge-and World \V:tr II. In HJ.fl, I H·

c11rollc:d as a prL:-111ed st11dcnl at 11,._., Uni1crsily of Ka11s;;s. T1ui years hLL:r 111:: c11iiskd :11 the Arrnv a11d bce.a111c a; second· lic11Lcnant in. the t.'lilc Tc11tL; ;...J01111lain Ui1·isirn1. On April J.J, Hll':..: Dok was lcadinir, a11 i11fa11trv sq11:id: across Ll1c Po vai"!cy if1 11orth~rn ltah: wlic11 a Ccn11a11 machine g1111 c11l hi,;,: d"wn. 11 is right shoulder was shaltercd,. his neck n·rielira1: wen; fractured :lild. lw lay p:1r;1lyzcd f(11· l1011rs, able 11eitl1cr; lo see 11or lo feel liis arms··-tlwv WL·r1.: pinru~cl al,uve liis head. He spt~nt Lli1: next 39 111011ll1s i11 Army hospitals; l1l'; was led away f"n1111 !DI to] 22 pot1nds; he:' lost one kid11ey to an infeelion; lie de-! \'eloped blood l'lots in his lungs. In: desperation, cloelors administered an! experimental anliliiutic: streptomyci11.' It worked. Du le emerged from tlie hos-: pital broken i11 body-but ~ilive.

AN OBSESSION WITH POLITICS Dole slowly hr,gan to patch together a

new life and career in law and politics .. Transplantl"'d bone and muscle frn111 his leg gave him " right arm of sorts; Do!c· cannot lw!<l anything mu cit heavier than a pencil with it and works the crowds with, his left arm. When he man-ied a young) occupati_onal Lhe:apist nan~ed ~~ltyll i~ Holden 111 19-48; his doctor wned: Hoper tltat arm r fixed will be used lovingly."1

For a while it was. Dole went on to win c B.A. in history and a law degree fron1 Washburn Municipal Unh·ersity in To· peka. Phyllis helped pay the bills and' wrote out his dictated answers to a special exam lo qualify for the Kansas bar. The~

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had orw daugl 1lc.r, Holii 1,' who is 11ow 2 I. 'l'l-1'-'\' ·were di1·11r"<"! f"n11r 1·cars a!'" 1111 grrn\11ds of i1w1J111patihilit~·.· "J :l1111'i 1;.,.1 l>iller,".;said the fornwr l\lrs. Dole· last week i11'.Sv!l'a11 Grov<., l\a11s., ll'l1crc slw is 110\\' Ill; I rr i r: cl t () : I ('; 111 Ii . r; 111(' I 11 . L .. I "I " I., I 1al'<; a111· h:1d 11 H ·111ori1:~:--h1 ii I don' I I 1: 11 c · a11v cxt;·a-1"nod 1111<.·s <·itl1t:r."

;J'l1c pr;1lilc111 ;q>JH:ars to li:11·1· l11·<·n mostly Dole's obsession witl1 p"liliL:. El'c11 IJcforc he kl'! law sc:lwol, II(' l1c·­caJ11<' a Kansas state lcgisL1tor at tlw ;1i~1· of 27. Bct11Tc11 HJ.).1 and J~)(iJ l1L· prac·· !iced law a11d also serl'ed f(n1r tw1J-l'<·:1r

·terms as H11ssdl Cou11t1· allornc1', <:arn­ing an extra $2,18 a n1rn1.tli at firsl:_·<t11d a rcp11taliu11 as a lirekss civic hoos't.'r a11d polilit.:al organiz<·r. "B(lh DtJJ(, \\'as liis own political rn•:11lor," reports H11ss Townsley, p1dJlisherof'Tl1e H11ss< II Dai­ly News. "I always had tlw kcli11~'. lie bad a lirnctablc-with ead1 step carl'f11l­ly c:alculatecl." I 11 l!JfiO, D11k· urgC'd a scvc11-tcn11 CO I' crn 1gressrna 11 r.:u m:d \\'int S1nith lo retire .. I le tl1L·11 11·on a primary ror S111itli's seal by Hl'>7 votes, swept the general election liy 111ore tl1an 20,000 votes and \\'ellt 011 to \\lasl1ingl"11 to serve fo11r terms in the House.

BARKING AFTER BILLIE SOL

In the liotli:iuse political da~·s of the '60s, Dole's career flomisk·d slowly li11t quite steadily. Al l10111c he lwca111c 11oto­rio11s as a fierce political i11figl1lcr. "1-l<·'s clever and ruthless," says Ein11 journal isl Bill Bork, a Democrat who ran ag:ii11st Dole and lust i11 l9frL (A1no11g ollwr things, Dole or «mizcrs rawradw a11d TV

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ILi11l11r,f Duk I•> a· Ka11s:ts Cil1 111.'ll'.S ,-,11.f;.'J'•'lltT las! \\'l'l'I;, 11;· 11C1!1:d tl1:.t she \\'as a )~r<:al 1·:1111-p:1i)'lll'r. Tl1al is triw fit!· 111:111)· po­lilical .,.,·in·s, I nil J .iddy Dok's l'a111p:1i)'.J1i1w had ·l>1!cn l:1rg<"l:-· i11 IJ('r ow11 lwl1alf'--::s <111 11p11':1rcll>· 11whilc lrnn·a111.:r:J! i11 ll1rcc: :\d111i11-1stralio11s. "J'ulilic s1waki11g :111d pr;.:ss co11d(:rc11cc:s arc o!d l1at lo lier," sa~·s J'rcsidc11t i:il cu11s1rnwr­aff:1irs :1ssisL111t \'ir1:i11ia K11a1wr, for 11'1111111 sl1c.: worked for 111or<; tl1a11 fo11r \'l::1rs. "She is a 1·rn111g l\'0111a11 wl10 .tl1r11ugli lier 011:11 ahililics got lo the lop ra11ks of go1·crn11w11t."

A Duke U11in·rsil\' l'lii Bl'la Kappa a11cl !Lin-.1rd l.:;11· grad1i.ilc, tlil' 'JO-year-old sccn11d wife <;fSc11. Hobert Dole calls licrsclf"a wnrk­i11ggirl.""A11cl l do11't i11tc11cl lo livv 011 a11yonc's Dole," shr; q1Jippcd wlic11 tlwv were 111arried last D<!­cc111IH.:r. \\1itli a strong i11tcresl in cons1111wr affairs, Liddy lla11fiird had sigrwd 011 as an aicll' lo Ly11d"11 Jol1nso11's cu11su111cr :ulviser lktly Furness in JUGl:i, and sl1c stayed u11

commen.:ia st 1aLsai ; .w;~,...· .c' -~·_,,_ '"fi'iW', ',rfi'igton, Dole won lieadlincs as a Anointing hi111sdf as President Tiicl1ard watcli o barking after Bilfie Sol Esles Nixon's inost outspoken dtdl:11dt;r ir ~lie in 196' a11d Lyndon Joh11so11's free- Senate, he backed r\ixon 011 Ilic Vicl11a111 spcndin · 1 rolegcBohbyBakerlwoycars war and dismissed antiwar leader I· 11-

latcr. Americans for Co11slil11tio11al Ac- scv Clar· 111 one rnemora > c albc · as a tion, a right-wi11g outfit, rated his stands ~111g · ,. 111a ow." Ile sup­on fiscal anc.l foreign policy among tl1c j'i'Ortcd Nixoi1's anti-ba islic-niissilc pro-rnost conservative on the I !ill. gram, the s11personic transport and liis

Dole won election to the Senate in Supreme Court 11orninatio11s of'Cle1ncnt 1968 and quickly bcc<llllc a11 u11co111·en- Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell. tional freshman mcn1lier of tlic club. For thuse servit.:cs, Nixon appointed

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Tlwn· \\'as confi1sio11 lasl week aho11t wl1t:tl1cr Liddy was legally obliged to gi1·e 11p tl1al post i:1 order to 1;;1111paig;1 for !I 1c COP I ickd, but it li1rncd 1J11l she (.'(IJdcl keep l1crjob ifs lie wisl1cd. 'Tll lia1'c to gin; this so111c hard thrn1gh1," sl1c said, al­tlio11gh tl1c Doles' stock ansll'er tc> qucsl ions alJ<111l co11flicl of' 111lr:rcst is si111ply: "'Tl1t:rc'll lie lots ofi11ter­cst, liut 110 eo1iflict."

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·n;e appointn11.·11t was nearly Dole's uncloi11g. ltmade him tl1cc.:11ain11an ofthe GOP during tl11~ Watergate burglary. Dole dismissed the first exposes of the scandal in The \\'ashi11gto11 J'ost as "gar­bage." (He later quipped tkd the break­in had taken place "on my night off'-and when lie ran for re-election two vcars later, lie was supported by Sen. L~wcll

011 to Washington: Oulc \\'ill1 Ike in 1960, first wife Phyllis anJ daughlcr HoLin in 1963, Nixon in 1972 an<l ncw LriJc Liddy last year ...

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By lia11cling Dok his lll'ad, il1c tar­nished \Vhilc I l11•1s1' aidl's pr1>h<thly saved l1is canTr.111 ID7·1, D•ilv r:111 liir re­election, :tncl was cl1alil'11gcd h~· a U.S. rcpn.:scnlativc fr0111 Topeka 11a111C.:d Dr. \Villiam Hoy. Tu pn;-1,111pl the potential­ly t1:nni11al \\'a!t:rgate issue, Dok cast himself as a sn1ear victi1;1, rn11ning TV ads sl1owi11~!, posters of I.is own face splattered with gobs o/'\\'alcrgaf,, 111t11l­oslc11sihly thrnwn by Hoy. 111 a flanking al!ack, 011e Kansas anti-abortion group ran newspaper ads witl1 ;1,k111l ;111d cross­ht>1ws 1wxt lo Ho~··s 11:1111<". (.-\n ol1sletri-

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tis111 011 fiscal issues a11d 1111alt·ratio11 011 the COl''s firs! cunventio11 si11ee \Vai<·r· ! social issues," ohsv1Yvs Sa111 j;i(·ksrni, ;11' gale a11d tlil:r<' w<,re some ('•.i11spic11rn" i old fril'nd f'ro1n tl1e l\A.·\CI'. "Jl1:s chang1:s i11 the cast ufcl1aractcrs. Hi chard 1 to11gh-b11l l1e's fair." Nixon rc111::i1wc! i11 dista11t exile, his 1ia11H· 1·

A ccrtai11 arn.liiguily th11sclo1.1cls l?ok's 11cvcr ol_f.ic_ially 111e1Ilirnit:cl, his pic!un: re-al val11c to l·onl lor 1!11: !all. I le s sort 11c\'cr olhc1all~ .. sl1m1'11. Otily Hahli1 B:i-, of a I L1rr~' Tn.1111an tnw who'll gi.\·e 'crn rnch l\:orlT, It is.old partisan., lricd to ki.,t:pl l1L"ll," said ku1sas Hl'p. Canwr Shrin:r tl1e fla111c· aliglit-lrn! f'ew people Ii,. fast Wl.'ck. Dole alsc. has n1a11\' /'rit·11ds in 1<'1il'cl, a11d still !'1·\\'er can:cl. tlH· Fann Bl'll-~l'hC-rl' F11ni dtll'S 110!. B1:l1i11tl !l1t: \\';Jlls or San Cle111c11k.(

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Dean at the convcntion: Some conspicuous clia11~cs in the cast . 'Richard Milhous who?'

eh111-gynecologist, Roy had performed a few abortions-lo sa\'e the li\·es of criti­cally ill mothers.) A fundamentalist grou J distributed anti-Hoy pamphlets will'l\.Pli ~l>S of dead babies in garbage cans. D I lid nothing to stop s11eh matc­rial--anc won hy 13,5:3~ votes. "He's probably the most effective po~tical at­tack<·r in the eountry right now," Hoy noted hist week. "There's no q11estion the Hepuhlicans are gl'aring up li1r a gutsy bloody light."

'HE'S TOUGH BUT HE'S FAIR'

Dole hasn't always played the heavy. He has a n.'cnrd of cleknding blacks and civil rights that strdl'hcs hal'k to his

ays as a young c0u11ty attorney · 1 opcb. O\·cr the yPars he has wo ·ed for fair p11blie-accomm(1dations laws; he voti.~cl fur the Ci,·il Hights Act of HJ64 and the Voting Hights Act of l!JG3. As a result of his own disability. Dole has

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But Dole's public record as a man spoil­ing for slashing, partisan halllcs may 111ake il easier Ii.Jr J i1111ny Carter to resist the temptation lo light back-and make tl1e mistakes Dole hope:; to inspire.

To make his Jllission harder, Dole seems to have mellowed since he mar­ried Fccl1"ral Trade eomm~~sio11cr Eliza­beth 1-l a11ford eight months ago. The Doles Ji,·c in the \\'atcrgate c:ompk·x, wht·rc tl1e Sel'rl'l Ser\'ice arri\'ed last week for the dmation of t!1e can1paig11. "They'll just ~cl hulll'lproof glass in tlw apartment for four months and that will be that," pred icll'cl tlil' 11 n i rnprcssed I ifi.:­g11ard do,w11 at the pool. B11t Dole is a lkpi1biican who has ne\'or lost an l'll'c­tion. After November, he will either ha\'e spoiled that 1wrfect record--or be Vil·e President of the United States.

-TOM MATHEWS wilh SAMUEL SHAFFER in Kansas Cily, CHRIS J. HAf1f'ER in Russell. Kans., and ELAINE SCIOLINO in Chi~a2~ ....

Nixon kept I iis silence. JI c has become even more reclusive since his wife Pal's stroke seven weeks agu, staying hy her sidl'. and fiiregoin¥ his· ~l1r!~e-weeklyl golf ga111cs at tl1e Shore Clilfs Co11ntry Club. Still, his bar!Jcr and friend, K1.·11 Allan, said that Nixon "talked about [tlll-t eon\'cntion] q1iite a bit" a fortnight ago. "I le said he'd be watching the whole thing," Allan recalled. "lle's very curious alio11t Ilic outcome." Nixon would "kin(la like to be there," Allan said, and he expected to be there in the ft I flll'l'.

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.all along in his repeated vow tha would not accept the post if offered 1t.

By the time Thursday rolled around, many of the conventiongoers were thor­oughly worn out. 'Tm so tired fightin\" said Mississippi Delegate Malcolm Ma­bry, "I just wish someone would ring the bell." Yet Gerald Ford managed to recharge the delegates.

It was, fittingly, one of the Presi­dent's finest hours. The ovation that greeted his appearance on the podium carried a rousing ring of enthusiasm. Speaking with unaccustomed fervor and a punchy delivery, the President effec­tively assailed, by biting implication, his Democratic opponent, Jimmy Carter. "We will buil~ on performance, not promises; experience, not expediency; real progress instead of mysterious plans to be revealed in some dim and distant future."' At another point he jabbed: "My record is one of specifics, not smiles."

While Ford harshly attacked the Congress that either "won't act" or acts wrongly when it does, he also cited it to legitimize his presidency. ''I have been called an unelected President, an accidental President," he noted. Yet he had been con.finned for the vice pres­idency, he pointed out, by votes of 387 to 35 in the House and 92 to 3 in the Sen­ate. '·Having become Vice President and President without exi)ecting or seeking either, I have a special feeling toward these high offices. To me, the presidency and the vice presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done."

i n a speech that sounded much better than it reads, Ford directly addressed his large television audienc~: "You are the people who pay the taxes and

obey the laws. You are the people who make our system work. It is from your ranks that I come, and on your side I stand." Again, quite personally, he pre­dicted about the election: "The Amer­ican people are going to say that night, 'Jerry, you've done a good job. Keep right on doing it.' "

After his speech, Ford motioned to his vanquished foe in the guest galleries to join him and Betty on the podium. When Reagan and Nancy had entered the hall earlier to a resounding ovation, there were rhythmic cries of "Speech! Speech! Speech!" Invited to the t'Qdium by Chairman Rhodes, Reagan initially declined. "This is someone else's night," he said to friends. But now he respond­ed to Ford's beckoning. As he moved through the packed arena with Nancy, then took the microphone at Ford's bid­ding, the eyes of many delegates shim­mered with tears.

Reagan delivered a capsuled version of his intended acceptance speech. He warned in moving terms of the erosion of liberty in the world, ihe dangers of nu­clear annihilation and the n..:ed for America to lead the fight against both. Not once did he laud his party's newly nominated candidate for President.

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DOLE & FORD HUDDLING BEFORE THE TEAM IS ANNOUNCED

THE V.P. CANDIDATE promoted a lame-duck incum-

Th Den~ Dec· .. bent, his former mentor Nelson . J~ .· · • Lji: ' . :1. . ~~~!ITTi~ Rockefeller. Of the Cabinet

111~ 111'1 UV'~ ..... U~ members, only Secretary of Ag-In his selection of Robert Dole as

his running mate, Gerald Ford accom­plished a tour de force of political the­ater: he surprised almost everyone (Dole included), and offended almost no one in the party's mainstream. Liberals in general and some moderate Republi­cans were disappointed by the choice.• But even they acknowledged that Ford's problem was choosing someone who wowd appease the Reaganites without blatantly antagonizing other Republi­cans. Thus, once Ford unveiled his choice, politicos who oniy hours before had been touting "short lists" on which Dole's name did not even appear, be­gan ticking off reasons why he made sense for the No. 2 spot.

It was exactly the sort of move with which the President was hoping to cap his nomination, and he prepared for it with a deft combination of openness and secrecy: he was demonstrably open to advice, but extremely secretive about his thinking as it evolved. As a Ford aide put it, in splendidly technocratic jargon: "His decision-making process was one of maximum input, zero feedback.''

The input was massive indeed. Vir­tually everyone on a political ¥isit to the White House in recent months, or to the "Oval Office West" in Kansas City last week, had a plug or a blackball for some prospect. Ford's floor manager in Kan­sas City, Michigan Senator Robert Grif­fin, promoted Colleague Howard Baker (who, perhaps coincidentally, may be Griffin's chief competition for the Sen­ate minority leader's job nex1 January). The first Family had its preferences too. Bet~y Fo1 d urged more than token con­sidt:ration for Anne Armstrong; Son Jack ltked a mayor, Pete Wilson of San Diego. and two Governors, Christopher ("Kit"') Bond of Missouri and D:in Ev­ans of Washir1gton. Henry Kissinger

ricwture Earl Butz recommended Dole highly-because of the Kansan's popu­larity in the farm belt.

Three weeks ago, Ford sent letters soliciting the opinions of nearly 6,000 G.O.P. delegates, party leaders and of­ficeholders. A week later, two dozen fat­ter letters went out from the White House with detailed legal, medical and financial questionnaires to an array of possibilities, ranging from Northeastern Liberal Elliot Richardson to Texas Con­servative John Connally. The two dozen receiving the bulky env~lopes were of­ficially under presidential consideration.

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Ford was ooncommittal. Pressure, such as that mounted by the anti-Connally movement, he ignored or rebuffed. Says White House Special Counsel Michael

• Duval: "The President doesn't like to be pushed. He reminds me of a gyroscope: if you whack it, it will come right back, but if you move it steadily in a direc­tion that makes sense, it will stay."

Ford came to Kansas City with a list in mind-but not on papcr-ofaoout a dozen "semifinalists." Even afler this nomination was in hand, Ford still seemed to be considering at least half a oozell candidates. These he sounded out with Reagan, who commented favorably on Dole and said William Ruckelshaus ai1d Richardson were completely unac­ceptable. Said a Reagan associate: "If ei­ther Oft hem had been chosen, we would have unleashed our troops." Ford also

. talked about his list with nine top ad­visers over coffee and nightcaps in his hOtel suite until shortly after 5 a.m. the filghl of his nomination. The nine: Grif­fin; Rockefeller, White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney, Texas Senator iohn 'rower, Campaign Pollster Robert Teeter, Campaign Strategist Stuart Spencer, Counsellor John Marsh, former Oefense Secretary Melvin Laird and Veteran G.O.P. Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow. When theconsultantsad­journed, exhausted, they were still un­certain whether the President had made up his mind. Not until they reconvened four hours later did Ford's final choice emerge, and then only obliquely: in his questions, the President kept coming back to Dole . •

ccording to a White House official, Dole was Ford's "first e., pressed as well as final choice," though some advisers may have errone­

ously thought that their preferences were at the top of the list. For instance, Griffin apparently believed that Baker was Ford's choice. But the President wanted a more slashing, hard-driving campaigner than Baker. Ford also con­Cluded thaf Dole had the most assets of all the possible choices, even though ad­visers pointed out that the poignant cir­cumstances of Dole's first marriage and divorce might be as much of a liability as the drinking problem of Baker's wife .

• After an hour, Ford was satisfied that bole had a consensus of support in the group, and the deci:;ion was final. The first to be told of the choice-after Dole -was Reagan. Ford began zeroing 'n on Dole the week before the conven­tion, but the only Administration insid­er who had a sense of how he was nar­rowing the field was Chief of Staff Cheney, his sole confidant on the de­cision. The tabulation:; of the party-wide popularity contest -;howed a cluster of bbvious names near the top-Connally, ~:eagan, Baker, Richardsoc, Rockefel­ler-but no overwhelming standout whOtn the President could ·reject only 0.'tthe risk of antagonizing the party.

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who participated in the final stJees of the selection process, Ford was persuad­ed by these considerations:

1> Like Reagan, Dole is a conserva­tive, but unlike Reagan, he is palatable to party moderates.

1> Like Connally, he is a forceful campaigner, but unlike Connally, he is a longtime party stalwart apparently un­tainted by scandal.

1> As a Midwesterner and a magnet for the farm vote, he can, Ford hopes, so­lidify the ticket's strength in those parts of the country where it stands the best chance. He may even be able to make in­roads in the rural South.

~ As a former party chairman, Dole won the gratitude of a broad spectrum of Republicans and h;·is the support of the party machinery.

In the opinion of one man who was at the final meeting on the selection last Thursday morning, Ford also liked the idea that Dole was something of a dark horse. "You remember how the Presi­dent used to talk about wanting to feel 'comfortable' with his 'guys,' his 'team"?" commented a close associate. "Well. in the final analysis, he just felt more com­fortable with Bob Dole than with the others. Two years ago, when called upon to appoint a Vice President, his personal choice was Don Rumsfeld; his choice for the sake of the party was George Bush; but Rocky was the best man to bring the country together behind him. This time around he figures he's got all three in one." That remains to be seen. But at the very least, Ford is now in personal com­mand of the party and its ticket.

DOLE'S EMOTIONAL HOMECOMING WITH PRESIDENT FORD IN RUSSELL, KANS.

i]WM v~~~~!Je· B with him. I thoug~t about ma I 1 Wd ~ B one second and said yes." That drew a laugh

Kansas Playwright William Inge -Bob Dole has always drawn laughs, might have written the script for the af- even growing up in Russell-but later, fair. The V.F.W. color guard lined up unexpectedly, his mood changed abrupt­in the center. of the street in front of the ly. "You can come· from a small town Art Nouveau county courthouse, hard in America and you do not need wealth by the Russell .County farm bureau. The to succeed," he was saying. "If I have high school band was almost in tune as done anything, it was because of what it entertained under the elm and locust you did for me ... " trees. The ladies of the town grilletl hot He was crying. His left hand shot dogs and served potato chips and salad up lo wipe the tears away and he stood on paper plates. The sun was full and for a long moment, head bowed, unable hot as the crowd of about 2,000 gath- to go on. He did not turn away from ered to welcome back the local boy who the crowd. Seated on the pl.:&tform be­was bringing to town the President of hind him, his mother, Bina Dole, his 21-the U.S. year-old daughter Robin, Governor

Suddenly the motorcade was there Robert Bennett and Ford stirred uncom­and Senator Robert Dole was moving fortably. Then Dole's old friends out easily through the crowd, introducing front in the street began to clap. The folks to Jerry Ford. When he finally. President and the others rose to i!Jeir made it up to the platform, Dole told feet, applauding. Slowly Dole regained. bow the President had called "and asked his composure and went on, never al­me if I would like to be on the ticket luding to the incident.

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Dole introduced the President as "a man I consider to be a friend of Amer­ica, a friend of rural America, a friend of small-town America." When his turn came to speak, Ford vowed that bis Ad­ministration would be a friend to the farmer in towns like Russell and states like Kansas. Then, as quickly as they had come, Ford and the Senator who was his surprise choice to share the Re­publican ticket with him were gone. But the campaign had begun.

Two days before he was chosen for the job, Senator Dole relaxed and chat­ted with a group of TIME editors and writers about the kind of man Ford should pick to run for Vice President. From his maruier, Dole clearly indicat­ed that he did not at_ all consider him-

self to be the likely selection, but the man he described began to sound re­markably like Bob Dole. Ford's Veep, he said, should be helpful in the farm states. These would be critically impor­tant for the G.0.P.'s chances, tee states where the Democrats' Walter Mondale -a Minnesota populist-would surely be making hay. The President's running mate should be able to help out with the party chores. And, Dole added, the man should be able and ready to do "some of the gunslinging."

In picking Bob Dole, 53, Ford signed on the most accomplished gunslinger in the party, a man who makes his points not with obloquy or V1e cement fist or leaden tongue of a Spiro Agnew, but with an acerbic wit that often leaves ev­eryone but the victim laughing. Dole has characterized Senator Edmund Muskie

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as "a political Rip Van Winkle who awoke and started to attack Nixon," and he once dismissed former Attorney Gen­eral Ramsey Clark as a "left-leaning marshmallow." ·

Dole is a politician so absorbed in his craft that his dedication-and travel -helped to break up his first marriage. He projects an impression of coiled­spring tautness. Indeed, he exudes so much vitality that new acquaintances usually do not notice the fact that his right arm is withered, the result ofa dev­astating war wound, until they reach out to shake hands with him. (To avoid em­barrassing anyone, Dole usually carries a pencil or a paper in his right hand so that a newcomer will not instinctively try to shake it upon being introduced.)

Back borne in sun-scorched Russell, Kans. (pop. 5,400), where the Senator maintains a small, red brick house, the

news of Dole's selection caused a sen­sation. People gathered around the TV set in the Elks club and in the Ramada Inn to share in the ·excitement. To mark the occasion, Harold Elliott, Dole's high school basketball coach, took the clock off the living room wall and hung in its place an autographed picture of the Sen­ator. Mrs. Carl Friesen, Dol~s aunt, got out the family· pictures and a folder of clippings she has been collecting for years. Mrs. Everett Dumler felt she just had to do something to celebrate. "So," she says, "I bak,r;:d a strawberry pie."

~~~· hen Bob Dole was growing up ~f-.. t· in Russell on the flat plains t ~.. of central-western Kansas, the

·• town was enjoying an oil boom. It had started in 1923, the year he was born, after the "Carrie Oswald" well came in. The good times lasted into the '50s, but they bypassed the Doles. The iamily lived in a tiny, white frame house

(since razed) on the north side-the wrong side--0f the arrow-straight Union Pacific tracks that cut through the geometric grid of tree-lined streets.

Doran Dole, the Senator's father, managed the Norris Grain Co. grain el­evator and ran a small creamery, feed and seed business on the side. Bina Dole took in sewing to help out, and made many of the clothes 'for Robert, his brother Kenneth and his two sisters, Gloria and Jean. Recalls a neighbor: "The Doles just didn't have anything when the kids were growing up." To help out, Bob Dole jerked sodas after school at C.R. Dawson's for $1 a day. Satur­day afternoons he and his friends would take in the matinee at the D~m The­ater, the only entertainment in town.

Growing up in this Andy Hardy world, Dole apparently never got in trouble; no one can remember him even I

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pulling a Halloween trick. He was a sol­id student, but his real promise seemed to be as an athlete who went out for track, football and basketball. "He was a marvelous physical specimen," re­members Coach Elliott, "about 175-185 and six feet two, and he was a compet­itor. If you told him to climb a wall, he'd climb a wall." George Baxter, the football coach, recalls that Dole "never competed in the easy track. events. He went in for the 440 and 880." An end on the football team, Dole won a big game for the Russell Broncos by mak­ing an impossible catch on the last play and slogging down a muddy field to score, while the opposing coach threw his hat to the ground iu disgust and jumped up and down on it.

Dole was planning to become a doc­tor but, in 1943, he left the University of Kansas during his sophomore year and enlisted in the Army. On April 14, 1945, Dole-a 21-year-old se<:ond lieu- ,

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Dole spent the next 39 months in hospitals. At first he lay imprisoned in a neck-to-waist cast. When il turned out thal he needed a special operation, Chet Dawson. his old boss in the drugstore, started a drive that raised $5.200 and

In 1960 Dole was cle.::ted to lhe U.S. House of Representative~ by lhe thrifty, hardworking and innately conservative wheal farmers of lhe district that includ­ed Russell County. In all. Dole served four lenns in lhe House. fighting for the farmers and opposing the social-reform programs of John F. Kennedy and Lyn­don Johnson, although he did vole for the landmark civil rights bills. Dole's willy and zealous partisanship caughl the admiring eye of Jerry Ford, then the minority leader.

sent him off to Chicago. Dole now· has I n 1968 Dole moved up to the Senate, a right arm reconstructed in part from taking the seat of Republican Frank bone and muscle transplanted from his Carlson, who was retiring. Wi!lingly, legs. even gleefully, the freshman Senator

In 1948, near the end of his long took on the job none of his senior Re­and painful recovery, Dole met an oc- publican colleagues seemed to want: at­cupalional therapist named Phyllis Hol- tacking lhe likes of Edward Kennedy, den. Three months later, they were mar- Edmund Muskie and J. William Ful-

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ried. His wife still had to help tie his shoes and button his shirts when he en­rolled in lhe University of Arizona. He graduated in 1949 with lhe help of cred­its he had accrued in the Anny, the G.I. Bill, and his wife-who nol only worked but also managed lo take notes on his reading and write the exams that he dic­tated. In 1952 Dole got his law degree from Washburn University of Tope~a.

In 1950, whi]e still in law· school, Dole was elected to a two-year term in the Kansas legislature-the first of elev­en consecutive electoral victories. From 1953 to 1961 he served as Russell Coun­ty attorney and developed his brisk. prosecutorial style. He was already a su­perb campaigner. In 1958 he had de­feated Democrat Cliff Holland, who re­calls how even his mother was converted into a fan by the eager 'and boyish c:hanner .. Dole met Holland's mother once casually in a crowd, then 18 months later remembered her by name.

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obvious aspirations to reach the White House and suggested that lhe Senate set aside a "presidential hour" every day that would be reserved for four groups: "Firsl, those Senators who think they are President. Second, lhose who think they should t:iave been President. Third, those who want to be President. And fourth, those who are willing to settle for Vice President."

As Nixon's gunslinger, Dole fought for the Administration's program virtu­ally down the line: he supported lhe war in Viel Nam, helped lead the successful campaign lo build the Safeguard anti­ballislic missile system (it won approval by one vole). and vainly endorsed the President's nomination of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell for the Supreme Court.

As Dole's career took on momen­tum, his family life was collapsing. Al~ though he and his wife had been draw­ing apart for years. he had maintained the marriage-as he is frank lo admit -out of fear that a divorce would harm

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him politically in conservative Kansas. Phyllis Dole had loved to campaign with him back home, when he was on lhe way up, but she disliked big-time pol­itics. "I had a lot of fun stuffing envel­opes and working with volunteers," she says now. "Thal's a lot better than be­ing handed a schedule and lold lo go out alone and make a speech."

Phyllis Dole wanted to try to keep the marriage together a while longer, bul lhe Senator wanted out. On Jan. l l, 1972, she agreed to a divorce, influenced in parl by Dole's arguments thal lhe un­happy marriage might harm the cou­ple's or.ly child, Robin, then a 17-year­old high school student Now married

to Lon Buz.ick, a rancher and the Re­publican chairman in Lincoln County, Dole's former wife lives in Sylvan Grove, 40 miles from Russell. When Ford picked Dole, Mrs. Buzick made an at­tempt lo hide her sarcasm. "He always goes for the lop," she said, "and appar­enlly,'he makes it"

In lhe meantime, Dole had taken a job lhal could easily have brought about a quick end to his· career a good deal below the top. In January 1971, Pres­ident Nixon showed his appreciation for Dole's one-man stands in the Senate by . naming him Republican National Com­mittee chairman, allhOl:.;, Dole was still only two years into his ·fn:shman term.

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Senator Barry Goldwater was deljghted: "He's the first man we've had around here in a long time who ,will grab the other side by the hair and drag them down the hill.'' But William B. Saxbe, then a Republican Senator from Ohio and now U.S. Ambassador to India, complained that Dole's style was so of­fensive that he was "a hatchet man."

As Nixon had hoped, Dole worked hard to put some bite into the Repub­licans, strengthening the party appara­tus and averaging a speech a day. But to rus frustration, he discovered that he could not often get through the Prae­torian Guard of the White House staff to see the President. In The Making of

t the President 1972. Theodore Wrute re­counts how Dole once got a call from a White House staffer who asked him if he wanted to see Nixon. "When?" Dole asked eagerly. Answer: "Tune in on Channel 9. He's coming up on the tube in ten minutes."

During the 1972 presidential cam­paign, Dole learned that he was to have nothing to do with the election of Nix­on; the job was to be done by a new and oddly named group called the Commit-

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tee for the Re-Election of the President. Dole got revenge, of sorts, by coining the acronym CREEP for the organization that was to become so infamous.

As it turned out, of course, the fact that he was so cut off from CREEP, Nix­on and the White House saved Dole's political career after Watergate. He at­tacked the press for hounding Nixon on Watergate, but he apparent! knew

amendment is like stealing his cow,' Ful­bright complained. But I reminded him

111 his 16 years on Capitol Hill. Rob­ert Dole has become known as one of the wittiest Republicans. I/is humor consists mainly of biting quips on a variety of su~ jects-ofien his own party.

·that it was National Dairy Week and I would never steal a man's cow during National Dairy Week. 'I just milked it a little,' I admitted."

~ learning th~t Nixon had taped all. his White House conversations: "Thank goodness whenever I was in the Ovjl Office, I only nodded." '{_ ?n Nixon's offer of campaign help

in 1974: "I haven't invited him to stump for me, but I wouldn't mind if Nixon flew over the state." '

On authoring amendments: ''In 1971 · I introduced a resolution which Senator

J. William Fulbright claimed tie had al­ready sponsored. "Stealing a man's

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On Government spending: 'O:My home-town newspaper, the Russell Rec­ord, once reported on a conscientious Congressman who kept having a recur­rent nightmare in which he dreams that all the money he is spe11ding is his own."

On being a Republican: "'A Repub­lican has to have a sense of humor be­cause there are so few of us."

On hil> lalit name: 'Tm not a hoose­hold word except in Hawaii ... Dole is

. a f~-Jctter word you can get used to." \{~n the preliidency (in. 1972): .. When

Hie President has a view and I have a view, we compromise and adopt his."

nothing about the break-in that even­tually was to drive Nixon to resign. Al­though he defended the President too long, Dole declared as early as May ly8 1973, that '"Nixon appears to be hiding from the people, who really trust and like him very much." The Senator a vised the President to come out o seclusion and meet openly with the public.

In January t 973, Nixon invited Dole to Camp David. The Senator had been forewarned that he was to be fired ·as -party chairman, but the President was too embarrassed to get the words out. .finally Dole said that perhaps he should quit to give himself more time to pre­pare for his re-election campaign in 1974. Relieved, Nixon quickly agreed .. Dole later said his dismissal was causeTI by "a faceless, nameless few in the White House ... the gutless wonders who seem to take personal satisfaction in trying to do somebody in." . .

ole had to use all of his political acumen-and his sharp elbows -<luring the 1974 Senate cam­paign against Dr. William R. Roy,

a popular Democratic Congressman. In the early stages of the campaign, Roy succeeded in identifying Dole with Wa­tergate and Nixon. Trailing JO to 12 points in the polls, Dole began to fight. He sent his mother and daughter tour­mg the wide-open spaces of western Kansas in a van, and the family team helped to offset any damage cause<l by his divorce. To fight the Watergate tag,

le imported Connecticut's G.O.P. Senator Lowell Weicker-a member of Sam Ervin's commjttee-to stump for

im. His most effective device was a TV commercial that showed a poster being obliterated by slung mud; gradually the mess dropped away and Dole's hand-: some face emerged.

The crucial-and most bitter-issue as abortion. Roy, a Catholic obstetri~ ian. admitted that he had performed egal abortions; Dole took a strong stand gainst abortions. During the last days

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I Jy hurt Roy. Tiu.: Senator won-by only who was then squiring her around town. 13 500 votes out of nearly 800.000. The Says he: "If we were planning to go out

. '\ti~lory still embitters many Kansas and something came up al work, boy, · Democrats. Curiously, although Dr. Roy forget going out." During this period, she

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On Dccemher 6, 1975, after nearly wondered why he'd dash off the floor four years a!> one of Washington's most so often, until we realized he was meet­eligible bachclnrs, Dole married Eliz.a- ing Libby Hanford." beth Hanford, then 39, a softly beau- The Senator's wife has done her tiful North Curolinian who had been for best to make the stodgy rrc more re­years one of th~ most eager!:,: co~rted sponsive to the needs of consumers. women in Wushmgton. They hve man She has written orders prohibiting the apartment at the Watergate. A Phi Beta Encyclopaedia Britannica from using

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Kappa gr:hluate of Duke University, Elizabeth \'>..>le has both a law degree and a master's in education from Har­vard. She l:X"gan to work in the Depart­ment of 1 kallh, Education, and Wel­fare in I 9c>C\ during the Great Societ)ll years, then moved into consumer .inter­ests as an nssistant to LBJ .'s White House a,h 1s,,r, Betty Furness. When Nixon aniH·J in 1969, she stayed on to work in the s;.1me office, as the deputy to Virginia Knauer. Addressing a meet­ing of oil-••'lllpany executives in Hous­ton; she '""''llY excor i:1ted them for not regulatit'li, mechanics at their service stations.

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commissioner. "She was a Democrat; now she's an ·independent," he says. "This year she'll register as a Repub­lican. She's moving in the right direc­tio:i." There is some concern that Eliz­abeth Dole would violate fcd~al conflict-of-interest laws if she cam­paigned for her husband. Both husband and wife are strong advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment. but if there is any question about the issue, she will resign her position. ·

For her part, Elizabeth Dole has also influenced her husband. Before they were married, she persuaded him to back legislation which would set up a · Federal Consumer Protection Agency, a proposal opposed at that time by the

President. Not that she has &ny possi­bility of turning Dole into a liberal. "It would be a lot easier to vote for Belly and Libby," says one consumer advo­cate. '"than Ford and Dole."

The consumer issue, in fact, is one of the few on which Dole and Ford dif­fer. In 1975 the liberal Americans for Democratic Action gave Dole an ap­proval rating of only 17%, while the con­servative Americans for Constitutional Action placed him at 67%, and the Na­tional Farmers Union at 78%. In 1972, during his last full year in the House of Representatives Ford got respective rat­ings of 6%, 68% and 20% from the same three organizations.

Like the President, Dole opposes the Humphrey-Hawkins "fu11 employment" bill as being unworkable and inflation­ary; he backs the Administration's de­fense policies, including the building or the B-1 bomber; he wants strong restric­tions on the use of busing to integrate

schools; and he endorses passage of a constitutional amendment giving states the right to set up their own abortion laws.

D o~e did criticize Ford in 1974_ for hlS ·"premature" pardon of Rich­ard Nixon. The following year, he rapped the President for placing

a two-month embargo on the sale of grain to the Soviet Union. The Presi­dent was responding to labor's charges that the deal would boost food prices in the U.S., but the ban infuriated Mid­western farmers who were eager to sell their bount!ful crop to the Russians. In his acceptance speech-and again dur­ing his visit to Kansas with Dole­Ford vowed that there would be no more embargoes.

Ford's running mate also broke with the G.O.P. to form a curious partner­ship with Liberal George McGovern to get a bill through ~he Senate-the House is still considering its own measure

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DOLE OUT Whittling the Democratic standard-bearer

down to size is a top Republican priority-and Senator Robert Dole makes clear in this inter­view with a staff member of the magazine that he will be the man to lead the attack.

ra Senator Dole, what do you see as the No. I task for the Republican ticket this autumn?

A First, we must strengthen our ~~anization with some new faces and give it new directio1!Avvith only eight weeks to go, that must be done quickly.

From then on it's going to be an uphill battle that calls for a very vigorous campaign.

We have got to carry our message across the country, and I think that the best starting place would be Georgia-Jimmy ~ter's home State. ' Q What will be the Republican message?

A It will be to point out the contradictions in Carter's political statements and actions. The Democrats themselves don't know their candidate,

tie or no opposition. He lost six out of the last eight primaries where he had real opposition.

Carter has not really been tested. We intend to give him that test and point out his weaknesses. ,·

Q You have called Jimmy Carter a "Southern-fried Mc­Govern." Will there be other efforts to get under his skin?

A My purpose is not to get under his skin, but to alert the American people to the fact that Carter is certainly not a moderate or a conservative candidate; he is very liberal. He picked Walter Mondale, probably the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, as his running mate. And he says, "Our views are compatible."

Q What are the strengths of the Ford-Dole ticket as you sec them?

A One of the greatest is that people perceive President Ford as an honest, decent person. They know where he stands, as contrasted to Carter's fuzzy pdsitions.

Next, we have a healthy economy, and that is certainly important to farmers, working men and women, and· the business community. Employment is at a record high. ·

President Ford has held Government spending down. At the same time, he _has secured passage of strong national­

defense legislation. anQ. I don't believe that he wants the electorate to know him.

Dole on Carter: "A mass of conlradiclions-thiTl-skinned." Republicans in Congress

·have sustained most of his ve­toes-with a net savi11gs to taxpayers of around 13 to 14 billion dollars. Carter, on the other hand, has no track rec­ord at all in national leader­ship. We'll point this out.

I'm not questioning his in­tegrity or hones~ut he evi­dently doesn't want the elec­torate to know that he's taken at least 3 positions on "right to work," 2 on busing, 2 on abortion and 2 on nearly ev­erything. He is a mass of con­tradictions. ·

Q The Democratic candi­date has said repeatedly that the Republican campaign will be a "personal and vi­cious attack" on him. Are you going to be a sort of hatchet man~

A \I think Carter's com­ment points up an area of vulnerability: his own sensi­tivity. He is apparently very thin-skinned politically.

If what I have said is a personal attack, then I don't understand American poli­tics. ~·ay it's democracy in action.

Tlie merican people have a right to know his record, and we are going to pin him down and find out just where • he does stand.

Let's face it: Carter won a number of primaries with lit-

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Q How are you going to overcome a lead of more than 20 points held by Carter­Mondale in the ·public-opin­ion polls?

A You overcome that lead by forging a streamlined and effective organization and by vigorous campaigning. We will have to go to the States where our chances are good and to those where our stand­ing needs to be~ngthened.

For examplet the Midwest is up for grabs. Normally, you count on rural and farm areas to vote Republican, but they're a bit restless right now. W~ust shore up support

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TIMONll,JM, Md.,< Aug; 30....;;Republican Vice' Ptes.ldential c&ndidate.Bob Dole and Maryland Sen. J. Gienn Beall campaigned through the state fair here· today, eating cotton candy, kissing children arid arid posing for pictures. . ; .. ' . . . . . · It was Dole's first appearance ror a congressional

candidate, .As a former head of the Republican Na­tional Committee and a friend of many party lead­ers, he· is ·.expected fo make many· such appearances dub.ng'the c,ampaign. · · · '

The t~o lfopublicans made thelr way through the' · fail- .today followed by a crowd of about 50 report: ers, photographers and Secret Service men. ·Fair,

· goers'ofall ages reached out to' shake their hands:· "He's cute," said .Judy Yetta, 22,· of Carney, Md.,

a.rte~ ,sha'Jting_. ]D_ole's hand. "I'.~: voting for him." ·. · .. , The .. candidate's· campaigned.·,past. carousels and.··

· hot' 49g '.!\tands' .and "the "freak' fl,'om -the farm" ex-hlblt"tbat:;lricluded pictures of. five-legged.· sheep

. :ai:icfl~~~;Ppa_rif~~~ do_gs.h The:r'l'~i!d aloud num~e7~' ;for;A"bJ~o>g~e; and threw dpnes·at.g).assestowm

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,. utes ·for, a TV,.camera: to: film hi.in live. Dole .told ' '1\faryJ'a.ncJers:.tha~ Beall's .chanc~s against' hill Demo; . ' cra~ic ·opponent, Rep. Paul I Sar;baries .are '"good~ ·r . I hope:'ours are jusf a,s good/~ .. ·~>;';,:,;J:j ,' ,/ . .. . ·.· ... '·. · As~ed if he ·would campaign 'ag~nin Maryla.nd, •:Dole said; .:~l'U. b.e: back tomQ,rrow ~f, something: ~s go-

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make· a ,good impress~on on the crqwd. ''.Are all poli- · ticiansthis skilled?" asked Charles ·wolpoff,. a Balti-

, mor~;rc?.Ue$~.~tfl,9eJjt, ''He d~.~Sf!~~ ~¢,~~ like he's be-; ing;fa,k~;~,~-utJ1e: ~eeins to 1?e ~otn.~.i~~ D1{l~Y th,ings ·, ; to g~~·P,~~,tc)ITT'.~P,h~~;a,s po~~ible/!~;:.')f_,,;c.· : ..... · .: . :· : .: ¥9iW~X-~J.\:~;Me ,,1)'.rie?~, a T.ows,oµ/ State ~tudei:it;: .

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d 'th little um . ; there because we're behind in the -{n e ~~e general elect1fn.the'Kansa~ i polls. I've thought more about how to . orThe speec~es a~w·s vice pre~1- : get there than making plans after ·; Republican •. his P re flat. le~hargic, • ! that happens .... " · ; dential nominee\, a is tentative. a: A senior strategist on Dole's cam-; · ·red Do e . hen address · paign plane sounded a similar chord : u!unspt lm~st defeatistthw hard-core yesterday when he privately listed as ' times a f other an - the . f ~ ing group~ o s whose support in a chief priority the preservation o

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Uy to the ep d ith a Cham- ourse ves 1r~2ara Y. during the to ra l Dole p\eade w ·n Lexing- next few weeks," the source-said exam~ {:0 mmerce grou~ti~n" in the when . aslted whether Dole was ber °K to "take a post the ship ' deliberately . slacking off in this ton •. Y·•. 1 race "before . president1a · h , , year's campaign. ·

'- goes down." ...u1"" sAME D~'Y. s~- . Generally, Dole's style, which fea-\ LATER uu"' d like the 1mpo~ , tures an endless string of one-line ,. made victory sou: told an enthusiat jokes laced with a heavy dose of self-

b\ dream when. e ·ty of Kentuc Y · deprecation, appeared better design­: ti: group of Umver~i president Ford ed to win an appearance on "Holly-\ students that he ~~lebration on t~~ ·.. wood Squares" than the nation's sec­~ -ould bold a ... 1.. 1heY won i ond highest elected office.-- ... • mpus 1 ;

\ school ca .. DOLE A·ll \ HE ENTERTAINED a Republican ·, November: See •

~-es;.,.·.-..,-.~__, :__-:-~;::.-~]. fok:: her~:sstt ~~g~;'~th:ef1~~\~~~J - shots at Democratic contenders

I,. ,).~')~! Jimmy· Carter and Walter F. Mon-- 1 dale - before getting. to the "sub-

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. INSTEAD, QUESTIONS ori specif­ic issues have prompted windy, circuitous statements evidently de­signed to obfuscate Dole's positions instead of clarifying them.

For example, when a member of a Salt Lake City group followed up on Dole's criticism of a pamphlet on cattle breeding issued by the Occu­pational Safety and Health Adminis­tration by asking why Ford, as chief executive, had not ordered a recall of the document, Dole gaye this an­swer:

"Well, I suggested that to the President at the time. In fact, I sent him one of the pamphlets. I guess the tragedy of that is that it was drafted by some professors at Purdue University, very learned professors. They suggested that it wasn't really drafted for cattlemen; it was drafted for others who might not be familiar with the livestock industry and with cattle generally. .

"The President did act very quic~J ly when you said you couldn't have _ mother-daughter banquets, father- \ son banquets. He acted quickly. I~ think the pamphlet I refer to has i been withdrawn from circulation." j

It is not immediately clear wheth- ' er Dole is unable to discuss such ! matters as Secretary of State Henry ' Kissinger.'s peacekeeping mission to Africa and other aspects of the administration's current foreign policy, . whether he merely prefers not to or whether he has been in­structed by Ford campaign officials· to leave such issues alone.

IN ANY EVENT Dole's reluctance to go beyond his fairly standard speech and his collection of witty I one-liners, coupled with Ford's deci-i sion to remain in the White House in' order to appear "presidential,"' leaves the Republicans with a stand· up comic as their only caf!'lpaign weapon against Carter and.Mondale.

Aides to Dole contend that the nominee's campaign has been ham­pered during its first four weeks by a lack of communications with Ford campaign headquarters in Washing­ton and because he was forced to throw his staff together hWTiedly after the convention.

Symptomatic of the problem is the absence oi air-to-ground communi­cations equipment aboard the Dole campaign plane. On long flights, a. time that otherwise could include

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. SPARTANBURG, S.C.-Bob Dole, cam~ . palgn tongue for hire, knows why Jimmy Carter agreed to three televised debates wt£h President Ford. · · · ' · •

That way; Mr. Dole explains, Mr. carter can to.ke "three positions on every Issue."

·Jimmy Carter already Is taking "orders" from George Meany, th~ Republican vice presidential" · candidate . tells audiences. "George Meanv could nin for President. But why should he steJfildown?" - ·.

Watergate was Chard Nixon's fault, not that of the Republican Party, he says. The Watergate .burglary "happened on my night off," Mr. Dole (who was GOP national chairman at the time I told. a Cli.rbOndale, Ill.. gathering ·of Republicans the other night. He paused. Then, as his partisan· audl• ence gasped, he added with a sardonic grin:

"In. fact, I think I was on a job In Chi· .cago" that night.

And so It went last week as the Kansas Senator ad-libbed\ his way around the couil.· try for the Ford-Dole ticket, which he calls ·~two four-letter 'words you Can live with." Mr. Dole, a man of rapier wit and combat­ive Instincts, kept carving up Jimmy Carter, as expected. But, unexpectedly,. he also de·

. voted .roughly equal time. to piking :tun at RIChard Nixon, 8.t the Republican Party 'a"nd ·at Bob Dole himself. Consciously trying to modify his Image as a hard-nosed. pa.rtlsan, assuring audiences that he Isn't "a slo.Sher," I Mr. Dole left 'em laughing wherever he I went. ' · · · ·

But It's doubtful that the Dole ciunpalgn can continue In this lighthearted vein much j longer. I

"The Lead . Campal1t11er" . · · . . · 1 With President Ford's strategists rriap· I

ping a schedule that will take Mr. Dole to major "media markets" In all sections of I the country this. month, he will have to step up his attacks on the Carter-Mondale tlCket. President Ford has adopted a lofty, above­the· batUe pose, and it will be up to Bob Dole to carry the fight to the enemy.

· "You'll see Dole used almost evecy­where," a Ford strategist predicts. "He's gOing to be the lead campfilgner tn the show. ,..-On Thursday he Is scheduled to probe one potential Carter soft spot, the Jewish eom-

. munlty, with an address In New York tO the ' National Zionist Organization. Ford · men have been pleasantly surprised by Indica­tions that Mr. Dole enjoys a strong positive rating among Jews because of a. pro-Israel voting record and are trying to capitalize upon It. Mr. Dole then is to spend Friday and Saturday In. Tex.as and Arkansas­trying,: as he. did last week In Georgia and the Carolinas, to convince Southerners that candidate Ford hasn't written U1em off. Later this month, Ford strategists envision swings through the West Coast and the In­dustrial Midwest.

· Meanwhile, Mr. Dole already has been hit by published reports citing his stout de·

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·2 r':.· ' · Oo11ti11ued From First Page , e . e launched Into a ubject: a , can't decide what he wants to be." He said rltlclsm of doe tors who abuse the ~ i that the Democrauc Piauorn{ \vou' c F a!lll.Medlcare programs. · : '"well Qver $100 billion," that Mr. er '\"I don't see anybody out there carryin • I .would cut "$5 billion to $8 billion" fro a- 111gns about (this I abuse because many Of

1 ,Uonal defense while .adding a $60 billion Ju:: the . abusers are upper- and middle· Income

' natlonal·health:l~urance· plan.aJld a, II·: .people, doctors and others," he said. "Now., ! lion full-employment progrtim.· With r~, Ws easy to pick on the poor people In this ! Carter In· the" Wlllte ·House and· the. De • country, but sometl mes we find It hard to do · ! crats controlling CongreSB, he said, Oeor e much else/'\ . i Meany would "run the country." · · ; '1 "You may have a geographical neighbor red questions r"li'l. Mr. Carter 1," he told .the South Caroll· I . the Ford-Dole ticket Is whe,.n••r-><-ran• ·,:n~ns, "and I hope.you'll still have him after (reach e . er-· tlfie election.· But ·President: Ford Is a phllo· vatt,ves. to· ,attract so-c&.lled new conserva-. ::;';°i>hlcal neighbor." · .\ \ '. .' . tlves-peopl_e, many of them blue-collar

.' But the Senator took the edge.off h1s .anti· Demo~rats .. who are less concerned about · · Carter attack by detouring into·, verbal 'jab . ~a lancing the budget than about such emo-. at Richard Nixon. "Let me make 1t per,; bonal social issues as abortion, busing and . fectly clear.. as another wel1'1mm\rrl fella pornography, The conventional . wisdom ls , . used to say." he began. Then,. ~ nervous· th~t ·Messrs_:· Ford and Dole are both \fad!· ·Republican laughter welled up ii.round him, tlonal ·conservatives and that they will have •!lie grinned and contlded: "He oniy Said that dlfflc.ulty reaching the new conservatives. · . when tie was .in doubt... · · • But at least one lnfll.~entlal new conservative ;',;'.:' Later, Sen.' Dole received a glowing intro- thlnkii ~hat this assessme11t. may underestl· · , diictlon .from South Carolina Gov. James mat~ Sen. Dole. ·Edwards who was an ardent backer of Ron· "Dole will make a strong appeal ·to my· ''~d Reagan and who now Is ready to work kind of conservative,''. says North Carolina's .· tor the Ford·Dole ticket. But hardly more Tom Ellis, a former Reagan backer and a' than an hour later the conservative Senator close associate of that state's new conserva·

~JPJ!~ the conser~aUve governor_. With, of all tive Sen. ,Jesse Helms. "I think. he~ ~ak P ttitngs; ··a backhanded ·defense of liberal to the Issues and speak to them well. /1.tieorge McGovern; • '. , ·: · Ford .11trateglsts already have decided to · 1 At a press· conference, with Gov.· Ed· reac1t out for new conservatives, particularly.

wards and other party notables standing be· for nominally Democratic Cathollcs upset . hind him. Sen. Dole Wa.s relninded that tie about liberalized abortion laws and other so· ! and Sen. McGovern have cosponsored an OV· cial trend11. This decision alone all but guar-! erhaul ot the tOod·stamp program. "Right. antees .'the emergence ot a more bitingly i .And that's 'not Illegal," the Senator shot partisan Bob Dole in the weeks ahead. The : back.· Then, as the governor's jaw went question confrontl)lg Mr. Dole Is how hard : slack; Sen. Dole declared heatedly that ·the he comes ·down against abortlon-'.an Issue

food-stamp program "would be a Jot better that revives questlona about the manner In i It they'd · adopt . the. Dole-McGovern" ap· which he won his 197t reelection race. i' proacll. . . · · . · ''.It's easy to be for reform· where you

just knock off people (from the rollsl," the Senator ~ntlnued In a·rush, his voice tum·

"AllC h~h: ·_The Dole·McGoVt!m ·approach, 'while culllng Ineligibles from the rolls, ;,would 9.lso seek the enrollment of eligible .'.·'persons not . now taking advantage ot the '. program. "I don't know anybody In this ·.kountry who feels the elderly or the poor , should be denied an adequate dlet," he de' .:)c'8red. ''And It that's heresy;I'm tor It.''. · · The Senator was rolling now. And with ii!ft?v.~J!ldward~,i")Vh() ts an o~<MJ,ontl~t .. still ..

ole says he has nb Intention of making abortion an Issue this year, but his old opponent, Dr. Roy, Is \lllconvtnced; "His use ot the abortion issue says -two ·things about him," Dr. Roy argues. "One, he can count. He will .persist with an Issue that Is worth even two or three percentage points. And, two, he's willing to campaign on emo· tional issues."

Meanwhile, Mr. Dole already hus been i hit by published reports citing .his stout de· feri'se of Riche.rd Nixon during most .of the Watergate crisis and questioning whether, as GOP chairman, he worked behind the scenes to help smother the IntemaUonal Telephone &: Telegraph scandal. And yester­day a New York Times article said that Claude Wild Jr., the former chief lobbyist for Gulf Oil Corp., has told a federal grand jury that he passed $6,000 to $6,000 In Ulegal corporate contributions to Mr. Dole through a Dole assistant. Mr. Dole denied the allega­tion. Avoiding Being Burned Again

But although the campaign seems certain · to turn rougher-and although Mr. Dole is a ~ man normally most comfortable on the of· fense - he . apptfars genuinely reluctant to mount a slashing, no-holds-barred attack in behalf 'of the Ford ticket. 'One reaaon, ac- ,J cording to a close associate, Is that Sen .

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. ty-;Mr. DOle's' campaign speeches so far: have .been curious blends: partisan attacks on Mr. Carter, mingled with self-deprecla· tory quips and, occasloz:tally, gritty in&ls­tence on· saying the Impolitic thing .. The ap· proach showed .up clearly last Thursday In off.thta,cuff performances In and around th.ls

· South Carolina city. ·Sen. Dole, for.,shadowlng his main cam·

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. SPARTANBURG, S.C.-Bob Dole, cam~ palgn tongtie for hire, know!I why Jimmy Carter agreed to three televised debates wllh President Ford. · · · ' · •

That wil.y; Mr. Dole explains, Mr. carter can take "three positions on every Issue."

·Jimmy Carter already Is taking "orders" from George Meany, th~ Republican vice presidential'· · candldatf' . tells audiences. "George Meanv could nin for President. But why should he steJ}udown? 11

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that of the Republican Party, he says. The Watergate burglary "happened on my night off;" Mr. Dole (who was· GOP national chairman at the tlmel told"a CarbOndale, Ill.. gathering of Republicans the other night. He paused. Then, as his partisan· audl• ence gasped, he added with a sardonic grin:

"In. fact, I think I was on a job In Chi· .cago" that night.

And so It went last week as the Kansas Senator ad-libbed\ his way around the coun· try for the Ford-Dole ticket, which he calls ·~two four-letter words you i:an live with," Mr. Dole, a man of rapier wit and combat' Ive Instincts, kept carving up Jimmy Carter, as expected. Btit, unexpectedly, he also de· voted .r.Oughly equal time. to peking ·tun at· R!Chard Nixon, at the Republican Party 'aiici at Bob. Dole himself. O>nsclouiily trying to modify his Image as a hard·nosed. partisan, assuring audiences that he Isn't "a slasher," I Mr. Dole left 'em laughing wherever he I went. ' · · · .

But It's ·doubUul that the Dole campaign can continue In this lighthearted vein much j longer. l

"The Lead CampalKJ1er" · " . 1 With President Ford's strategists niap· I

ping a schedule that will take Mr. Dole to major "media markets" In all sections ot I the country this month, he will have to step 1

up his attacks on the Carter-Mondale ticket. President Ford has adopted a lofty, above· the· battle pose, and It will be up to Bob Dole to carry the fight to the enemy.

· "You'll see Dole used almost eyecy· where," a Ford strategist predicts. "He's gOing to be the lead campilgner tn the show. l'""'"'on Thursday' he Is scheduled to probe one potential Carter soft spot, the Jewish COin· munlty, with an address In New York tO the " National Zionist Organization. Ford ·men have been pleasantly surprised by lndlca· tlons that Mr. Dole enjoys a strong positive rating among Jews because of a. pro-Israel voting record and are trying to capitalize upon It. Mr. Dole then is to spend Friday and Saturday In Texas and Arkansas­trying, . as he. did last week In Georgia and the Carolinas, to convince Southerners that candidate Ford hasn't written them off. Later this month, Ford strategists envision swings through the West Coast and thf' In· dustrlal Midwest.

Meanwhile, Mr. Dole already has been hit by published reports citing his stout de·

. tense of Richard N!Xon during most of the ·Watergate crisis and questioning whether,. as GOP chairman, he worked behind the scenes to help smother the International Telephone & Teleuaph scandal. And vester· 1

Senate Turns Back Move To End Postal Service's Independence

After rejecting a determined attempt to end the finan- · cial independence of the U.S. Postal Service, the Senate Aug. 24 voted to advance the beleaguered agency an emergency $!-billion subsidy to see it through its immediate money crunch. The vote was 79-9. (Vote 515, p. 2363)

The subsidy was the key feature of a bill (HR 8603) that c.lamped a moratorium until Feb. 15, 1977, on postage rate increases and reductions in mail service. Another provision, added by amendment on the Senate floor, established tight regulations governing the closing of small post offices and permitted residents to appeal such closings in court.

HR 8603 also established a 12-member Commission on Postal Service to study the agency's problems and make recommendations by the Feb. 15 moratorium deadline. It was expected that the commission report would serve as the starting point for a major congressional re-examination of the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act (PL 91-375) that created the Postal Service.

HR 8603 was a compromise measure, the product of protracted and often bitter negotiations. between con­gressional leaders, who had argued for a much larger sub­sidy, and the White House, which originally had rejected any Postal Service bail-out. During the Senate debate, sponsors stressed that the compromise was a stopgap measure designed to buoy the Postal Service through its im­mediate financial crisis until after the 1976 elections. The next Congress might be able to address the problems in a less politically charged atmosphere, they reasoned.

"None of us are proud of the compromise," said its floor manager, Gale W. McGee (D Wyo.), chairman of the Senate.· .. Post Office and Civil Service Committee. "But I firmly believe it is wise for this body to accept the temporary com­promise in order that we might proceed to address ourselves fully to the problem without any limitations when we return after the election year politics."

Substitute Bill The bill's sponsors won passage of the compromise only

after beating back a fierce effort by senators, led by Ernest F. Hollings (D S.C.), who were angry over the Postal Ser­vice's performance, to scuttle the agreement with Ford and replace it with a substitute that would have brought the Postal Service's budget back under Congressional control. The House approvea such controls in its version of HR 8603, passed in 1975. (House passage, 1975 Almanac p. 719)

Although sponsors went into the two-day debate confi­dent of the votes to stop Hollings, they received a major scare the first day (Aug. 23) when Jennings Randolph (D W.Va.) unexpectedly offered the amendment placing con­trols on small post office closings. Opposing the ·I amendment, McGee in effect set up a test vote by declaring

that any such tampering with the compromise would sub­ject the entire bill to a veto. But the Senate ignored McGee's warnings and gave overwhelming approval to the amendment, 60-13. (Vote 510, p. 2363)

That vote came as a shock, one staffer said afterward, and signaled potential trouble on the Hollings substitute. But after four hours of heated oratory on the amendment, it was rejected almost casually, 26-58. (Vote 511, p. 2363)

After defeating the Hollings amendment, relieved spon­sors of the bill attributed the difference between the two votes to the fact that Randolph's was a "motherhood" proposal that senators could not vote against. They said it would be troublesome for the White House but probably would not, as McGee had warned on the floor, produce a veto.

HR 8603 also contained noncontroversial provisions that streamlined postal ratemaking procedures. (See com­mittee action, Weekly Report p. 2082)

The bill now goes to conference with the House, whose version differed substantially from the Senate's. Although the Senate compromise was expected to prevail in con­ference, it could face serious opposition on the House floor. Protesting the McGee compromise, several House members publicly reaffirmed their commitment to the original House version, which required the Postal Service to come to Congress for annual budget authorization and appropriations. (Related House action, p. 2350)

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nomination as the Republican vice presidential can­didate, Robert Dole (R Kan.) demonstrated an accom­modating spirit that could be expected to serve him well as a Vice President.

During floor debate on the postal subsidy bill, Dole introduced an amendment to require the President to appoint at least one consumer representative to the 12-member Postal Service Commission that would be set up under the bill. "It seems we could end up with both labor and management, but no one repr~senting the users of the mails," Dole complained. He noted that his amendment had bipartisan support in the Senate.

Gale W. McGee (D Wyo.), floor manager of the bill, agreed that, indeed, there was so much "equity" to Dole's proposal "that I think it would carry of its own weight." But he pointed out to the vice presidential candidate that his running mate, President Ford, op­posed the amendment. "The President just felt a little sensitive about hamstringing his prerogative" of ap­pointing commissioners, McGee explained. He assured Dole that he would urge the President to appoint such a con mer representative.

Upon that assurance, Dole decided'to withdraw his amendment. "The senator from Kansas is also sensitive to the wishes of the President," Dole said, "more so this week than ,fast week." ·

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yesterday ·ror. ·the· Republicarf Vice-Presidential· nomlilil· .· wnat President F~ accomplished· by bis choice except ' ti.on __ ,; Mr.·,,A_ ... Fo., i-d ... :c:o. ul_d. have tho_u. ght firs.· t of_ the suprem. e •. appeaSernen(of the Reaganite wing :Of his party; But at ,_ '·what cost!' · ··' · :,. · · '" · . ; and onwftruly. valid qualifl~atiOn for that office: Is this. man .(~~ ~Op)B;Jl) ·the b~st''~uit~. gf. au .the party's avan~: · Instead· of· reaching out to .the great mass of independ- · at?lcf:~~ta. to !u.Simle:th,~J?,residency of the United ent, moderate and even liberal voters who may be look~ States .~h9'iJd the offi~_ for ariy · reasc>rl, become .vacant?.. .. . Ing for a .viable altern~tlve t~ ~e still relatively unlmown ; ,· ,Jud.P!gfrom:the'riature·of·hiS choice, it seems unlikely·,: and untned. D!mlocratlc nommee •. Presid~qt Ford, exactly that:1;1ti!:fonfthol_ight ·of.th\s;~peci:''of.the task at au.· ... as Mr· R~aganhad.,done·durlng h1s.uns~e~fUl filh:t for.

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. ;ap#t~·;.~s.~b&i~an' of :ttJ'.O··~p~blJean Natdonat 'cc)in~; .. cb~cteiiistic, style of cimpaignilig ".'iU · p~ve ~~~ive. : nii~ee•;IUld·Senator•sin~e l~;:,Mr; Dole--whose legisla·.; ·,on the low. road>while Presidemt Fo.,. remains on· the i

tiv~ ~~rd i~ b&s¥' prl:n~l~ly On defense of agriclJltui:al ... high road, that ts pretty-.• tbill strategy on, wlµch: to base : i~is· ~tinctly on: the ,·conservative side· of "t'i1e a nationill ~paip: ' · , . · ' ·" . · .. : : ; . .· · , : Rep~lfC.m<s*U'wn 'l\n congreS's. 1n. view of thi.t fa0t. .· The only chance the lieP,ublicans bal'e to breiak o~t of 1 it0was'revealingly frarik for :President·Ford to announce their minority status in this election will be to offer : ~t.:~?b Dc>Je~~· philOsopby:aritf~ine ,~incid~dd~tl.~' ,id~, lnspiratjon~;and the.;pr~mise o(tortiµ,ight leader- l ,c:ally, :)~~ b~cigmg. of, th~ ~-· i~eological g~p h~'. .· . ship to a .co~try and a people,. stilLbem~ed :by the. past , ~.~ct. :tli~· liberal Republ,igm Ripon Society immediately.~ .. decade's cataclysmic changes tn ·American society' and ' te~~.,the seleot7iO!t:.~d1S4Ppojµt!!1g," ·noting that "".Nl,llle . in the· world· iat iarge: Can the Ford~Dole. ticket. trispire. '. it unifies t}ie [air~~- up,i~edl conservative elementEi .of' ,.:,the Amer~can people With the confidenee that it offers · $.e ... G.p;r:o i~,.i$,n~ 'th,e ~mQClerates in the .party .who·: ··this ·kind of -leadership'fo theneXt faur.yearsi: .. · .... · ...... .

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An Agg'ressive Campaigner With A Sharp Wit Robert Dole is a tough campaigner whose sharp ver­

bal skills and assertiveness have wounded more than one senatorial ego since he entered the Senate in 1969.

"He's one of the toughest men I've ever met, the kind of guy I'd like to stand back-to-back with in a knife fight," a .colleague, Sen. Robert W. Packwood (R O~e.) once said of Dole. In 1970, when Dole was defending President Nixon's Vietnam policy in the Senate, one grateful White House aide declared, "Dole is always try­ing to find out what you can do to seize the initiative and make the other guys look bad."

Sen. Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.) said of Dole the same year: "He's the first man we've had around here in a long time who will grab the other side by the hair and drag them down the hill."

Counterattacks That kind of approach might come in handy for

President Ford, who has been running far behind Jimmy Carter in the public opinion polls. In his come-from­behind 1974 re-election campaign, Dole managed to turn adversity to advantage with a spirited counterattack.

In that race, Dole's Democratic opponent, Rep. William R. Roy Sr. (1971-75) criticized Dole's record on Watergate. Dole .had defended Nixon and had served as Republican national chairman during most of the time the deeds that later became the Watergate scandal were taking place. He blamed much of the uproar on The Washington Post, which had taken the lead in covering the story, and the Democrats. He had once accused the Post and George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate, of being "partners in mud slinging."

Kansas Democrats in 1974 believed Dole to be a vulnerable candidate. They thought they could show that Dole either knew about Nixon's involvement in the coverup and lied about it, or that he should have known and was too willing not to find out. For a time that line of attack worked. Less than three months before the elec­tion, Dole trailed Roy by eight percentage points.

Dole first tried humor. Asked if he wanted Nixon to campaign for him, he replied, "I wouldn't mind if he flew over the state." But in August Dole fired his campaign director and ad agency and went on the offensive. Reviv­ing a chapter from his earlier Watergate counterattacks, Dole began accusing his opponent of mudslinging. One of his television ads showed his face on a campaign poster being splattered by mud and then being wiped clean. The tactic worked. Dole began recovering in the opinion

·polls, and in November he won with 51 per cent of the vote.

Acerbic Tongue Dole's well-known wit is sometimes directed against

himself, but more often toward Democrats. Dole's replacement in January 1973 as chairman of

the Republican Party was George Bush. When Bush was a little late in making his appearance, Dole quipped, "Here he comes. They're dragging him in now."

"I think we could survive (Watergate) if the coconuts would stop falling," Dole sighed at the end of 1973.

"You know, you feel like walking around with a steel helmet because there are more coconuts."

After McGovern's defeat in 1972, Dole allowed that he "was never a hard-working senator. He limited himself to a few nutrition issues."

: While serving as chairman of the Republican Party, Drile said in reference to Jean Westwood, his Democratic counterpart, "Mrs. Westwood will soon be driftwood, I guess." .

In an earlier political era, Dole was asked whom he thought the Democrats would pick as Nixon's 1968 presidential opponent. "I'm sort of a Humphrey man myself," Dole replied. "I'm sticking with Hubert. I think he's a loser."

Dole once strolled in late to a Senate subcommittee hearing on air and water pollution called by Sen. Ed­mund S. Muskie (D Maine), who did not attend. The acting chairman, Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton (D Mo.), asked Dole if he had any questions. Seizing the oppor­tunity to needle a Democrat or two, Dole said, "I just came to see if there were any presidential candidates here, and there aren't, so I'm going back to my office." He left as the audience broke into laughter.

Dole holds his own during heated debates. Former Sen. J. William Fulbright (D Ark.), chairman of the prestigious Senate Foreign .Relations Committee, became furious with Dole after he introduced an impor­tant piece of legislation that Fulbright ha~ intended to offer himself in 1970.

"I do not blame the senator (Dole), in view of his brief attendance here, for not having learned all the proper procedures," Fulbright fumed. Dole replied, "Is it a rule of the Senate that one must clear everything with the senator from Arkansas?"

Fulbright later complained, "I think it's very unfor­tunate for one member to try to appropriate another member's bill. It's not very differen.t from appropriating the neighbor's cow." Dole retorted, "I told him [Fulbright] I'd send him a quart of milk."

Dole's acerbic assessment of President Ford's 1974 pardon of Nixon takes on a shade of irony now that Dole is Ford's running mate. Dole declared that Ford lost his popularity "in a matter of days, and he's no great asset to·Republican candidates now." Still, Dole allowed, "If we're going to have a strong, balanced Republican ticket in 1976, we will have to do it with a Ford-Rockefeller ticket. That is if Ford doesn't kick the ball in the first quarter. He's already fumbled it a couple of times."

Discussing his political philosophy during a 1976 press conference, Dole said, "I consider myself to be fair­ly conservative, just as conservative as some of those who worry. about Ford being too liberal-which is hard to believe. I'm certain some of them even feel [Ronald) Reagan is too liberal-he believes in federal programs. For the purist, I don't believe there are enough of those around to have a meeting."

-By Donald Smith

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defender in Senate debates, rising automatically to answer Democratic attacks on the administration. He offended some senior senators by prowling the Capitol hallways between debates, seeking to engage them in further discus­sion of issues.

The Kansas senator was one of the Nixon ad­ministration's most vocal defenders in some of the Senate's most heated battles. Among other issues, he helped lead Republican fights for the Supreme Court nominations of G. Harrold Carswell and Clement F. Haynsworth and for the construction of the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system.

In 1971, Nixon rewarded Dole for his loyalty with the GOP chairmanship, an unusual honor for a freshman senator. Dole had lobbied actively for the job and won it over the protests of senior Republicans, including Minor­ity Leader Hugh Scott·(Pa.), who were concerned that Dole was too aggressive and too abrasive for the job. A White House staff member said at the time that the Kansan had been chosen because he "looks good on television" and could "say things which the President himself cannot."

As chairman during a turbulent period in the party's history, Dole was the forceful spokesman that Nixon ap­parently had sought. In 1971, he joined with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew in attacking the news media, and especially. television networks, for biased reporting of the Vietnam War. When Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D Maine) was trying to build a campaign for President in 1971 by attacking the FBI for domestic spying, Dole compared what he called "Muskieism" with "the McCarthyism of the 50s."

When the Democrats began attacking the administra­tion in the summer and fall of 1972 for the Watergate break­in, Dole dismissed the issue as a diversionary tactic con­cocted in desperation by Democrats on the verge of defeat. He accused The Washington Post, which uncovered much of the scandal, of trying to conduct a "rescue operation" for Democratic candidate George McGovern (D S.D.). "The greatest political scandal of this campaign," Dole charged, "is the brazen manner in which, without benefit of clergy, The Washington Post has set up housekeeping with the McGovern campaign."

Dole's blistering attacks on the Democrats at times caused consternation in some wings of his own party. In July 1972, he received letters from several Republican governors urging him, for the sake of party wholeness, to tone down his attacks. He came under criticism from local and state party members who felt that the party had not supplied them with enough concrete help, such as money and organization, in the 1972 elections below the presidential level. Dole also incurred trouble from above by criticizing Nixon for not campaigning actively in the 1972 election, especially for Republican senate candidates.

Shortly after the election, the controversial Kansan was removed as chairman, despite his stated desire to stay on. He denied that his relationship with Nixon had soured, however, blaming his ouster instead on "a faceless nameless few in the White House ... the gutless wonders who seem to take personal satisfaction in trying to do somebody in."

Dole remained loyal to Nixon during most of the Watergate affair. Jn the summer of 1973, during the hearings by the Senate Watergate Committee, he in­troduced in the Senate an unsuccessful resolution to end the hearings, saying the public was tired of them and the matter should be settled in court.

He stated in February of the next year that there was no legal case against the President. But by June he had softened somewhat, saying he hoped Nixon was not involved

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Watergate and Dole's tie to the administration almost cost him the election. At one time he was rated 12 points in the polls behind his popular opponent, U.S. Rep. William R. Roy (D 1971-74).

Nor did Nixon's Aug. 9 resignation bring him much comfort in the race. For, although General Ford's accession to the Presidency boosted Republican stock generally, the new President's first actions did not go down well with Dole's conservative Kansas constituency. "President Ford has tried to help me," Dole remarked jokingly. "First there was the Nixon pardon, then there was amnesty and last week the cancellation of the wheat to the Russians."

Immediately after the Nixon pardon, Dole issued {!) statement criticizing Ford for the action. Under increasing attack from Roy in Kansas, Dole characteristically went on the offensive himself. Instead of trying to defend his Watergate record, he portrayed Roy as a "mudslinger" for trying to associate Dole with the scandal. And he imported Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R Conn.), a member of the Senate Watergate Committee, to testify to his character. (Dole campaign, box, p. 2267)

In the November election, Dole surprised the experts, coming from behind to win with a bare 50.9 per cent ma­jority.

Voting Record Dole and Sen. Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota, the

Democratic vice presidential nominee, are the first senators to oppose each other on the second spots of Republican and Democratic tickets since 1952, when Republican Nixon ran against Democrat John Sparkman of Alabama.

The voting records ~f Dole and Mondale could hardly be more different. Whereas Mondale has one of the Senate's most liberal overall records, Dole's is decidedly more conser­vative.

The conservative Americans for Constitutional Action (ACA) gave Dole an average rating of 75 per cent for his voting record over the seven-year period 1969-75. Conversely, the liberal Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) never gave him a rating higher than 19 per cent. (Box p. 2269)

Although Dole has kept a special eye out for the needs of his Kansas farm constituency, he has not won particular­ly high ratings from farm groups. His ratings from the

Dole Staff, Advisers

Although Dole has not yet put together a vice presidential political staff, following are key staff members in his Senate office:

C. Bill Wohlford, 31, Dole's administrative assistant. He is. a lawyer who came to Washington from Kansas.

William A. Taggart, 45, a former Kansas news­paperman and longtime political adviser. Formerly a legislative assistant to Dole, he now works for the senator on the minority staff of the Senate Agriculture and For~stry Committee.

Claude D. Alexander, 30, Dole's head legislative assistant. He is a native Kansan .

Janet W. ·Anderson, 26, press secretary.

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Ford's Running Mate:

Dole: A Seasoned Political Infighter. In naming Robert Dole as his vice presidential running

mate, President Ford chose a hardened party warrior who could be expected to carry an aggressive political fight to the Democrats in the fall election.

In his 16 years in Congress, the Kansas senator has earned a reputation not so much for his legislative skills as for his zest for political warfare. He emerged on the national political stage as the acid-tongued Republican national chairman who led the party during the 1972 Nixon re­election campaign and the early stages of Watergate.

As chairman from 1971 to 1973, Dole earned the respect of Nixon and other party regulars for his personal loyalty and his dedication to the Republican cause. But his blunt, someumes abrasive outspokenness also embroiled him in controversy, eventually causing him to be dumped as

.' chairman and nearly costing him re-election to the Senate in 1974. Former Sen. William B. Saxbe (R Ohio), another Nixon loyalist who also was outspoken, criticized Dole as "a hatchet man" who was "out of the mainstream" of Republican politics.

Dole also comes to the Republican ticket as a conser­vative not likely to antagonize disappointed backers of Ronald Reagan. He supported the Vietnam War right up to its end. He has opposed Democratic social welfare spending programs. And as a mid westerner who has fought in~,· defatigably in Congress to protect programs such as crop subsidies, which are dear to farmers, he can be counted on to help repair political damage suffered by Ford in 1975 when he clamped an embargo on grain exports to the Soviet Union.

Background Dole, 53, was born in Russell, Kan., his voting residence

today. He attended public schools there and went to the University of Kansas for two years before joining the Army during World War II.

Dole still bears the marks of his war service. He was severely wounded on April 14, 1945, when he led an infantry charge on a machine-gun nest in Italy. His right shoulder bone was shattered and several vertebrae were cracked. Doctors feared that he would never walk again, but after more than three years in Army hospitals, he regained use of his legs. His right arm still hangs useless.

For those injuries, Dole earned a Purple Heart, his second of the war. The experience has led him in his Sen­ate career to push for federal programs for the handi­capped.

In 1948, Dole married Phyllis Holden, the physical· therapist who had attended him while he was bedridden. When he returned to Topeka's Washburn University after the war to get his B.A. and law degree, his wife served as his substitute right hand, taking notes, transcribing lectures and writing his answers on exams.

In 1972 they were divorced. Dole was married again on Dec. 6, 1975, to Federal Trade Commissioner Mary E. Han­ford.

Political Career Dole has never lost an election. At age 26, he won elec­

tion in 1£ ·.o to the Kansas Legislature. In 1952 he was

elected to the first o,. four terms as the Russell County prosecutor, a post he held until 1960.

Dole won election to the U.S. House in 1960 and served there for four terms. As the representative of a large wheat­growing distr.ict in Kansas, he devoted most of his efforts to agricultural issues.

In the House, he showed early glimmerings of the hard­line partisanship for which he has come to be known. In 1962, he set himself up as a ·one-man watchdog for signs of Kennedy administration involvement in the Billy Sol Estes grain storage scandal. In 1964, he served as chairman of a Republican committee formed to investigate the Bobby Baker scandal. Baker was a protege of Lyndon B. Johnson, who parlayed the post of secretary to the Senate majority leader into a personal fortune.

Also in 1964, a presidential election year, Dole led an ef­fort to prohibit Johnson, then the President, from issuing memorial certificates to relatives of deceased veterans. Dole complained that the documents were political campaign literature.

When Republican Sen. Frank Carlson (1950-69) retired in 1968, Dole ran against former Kansas Gov. William H. Avery for tlre GOP nomination to replace him. Dole won with a comfortable 68.5 per cent, then went on to defeat a moderate Democrat in the general election. He won with a 60.5 per cent plurality.

Senate Record Almost from the day he entered the Senate, Dole made

waves. Consigned by the seniority system to obscurity in his committee ijj!signments, Dole virtually set up camp on the Senate floor. He assumed for himself the role of Nixon

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Acknowledging the GOP needs to· - broaden its base to win in November,

1 vice presidential candidate Robert Dole has offered to serve as a "bridge" beiween' disaffected Republican liberals . and President Ford.. . · The Kansas senator made the offer · yesterday to Sen. Charles McC. Mathias Jr;, R-Md., an outspoken critic of the GOP's steady rightward drift, who said he was "gratified but not satisfied" by the gesture.

Mathias and other leading GOP liberals are convinced the Ford-Dole ticket must move toward· the center

I on issues if the Republicans are to , stand a chance of defeating ·Jimmy ·

I Carter and Walter Mondale this fall. .

Furthermore, they feel the Presi­. dent owes ihem - and the industrial states -they represent - more Utan, mere lip service, since he could not bave-·won the nomination in Kansas · ·Ci,~~ IJt.~t week without their help ... ·

. . R-N.Y., whose state. delegation . · Yesterday morning, Mathias got delivered the single largest bloc of another call - this time from Dole, votes Ford received . Wednesday who had returned to Washington for night. . two days of administration briefings

During -a. Sun .. d·a·y television a...; on foreign and domestic policy.!>!'· ..- fore he makes a short · campaign

pearance, Mathias warned that pro- · swing and joins Ford in Vail, Colo. _ • gressive Republicans would not ac­tively campaign for the GOP ticket this year unless the President and his running mate demonstrated greater concern for issues which the liberals

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·, _"~,: ,:. Drew From Fund Mr. Wild said that he drew the $2,000

from Gulf's "Good Government Fund," which was a lawful manner of making contributions to political campaigns from non donated by Gulf executives. lf Mr. Dole indeed received such money,

he could have face<f the Jeg~I responsibil­ity of registering- his role as a campaign committee.

Mr. Wild said that Mr. Dole was "anx­ious" to · help Republicans around the country get elected in 1970. Mr. Wild declined to comment on an article in The New . York Times today that quoted sources who said that Mr. Wild had told a Federal grand jur:y ,he illegally passed another $5,000 or $6,000 to Mr. Dole in 1973 through one of Mr. Dole's aides.

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DARLINGTON, S.C.; Sept. 6-Senator Robert J. Dole came to the Southern 500 stock car race here today to face down Jimmy Carter and prove that the Republicans intended to ·make the South a 'battlegroWlCl' in this fall's Presidential election.

· Mr. Dole, the Republican Vice Presi­dential nominee from Kansas, started off bravely enough. But before the day was out there was '1ittle doubt who was the favorite of most of the Labor Day crowd in T-shirts and tank tops soa~ing up the September sun at Dar-

. lington Raeeway .. · Airport Welcome .

And it wasn't the Republican hopeful from Kansas, who had flown down

. from Washington to test his popularity against Mr. Carter, the Democratic Presidential candidate, · who had dropped in here after officially opening his campaign at Warm Springs, a vaca­tion retreat of the la.te Franklin D. Roosevelt._ · . -While President Ford, who doesn't plan to make his first appearance on the

hustings untiJl next ~~ek in :hfs home 'Minutes before Senator Dole was in-state. of Michigan, remained in the troduced to the thousands who had White House, Senator Dole, natty in come to cheer on Richard Petty and a blue-and-white seersucker suit, plant- ·other driving heroes, the track an­ed the Republican banner on South nouncer drew a roar of approval as he Carolina soil for the second time within ·said: · · five days. · · ·'We're gofog to have a great crowd

Recalling that he had been in Spar- · a_nd a great race. Come back next year tanburg last Thursday, Mr. Dole, upon when all the politicians aren't around.' being· greeted by an ai-rport crowd of : - Only the slightest ripple greeted Mr.

:,about 150 iri nearby FlorE}.Ilce said: .. Dole as he took the microphone. · ,~:-."We're Jus. t Starting' · · 'I've said very honestly that I'm more

-- · · · · · . · - . of a stock-car fan today than I was / · 'It's great to be dn South Carolina. ·yesterday,' he said. And that didn't ··. I haven't been here for a couple of bring much more ·applause from the days.' - · assembled Southerners, for many of

Declaring that he didn't exactly con- whom stock-car racing is a· staple of sider that to be "writing off the South;" life. · he added:

'We're going to make it a battle-ground." ·' '· But moments later, as Mr. Carter's

Then, jabbing at his Democratic ·motorcade sped onto the tracks thou-

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·r-ivals, he went on: sands stood, craning their necks, wav-"They're leaving the $outh and we're ing and cheering.

just starting.'' ; And with the Confederate flag flap-A Jnttle 1Jater, before a raceway crowd .. ping in a favorable breeze beside Old

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EX-Gulf Lobbyi~t. Says He Gave Dole $2'.000 in Ca~~ .to.Aid q.9'.p. i11 :yo) r;;:i;:~;;:, ., --r.~ By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK Dole has been answe.ring questions abo1:1t Later, iri re~e~ring to .the 1970 matter I questions. Th.• $2,000 from tho G"lf G_ood i I . " .. , . _Oct.

·. ~ :. SpeclaJtoTheNewYorI<Tlmos !he 1970 money, wh!~h was m.ade pubhc at today, he said. ~ . · · .. . .. . G:overnmentF.und .was a legal con~qbu i 41 .1he i4th term in· I' - WASHINGTON. S pt 6-Cla de C m a report on Gulf Otl s secret slush fund. "I don't know what they're. the Special hon and no Vlolat10n would occur if the \' •£ ciples and Practi~.·es of!·:

. ' e · . u . · At that time he 'told reporters, "It in- ·Prosecutor's office '.trying· to find out final. recipients comJ?lied .with state or · Estate" for men ;i

Wild .Jr., a fon_ner Gulf 011 Corpo~t~on volved a couple of o.ther names and I there. They're trying to find out, I guess, local laws that required it be. ~eported. 1

. . women interested in !'a! ~obbyist wh~ d1spens~. some $~ m~lton d.on't want to embarrass them." if I got the mon~y, OJ;' somebody else here .was. no Federal law: requmng such : men's or brokers' licen m legal and 1!legal poltttcal cQntr1but1ons, Today, Mr.Dole made public a state· got the money or tf the money was ever contributions be reported tn 1970. · •opens Tuesday, Oct. :) said today that he gave Republican Vice- ment on his financial affairs and again transferred. There are names on the docu· But Mr. Dole's role in 1970 would not 41 Eastern School. i~l Bro. Presidential nominee Robert J. Dole ~espon.ded to questi?ns o~ the !970 affair mei:tt 'Yhich I don't think I s.hould reveal. have been as clear. If h~ werecollecting : way, N.y .. 10003. AL $2 000 in cash in 1970 to pass on to m an 1m~romptu d1scuss1on With report- I d1dn t get the money, I d1dn't transfer mone~ ?n beh~lf o.f candid.ates for .Feder- ii '.Rl29. This 3 months e"' Re°publican candidates. ers. He said: . the .money t?, anyone. It's a matter of al pohttca! office m 1970 ~n Washt?gton, • mg course is approve~

· , "Well, the 1970 matter isa· total mys- pubhc record. _ by Jaw, he should have registered his role \: the .J:?eoartm.ent of S.c But Larry ·.Speakes, Senator Doles tery I wasn't running It was my first Mr Dole also continued· to denya ny as a political committee. : I • (DIVIsmn of Licensm~ ~~

:r~~s~a. ~!i.rfi;;~ !~!1ritss!~~t a1'r~~ yea~ .in the Senate. 1 ·wasn't chairman kno~led~e of the ~leg~d secret Gulf Oil The 19~3. all~gation, if true, has more ! : ~cees)uir~o~en~~et~~gr · Gulf donations in 1973 as well as in 1970 of .~e party. , con~butio.n to _him ~n .1973. Sources !egal ~a~1f1i:at1ons for Mr. Dole. T~ere

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. « br~lm's licens~ G 1 E that he had "received no money from All. t~e _check stu~. stays-Ive seen f~m1har '."Ith. an mv~tigation of t~e Gulf 1~ no md1cat1oon ~e reported a contnbu- : Veterans Eli ibl~. · · · Gulf Oil Corporation or Mr. Wild in any a facsmule m ha!ld"".fltmg, ~ot ~. as 011 contnbutions ~aid that Mr. Wild told t1on from Mr. Wild, Gulf or iyrr. Kats. : • The inst~ccors inclu shape fonn or fashion ,, the Gulf report 1s-1t says Dole--g1ven a Federal grand Jury last January that • Under the 1971 Federal Elections Law, 1 • H td 1 b U ·

' , · . · . to Dole for transfer by him.' . . he madea secret contribution of some Mr. Dole should have reported the money. I • .aro · u e • atton:,• Mr. _Dole sa~d that he. discu_ssed th~ · "In other words, Dole or Dale, it doesn't $5,000 to $6,00(} to Mr. Dole through Mr. Moreover, if· he did not report such a i : Sidn~y G. Rosen.h~i

Gulf Oil ~egations last ?!-ght With Prest- say Bob Dole, it doesn't say Senator Dole, pole's Jong-time aide., William A.. Kats, contribution but turned t. he money to his !' •. banking c; m~rtgag;:, e~.~' ~ent Fords counsel, P.hi. ltp B~chen, and it doesn't say the fellow who will be the m early 1973. . · · own use then it would raise tax ques· •John J .. _uui,an,. .. i,pr .. · 1s expected to meet Wtth President Ford· t" 1 h . h Th 1 . · t . . . • " · • John R. 0 Dono 0 hL later this week. There was no indication next I na l?na c ~rman, w atever. e al e~ations 0 do. nat!ons. m 1970 t10ns on whet~er he should have reported !I: executive secre(ar the Gulf matter would be taken up at Theres no hnk to me. . and 1973, if true, present dtffermg legal the money as income'. . · • Owner's Division, Real E the meeting with Mr. Ford. , I•· tate Board of N.Y. ar

wfi~ ~ai~1~h~~n~ei~~~i:r i;0d1aii70~~ Dole,att. he.SoutherriSOO, Trails c. ·ar_ .. ,t.e. ·r.1 .. ·n ... ·· A ..... ,· pplause ·Iii:;:~~:;;~::: prepared a check, cashed it and gave Mr. . .

Carter Recalls Visits to Tracks

Dole s2.ooo to pass to "deserving"Repub- By DOUGLAS E. KNEELAND h · '·' k · h" h Mm· ut.es before Senator Dole was 1·n- I lican candidates around the country. Mr. ustings untm next wee m : rs ' ome Wild said he has in his possessioon a Special to Th• New York Times state of Michigan, remained in the troduced to the thousands who had Jetter from one of the men who received DARLINGTON, S.C., Sept. 6-Senator White House, Senator Dole, natty in come to cheer on Richard Pettv and I this money thanking him for sending it Robert J. Dole came to the Southern a blue-ilnd-white seersucker suit, plant· ·other driving heroes, the track an-to him via Mr. Dole. · 500 stock car race here today to face ed the Republican banner on South nouncer drew a roar of approval as he I

Mr .. Wild declined to reveal the candi- down Jimmy Carter and prove that the Carolina soil for the second time within said: · date's name on the round that he had Republicans intended to ·make the five days. . 'We're going to have a great crowd Jost and should not be drawn into this South a 'battleground' in this fall's Recalling that he had been in Spar- a.nd a great race. Come back next year issue. Presidential election. tanburg last Thursday, Mr. Dole, upon when all the politicians aren.'t around.'

. Drew From Ftin.d Mr. Dole, the Republican Vice Presi- being- greeted by an akport crowd of Only the slightest ripple greeted Mr. dential 'llominee from Kansas, started about 150 in nearby Florence said: Dole as he took the microphone.

Mr. Wild said that he drew the $2,000 off bravely enough: But before the day · . 'We're Just Starting• 'I've said very honestly that I'm more from Gulf's "Good Government Fund," was out there was Httle doubt who . of a stock-car fan today than I was which was a lawful manner of making was the favorite of most of the Labor 'It's great to be dn South Carolina. ·yesterday,' he said. And that didn't contributions to political campaigns from Day crowd in T-shirts and tank tops I haven't been here for a couple of bring much more applause from the non donated by Gulf executives. , soaking up the September sun at Dar- days.' . assembled Southerners, for many of

If Mr. Dole indeed received such money, lington Raceway. Declaring that he didn't exactly con- whom stock-car racing is a staple of he could have faced the Ieg<d responsibH- Airport Welcome sider that to be "writing off the South," life. ity of registering his role as a campaign he added: committee. , And it wasn't the Republican hopeful 'We're going to make it a· battle-

iYfr. Wild said that Mr. Dole was "anx- from Kansas, who had flown down ground." '.· But moments later, as Mr. Carter's ious" to help Republicans around the from Washington to test his popularity Then, jabbing at 'his Democratic motorcade sped onto the tracks thou-country get elected in 1970. Mr. Wild · against Mr. Carter, the Democratic rr1vals, he went on: . sands stood, craning their necks, wav-declined to comment on an. article in The Presidential candidate, who had "They're leaving the ~outh and we're ing and cheering. . . . . . New York Times today that quoted dropped in here after officially opening just starting." ' ·.···· · ., . -1 ' 'And with the Confederate flag flap-sources who said that Mr. Wild had told his campaign at Wann Springs, a vaca· A lilttle ~atter, before a raeeway crowd :.:, ping. in a favorable· breeze beside Old a Federal grand jur.y !he illegally passed tion retreat of the late Franklin D. estimated unofficially at 60,000, Mr. Glory, the Georgia• Democrat was another $5,000 or $6,000 to Mr. Dole in Roosevelt. . Dole may have wished that Mr: Carter :brought to the speakers' stand with• 1973 through one of Mr. Dole's aides. ··While President Ford, who doesn't h~_!eft just a little bit sooner--or bv a call to 'un•lrnm<> t1'n ,.,., ... n-"·'-'--·

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.. -, : By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK · r Special to The New York Tim ..

'WASHINGTON, Sept. 7-Several of Presi· .denlt Ford's key political advisers said t~day they believe the controversy over ! whether Senator Robert J. Dole, the ~publican Vice Presidential candidate, accepted illegal political contributions fl5:>m the Gulf Oil Oo11>oration will soon "blow over," as one of them put ut.

:These advisers, who asked not to be ,.,, quoted by name, said that an assessment oC-Jh¢ ';damage" by the White House had c@nduded that the matter would soon pfss from headlines and news broadcasts. ' IOne of the advisers, however, said he f~ the White House inquiry on Mr. Dole

· pmor to his selection as Mr. Ford's run­niJig mate had been hurried and incom­plete and did not include all the facts oil the Gulf incident .

. t Aide Disputes Charges

<Edward Schmults, the Presidential c~nsel who conducted the review of Mr. Dole, strongly disputed this. In a tele­plfone interview, he called such an evalu­ation a "serious mistake." He said •he had difcussed the allegations about Mr. Dole and Gulf Oil with the Senator prior to th. Republican convention and was satis­fllJI . :that the ·charges were "not true."

}.fr'., Dole's name has arisen in two mat· te~ ,involving Gulf Oil. In January 1976 Claude Wild, J·r., a longtime Gulf Oil vice prtsident and J.obbyist 'here, told a Feder­al .grand jury that lie made an illegal political contribution of $5,000 to $6,000 to Mr. Dole through one of the Senator's aides in 1973, according to sources fami1l­iar with the in1Vestigations.

Mr. Wild refused to comment on this testimony. But yesterday ·he said he had given Mr. Dole $2,000 flrom a legal Gulf Good Government Fund in 1970 to pass on to other political candidates. Mr. Wild said he we.s confident that Mr. Dole had made the conitributions !because one of the recipients wrote Mr. Wild thanking him for llhe money sent via Mr Dole •.

, · ' Dole Denies Receiving Money

Mr. Dole, the junior Senator from Kansas, has denied receiving any money at an.y time either from Gulf or from Mr. W.iJd. He said he voluntarily went before a Federal grand jury on March 8 here and testified to that. ·

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' ble violations of the Federal electio.ns law and tax laws. ·

JC Mr. Dole accepted legal Gulf contri­butions to pass onto other Republican candidates in 1970, the transaction would iraise the question of whether he should have registered as a political committee

... . with a treasurer collecting money on be-. J111 half of the candidates.

. I ··-~ Last-Minute Decision

One of ·Mr. Ford's advisers said that the White House did not conduct an ef­fective inquiry into Mr. Dole's· back­ground before his nomination because the decision on ·a running mate was made by Mr. Ford at the last. minute and Mr. Dole had been considered one of the least likely persons to be chosen.

"I don't\think he received five percent o( the scrutiny that was given Baker's background." the source .said, referring to Senator Howard H: Baker, Republican of Tennessee.

He said he believed that some of Mr. Dole's credentials were checked after the nomination. Another political adviser said he had conducted a personal ~nquiry about Mr. Dole among political figures and found his credentials to be in good shape.

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·. :\ 63-pa:;c ledger book has drawn re-. ·newed interest from the Watergate·

special prosecutor. who is invesligat-. ing an alleged 1973 $5,000 Gulf Oil

:. cash contribution to the re-elcc:tion .. : campaign of Sen. Bob Dole (B-Kan.),

· . : :iccunli ng to inform eel sources. The ledger purports to record <111

the c<1sh reccivecl a11c! spc!11. during Hl7:3 :rncl 1974 in the senator's re-elec­

. ·.I ion cfi'orl. .lt ·was kept by Joanne Coe, then Dole'~ pcrsun:ii secrctnry.

former. Gulf lobbyist Claude C. \Vile! .. Ir. testified to a i.:rand jury that hr. g;ive $:3.000 in cash .tu Doic's then­

. administrative assistant, William A. · 1'\als.

Thr. cashbook shows no !istin.~ or a ('Ol~tributionfrom Wild. and Dole, \hr. c;op vice presiclcntia! 11omince. has cited Lile book ;is proof that no Wild

' eonlribut.ion w<is m<Jcle. K~ts has s<iicL "!.just don't recall"

rccei1·in:! Gui r money. h;its h;;s bcc~n r:ucsl.ion-cd more th<in once by the spe­eial prosecutor's starr.

The lcclgcl"s lil'sL JO pages were rip­ped out before it was (irsL ~n::cdc avail­;1hlc l.o the spcc·ial prosecutor l;1st: ~l:irch. The ledger's pages arc num-bc1·cd. ·

The !isl of eash contl'ihntiuns begins nn p<1,c:;c l1 of the ledger, <1ncl the Iirst :ire rl;it.cd April 17, HJ7:l-·-1 he da'' or a \\'ash i ngton SI 00-;i-tickr.t fund-ra iscr !'or lhe scnatol'.

The Wild eonlribution allc,gcdly was

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mil de some ti me before that, ac:cord- ! j ing to informed sources .

On the inside euvcr. o( the book. 'i i

',Jo;innc Coe wrote that the record of.' cash receipts begins "on page 9." Page· fl is one of the pages ripped out.

Coe h;is explained that she made some niistakes on Page 9 and, aflcr tc;:ring it out. began agnin on Pa:~c 11.

lnvcstig;nors arc <lltcmpting to de· . I.ermine whether a Wild contribution

11·::i.s I isl.eel on one of the missing pages. and whether there were any cash con- i tributions from any source prior to :\pril. 197:3, and not listed in. the cash-· book.

.\ review of the ca~hbook shows a 1

possible violation or the federal cam· •---------paign fund reporting laws.

Under the law then in cl'feet. <in or· ganization spending e<1sh wns required to file in its public reports to the See· r<'l<ir.Y of ti1e Senate any expenditures ~!Jove $50.

Jn .\u.crusl. l!J7:3, aecol'ding t.o the Dole lcd;,:c1-. three payments or $100 each and a travel advance for $97 were paid to Kats. 11·ho was accompa­ll~'ing the sc1ialor Oil a .campaign· swin.!:!. acconling to informed sources.

The li}73 records of Boosters for Dole. LJ1c senator's crnnp<ii:,;n organiza· lion. filed with the Secretary of the Senate. clicl not .list the $397 in cash paid lo Kals.

The eashbook has nc1·cr been made Dublic. allhou:;h Dole s;iirl Oil nation:il television Sc:it. 12 t:h;it ;.I'm ll'illing 1.o lwvc my.campaign records luokC'rl at."

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IS ABORTION REALLY AN ISSUE? Despite all the talk ahout jimmy

Carter's "Catholic problem," NEWS­WEEK reporters in three urban, Ro­man Catholic neighborhoods last week found little concern among vot­ers about Carter's religion in general or his stand on abortion in particu­lar-even among Catholics who per­sonally opposed abortion. Interviews were conducted in Gage Park, a quiet, middle~class neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago, Boston's Hyde Park section and working-class Woodside, N.Y., a ten-minute subway ride from Manhattan.· The results:

Almost without exception, Catholic K voters insisted that religion was not-and should not. be-an issue in the 1976 Presidential election. Like most other middle~class city dwellers, they said the issues foremost in their minds were unemployment, inflation, taxes, health-care costs and, in some cases, busing. "Why should I be con­cerned about Jimmy Carter's reli­gion? I wasn't concerned about Ford's-and Ford is no Catholic," said Chicago cabdriver Cora Smith, who also said she attended Mass ev­ery Sunday. "His religion doesn't concern me-as long as he's a good man," explained lrish"born Jane Sav­age, now retired in Woodside. A few of those questioned, however,. ex­pressed doubts about the way Carter has publicized his born-again Chris­tianity. "Sometimes when people harp on a subject it makes you suspi­dous," said one Boston woman.

The Catholics surveyed were split

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on the abortion question-with younger people predictably taking a more liberal position-but few cited the issue as a specific reason for op­posing Carter. "It's a moral issue; to make abortion legal is gross," said Mrs. Rita Divver of Boston. But even though she found Ford's stand on the issue more to her liking, Mrs. Divver reported she was leaning toward Carter. His ticklish meeting with Catholic bishops a fortnight ago "has no bearing whatsoever on how Catho­

-lics will vote," she said. "I think an abortion is a woman's right," declared 22-year-old Paul Bergen of Chicago. "I really don't think it's an issue and those people who do are religious fanatics." Mrs. Mary Ann Wolak, 27, of Woodside, was equally fervent. ·"Abortion is very personal," she said. "I disagree with the church on that­and I think I'm a good Catholic."

Fuzzy: Many Catholic voters had not decided whom they would vote for. Even among those Catholics who said they supported Carter--or were lean­ing his way-there was often a notice­able lack of fervor, and some annoy­ance that his positions still seemed purposefully fuzzy. Others thought the Southerner's problem with abor­tion was being exacerbated by the way he tried to finesse the issue. "You can't straddle the abortion issue--ei­ther you're for it or .against it," said John Padden, 73, of Boston. "Speak­ing out of both sides of his mouth on it," Padden suggested, was a sure way for Carter to alienate voters of all persuasions.

playing. "He's just going about the people's business," chuckled 9ne top aide. Some second-guessing, however, seemed to come from GOP Vice Presi-. dential candidate Robert Dole, who said the front-porch approach "makes some sense ... as long as Congress is in ses­sion" but felt Ford should "be out cam­paigning ... as the campaign heats up."

Yet on both sides there seemed to bJ a growing sense that personal campaign­ing-whether in ethnic neighborhoods or on the South Lawn of the White House-was now little more than spar­ring before the main event: the first of three TV debates between the two main contenders.· Although former Sen. Eu­gene McCarthy and other minor-party Presidential candidates have begun le­gal action to block the TV debates, their efforts seem likely to fail-and aides to Ford and Carter were boning up on past Presidential debates and the positions of the current contenders. The League of Women Voters, meanwhile, was moving ahead with its preparations as sponsor of the debates. As the site of the first en­counter next week, the league chose Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theater, built in 1809 and said to be the oldest theater in continuous use in the English­speaking world. Whether the debates would prove as historic as the theater remained to be seen, but the spectacle they offer of the two candidates pitted against each other may tum out to be far more important than abortion, religion­or any other issue-in Campaign '76.

-DAVID M. ALPERN with ELEANOR CLIFT and JAMES · DcxfLE on the Carter campaign and THOMAS M.

DeFRANK and HAL BRUNO in Washington

Gulf and Dole Republican Vice Presidential nomi­

nee Robert Dole intended to put in another long stretch of campaigning­but for a good part of last week he spent less time shaking hands than fielding

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Wild: An issue for the Democrats?

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look the same as in any previous election. But despite the ap­pearance of routine, Campaign '76 is an election with an impor­tant difference: it is cheap.

As a result of the 1974 Federal Campaign Spending Law, Ger­ald Ford and Jimmy Carter must finance their efforts with only $21.8 million in Federal subsi­dies, plus $3.2 million from· their respective national com­

' mittees (by contrast, Rkhard /~/ Nixon spent nearly $60 million

•· : '1111 in 1972). Congressional candi­_.· ;,f~ dates can spend as much as they

'-~ ·raise, but individual contriliu-

1//I tions are limited to $1,000. The . new regulations have made for

tight budgets and meticulously organized campaigns; more im­portantly, they may have re­duced the corrupting influence of money on politics. "This will be a fundamentally different ... election," says Fred Werthei­mer, vice presi~ent of Common Cause. "It's the end of the big­money system of electing [can­didates]."

Carter and Ford have already noticed the differences. At Car­ter headquarters in Atlanta, the campaign budget, created with the help of a Harvard Business School professor and bound in a black notebook, allocates ex-

penditures down to the number of lapel buttons, bumper stick­ers and phones per state, and sets aside a nest egg for a last­minute push in October. To save money, staff salaries were slashed by a full 10 per cent last month.

At the President Ford Com­mittee, employees have been directed to walk to the White House-since the committee has only one car. When they travel, they go tourist class, and they are reimbursed at a flat rate of $50 a day even if their ex­penses exceed that amount. In scheduling campaign appear­ances, the PFC tries to tie in with local community pro­grams, rather than plan more expensive. events of its own.

Priorities: Roy Hughes, the PFC's deputy chainnan for ad­ministration, is convinced that whichever candidate "manages his resources better should have the advantage"-and both cam­paigns have established careful priorities. As the challenger, Carter will outspend Ford on field organization ($4 million to $3 million) and travel. Ford, who intends to do little personal stumping until October, will rely on a $10 million media ad­vertising budget (compared to $7 million for Carter), Signifi­cantly, for the first time in many

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years, the Republicans will have no more money to spend than the Democrats (in previous years the GOP could rely· on wealthy business interests to expand its war chest). The new law also lib­erates both candidates from the burdensome chore of fund rais­ing, since private contribu­tions-except to the national committees-are prohibited.

Fund raising for Congres­sional candidates, on the other hand, has become more time­consuming. With individual do­nations limited to .$1,000, it frequently takes ten donors to contribute what one did before. Another effect of the new cam­paign law has been to limit the influence of wealthy do­nors. In previous elections, fat cats such as financier Norton Simon and General Motors heir Stewart Mott gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to their favorite candidates. In return they frequently became inti­mately involved with the cam­paigns. Affluent c_ontrihutors can still contribute a total of $25,000 to political-action com­mittees (which in tum channel a maximum of $5,000 each to House and Senate candi­dates)-but they can no longer put a huge stake in a' politician. -SUSAN FRAKER with JANE WHITMORE In

Washington and bureau repons

questions about two campaign contribu­tions he was said to have accepted several years ago from the Gulf Oil Corp. Dole denied ever receiving the money, and Claude C. Wild Jr., a former Gulf lobbyist who allegedly made the donations-one of them illegal-later issued a partial retraction of his story. Washington prosecutors have no evi­dence that Dole ever personally re­ceived any such gifts. But even though the immediate political damage ap­peared minimal, the on-again, off-again statements and the vague testimony of a former Dole aide were not entirely convincing-and could become a cam­paign issue for the Democrats.

illegal donation of $5,000 to $6,000 in corporate money to William A. Kats, Dole's administrative assistant. Kats, 68 and now retired, said he testified a month or so later that he "could not remember ever having received any­thing from Wild." In March, Dole re­vealed last week, he himself had volun­tarily appeared before the grand jury to deny any knowledge of the money.

composed of contributions from execu­tives and employees rather than corpo­rate funds. Last week, Wild matter-of­factly told reporters that in 1970 he gave Dole $2,000 from the fund to pass along to Republican candidates for office, and said he had a letter from former Utah Rep. Laurence Burton thanking him for sending the money via Dole. (The McCloy report on Gulf last winter also said that this $2,000 had gone to Dole.)

News of the Gulf contributions be­came public early last week after The New York Times reported that Wild, testifying under a grant of limited im­munity last January, told a Federal grand jury that in 1973 he had made an

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Limitations: The Watergate special prosecutor's office is still investigating Gulfs illegal contributions to U.S. poli­ticians. However, even if it could be shown that Dole received Gulf money (there appears to be no written record of the transaction), it is probable that the donation falls outside the three-year statute of limitations on campaign-law violations.

Wild's other alleged contribution to Dole was a perfectly legal one from Gulfs "good government" fund-money

But apparently unknown to Wild, who thought he was doing Dole a favor by discussing his legal contribution (the two men are acquaintances), Dole had previously denied receiving the money. Shortly after he discovered this, Wild retracted his story and apologized to Dole. He explained that a check for $2,000 made outto cash on Oct. 9, 1970, had not been delivered to Dole after all, despite a handwritten notation in his cl1eckliook-"Given to Dole for dis-

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·Dole accepted Wild's apology and said he intended to "move ahead" with his campaign. "I am not concerned that anything more will surface," Dole tol<l NEWSWEEK, "because I did not do any­thing wrong." The White House also seemed convinced that Dole was in the clear. Early last month, deputy counsel Edward Schmults

.discussed the Gulf contributions with Dole when he was· under consideration as Ford's running mate. "The senator raised the sub­ject voluntarily," said Schmults. "We were completely satisfied in what [he) said." Another Ford strategist declared that the Gulf issue had "already played out"­and that. the Republicans had not been hurt by it. Public discussion of the alleged contributions had indeed subsided. But if the Presi­dential race gets close, th,e Demo­crats might very well try to revive tiilk about Bob Dole and ·Gulf.

-SUSAN FRAKER w~h ANTHONY MARRO In Washington and JOHN J. LINDSAY on the Dole campaign

The Wallace Tapes While his Presidential hopes

still flickered, they appeared an affectingly devoted campaign cou­ple: the crippled Alabama gover­nor giving' em hell from his wheel­chair, his dark-haired wife lending mute, comely support at his side. Once the limelight sputtered out, however, it appeared that George and Cornelia Wallace were some­thing less than inseparable. Wal­lace was seen dining in unaccus­tomed solitude at some downtown Montgomery . restaurants, and at one public reception they ar­rived-and departed-separately. Early last month, a TV station in Mobile broadcast a report that Cor-nelia had been locked out of the governor's mansion. There was even talk that the governor's bedroom telephone had been bugged.

Last week, pressed relentlessly by reporters, Wallace testily eonfim1ed that a bugging device and some tapes had been found at the mansion. He had ordered them· destroyed, and that was that. "This happened in my bedroom between me and my wife. As long as it doesn't affect the State of Alabama or my service as governor, it remains the busi­ness of me and my wife." But inevitably the tales of the Wallaces' domestic trou-

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to have led them to the brink of divorce. According to the general account, the

gregarious Cornelia had been traveling frequently on her own, attending politi­cal meetings and making promotional trips for her autobiography, "C'nelia." Twenty years younger than her husband and uncornmonly good-looking, she had undergone a face-lift at a Bim1ingham hospital this past July. Wallace, partly paralyzed by a would-be, assassin's bul­let in 1972, grew fidgety about his wife's absences. His jealousy is a characteristic problem of the wheelchair-bound. "He

faithli1lly recorded Wallace's conversa­tions since September of 197.5, reported­ly including calls to women staffers at i:he state capitol in which he confided his suspicions about Cornelia.

Cornelia, according to the account, was barred from the mansion when she re­turned from a Washington visit on Aug. 9. Not long afterward, both the Wallaces talked to divorce lawyers. (By one report, Wallace was considering a divorce even before the tapes were found.) Then, atthe governor's 57th birthday party on Aug. 25, they seemed suddenly on a cozy footing

again. Corneliacutasliceofcake for her husband, looked after the gifts and called him "dear."

That left the situation somewhat confused. Plainly, things had gone amiss at the mansion, though Cor­nelia had moved back in and Wal­lace urged reporters last week to accept it all as "purely a domestic matter." Asked ifhe would support a bid by Cornelia for the governor­ship, he said he would "be as strong :~ for her as I was for my first wife."

Wallace's wife Lurleen died of " cancer in 1968, after serving four­teen months in the Statehouse. He married Cornelia in 1971. A niece of former Alabama Gov. Jim Fol­som, she is said to have Statehouse ambitions for 1978, when Wal­lace's term expires. Reportedly, the idea does not sit well with the governor's aides, who see it con­flicting with his own plans for a Senate race that year. One pub- . lished !lf>eculation on the reasons 1· ·, for the Wallaces' reconciliation is ) .that Cornelia feared reprisals if she.·\ pushed the rift further. U.S. attar-:.' ney Ira DeMent said pointedly on .d · Thursday that, at the governor's !)· ; request, he would not pursue an ;:, i

investigation of possible illegality,f' in the tapings "at this time." ··~

Interview: Over the weekend, The )·., Washington Post quoted an inter- ,;1 view with Cornelia last May in il, which she accused Wallace's .~ · brother, Gerald-mmored to be a:': •. staunch opponent of her political :~ plans-of spreading "rumors that I .. ·, had slept with every state trooper. · ,~

Ro•er Wentowskl-The MonU<omery Advertiser around." (Gerald denies the- .. ,,': The Wallaces rejoined: A tap in the bedroom charge.) Since her husband was ;\i'r'~

paralyzed, she has several times. '·,!?,' hinted that she and George still have a ·; sexual relationship. · · ::

would worry if she went to the drug store," said Harold E. Martin, publisher of The Montgomery Advertiser. Some time ago, Wallace had her placed under "surveillance," and reportedly when Cornelia learned of it, she retaliated by rigging up an amateur phone tap.

Early last month, acting on a tip from one of his aides, Wallace had security officers check out the governor's man­sion for wiretaps. In the basement, the officers found $2,000 worth of recording equipment hooked up to Wallace's bed­room phone and a business phone. In a mansion safe they discovered more than 200 reels of tape. Apparently, they had

Last week, after refusing to discuss the ., tapes controversy, she told the Post's ]. Myra Mac Pherson," All I was ever trying ; to do was to hold this marriage together / under very difficult circumstances." At a · · ·. reception in the mansion for Rosalynn

1~ Carter the day after Wallace's press con·;~t ference, reporters were kept at a distance.'~!; But they could still view a familiar ci:· scene-the governor in ~is wheelchair,.,/. cheerfully greeting guests, with Corneliaj~~' positioned placidly, patiently at his side:1~;;,

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:···,· By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK Dole has been answering questions. about Later, in· referring to the 1970 matter questions. The $2,000 fro~ the Gulf Good ! SpeclaltoTheNewYorkTlmes ~e 1970 money, wh!<f _was made public. a;.M>day, he said: · Government Fund was a legal contribu-i w ASHINGTON Sept. ~laude c. m a repo~ on Gulf Oil s secret slush fll.l_ld. _\~I don't know what they're the Special· ticin and no. violation would occur if the

I. . ' . · . At that time he told reporters, "It m- Prosecutor's office trying to find out final recipients complied with state or Wild Jr., a fonner Gulf Oil COll"pOration volved a couple of other names and I there. They're trying to find out, I guess, local laws that required it be reported'. lobbyist who dispensed some $4 million. don't want to embarrass them." . if :I got the money, or somebody else here was no Federal law requiring such 'in legal and illegal political contributions, Today, Mr.Dole made public a state- go~ the money or if the money was ever contributions be reported in 1970. • : .· said today that he gave Republican Vice- ment on his financial affairs and again transferred. There are names o - But Mr. Dole's role in 1970 would noi :Presidential nominee Robert. J. Dole responded to questions on the 1970 affair ment which o have been as clear. If he werecollecting /$2,000 in cash in 1970 to i)ass on to in an im~romptu discussion with report- g e money, l didn't' transfer money on behalf of candidates for Feder;

/Republican candi_dates. .· · . . e~rs •• He said: . . the money to anyone. ·1t•s a matter of al political office in 1970 in Washington!

W II th 1970 tt t I Pu. blic record~" · ·. · . by law,· he should have registered h_is ro_ Ie · But Larry Speakes, Senator Dole's e • e, ~a er isa otia .m.ys- 1

!spokesman, said that the Senator would t ry. ~ wasn t running. It w,as mY. first Mr; Dole continued 'to· denya ny as a political committee. · · • · . stand .by earlier statements about alleged year m the Senate. I wasn t chairman kJ¥>wledge of the alleged secre_t Gulf Oil The 1973 allegation~ if true, has morii :Gulf donations in 1973 as well as in 1910 _of !fe party. • , contribution to him in 1973. Sources legal ramifications for Mr. Dole. There 1that he had "received no money from Aii. t!te ·_check stu~. stays-Ive. seen familiar with a:n investigation of the Gulf is no indicatioon· he reported a contribui 'Gulf Oil Corporation or Mr. Wild in any a facsumle m ha!ld~tmg, ~ot typ~, as Oil contributions said that Mr. Wild told tion from Mr. Wild, Gulf or Mr. Kats~ shape form or fashion." . the Gulf report 1s-1t ~ays Dole-given a Federal grand jury last January that Under the 1971 Federal Elections Law;

· . ' , . · . · to Dole for transfer by him.' . he mad ea secret contribution of some Mr. Dole ·should have reported the moneyl

I Mr. _Do~e S81;d that he. discu.ssed th_e "In other words, Dole or Daile, it doesn't $5,000 to $6,000. to Mr. Dole through Mr. Moreover, if he did .not. report such a Gulf Oil 8!legations last !l~ght with Prest· say Bob Dole, it doesn't say Senator Dole, Dole's Iong-tjme aide,. WH!iam A. Kats, contribution but turned the money to his ~ent Fords counsel, P_hihp B~chen, and it doesn't say the fellow who will be the in early 1973. . . .· own use, then it would raise tax ques~

! is expe<;ted to meet with Presi~en.t Fc;>rd next national · chili n, whatever. . The allegations of donations in 1970 tions on whether he should have reported i later thls week. There was no indication There's no link to me." · and 1973, if true. ·present differing le. gal the money as inco_me. , the Gulf matter woil.ld be taken up at the meeting with Mr. Ford.

In a telephone interview today, Mr. Wiild said that h-e recalled in .1970 he prepared a check, cashed it and gave Mr. Dole $2,000 to pass to "deserving"Repub-

. lican candidates around the country. Mr. Wild said he has in his possessioon a letter from one of the men who received this money thanking him for sending it

• to him via Mr. Dole. Mr. Wild declined to reveal 1lhe candi­

date's name on the round that he had lcist and should not be drawn into thts issue.

Dole, at the Southern 500, Trails Carter: {it Applaus_e I By DOUGLAS E. KNEELAND hustings untill next week in :hls home Minutes before Senator Dole was in- (

Special to The New York Times st.ate of Mkh.lgan; remained in . the troduced to the thousands who had 1:

DARLINGTON, S.C., Sept. 6-Senator ; White. House, Senator Dole,· natty in . come to. cheer ori Ric;ihard Petty and ~ Robert J. Dole came to the Southern ~blue-and-mite seersucker suit, plant· other driving heroes, the track an-; 500 stock car race here today to face · e4. the Republican banner on South · nouncer drew a roar of approval as he \ down Jimmy Carter and prove that the·. Cilrolina soil for the. second time within said: . · · · . , . . Republicans intended tb make the five·days. , . · 'We're going to have a great crowdj South · a .'battleground' in this fall's· · Reca!Ii.iig that. he had been in Spar- . and. a great race. Come back next year ~ Presidential election. · · : tanburg last Thursday, Mr. Dole, upon when all the politiciaris aren't around.•;

i Drew From Fund Mr. Dole, 'tlhe Republican Vice Presi- .· being greeted hy an aLrport crowd of r Only the slightest ripple greeted Mr.~-dential ·nominee from Kansas, started · about 15(Hn nearby Florence said: Dole as he took the microphone. \

Ii Mr. Wild said that he drew th. e $2,0Q!) off bravely enough .. But before the day·. . 'We're Jtlst Starting• . 'I've said very hor;iestly that rm more .. from Gulfs "Good Government Fund," · was out there was t!ittle doubt who · of a stock-car fan today than I was:: . which was a lawful manner of ·making . was the. favorite of most· of the Labor· . · 'It's· great to be in South Carolina. · yesterday,• he said: And. that didn't; , contributions to political campaigns from Day .crowd in T-shirts and tank tops· ._:,I haven't been here for a couple' of .. bring. much more applause from the'·D"~ non donated by Gulf executives. ·. S<>aking up the September suri at Daf_. days.' . · . · assembled Southerners, for many of: ~

.If Mr. Dole indeed received such money, lington Raceway; Declaring that :be didn't exactly con- ~horn stock-car racing is a staple of: , he could have. faced the legal responsibil- Airport Welcome ·· .. sider that to be ''writing off the South," hfe. · :· ity of. registering his role as a campaign he added: · · · · · committee. • .· And it wasn't the Republican hopeful . 'We're going to make it a battJle- • Carter·Recalls Visits to Tracks

Mr. Wild said that Mr; Dole .was "anx- from Kansas, who had flown down ,ground." But moments later, as Mr. carter's 1 ious" to help Republicans.• around the from Washington to test his popularity. Then, jabbing at . his Democratic motorcade sped onto the tracks thou~ .' country get elected in ·· 1970. Mr. Wild against Mr. Carter, the · Democratic. rivals, he went on: sands stood, craning their necks, wav- \

\ declined to ciomment on an article in The Presidential candidate, who had. "They're leaving the South and we're ing and cheering. · · · $ 1 New York· Times today tlh.at quoted' . dropped ·in here after officially opening; just starting." And with the Confederate flag flap-\ sources who· said that Mr .. Wi:ld had told . his campaign at Warm Springs, a vaca- · A Iilttle dafter, before a raceway crowd ping in a· favorable breeze beside Old ! a· Federal grand jury:•he illega11y passed .tion· retreat fJf the late Franklin D.~ estimated unofficially at 60,000, .Mr. Glory, the. Georgia Democrat. was: another $5,000 or $6,000 to Mr. DG!e in Roosevelt. · ' ·Dole may have wished t.hat Mr. Carter · brought to the. speakers' stand with ~

\1973 through one of. Mr. Dole's aides. While President Ford. who: doesn't; had left just a little bit soo~ by· a call to 'welcome· the 'Dext •President;i \Since _as early as _fast Sat~~ •. Mr. plan·)<> make his first appearan1eon~ a differen_t_ro_u_. t_e_. ___ . _· __ ·._· _ .. _·_ .. _ ... _ .... _ ... _·o_r_th_e_u_m_·ted..._·_s_ta_t~ .... ~-··;,.:,J,..,i1DD1_..,Y,,,' ,.,.ean,.,..· ..,··,,.,er,,,,.',.i1

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le received a check . for 2,000 from Gulf's lawful 'good government fund."

According to the report, the -0ney was given to Senator le. "for. disbursement.:.· H~w­er, Mr. Dole was_ not running r office in 1970 and .•had no . aron to be collecting political ntributions: ' It was . not ... until : January p

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SHINGTON, Sept, 7-Several Of·Presl·' .d t .ford's key .politic~) , advisers· said J

today they believe. the controversy over I' wlether Senator-. Robert. J; · DOie; . the Republican Viet Presidential ~P.didatE!,1

. accept~d .illegai · political , contrtbutions11

. frdm the Gulf Oil Oorporationiwillwsaon ; "blow over,'.'; a~ one of them put~ilt.: -~ ;_. : .

these adviser's, who · asked · not . to . be • quoted by name, ,said: that an asses5ment of,the "damage" by th~ W:hite House:J:la'1 co~ .that the ,matter .woilld- soon pass from heacijineS:;and ·news. brc:i'1dcast.9. \ One Of th- ,. '· - · · · · ;ver .said be fe _ nquiry'on .r<.

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E'dward·: Schmult$;· 1• ·f:be·. ~Jidehila.I counsel who conducted the review.of Dole, strongly _disputed this. "lri a tei~

· phOne interview; he .called such an ~evatu•j _atib11, a ''serjous.:inlstilke." He said,be..:):ladJ dis~. the. allegatiomi about..Mr. Dj)le.j and Gulf <?ii ;with the Senator' prior· t0

1 the! Republican convention and was 'satis·; fie~ that ~he charges · w_ere ;"not true.'~j ·~le s,name·,has ansen ln·twotmat•.

tenj\1.f'{fblying 1 ~~If; Oil .. In Januiu'Y:.1.~9761 Cla~~ld, ·Jr;,· il'1ongtime Guif Oil vfee. pr~d~~,f and. lobbyist here, told •.:feeler"' al' gTaftd jury that he ·made an · illegali :politidA,,'ccmtribution of $5,000 tb $6,000: to Mri--l>ole th!'Ougih one of .t!lie Sell!lltor's! aides'i.Q 1973, accordin,g to SO!J!CeS famM·! iar ;with t_he iruv~~gations. . , . . ·. , . , i

Mr. Wild refused to comment on thisi testimooy. But yesterday he sa.idhe h_l!ld1 given Mr. Dole- $2,0QO 1irom a legal GWfj Good Government Fund in 1970 to pass; on to other political candidates. Mr. Wild: said he vies confident that Mr .. Dole ,lhad: m.ade ·the co]lltributiops lbecause . Qne . ~I 'the recipients wrote Mr. Wild· 1hanking him for the money sent via M\' DOie.. .' -:

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Mr. ·Dole, th~ juni•r ) Sena:t~r from Kansas, has denied .rece1vmg any iponey at an.y time · ei:theT ·.from Gulf <ll' from ·Mr. Wild. He said he voluntaaiily ·went before a Federal grand jury· on _Mllrch 8 here. and testified to that ' . , . "; '. ~

If Mr. Dole had accepted the 1973·eoif· tribution and failed to report'it,.the.tia~ action wouJd.taise questions 111bout,,~~­ble violations of the Federal el~~!i'i'.911: . and tax laws. · Ai~t-'·'· c;:" '"'~

If Mr. Dole accepted iegal GWt<ctthbii, butions to ;pass onto other. ~p~li~ : " candidates ·in 1970, the transaction wo a ll"aise the question of whether he should have registered as a politfoal cominlttee with a trea~urer collecting money.;~ . half of the candidates. ' . ; ... ~\

. Last-Minute Decislo~ ' ·: .· .\ One of Mr. Ford'·s advisers · said . . . ..

the White l:fouse did not conduct ·an :_ef~ fective inquiry into · Mr. · Dole's .. ·back·· : ground before his nomination be'Cause ·the decision·· on· a: · running lnate · was· maM

y. Mr. Ford at the last minute an.d· Mr;·: J:'ole had been considered one 0£ the least' · liktily persons to be chosen. . -

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ac _w:ul," the· source said;· ·ref · ·, .. o Senator Howar'd. H. Baker, Rep,~~¥ i of Tennessee. . '•:;;-.1: .. .,.- ,

He said. he .~eliev~d that sorri9'.bf1'Mr; ' Dole's credl!nt1als were checked .after the 1

nomination. A.nother political advi.ser·said : he hJld conducted a personal,. JnqUiry

.... ,.g,1. about Mr: Dole among . pollticaJ--figur.es" ajl"'~ a!!d found his credentials to be;in;good .

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By Bob Woodward .-!:J while confirmed· a report in · tion. He .·named. four con, W~shtnliton Post 'start Writer The Ne, w Y'ork T. 1·mes that · d f , .. " . . . . g, ressmen an our senators Sen.' Bob Dole's · former · Wild had testified before a or their chief assistaqts as

, adm~nistrat.ive assistant sald grand jury investigating ille- recipients of the · Gulf , yesterday that he ·has no gal corporate political con- money. · ' '.recollection of receiving $5,- • · tributions that he gave $5,-000 in cash from· the Gulf· 000 to Kats in .. 1973 for Wild was acquitted this:

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;:,.:1,1wmiam &· Kats, Dole's. These ,sources·· said that paign of . Sen:. ·Dani'el K.· •'former chief assista,it; ·said, Wild and the Watergate spe· ; ·however, he· fold . a federal · cial prosecutor's office, Iriouye (D-Hawaii). Inouye's 1:<'grand . jury this~ year he ~ which is still investigating administrative assistant at

could not rtile•;outthe possi- the Gulf ·C:Ontribu•:ons, have . first denied but later ac· ' bility that $S,OOO was given no eviden,ce .' showing that , . knowledged receiving the : to him by Claude C. 'Wild Dole, now the Republican $5,0~0. . '. · Jr., 1Gulf's {ormer chief lob-· vice presi.deritial candidate,.'- , Wild' w~s · acf!Uitted ~e.-:

bylst. ,1 · . : · ' ' : · . personally received any of callse t?e Judge m •the case.: · "I' just don't recall . it," the alleged. contnbution of determined th~t the $5,000-.•

' Kats said.' "I have no recol- $5,000. Dole has denied ac· apparently g~ven. before' lection and that was· my tes- cepting any. illegal contribu- J~IY •.. l9~3-:-did not fall. timony .... yes, lkno.w Wild 't.ions. frq~;Gulf. . . · . wi~tn ~h~_thi:ee-year sta~u.te; and· can·:on1f-'saY.'for·surc \ Wild testified" about the o~ llmi.tations on prosecu-1 that" he was in ou~ office ' contribution earlier this. ti?n °f111egal corporate con-: once.'! ' ' year urider .. a grant of lim· ·trtbuttons.. ' ·.·' '

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'.~ .: 'J'.h~ ~$s;oo0 ,8JI~gedl; given 'to Kats pecfed as Mf.".'"F'oi'Jts.7uniiinf .. ·ma1!_>peils~d !t~ffi a '$5.4 mlllion'Gulf cam· • [.818(),:would presumably fBII ouiside J!;t 1.!!'2.l!!h:..- · .· . . "! :i;:: '.': :· .{ · paign·st~s~··~:nd. ::, · ?; · ·" · .. ;: "<.".' :.: : th'!.i~tute ofiimltatlons:N9nethel~ss, · . A White House .. sPo~~~~rN'.'.~~D·~ . . ,·The ::\\,79,~F.~,,t~ p~o~~c~~o~'s' offjc~t? i ~c:eo~ng to ,court papers, prosecutors · ,firm~d tl]at the ;I>resitlent ~as·/~1,1Uy ' : is. cont~nui~g,)ts•,•,11rv~stlgation.' .Jrito !, are fovestigatltig th'e possibility of 'aware 'of ~he allegation?adcll~g,ft~at : '... t~e: GUif d.qrau~~/£6'~;si~g or1jito',, :, ' :• b~inging tax law charges; whic~ have, •"afte.r ~o~ver~ations i'.wi,~.~,~~Ji. jllo~e-... ', 000 gi~~~)n'-l~,1~~~f: m.~'!>~rsjif :,:.t.h~:::. : a'f!lx·>:ear .statu~.e. o~,.Iynit~tio11s,m ~e , .the W~ite ijouse was sat.1sf1ed ~e] ;hatf .· House• ·or: ·S:ena~ef:;'.~ccording to,~~tpe 1; :,Gulf ,case. . · .. "':· ·, .··-. . . ·. · rio··invohrement~0 ·. ·' · :·' " .:· :. ". ••; :· sources: .. ~''·":· ·''·!4"'"·'··.: .. · ." .

(' ~ r~onse i9. repo. rters'_ q11estio~S·.·~·· o.le y.· ester. d.a· y .. ~a. id .th. a~. ·,K. at~"::',ha;s i Dole· ai~o ;~a .. !d, yesterd.ay,' .tIJaf' th. e . . ~at-erday, Dc:ile d~nled ~akmg any ll· · . i. . ' . ,, . :. · · d\ : · ' ·; . :. prosecuto.1'..'s off~c.e ''\V~~ :jnqwr\ilg into · '. '.·legal contributions fromiGulf Oil. . r. t ntegr~b'.~, ~!.lt~,.§~~e asj~01.e ~ ·' $2,000 ~hat' he might have·,:rec.eived in ; . .'"I ~aven't been ~~cused of d.olng ·.chief ;ro~~res~iona! i~ a~~~.s~~n~·. fr?m ~ 1970 from :.Gulf/:~\!~ .J?bl~<denied .anyf\ , anythill-g· I haven't .done. anythuw ..... 1 1960· w~t:')- .. Dole ~as. first. elected t~ ! knowledge cif~'~e~!oo<r and said ~a~fJ D9le said, noting that .he had volpn· . cop·g· r'ss .. to 1974; .. wben K. ats, .who is ·~he P. r .. ose~,tQi;,s,11.~d.a. che.ck stub,w.,~h .......

"tarlly· appeared, befor~ a grand jury., now 68, retfred.: , ' , ' ' -':' )\ ; " .. " JUSt a1 las.t.:JUl~e On It that might1be . , earlieri this year in the· inv~st~gation. ~, ·kat~ sald ,!yesterday ::.that" 'it~ dis· ~ · either .'.~P~I~··:~r "D'l~/'· ->,,,.· .. ·---"'•;-•:'~;,I , ~~~r:;1n9td~:t ~~~l?aJ~t;~t~oJid~'~: , ili~:~de::jn n:i~~='·t~i~i~:;~::[l~~,~•tt "ll"'nat ... ,_ ... :.-" .... - ,_,,::;;,,,: •. - .• · ...•.. , ..• ,,, .. L ..•

. : ~~::l;n~a~q~~~ ~ontri6~tl~n~ ca~pal~ ~~fO~d,~,, ~er~ check~d thor°. · c .from ' single dollar on. up ,were re· · · !>~,~hlY:{c. ·.· ~ .,· ,.; : ·.. · ': .. . ported in his 1974 campaign and he >J~ would· ~e .. eflSY to. re1J1em1>er \ · can find' no. lf~Ung' of!: a!ly aJl'!O~nt . $5,000," ~,ats s8,id.: ','B~t I don't, :, .. ) :: f~onr· Gulf. · i . .• ~ '... ,. · · Wild ~l:ums. he . ma~e ~t and: tl.t?J he ; '· · ·o~le raised about $1 ~~illion for his: · ma~ it to me.· I .Jus~·~d?n't,remem·'i 197~ re·electlon .. campaign.~: To· ·cJear P~r. . ·:J.;:.; , ..

.,up a deficit from· the '.C!lmpaign, Dole.. '.t ~ith ~ reputation :as ~ sh.rewd lob·: said, in addition ,t~ funds from oth ... >r by1st, Wild has been playmg a 'cat,and•, · contributors he . received $100 as 'a ' ' mouse game with the :Pro~ec'utors for legal personal donation from Wild: . , , more thaii ; .:a .. year,. simultaneously': :· ~Dole , added . thaf he, fold· Pi;esideri~ j(e~plng h~ii;is~lf .. oµt ·;o(jii![C~rid pro-; ;

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around w.1shingt_ on, he may have some difficulty just pickinig. out one n111 ,, 1 · ll1e blue C111d ·::aying, 'Oh, yes, I did th.:it,' but he has indicated\ he did che1;1. his W1'.L)rds, that there was no contdbution rrede and it was1't a contrll1 11 11 1 ,J,I if it h.:1d b()en made, it was a transfer of funds but that did not happen r. 11 , 11 just !l<1y that I accept his apology. It was unfortunateo I am willing 11 1

have my campaign records looked at."

MEET THE PRESS 9/12/76

DOLE ON GULF OIL ISSUE: "I think the only way it (Gulf Oil Issue) might be resolved would be from some s:;t atement from the prosecutor. I don't suggest that would happeno o o oI did not receive money from Mr. Wild in 1973. He knows it. I know it. If the prosecutor is leaking inti,1 ..

mation, or someone in the Vvashin;;ton Post ex The New York Tines is dreaming up~ I can't control that (sic). ·Then he is asked if he would <11:1· 11 ,,::i

prosecutor to release his testimony and that of Katz, his former assistant, ,11 ,,1·

he answers, 11 ! could ask the prosecutor·-- I assume we could ask that 1 1, 1

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DOLE ON PRESS/PRIVACY: "I'd forgotten how tough the press was. I jlHi 1 haven't had that intense scrutiny before. This is different. It's an

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HONORARIAMS RECEIVED BY SENATOR DOLE FROM MILK GROUPS

1968: None Listed

1969: None Listed

1970: August 14, 1970, Southern Regional Milk Producers, Inc.,

Speech, $1,000; September 5, 1970, National Associated Milk

Producers, Inc., Speech, $1,500

1971: None Listed

1972: September 30, 1972, Committee for Thorough Agricultural

Political Education, Speech, $2,500

1973: November 28, 1972 (honorarium received in 1973), National

Milk ~reducers, Speech, $1,500; April 4, 1973, National

Cheese Institute, Speech, $1,000

1974: None Listed

1975: None Listed

DOLE--CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS

Dole was among seven members of the Sen. Finance Committe

whose ocntrbutions from oil lo¥byists have been publsihed by

Common Cause. Contributions to Dole were listed as $80,773 .

Dole said he did not know whether the amount was correct, but said

his oil contributors were only a small percentage of more than $1 million

that had gone into hsi campaign for re-election last fall. H In

face, he said he was surprised he hadn't gotten more.

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ST. PAUL, Feb. 8 - Demo. cratlo Qov. Wendell ./\nde;~n of ,Minnesota and Seli:""l3ob Ifo)~)(R-Kan. have returned

. political donations of $5,0001

and $15,000, rr.spectivel.y, to ; dairy cooperatives whose con­ttibutlons to the Nixon re-elec-

1 tion campaign have been un-

li dct. lnve.stigaUon by the Sen·. ate Watergate committee,·

I spokesmen, for both men said today. ·. · .._ ·

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they· are the only two mafor: political figures who are listed:

1. . l m a report as having refunded such contributions from the I · Associated Milk Producers 1·

Inc.; Political wing. That r~: , port is now on file with thP. secretary ."1. ·the Senate in WasWngtou.

Two of Dole's refunds were made Thursday.' ; :. '

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, up to help Sen. Hubert H. ! · Humphrey (D-Minn.) pay off a. ! debt of about $300,000 from

r: his 1972 presidential primary. · campai!gns, received $1,750 on

1 Se'Pt. 20, 1973, fromthe big San t Antonio.based cooperative's ~- Committee for Thorough Agri-1 cultrn·al Political Education­> the same AlVIPI outfit that: · gave to Dole and Anderson.

In Washington, Neal Peter-: t sonL a lawyer handling the 1·

HHH C<>mmlttee, said he 1 . didn't know what tho contrib-1

utlng committee was when the monwy came in and that it! hadn't been returned.

In St. Paul, Ted Smebakken : the governor's press secretary: said the mana.ger of the gover­nor's "personal political fund" returned on Nov. 16, 1973, the S5,000 contribution which the AMPI committee had made to that fund on Sept. 1, 1973. Smebakken said it was re­turned "because there was 11

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· tal of $15,000 came. ,!!om AMPI \ and two other drury coopera- I tives. Thee· reason Dole gave

: for the refunds was that th~ . : Justice Department has ~ntl- i . trust actions pending against ' .~. the oo-ops, although a mem- I · ber of his staff said the Water- ! · gate investigation ~~d an i' : "influence" on the dec1s1on.

According to Dole's Wash­ington office, the Kansas sena­tor and former Republican na· tional chairman . got $6,000

. from the Agricultural . ~nd • Dairy Educational Pollt1~al · Trust, political arm of l".ltd· . - • ··- _ _.,! - ... ,...,,~~- ................... ,..; ~,.., .... ~?~ '!·'

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Feb. 7. >'· Also his office said, Dole

: got $3,000 from the Special Po­litical Agricultural Commu­nity Education Committee of Dairymen, Inc., of Louisville, Ky., on Oct. 11, 1973, and r~­turned it on Thursday. . Also, his office said he got $6,000 from the AMPI ~om­mittee for Thorough Agricul­tural Political Education on I Oct. 11, 1973, returning it on 1

Oct. 26,1973. I . The donation to l\'linnesota

1 Gov. Anderson was made ;

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The chairman of the Repub­lican National Committee, Sen. Ro!Jcrt Dole, today opened countcrnltack against charge of improprieties in connection . with the financing of this year's GOP convention, alleg­ing that an arrangement be­tween the Democratic party and American Telephone & Telegraph Co. may be "in vio­lat:on of the Jaw."

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for .the 19i2 Republican tional Convention in San Dieg originally received a guaran­tee of $400,000 from the Inter­

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Throu the two weeks of the growmg ITT con­troversy, both GOP officials and company representatives have insisted that the corpora-

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$100,000 available if needed by the host committee, but only on a matching basis with other contributions. ·

At a press conference sched­uled by the Republicans, Dole was highly critical of the fact the Democratic National Com­mittee has owed approximate­ly $i.5 million to the American

e Telephone & Telegraph Co. for the past four years. I

Dole said a federal statute prohibiting corJ)orate contribu­tions to campaigns for federal

· office apparently was being vi­olated by the continuation of that debt and by the telephone company's agreement to pro­vide service to the Democrats at their national convention in July. -

"This is a very substantial contribution to tlie Democratic National Committee from one single corporation," Dole said. "It would appear that AT&T is in violation of the law."

A spokesman for Democrat­ic Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien. scoffed at Dole's charges. "It is very ob\'ious the Republican natio:-ial chair-

. : man is attempting to divert ; public attention from a major scandal that is reaching right ·into the White House," he saia. .

The spokesman said O'Brien , would respond at greater '.length later today. · ' Dole said he had no knowl-edge of the fact that the Re­publican National Committee

·carried an unpald bill from ·AT&T amounting to approxi­. mately $189,000 from Novem­, her 1968 . through November 1971. That debt was disclosed

· in the party's public financial ·•reports.

Wouldn't Se.e Lobbyist

The GOP chairman repeat­• edly · rebuffed attempts to · question him about the ITT ; controv.ersy, insisting that it - was a matter solely between

the San Diego host committee, the nominal recipient of the

• money, and the corporation. ; · At one point, however, he ! said: "T h e r e was never • $400,000 · pledged. It was a · guarantee" on the part of ITT · to provide up to that amount if · the San Diego host committee ' was unable to raise the' full · $6CO,OOO it promised the Re­

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The senator also said that some lime earlier this year Mrs. Dita Davis Beard, the ITT lobbyist at the center of the controversy, altempted to

.see him "btit I wouldn't see her ... (because) I thought it best not to."

Dole said he had no idea of what Mrs. Beard wanted to discu:;s on that occasion. He declined to specify why he made the decision not to meet with her.

Asked if the dispute involv­in11 the San Diego civic com· mfttce had embarrassed his party, Dole said: "I don't

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think they've embarrassed us is forgetting and maybe for· at all." giving.'' · . · . · .·. ; Commenting on ·the Demo· On Capitol Hill, meantime, cratic .. situation, Dole said: former Atty. Gen. John N. "Carrying a $1.5 million debt Mitchell denied that either he for four years and then con- or President Nixon was in­senting to increase the size of valved · in the settlement of . the debt with no assurance of the ITT antitrust cases. repayment must be considere.d Nixon's. name was· drawn at the very least a loan, If into -the testimony yesterday not an outright gift and surely before the Judiciary Commit­'something of value' as de- · . tee on the circumstances sur­fined by statute." rounding the Justice Depart-. "The deal unjustly discrim- · ment settlement of the huge

i'natcs against all of us -who ·•. merger case with ITT. ·· pay our bills. on time or -find , Mitchell, who left his Justice ~ur phone service cut off," he · post last we~k to become _Nix~ added.. . .. on's re-elect10n c amp a 1 g n ~The Kansas Republican called . manager, was sfated to testify

for public hearings to inves~ after column~st Jack Ander~o.~ c , .• H . • . . .:.:--.j "~~~d.::r~v~:..'.; ~v!!""a5uc, .ui.u. -~6;;,;;; «1<; <:uic:5cu c.git::t::mt::m Hume. There was a possibility because' he said' the public he would appear before. the . is entitled to know whether committee today, but it seemed AT&T views its arrangement · . \vith . the Democratic party . more likely he would not test1-'.'as a risk-or a possible in- fy until l\fonday. -vestment." · - · It was Anderson's columns . · on the. case that touched off

Dole said the agreement be- · the controversy. tween AT&T· and the Demo- . He revealed an ITT memo crats provides that the po- 1!hat linked settlement of. the litical party "simply will put antitrust case by the Justice up 20 percent of the estimated Depa!ltment _ when the case $100,000 the phone service at presumably had been headed U1e Democratic Convention for court disposition - and th_e V.·ill cost. corporation's -0ffer to help f1-~-. "This means," Dole said, nancc the Republican National "that the Democratic National Convention. Committee is being '1dvanced At yeste!rlay's hearing,

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Hume quoted Mrs. Beard, the !TI lobbyist, as saying she had been told of Nixon's order to Mitchen to "make a reasonable settlement" in the ITT antitrust cases.

That allegation, first ad­vanced late last month, pro­voked a flurry of excitement at yesterday's .hearing be­cause the quotations in ques-

. tion never appeared in the ver­sion of the column printed in. Washington.

Hume said the link lo Nixon came from a Feb. 24 interview at the home of Mrs. Beard.

Mrs. Beard currently is re­cuperating rrom a heart ail­ment in a Denver hospital.. Doctors there said yesterday ~~:t z!:: ~~=~::~~ U i-~a~i.i.i'.i Ci:u:..c of chest pains and some heart irregularity ·on Wednesday. She is expected to testify be-· fore the hearings are conclud­ed, but Sen. James 0. East­land, D-Miss., Judiciary Com­mittee chairman, indicated yesterday that he is willing to wait until her condition has improved further.

Eastland said today that the president of. the Medical So­ciety in Denver is to appoint the city's two leading heart surgeons to examine Mrs. Beard to determine if she can testify. ·

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counted what he . said was ·Mrs. Beard's version of a . meeting between herself and _ · Mitchell, at a party last l\Iay . 1 in the Kentucky governor's . mansion following the running of the Kentucky Derby.

Hume offered this account of the i n t e r v i e w with Mrs. Beard:

Mrs. Beard: "The attorney general said the White House - even the President - called to say, 'lay. off ITT.'"

Hume: "The President said that?"

Mrs. Beard: "Well, it was more like, 'Make a reasonable settlement,'. or something like that."

Mitchell promptly issued a statement vigorously denying ' participation in such an ex- . · change: ··

"The testimony attributing statements to me involving the

· President is totally false and without foundation. I categori" cally deny that I ever had any such conversation or that I ever made any such state­ment anywhere or at any time.

"The President has never, repeat never, made any re­quest to me, directly or indi­rectly, concerning the settle­ment of the ITT (antitrust) case and I took no part in that settlement."

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~ .·thorlicd refouM! .Qf hi.a health ree· orda. despite. repeated pre-.Js re-

1· quo!llJJ for them. : . . . . ' Au fQr as l!I ((Coerally . known,

thuro le tmthlrie wronu wllh the 53-yenr-o!d J(tHUil\! aenntor tixccpt tor dlaabllltlt?B rP.i:i;Ultlng from

·-combat· wounds avfl'~rcd Jn lhtly . In World Wru 11. .·.··')

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., alone has rtrU!led· a public ac· com1Ung of his: medical condition~

.. H!a l.lf10kc1m1en\h11vc not even do· · vul&.tcd the .Identity of ltlll doctor,

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Newa1 magazine ·ran df!tallcd' ht'nlth reports of di. J'W.)r&Oll!l who were prc1u1red to run for prcfll· d~nt. Doth Presldenl Ford »nd Jimmy Cnrt(!r wt-re depicted by

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VICE Pf~ES CANDIDATE ROBERT. DOLE DISCUSSES PRES FORD. GOP AND UPCOMING CAMPJ!;"IGN PRIOR TO HIS NOMJNATION, INT; PREDICTS .GOP .PF~ES VICTORY BUT STRESSES NEED FOR _PARTY TO CONCENTRATE ON HR AND SEN RACES AS WELL; ASSERTS FORD MUST RUN AGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN; CR.ITIC I ZES FORD'S PLAN TO SPEND .POST CONVENTION WEEK IN VAIL, COLO, RATHER THAN CAMPAIGNING; CALLS ON FORD TO BE ASSERTIVE AND TAKE CHARGE OF HIS CAMPAIGN EVEN IF ORGANIZERS Al-~E OFFENDED; CALLS JIMMY CARTER SENS IT IVE TO PERSONAL CRITICISM AND VULNERABLE ON HIS INDEFINITE STANDS ON ISSUES; SEES FARM VOTES UNSURE IN FACE OF FALLING PRICES; SUGGESTS GOP TAKE MOF(E SYMPAIHJ;T IC APPROACH To., soc I AL p ROGRAMS ( L)

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~~EPUB VICE PP.ES NOMINEE ROBERT DOLE DISCUSSES HIS SELECTION AS PRES FOFW·' S RUNNING MATE AND ASSESSES UPCOMING CAMPAIGN, I NT; CALLS CAl~TER VULNERABLE ON SOME ISSUES AND IN SOME FARM STATES; NOTES CAF?TER·' S ·INCONSISTENT STANDS ON ISSUES SUCH AS RIGHT TO wor~K LAW; .SUGGESTS HE WAS CHOSEN BECAUSE HE CAN p ROV I DE BR I OGE TO REAGAN SUPPORTERS AND TO MOST STATE GOP CHMN; SUPPORTS HIS VOTES FOR VIETNAM WAR AND SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS OF CLEMENT HA YNS\tWRTH AND G HARROLD CAP.SWELL; ASSERTS ALL GOP FACTIONS CAN FIND FAVOR WITH GOP TICKET; PHOTOS CU

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/ AND SEN RACES AS V'IELL; ASSERTS FORD MUST RUN AGRESSIVE . ---CAMPAIGN; CR !TIC I ZES FORD'S PLAN TO SPEND POST CONVENT ION WEEK

IN VAIL, COLO, RATHER THAN CAMPAIGNING; CALLS ON FOP.D TO BE ASSERTIVE AND TAKE CHARGE OF HIS CAMPAIGN EVEN IF ORGANIZERS ARE OFFENDED; CALLS JIMMY CARTER SENSITIVE TO PERSONAL c1nT IC I SM AND VULNERABLE ON HI s INDEFINITE STANDS ON. ISSUES: SEES FARM VOTES UNSURE IN FACE OF FALLING PRICES; SUGGESTS GOP --TAKE .MORE SYMPATHETIC APPROACH TO SOCIAL PROGRAMS <L> --b--PR INT ABSTRACTS=A/ /# NEXT=B OR B/ /# END INOU I RY=C <C>N ES.S BSTRACT FOR YEAR.NJ>NTIMES MATERIAL BY PEP.MISSION v

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REPUB VI PRES NOMINEE ROBERT DOLE DISCUSSES HIS SELECTION AS PRES FORD-'S RUNNING MATE AND ASSESSES UPCOMING CA~~PAIGN, INT; CALLS CARTER VULNERABLE ON SOME ISSUES AND IN SOME FARM STATES: NOTES CARTER·'S INCONSISTENT STANDS ON ISSUES SUCH AS RIGHT TO

---woRK LAW; SUGGESTS HE WAS CHOSEN BECAUSE HE CAN PROVIDE BRIDGE TO REAGAN SUP.PORTERS AND TO MOST STATE GOP CHMN; SUP.PORTS HIS VOTES FOR VIETNAM WAR AND SUPF<EME COURT NOMINATIONS OF CLEMENT HAYNSl~OfHH AND G HARROLD CARSWELL; ASSERTS ALL GOP FACTIONS .CAN \A S ri FIND F: WI OP TI CK ET; PHOTOS ( L) ~<~ ·! l.(:Of\.O!

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.. ---PEOPLE TO CARTER'S LIBERALISM; SEES FORD-DOLE TICKET STRENGTHS AS HONESTY, HEALTHY ECON.OMV, PASSAGE OF STRONG NATL DEFENSE LEGIS AND HIGH EMPLOYMENT; ASSERTS TICKET WILL NOT BACK DOWN Ff'WM WATERGATE ISSUE AND BELIEVES PUBLIC NOW UNDERSTANDS FORD'S PARDON .OF PRES NIXON WAS TN NATL INTEREST: SAYS GOP WILL MEND ITS DIVISI.ONS AND SUPPORT FORD TICKET; PHOTOS CU "'.""b--PR INT ABSTRACTS=A/ I# NEXT =B OR B/ /# El\JD IN OU I RY=C 1 1

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_;·- . -- Yail, Colo,, A{12:~z3.::;Tii-e ·white Hotise confirmed tor}ay that P1:esiclcnt F(•rd had · offered "a possible role'"-in his campaign to John B. Connally-1;erorteuiy the chairman-. ship of the Republican National Co1!1mjttee-but Connally did not take th(; job. -

; sought- the former :Treasur~y . "Bu~ ,.in ·_an . intervie_w __ with " The disclosure_ that _Ford· had-,. ~----, -. ~ - - · ·

: secretary's adive involvement m_ Umt_ed Press Int_ernat1on_al, J1e _ t nis presidential. campaign - _:_; -·predicted that_ Ford· _would, '. aft~r ruling hin:l .out as a possible · over~om;. ,'. tha~ · Democrat_ic -running mate because of <;;onnal- n~mmee s edge m ~~ po_lls and -

·]v's associations with the scan- wm.) . :- -' · · _-_ '.. - .. _·._ (cials of the Nixon aaministration Ford)- offer r_eportedly '._came_

!'-___ ·c-ame .from Press Secretary at',a pn~·ate mcctrng between the ' Ro·n Nessen:: - _· - two me·n in Kansas City last

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-_ ac.:pite.d: last year: _on charges I dent telephone~ Mrs, - ~mith to afr;ing form the milk fund scan- ask her to rcmam as chairman. __ dal, has · indic~ted that Ford ~ess~n tol? reporters,_ ."It's_

t asked him to ·replace Mary f:_ur to say _chat the Prcsid~nt ·Louise Smith as Rep_ublican ·na- d;scussed . with C?nnally -m tional chairmari but that he re- h.an~as City a P?Ssib~e rol~ for

11 fused the offer. Connally denied, ·him .m the can~p~ign, mclud1~g a ~ however, that he based :his refuse p~s~1 ble role ii:i the Republican \ al on the belief that Ford had no Nat10nal __ Comn~1ttee. But the fact

hope of winning the ,election. -: ~ha~ the Pres1den~ a_sked -M_rs. .. {In Houston,_ Connally- said. ~mith _to stay -~n rnd1c?,tes h,ow '· Monday that Ford "could lose''. the _matt~r was 1esolv~d. --"._ ., ..

to Jimm;1; Carter in November.~-<-.:· :-: -~alls it. "Pri,;ate" '-/-: _ -:.-- - .- _ . _ _ _ ,, · ·· :. Prgsse<l ro-; ~i~;~ <l~tails -o_f't};~

discussion , bet\,·een - Ford "and Connally;·Nessen declined-on the· ____ :- John ·s.-Connally_._'~ gromi-d that' -"it was a· prirnte ·;.- > - He bows out'· _._,: · __ ,_ !l! 0 ;;tirig ,, ,_ --- _ ,_ · ---- - - -·'- - I -- - --. -__ --. ~{ e indi~at~d~inat the question d~:it wa~ ~''1'.sting· ~Yit1'.I 'tim~_ by of some other formal role ·for g:omg

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Connally in the -Ford ·campaign tion, __ Nessen said, ·Theres gom_g will be answered later this week to be_ a lot of wo:k d_one _here this when. the official. c_ampaign week, as Doi,~ _w_1lJ_ -fm~ out when orgal!lzation is announced. The he gets _here._,_- - · c .:~:-~':: _ announcement is expeCted to fol~- ·- __ Dole;.: who l)iade his comme~t low a-·scries of ·strategy .meetings· on For_d's pla:is. before-the_ Pr_es1-. between Ford· and his top advis- dent- picked him last Th~_rsday t:<> ers, ·here in the Rocky Mountains, complete· the -_GOP •. ticket, . 1s . where the President is ·combining scheduled to. a_rnve here. Wednes- L work and. relaxation: . > - day· t(). ,JOln . the ,.,str.ategy

Two '"organization~! - .-decisions mee_tings_. --:-;- ·----·-·--·· -have been made .already - to re- Dole Welcome's Liberals ' -lain Mrs. Smith at the ·national --.,__ -:_ committee and Rogers C. B. Mor- To 'Big Tent' of the GOP ton as .'chairman of the ·Presi- _W~shingt.on, A~g. 23 tAP) -dent's election committee. But Sen: Robert Dole (Kan.), Rcpub-~essen noted that other top lican vice presidential nominee. posts remained to be filled. said today that he agrees with

The first of_ the pla~n1-~g- -·se·s- S · Ch l 111 th' {R 'Id ) . . en. _ . ar es . a . Ja s . -"' . .· __ ·sions :was ·convened today; by that - party· moderates and Jibe~- __ -:·- -White House chief of staff Rich- rabis· should be gi\·en ·an :·active - ,:--- · ·ard ··Cheney; witliout_·"the Presio role in the ca-nipaign.- ;_:-: _::_:--; -- - ·· -__ .,--- .· _-:~ ··-dent's p-articipaticin._ :::: __ -- ~ - · · - 'Follo\\-_ing. a _briefing~~by, Ford -

:i ·Nessen --said Ford --;;,:ouid j~-i~ administration officials on niJ.tio-his aides every morning for th~· kal security and foreign affairs, rest. of· the week.:; ~/: . Dole told a news confer-ence that : Nessen ·cautioned;" however, he had spoken to Mathias and_

that _fnere would not be any an- had urged his participation in the. nouncement of ·a Ford over-all c·ampaign. . . . · . . . _. campaign plan as ·a result· of - "I told hini- that I agi·eed with these g.atherings. "Wc:r~ just not him,''. Dole said. "We'ye got to going to stand up and announce ger· e>erybody into the campaign. our· stiategy in public,'' he said. \'.'e have a_ big --tent and we"re

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l article in which Ford's running · Dole added that he had extendc . mate,- Sen. Robert· .Dole, was ed the same. appeal to Sen. Ed­"quoted as saying that the Presi- ward Brooke- (J!-Mass.) and Sen.-·-- ____ Mark Hatfield (R,Ore.), 'both

liberal.·- . -·, . _ - _,-. _ The first face-to-face confron-'

tation between Dole and Sen. Waller mondale of ~finn'esota, the Deri1ocratic vice presidcntiai nominee; was all smiles . and_. friendliness today.- I

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· CAvsfm, ·Tex.; Sept. I 1_:_senator Rob-· Co~tendi~g that Mr. F~~c( "with' pa~ ert J. Dole·. of Ka,nsas, the Republican I tienee and \visdom 'and the veto power" Vice-Presidenti_al candidate, went. before _has_ cut the rate of inflation in. half in the sharply divided delegates to the Re- nvo years, the Senator accused Mr. Carter publican state convention here today and of 'buying the. votes of those who. are' .determinedly · 'avoided becoming . em- looking for giveaway programs." brOlled in .. the.bitter intraparty struggie, : "But he's buying· it. with y6ur money,. , Without mentioning .the battle for con- wi,th. your ;~pending power," M~. · Dole.

trol of. the .state party: machinery . be- con.t1_nued, a_nd, of cours~. It hits the, tween those y;ho supported the unsuc- poo~. th': orkmg man. and w:;ma~, those cessfu! . efforts of . Ronald Reagan; the ~~ fixed rncomesJhe hardest. ". ·'. · · · . former Goverrior. of California, to wrest ·He added that 'if you're goin'g to spend: the nomination from 'President Ford and $100. billion, you have to take.in $100; those who remained !ya! to the incinn- billion, and the way you do that is by· bent, Mr .. Dole concentrated· on>trying increasing taxes." . .. ·· ·, :. · ·· ·· · · ·:· ·1 to convince the more than 1,600 dele- Later, the Senator stressed-as he al-·1 gates that, whatever theiu personal dif- ways does in the South~n. the liberal-. ferences, they could not afford a Demo- ism-of Mr. Carter's running mate, Senator.· 'cratic victory In· November. ·. . · Walter F. Mondale of Minnesotlll.. . ·.· '

'Carter's Platform' scored .. Recalling that Mr: Carter. has said hJs · · . · ·::.- . . .. . . . · v1e.ws are "com.pat1ble'.~ ... with t}lo.se . of.

. As he has elsewhere on hls visit to this Senator Monda:le Mr. Dole eau'tioned his ~eavily Democratic· state, which the 53-'. listeners -ab6ut the Democratic Presiden­year~!d Kan~a~ .believes . the Republi· tlar nominee:: '.o · -;,. ::: ;: .> · ;-../<'.., .-- · ' cam .must wm · m ~ovember! Mr. J?ole . _: "pon'~ Y()U belieye fO'!'~one moment ihat pro~la1med to t~e ch_eers of his partisan he's ·a co · . ve a audience that :victory ?Y J!mmy CB;rter, · ·,ative th.ought in Ms ibody." : :... · the Democratic Pres1d~nt1al. n~mm Senator Dole pr.edicted to ithe assemb) could lead to ~naway mflat1on as .- Texans that they would not "s.ee much result of spending programs pledg H m of Senator Mondale in the· Southwest" J that party's platfonn. . · ' · ·, ··' .: ·. -·· · · · -· · -, · . ·- · : . ·, · ·.'

'The ·Democrat pl tf ·rm · ·rte • · · · .. . Calls Mondale 'Mr .. Buslng' · ·.· _. _ 1-. . ao -a rs · .. ···· .··· .. · · handwritten platform, by the wa -calls _ "They wo~'t bririg 'Mr. Busing' to the· for spending proo-rams that at a con- South," he aaid.- 'They won't bring the servative estimat;, would ~st ·he tax- rnan who wanted ·to increa5e <this year,'s payers in excess of $100 billion ·n addi- deficit· by $9 billion W the South. They ticm to the existing deficit ich a won't' bring the -man who consistently free-spending Democrat Congress ·as al- votes to slash the defense !budget to ~e ready provided for us," ·Mr. Dole said. South.".·. ·;.'.' . ..· .. _c-· .' ./,_.· __ . ·A

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, . • wa.h111gfon Pos~·Btarr Writer •. ' , : Walter, F. ·!vI01)ctal c, Carter'(hiuningi· ·;'"off earlier today· h1 Warm Spri1igs Ga.·: . '?';;;":'~:,,;.\··:'.::~' ,• DARLfNGTON, s~c:: Sept:· 6-Re- · · inatc, jJ:iicl rough If $17;ooo in~ feclc1'ar -·: ·"The • ·. v 1

' ,; publican vice presidential nominee income tax in l~J75 on income of about starti11l!...iJ+-Hte-t3mrthr:-':Pl:i;~ . ~ Bob .Dole vowecl today. to .make the $G4,000,. or 26.u per cent, l\'Ionclalc c," Dole said.

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Soulh a "batllegrouncl". for .the .Prcsi·: : ·has lis_tecl ·his. and·. his.1wifo's _tol~J: ~s- Ilut Dole .was sharpest in his. crltl· i dentin! race and then got "run. over". _sets in·l!J75 a';Sl23,311,:total·Jinb1l1t1e cism of l\londale, .suggesting .the Min, : bv J!mmy Carter iit the .-Southern 500 ·at $45,950,' and estimated net.worth ' . nesotan ·will avoid the South in the

stock car race. . . ·.at $77,3GL. campaign bec[}.Use. of what he called WbiJc·thc estimated 60,000 or more. The Doles' financial statement ·als his "very, very ·liberal voting record"

racii1g fans gave Dole a polite we.I- listed a combined net worth of $73 , in the Senate. . · come . mixed with some boos, the .. ,55:! for Dole ancl ,his wlfc, Elizabeth, As. the crow.cl of .about 150 cheered, crowd roared with npplause minutes member of the-.J~ec!cral 'l~raclc. Co Dole said: "They· don't want. to bring later. for the Southerner the Demo· 'mission who last week announced th '1\fr. Dusing' to the South. They clon't. crats chose as their' presidential nomi- · · she is taking ,:a leave· of absence f w;rnt to bring the man who w;int:;; to nee. · ·tile camp;iign. · cut the defense budget year after year

·' T\f_ean·,vllilc, Dole, \VhO hns:qriti~iz~rl According t6 'the statemerit, :no.le. after ycnr. They don't \Vant to bring ' C01rter for taking an investment tax . who has ,·set·v<!cl ·in·:congress sinc·e the man down. who .. w:ints to raise·

credit in 1975 while advocating tax re· 19GO, has'·, arr· excess of assets· over spending by nbout $9 billion·." . i form, rele;iscd a finnncinl st:.i.tcmcn.t Jiabilillcs of $198,149, whi!c .. his wife's twas Carter, the .Georgian, r er·

showing that he and lliS Wife .paid flnancial-woi;lh is $538,'103, ·including', tha ... oridale \vho cai11e e stock S'.!8,333 or .. 2G.3 per cent, in federal in: -$209,334 frqm, a blind. trust cst;i- - car race, . · ~·c., with ConCccl· come ta)(es."last year on· combined .. ,blishcd ,w'hcn ·she c.ntered federal· crate flags waving here· ·nnd there

\ ' gros·s earnings of Sl07,945. 'l'hC state- · :service ·in 1070 and $181,34~ from ·Hfe :-tlop the campers at)d t)~ckup truc.:ks ' me flt.showed no specin't tax·crcc!its. insui·anc·c· po'Jfcies• ~akcn out by· her p;irkecl in,. the raceway inficlc!, seemed.

In a ·statement issued last: week, · : ·p;ircnts. ;r-fo further c'.lctalls· · ui1 Llic to overflow with regional pride. . Carter s·aitl he paid fccleral:·incomc ' lrnst were, clisc!osed. . . · .. Carter and · Dole crossed·· paths t:ixcs of $17,484 last year, or 12.8 per . . . ,\t nn .airport rally shortly after he hricCly nnd exchanged pleasantries be· cent of .his gross income of $13Ll,138 ..... arrived here, Dole denied .that the Tie·· fore joining.· in the· cercmoni:il ride

, l'l'e~iclent · Foi·d has ·r'epui-ted "pnyin;;' · .publicans arc· \vritlng off tile South. in around the.- track before . the i·uec-,, S94,5G8 in federal income' taxes <m,-in: .:.·.:the elcction:nncl suggested thnt·Cartcr '· Carter in 'the lead car nnd Dole five

con1e of $251,911, or 37.5 per ccnl.,-J\c, ·: .wns \akingiLfor granted :is he headed cars behind ..... · · " " . I ,

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ter noting that he'd been a stoC'k c;ir · race fan for 25 yen rs while· Do!c said ·

he'd never been to a' race ·:is impor· I tant a~ Darlington's 500. ·

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· Dole ·Tcyirig fo,Shed 'i:UatchetMan'. By Martha Angle defensiveness in Dole's'constant dis-· _drive to Ford headquarters at the

Washington Star Staff Writer claimers of personal . hostility . to- ·. Crown Center Hotel Jor the big ·an.: · TOPEKA, Kans. _ Sen.· Robert wards his political opponents: . nouncement~ . , .. , .:. . . -~­Dole retur:ned to his home state today . The GOP candidate was genuinely .. "We_ didn't lie about it," Dole said. still trying to shed the "hatchet surprised and perturbed by the "We just didn't answer fuliy - sort: 111an" image which J:ias marked his emphasis on his skill as a political . of a Jimmy Carter statement." , ·. · .. ·: poHtical caree,r here and in Washing- "hit man" which permeated profiles Several times on this trip, Dole has· ton. . _ · · · . written by him after President Ford come close to suggesting that Carter.

On his 'first m'ajor campaign trip. tapped him as a running mate in is a puppet of AFL-CIO President', · as the GOP vice-presidential candi- .. Kansas City last month. · George L. Meany, but he has always '. . date, the Kansas Republican is going · Acutely conscious that this year of pulled his punch just before it landed .. ·:

to almost painful. lengths to show Jie's · . l?ve and brotherhood is not a propi- "I don't want to suggest anything '. ' a nice fellow who intends to remain· t1ous season for "heavies," Dole is that might be misconstrued," he said :

on the high ground of issues rather · determined to prove his reputation as last night in Spartanburg, '.'but the , than stooping to personal attacks: . _ ·'a partisan attack artist is grossly. )~b~r leaders do have ,·great influ-'.:

At stop after stop this week, Dole- exaggerated. · ·, . . · · . : ·· · : ence." ... · ', ;-... ,. .. : · .: .. :1:; ··: ·.: :. : ,· ._. :~_: ; has. insisted he is "not campaigning . · Noneth~les~, he c~nnot quite sup-·:~ Dole has bee.n trying his best, dur- , against any person," and that he press a certain waspish tone w_hen he mg two days m ~he deep South, to harbors no ill will towards Demo- speaks 9f Carter. . persuade his audiences they should"' crats Jimmy Carter and Walter F . "I'm referred to as a slashing vote . their conservative convictions Mondale.. . , . . · , att_ac~~r whi)e .he's ~ut cuttin~ us up ra~~er than their chauvanistic pride. ·

"I don't have any quarrel _with d.a1ly, D~le complam~d at his .~ery .· ... You !11ay have a geographic . Gov. Carter. I think perhaps he's a . f!rst stop m. Atlanta this week ... But ne1~hbo~ m Mr. <?arter. - and I hope,.

very fin_e person. But I have a right, ! I m not go_mg .~o be personal . ~e · ,you II stil,1 have h1!11 afte~ the election a duty and · k about; added hastily. . Theres been some --: but I m. a ph1losoph1c neighbor; : the i es," Dole said .Wednes in.·' talk ~at lewa~ go_ing to be a hatchet. · a~d t~at's what counts,". he said last~

n, Ga., Cl:lrter's backyard.·· · · ~~n, he ~aid m Charlotte, ~.C. night m ~pa~nburg. ·. , ·. ,., '>, , Mondale, his Democratic counter-·. I m not here to chop down_anythmg. · · : " , _ ... - __ . _ . · ~~- :_

-part, ''is a friend of mine who just I'm n~t here·to cut_ anybody ,up. We '"DO YOU WANT increased gov-has a bad philosophy," Dole told a are going to talk about the record.''. . -ernment spending? Do .. you want.; Spartanburg; S,C., audience' yester- George Meany running the country? ·. day. · · · · DURING ·THE SAME Chariotte Do you want a bigger bureaucracy?" ··

appearance, Dole regaled a friendly he asked, as ~e crowd of 500 roared _' "THIS IS A GREAT big ,c · ry. GOP audience with 'an account of his "No!" . . .. .. ,

We can have.differin · and still fateful August 19th telephone call "Well then, you don't want Jimmy ; · e, ' he sajd at yet from President Ford inviting him to Carter, do you?" Dole asked, beam- '

another gathering ·ye.sterday in.· jqin the national ticket. . .· . - · in_g as t,he '..'No!'.' bounced back. · :'.': Salisbury, N.C., the hometown of hiS · .. He recalled· how he and his wife · · · wife, Elizabeth Hanford Dole. . ·~ . tried to duck questions from report- ..

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Se~. Dole.Using Free}}failforABM -~ By Jlrew Pear~oni~lsuse of the franking prlvt- "It wllP>be written that ln the Mellon famlly of Pitts·

·-. ~ lege. Griffin immediately 1969, primitive man canned burgh; and John . W. Hanes;'.: and Jack~der~n: claimed he was being perse· himself former Under Secretary of the:

····-- cuted and put up such a · And catapulated- through Treasury and . racing. stabl~: The qttP,stlon of just how far squawk that the Post Office fl- tho void · owner, who dmed with Mr.

a Senator can go In using his nally dropped the matter say· . Whll• ·h h ... t- d- Nixon recently to promote f ·•· g · ·1 h · ' · e · unger a e sn ti d t it ff f " reo ma11m prlVl ege!l as Ing that lt was up to the indi- 1 kn t lk d ht' rth con nue ax wr e-0 s or . been raised br an ABl\'I prop a- vidual Senator to interpret the s c ess 5 8 e 5 ea · racing stables. _ · .. • ganda campaign ·by Sen. Bob law for himself. Choosing not to try for But Mr. Nixon may not have Dole, the handsome Kansas 'Vh t s D 1 h b.. Heaven, jnst the moon. read one interest1'ng name ori R bl" a en. o e as ~en ''Th ld 1 dbl k . . epu ~can. · doing is mailing tearsheets of . . e 0 gnar e ac man, the list-Robert F. Six, head,

Bob 11; gun~-ho for the a~~I: _a full-page ad published by the j s~tting In the seamy summer of Continental Airlines. -ballistic rnissi~e sysu!m. .ui:> American Security l;ouncii ~- · - · _ . !..:::~ ":':'eel!: l\ifT'_ Nll<nn nut fellow Republican from Kan- with an appeal for e-0ntribu- Seventh Street amidst the the nix on Six. He reversed a sas •. Jlmp Pears;~· is equall~ tions from $10 up to $1000 to broken glass, firm Civil Aeronautics Board j!:t1:Jt. toea~~~ens~s be::s:~~ put across the ABM system. Is wiser than the scien- recommend~tion -that Conti~ from the Nixon Ad~'ni tra- In other words, Sen. Dole is tlsts at Houston. n~mtal Alrhnes ·be .given the tion to change his vote \n slud- not only voting for the ABM He knows what nstas cry tra~s-Pacific route ~o Aus~: ing a warning from a 'Vhi~hita but is spending other people's to 1be explored." traha. Instead, Mr. Nixon de~ airolane manufa lure that money to collect more money . creed that the route go to Pentagon orders ~outJ·be cut to fl~ht for th~ ABM. And he's Air Route~ and Politics Eastern Airlines, co~trolled b~­off unless Pearson votes right. doln., it oustide the state of President Nixon, who gel'. the Rockefeller family. . _ -

In . contrast, Sen. Dole has Kansas. ·dom reads the newspapers, Is Bob Six, former husband of been sending out liter;;.ture H • M reported to have read with Ethel Merman, star. of "Call for the AB::VI in which he solic- umanity VB. oon pleasure the full-page nds Me Madam" and "Annie Get its funds on behalf of the · On the eve of the big shoot boosting the ABM system Your Gun,'.' ls an old golfing ".American Security Council." !or the moon, Rep. Charles which he is now trying to get partner of the late President

Furthermore, Sen. Dole has Joelson, the New Jersey Dem- okayed by the Senate. Eisenhower and most of hi:;i been mailing this literature ocrat, read a poem he com- The r;ponsors of ·one full- life has been a strong HepubH; outside the state of Kansas. posed lllustratlng "our 'yarped page ad, "Citizens Committee can. However: . duri~g th€i, The use of the free franking schedule of priorities at a time for Peace with Security,'' in- ,Johnson Adm1mstration he: privilege to raise fu:ids of despair in our cities." elude such friends of Mr. Nix- hired Pierre Salinger, JFK's wourd appear to be unethi- The poem, entitled "The on's as Elmer Bobst, head of press secretary, as his PR cal, possibly Illegal, though Challenge," which Joelson Warner-Lambert and the roan man, which gave the impres; the faw Is not clear. Certainly sald did not detract from his who got Mr. Nb:on placed with sion that Six was a Democrat.~ widespread propaganda use of "hope and prayer for the sue- the law firm of Nixon, Mudge, Whether this nixed him with the franking privilege outside cess o! the moon voyage," goes Rose, Guthrie, -Alexander and Mr. N.ixon, or whether the a Senator's state raises some like this: Mitchell in New York. Rockefellers' influence did the -questions. . "There ls more challenge !n . Also on the list are John W. nixing Is not known. At any

Last year the Post Office each square block of city slum Bricker, former candidate for rate, Six's contribution to the tried to collect postage from Than all the galaxy. Vice President; John M. Olin, ABM made no difference. The Sens. Robert Griffin of Michi- Between brother and former treasurer of the Re- President ruled out Contlnen-gan and Charles Percy of Illi- brother, more awful dist:mce. publican National Commit.tee; tal Airlines in favor of East­nols, both Republicans, for Than the long boulevard Admiral Lewis Strauss; Rich· ern. : what it considered flagrant of lonely space. ard M. Scaife, a member of ~ 1969. Bell-McClure SYTidlcate, Inc~:·

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Would Reverse NLRB:

GOP Chairman's Bill Aiins Blow at Labor

Sen. Robert ~Kansas, chairman of the Republican Na­tional Committe~oduced a bill amending the National Labor Relations Act that would hamstring unions and strengthen anti-labor employers.

It would legalize "Boulwarism"-the take-it-pr-leave-it substitute for collective bargaining con- • demned by both the National Labor Relations Board and the Supreme Court.

e Employers would not be re­quired to furnish information to unions for use in collective bargain­ing, such as data on incentive rates

in a broad range of other and time studies. The NLRB and areas, it would revoke labor the courts have said that such in­board and court decisions up- formation must be furnished un­holding union positions. And it less compiling it would be exces­would freeze into law those de-• . . sively burdensome in relation to its c1s~ons that have gone :igamst ,value in negotiations. umons. I

. . . o An employer's withdrawal of , _ F. ol~':"'m_g are key provisions of I an offer made at the bargaining

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. f~o:U u~1~gna~n~~u~~ ~~~~~~~· p~~~ .. ~o~~; i:~~;··~o~~d--:-;~~~--~ s1ons _and benefits for ret!fed wor - barred from imposing any rnone­ers .. The NLRB h_as held that . n- tary penalty other than back pay.

· ion~ bargain f~r 1red The efTect of this would be to over­workers, a f~derai-appel ate ~ourt turn an appellate court decision ~led to the contrary, a_nd the issue upholding the power of the NLRB is expected to be decided by the to order an employer to make good Supreme Court. · losses to workers and their union

resulting from his "frivolous" re-fusal to bargain. ·

e Employers would no longer be required to bargain with a union before contracting out work normally done by union members. This would re\'erse a Supreme Court decision requir­ing bargaining on the issue.

e After the expiration date of a contract, an employer would be free to change the conditions of employment unilaterally without

- further bargaining. At present. he may act on. his_ own only after bargaTnlng ·to --an imp-asse.- · · · -· -

As for the "Boulwari~m" issue. Dole told the Senate that recent NLRB decisions are unfair to em­ployers.

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"~~!::'::'"S" "-" Pm:ilcwer p~~--hi-;I . best possible offer on the table at the beginning of negotiations," Dole said. "Suppose he decides he does

1 not want to play games; does not want to spend a iot of time jockey­ing back and forth, and wants to. get on with the operation of his business."

In such cases, Dole complained, the NLRB "has found this practice to constitute 'an adamant refusal and an uncompromising attitude.' "

· His bill, Dole told the Senate, would make it clear that such an employer would not be compelled I

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Dole Attacks Carter on Pardo~. f~r Draft Eca~e~~\ th;'~';:~d~i~e~i:; ~~~~· . A~:::. ~~: ~:j!:~. ~:I ' . . . . . ~ • 'ly·oouut.As l'.. miLANO · ·

bto:\4l • tM llln 'ror• nar. SEATTLE, .i'.111. 2S-Se~

JC.o~e:t J.,Do!e, lhe"n11p~'o1;~an Vlce-PruNfentlal .ncrn!nee, took 1ismny Cir!(:" to task ~.oday ~ fo1l9 the A'l!eri:ar. Lf:ge:m's 1ia· · lion.ii com,•e:tt~on Ml'IS' f~r J11w· · fiii p..-omle.e<f "I blanket ~r- ~· don'" co all Vietn.Tam dr.aft end· · era.

· w.t.cro Mr. <'.:-.:,:.::~, :th.to ":i(.~ · .. · t:.1.1.i-: .:;i.~1,_;~;::tbl -~.>~:tf.:(\\"I!', !~ .

an· otl'.~rwlsil weft-· rece-it"f\:! ~cht was botJeij ·er. the fl!.. jlOG1'1:i1res )'Uttrday, Mr. Dcle re<:ei\·ea 1 foild, standing ova·

· tion from them when he ~ cl&Nd:

tot.et there be no co11fusion · as to PrHldent Ford'• position on this issue, It is unequlvocal, and appU~ equally to drart evaders and desertet'1, N> bb.n· ket pardon, no b11nkitt &mllff­ty, no blanket clemency."

Mr. Cuter had told the COD• wntlon: ·, "l do not favor a blanket am·

n~sty, but for thoJe who nolat· ed ~etoc:tive ~rvke lawi. l bt·

· tend to grant a blanket pardon. -J'o :ne. thP..ce is a dlffm-~e.

Amnesty rneus thst ...,.~, )"OU did was right. A pardon ~eans that what )'~ did. right <.'llf:

· ..-rong, !s ft'rglve~ !o pardc11, yes; amntsty, 110;• · .

Mr. Dcle .• a decorated severty . Wo:.tl'll!ed World War U Art!>:'/. captAlJ:l 'A+.o ~ a l!ltm°!:ler i:it Amerlca.n Leglo:i Po-!t 93 !'1 ausse:t, Ku •• :ecti!ed Hr. Cnt· er'1 ~~arU. wt ~ed r::~ :'\l.l'T"­tJ.t· . · ..

ti;.,.11l8 .. ~ Chae •. !'petter. · "'wb,"t';re:r be ns ... .ytttt~)' l;ad .,..p101JUfed 'bu ov,,·, ·ii7fill1· tions'" fat am~ty and pardon. Mr. Dote Wd that lie hid checked ·w.cbst.er's New 'World Dictionary and found thot it "makes no such distlncUdn.• (

-n c!eflces 'A:r..cesty" as 11· senera1 J)Udon/. r• said. . 1

b rep.lylr.g tt1 Mr. Carter, a · fGrmer navy clf1cer wbo also Is a membef of -the !e&lcn, Mr. Doleuld: ·

frtAldtnt's Off4' BeealJtd Today, we have the. wto

would slgnal wtakr.ea ai:d atnerate strlre by declarl!1g that those who served this na· Uon l."l her armed torcee .s.~!

. ilft'~it no . are-.itar. (.\)"r.S1<~1Jrath.~1

. ttl\l.n U,C'/U w~~ \1m1td :i:ft~r fi-:lc• and 11cu~a tJ.'¥r'f~ I·

f\ed Am.e~ca when f.h~ nteded~a ·Olrty tNt vtro~ .al\'lw u-,.1 ~ .... LI ttrtlt '"". ~:ee. Y.t .t>"t·fe1"1;'\l U!emr c!l:!tr!e ,,.-,.J~:re f'l ti!~ cg.11;fl!rfl ~ 1V-

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& t:hance to tam c~men.:y, ~ndi to grow wei1~r Seut:s1C' Dole t' ~ r HY earn c.lemer;.::y. l:7 J;:oving' aa!d: ' . . ~· ' ut <Mir r.gltt t!> resume n.nti: ~ace ..Yet °'"' •r.y da)-" ln tl~ ee.n.j i; . Y tn 1hl.s 11.1t!-.l~- 'P~ offer wnt rreu, yoa ca.11 bear ttp~l\ta. e.xt.ended ~ ~t't o:-•adw eru!{ tl\'C$ of o.ir peQllle ~1demr. · die~rters ~&Ike, on • case-by•~ tills n.itlon's eltoits to ft'mainl ~a::ie buis. kmc acce:;>ted. atTong-to kttp the power th.llt Some 19,000. Some ttf~. ~- the pe11c~ .~ SQ.000 .,r &D.000. As fur. : .. ·"rl!~ t!-11 ~·,.,bat "W. zie.e.4. :·-· ......... _. -.:::::z::: ..... :. ·\13 ttuXIC'J ~ ikli-~rllg -~.i.1~rJ : '· ' · •· ,. · .iii · : ·

.. :.a: ·1 ~ .ll~ .. emYt"t_·· .. tJ.· ·f\P...·'··· l"l!i".G 'f'.ut!:c1'1 •.i:r.'ite ic~11::t1.''•~i A1~'"il':dj :.Ul'ffl .r1~1.if:i;t . ·t· bi::t<l!.'" I . . . . . -~.d!r.g wen ma<'\t. tor Wtil( .· Dille .. 1. · ... in. .Lt(fal. u.~

' 1.'Me drew IOme or tbe'M.i.d· "j'!-iJtff>tl.:J.•lfJ, ·~tilt i• ~i.e.:lved., ~ est appta:use fror.t 4,000 · · . · - · · • --:-- · 5.000 teaiocw.tri:.s and the" domfltic programs. . Certain!) ·'Although amntiit1 ar.d pa;·. wives, abOut halt the audieac our cllies need belp, certain!) don are often used ln.ter· Mr. Carter had in the colise- we cannot tum a deaf ear to changeably,. the two words yesterday. . . the poor and the needy. The have different legal ~ll·

At a news conference follow· ques&o 11 not wbtthet · we 1...... 1n common usage l:ig a bcea.kftlSC meetina with should act. but how.' . . · .. ...,. . . . . • loeat Republican Juders, Mt · Mr. Dole argued, however, though. this dist1nct.1on 11

. Do\e was .uked how Pre6!dt1nt that the Republicans vme not sometimes blurced. · Ford could teicoocile his pardon una.ware or the needs of people, Amnesty ls gentr.ilty ad· of fonuer President Richard M uy1ng: d d 1 t , Nixon end decliuo to "'1oii "There are those today who resse to arge groups o I draft evaders. pa say we care nothing for the I persons with respect to mat·

I "I think you go to the eas.e. people, There are those who, tee• or consc:ience or potitlw by;-case b.Uis.:' the · Sen.a tor uy we spend \oo- much ,on I ortenses. According to a se~

lsa'.d, . rJggrtitir,g . th.it. Mr. plantt and. t111~ ~l\'d wart.h;ps' rita t;f Ult..:-ent<irj Su~rer.:.e Nixon's pardon .Md been haa- 8.nd troops, •nd not enciugb on.. . . . th died in Ll\at 1•r111nner. . people. The7 say we ue ~a!•I, ~C\:rt ~am, amnesty u e. ' "A! the ~:Ht tl:o.uf!t !t was :lou.s. They uy we are bd!llerJ· .. ab<>llt:on . and fN1etfulloess (a prernatwre dtels!O!', Mr Dolt er;t. · · ··

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. ('f ~ t1ffer.se." tt is usually .sal!1. '~tit dl.d Jet W~teriJLte. ~A.rill J ·~1 I woukl n:the I i:Fl'Oked l:tf IL"I &:t .. of a ltgl.a· , beHn~ t:.1." · · ~~pl • !:!lr!•on d~Ul:rs, or a, .Jr.wre. · : Jn ?:ls Leg:On speech Mr. Dc·?e b:!a..,n dotlan. Jo r.resm;e'. · An executive pardoil tennl· . recat.ed that :our nrs ir. tJ:a peec.e, than m eJ:?er.d a shg,e =tes ~.ml.shn:.ent fc.c an 1n~ . :century '.!i.a'.! lite? foog.\it :tnder hu.~n Ufe to punrue wsr.'" I ~..,~usr, ,,,m·.c;,,t ot!Jteratil!.I : Democ.~tl-: P:res:.-fe'.'!ts. This l:n:>at,1't · lr.1c.•d 11p~ta:r.M his it!nL

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1 "We .knc9r t!".a: ;pan beco;u fr~ the !eg.c-nnalres. . I Ia ht speech Monday bft. ;"tt f~.!,f1/.r.1 c-r.ce ~L-:tnl . "Wt ~\U.t tie t!tu !r. t5$·, !~tt i~.e Ame~~n Legloc :u· . ;, beg1:;.~,.t ~ .t.!.l.d, ·~t thi! !ii1'1!h t~'qi"ili:tl!.r:g t-i!tW(e:t M!!·f ts t¥..a! ~;wt~tlor... Jir.:m1Car· 11iM vt l'~«)' nv~.i. 1blt . strc-n1 as .,we ~;ra to be, l:.i:· \W iiiid; ••1-..mr\uty lritant .,.,

~;.r ~~l~~:;e~~:;{n~f; ~:~=-w::t~~ :.ri ~~!~~r~ I :~,r;t:i.: ~~'Ai~~~ .. ·:;~.:'. rai:!~, . ~ 4f 'ilrl'altl\~A, ' ~ · ' did •..t.t Of Wi'0'11o ls fGl'• . - At the momlng news conrtt· . • ..... patd • ..

I wisbM thlt1kina arrd ·bad lt.td· ' 1t1ce, Mr. Dole . wu asked 1 :!~~· :0°.. 00

• yes, am '•'.~ erahip;" • ..: abotit a n:pGrt ~ 'l'he Newl . • · _ ) ...

1 Then sounding what may well Ycrk Times that he llad de- , . ··:'' .i be " theme of the Focd·Dole clared as campaign f"P'?ndl· it nearly cost us the elecUoa at "., • =mpalsn tM' fa!!, .hf ui~: \Um i:t his 197• Senate nee jthe tlr...e;'" . .. ~ •N.,, !).~ hates '"'•lr m~re thiti ln Kansu funds that were i Ke &1ud thlt the ,,.ecbton to ' those wt.o hnve tad ~ filht spent to attack his cpponent Oil Ust txpen<tltures for these ad· ._ ~ And n0ne hav~ 4 greater rfgh;. the abortion IJSue. Recently, he! 'wertlsements as part of hl1 Cllm· ;1,

, to ~t liF<'n lt6ilership thclt ·has said that l:e,1'.ad dlsa«1>wed: pCLign spending must t-..ive been under-Star.di J:ow to preven· •~ver.it ldverhsernenta that made bi a subordlnate who wu ··;

· war, U> protedt Uk-my and U, v.-ere i;un on . that wue, aaYin1, a«"OUnting fQr the funds. ~-preserve peace than tJicne wbo that they were •ponsorecf by · '"Some or the pro.life groups ·;.· have had to flghL . right·to-llfe groups without hil at:owed some very bad !udc-

.. , say to you, and tlie rec- ki~wleda~. sr.ent.'" he said. ord aho~ that ~ h4ve such 1 dldn t claim ~em u a Mt. Dole later new to Des !Hdersblp Li tl'e White ~~•. :np.il~~'-~•!''t~tiort, ~I · ·41.d Mofnt-:S ~ .mend the Iowa State ar.cl l ~·IK.Vt tt:o A.merlcail S!fO:" .s~~ "~'· uc ll'lc$; . Some Fnlr there ~night and .tf\mor- . •

,IPlt wm keep lt tbece.» . . of. 1J.~ pm-1iro g?oups 'l'ho II)';/. c~ .ap.in Mlowln& ki. : 'i}~ . · · · , · · · · · . ; . thou~~ tlie-y W'it~ t>t>lptna u~. t11e footslt91 'Of td.r; t.=arter. 7.Nil · :·.8j

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f,f.::-:11New G.O.P. t ~'·.·I , .. ·· •

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. . . ·Considered a tough in-figh~er _:. (Se"nator Dole,.left, with predecessor, Rogers C. B; Morton)

' ... ~/t/ ){i• · . -No~ with his appointment' By DA ID E. RO ENBAUM as Republican National Chair­

~Ill:! t~ The :;ew York 'I'.1mes

WASHINGTON Jati. 15-. For the two year~ that he has

, been in' the Senate, Robert J. : Dole 'of 'Kansas has made a · point to ride shotgun for the Nixon Administration. Invari­ably, if a Kennedy or a Muskie or a Fulbright rises on the Senate floor to criti­cize the Administration, Mr.

· Dole is on his Man feet, too, some­

times needling, in the sometimes droll, News but always de-

fending .Presi­dent Nixon's interests.

"There are so many De • crats who want to be Pr i• dent, and I get tired of'. seein<- them browbea ing: President Nixon," Sen tor : Dole said recently. "So w en I see Muskie and the om 'rs giving the President a h d tim!.', I stand up, too. That

· just the way I am." In the pc.st, his self-ap­

pointed role as the Adminis­tration's hodyguard was !nrge!y t:nofficiaI-accounted for, th(' 47-year-oid freshman· Srnatur said, by the fact that "I'm on the floor a lot while the S('nior Senators are tied up in committees."

man, there will be no doubt that when, the Kansas Sena­tor speaks he will not only be defending the White House but also representing it. The transition should not prove at all difficult.

. His Main Interest· • "As far as I know, the

Senator has no hobbies," one of his aides said. "What he's most interested in is getting other Republicans elected, an he spends

· spare time." Senator Dole can re m~

ber no instances when hen opposed the President on significant legislation. In the skirmishing in the Senate over Vietnam policy, the Su­preme Court nominations, the supersonic transport and the antiballistic missile system, he has advocated the Ad­ministration's position with a fervor seldom matched in gentlemanly Senate debates.

This partisan fervor, the "ting sarcasm he sometimes

us · <lebates and his dis dain o . cnatorial r­t.::sib have won im the reputation of being a tough

. in-fighter. And his lean ap­pearance - 6 feet 2, about 17.5 pounds - and his eoal­black hair and sideburns to the bottom of his ears-add to this Impression.

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f Ohio the one Repubhcan ~ho ha's publicly expressed his distaste for Senator Doi~: called him a ''hatch.et. man who was so antagonistic that he "co.uldn't sell beer on a. ·troop ship." . · ·

But /other Senators, eve.n those who disapprove of' h!s partisan politics and his brusque public man~er, ~ay that in. private he is witty and charming. · · · · ·

Robert Joseph Dole was born July 22, 1923, in Russell,

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Kan. the son of the manager of a' g~ain elevator. He. left the. University of Kansas to enter the Army ln 1942, and in the! last days· of World

I d" . War II; while lea mg an in-fantry platoon through Italy,

· he wa:s critically wounded. His right shoulder was shat­

' tered land vertebrae w~re · cracked by an explosive shell. I

' . Mr. !Dole spent the next 39 months in Army hospitals. He had lost forever the use · of his[ right arm but. slowly regain~d usi: of his !eft,

. though he st!ll has so little : • feeling in his fingers that he

cannot button his shirt with­out a ;mirror. . . · . .· .

While hospitalized, Mr. : Dole met and married Phyllis ' Holden. She took notes for . him and wrote the an~~rs - n~ ui~Li:tlt:Q iO t:Xi:tf!lliletLIO.ll ·. questions as he obtained his

undergraduate d_egree at ~e University of Anzona and his

law degree from Washburn. University in Topeka, K_an. Later1 Mr. Dole taught hun- · ·

• self to write with his·· left -hand.I · · · '

The Doles ~ave one daugh- · ter Robin who is now 16.

in 1951,' when 28 years old and still in law school, he

·· was ~elected to the Kansas Legislature. Two years Ia~er, . he JJecame the prosecuting . attorney in Russell. County, • a post he held for nine years untiJi he was elected to the · House of Rcpresent:;i.tives to serve a. 52-county wheat­lands district in Western Kansas. . ·

In: four terms as a Repre- . sentative, Mr. Dole was a ' backbencher, serving dili- · gently on the . ~g:icultu~e ·. Corn:nittee, sohd1fymg his ·

olitical base in Kansas and are)y showing the aggres~­eness that has marked his ays in t.11e Senate. . . ,

/ Conservative Line · In the House, he seldom :

strayed from the straight conservative line. Nearly evei:y year he was ~warded

·the i annual plaque ~iven_ .?Y ihe American rnr constitu-tional Action to the most conservative Congressman, and one colleague described his I political vi_ews as "sorn~- . where to the nght of Genghis Khan."

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Nevertheless, he has. voted for every significan~ piec~ of civil rights legi.slauon smce he . has been m Congre.ss .. "Some of my cons~rvativ~ friends don't agree with me, Mr. Dole said, "b?t I'ye never equated liberalism with civil rights. The true con­servative wants to remove the shackles from the op· pressed."

He said that he had seen · the President privately only .

. once, right after the Novem- · , ber elections, when he t~Iked .

-with him about the national , · chairmanship. In. a gr?up, he

said, he has _met· wit!J. the t>r<>~irl<>nt n~rh::i!'~ 1 S times . · · But there·. is ·a personal touch that . makes Senator Dole feel proud. Whenev:er they meet, the Senator said, the President always r_emem­bers to. hold out his left hand~:__. ______ ___,

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Auto lobbyist. says he· used golfing friendship "Vvith Ford BY~u1·Rfifdmrin raised quesions, such as how a~e paign records of two Repu:ilicnn or-ho•..rrr Wa•ltu•OIOI\ BIU''t11' things goi.ng on :.h.e Clenn Air A~t. ganizations in Kent County, ~lichi-

WASHL\"GTO:l - An auto indl1stry and l"ve gone to him to solicit his gan, Ford's home county, \':ere be:ng lobbyist ilcknowledged ?esterday :hat help." · . im·estigated by Watergate Spedal he and U.S. Steel Vice Prcsi~o!nt f Ford's views on the Clean Air Act, Prosecurnr Charles Ruff. Ruff is also :villia.m Whyte ~ave us~d their golf- now ~lore ~O.r:£:"ess, g::ncro.lly.ha.ve reportedly ~;~bing the .~I~rine Engi-mg tnendsh1p with Pres1dc:i.t Ford to ::oim:1dcd with :-:iose ot :.:ie auto in- ncers Beneticrnl Assoc:auon of ~ew ~alk wit.1 the president about lc~isla- Justry. The presider:t 'suppor:r.d the York, which ga.,•e SS,000 ~o Ford's tion and goverr.tnent policies aif-ec:- :nanufacmrers' r!!quests for a five- 1972 congressional campaiQ:n. ing •heir companies. year moraton'Jm on s~rict em1ssion The Journal Story hinted t~at :!:c

Rod ~lark!ey, a Ford ~.lolor Co. standards. · · · innstiogation "may invoive" ?ord's \'_ice pre~ic!cnt for go.·:ern~1e~1~ re!a- Simiiarly, the Pre~ic!ent vetoed leg- past clrnpai~ns. tions~ said: "'.\ly re!at1onsh1p ·.·mh the isiation to promote developrr.ent of :l'ess~n S<l!d . Ford "doesn'! know Pres1de:1t goes back rr.any years and e!~ctric-powered vehides, although what tf anything the s-pec:al ;iros-ha_s b~.n based more. ~n person~l Congress overrode him. Ami he has ecutor is Going. No Ford cJ:ncaign frtendsmp than m>' pos1Hon as a loo- generally opoosed actions of Cun- records have been subpe~aed. There byist . .'' gress and the. E:wironmen~ill Protec· :-::is been no contac:." . W1nte House pre~s :secret~ry Ron tion Agency in putting pressure on-~

~es.se .. n made a 1 ~1m.lilr s.at.em~:it the steel ind~stry to ..:ombat poilu· l )~s.e.day abOl~ \,.hyte after 1.t \\as :ion, on 1he grour.c!s :hat environrnen7 \ disclosed lhat rord, JS a mem.C'!_r of !a! restric:iJns were costly and hind- '

~~~rr~~ad ~~~n \~~~~:·s g~~~~~I;~~~ ering economic recovery. plush Pinc Valle~: Golf Club, about . ).tark!~~· . agreed .that. Ford ta~ two miles from Clemer.ton, N .. I., ar.d sided with tndustry, out ne sugi;estd at a club lodge, owned by U.S. St·:::el. th.at Ford'~ . conservausrn . and

Tnc di::~losure and Marklev"s fr:cndly attnuae toward b'Jsrnc~s rrieadship with Ford underscore ~he \~·ere more ~esp~nsibl_e_ fer. his ~osi· ! President's .:lose as.'iodiltion with :i uons tha!'t his fnendsmp ·.nth loJby-number of industrialis1s and business ists .

. lobbyists who seei< C'Ontrn..:ts, !ei;isia- Ford met :-.1arkley and Whyt~ soon tion and bureaucratic de::isi~ns fa- after cor:iing to Washiilgton as a con-vorabl.e to their clients and compa- grcssrnan 27 years ago. nies. or the President's relationship with

When Whvte, ~.l:\rkleY ant!· Ford Whyte, ;Jessen told repor~ers that last went gO!fir:g an Sept. 4 at Burn- Ford "feels Biil Whyte is a persor:.al ing Treie Country Ctuh in Bethesda,· friend who asked him :o go up and ~1d. 1 a Wilshington s1:burb, they were piay golf." :-;essen sn~d tb~ .Presici~~t joined - as they often Jrl! -- by a has been Wh~·te's g1,,;est t·.v1ce - :i1 former congressman, .John Byrr..:::s of 196--i and. about fi\"e veJrs ag:11" - a: Wisconsin. now il Wa.o;;hing!on <Hlor- t~e :i:ush Pir:e \'ilUeY Golf Club. ncy who represen~s :ndu~1riol clients There was ~on~e confusion about how on tax n-:atters pending in Congress I ~ and the Tre:?sury Dep<lrtment. [rca~ently Ford piayed at the c uv.

Bvrnes, before he retir'!d from the \\"h..-te told L'nited Press 1r:tcrna· HoUse-io 197j, was tl:e ran~ine: Re- t:onai th<lt Ford "frequently" had pl.!blican on dle Ways an<.: ,\feJns been his r:;ue·st on goifing \"~Cations Committee ar.d oitcn joined with the be!weer. 1961 ar.d 1971. · Chairm;i,n then, W;!bur ~Iills of Ar· Whyte. however, told ~he ~.jew Y~r.k kansas, to short-.:ircutt tax-reform ef· Dailv News 11at ford r.ad been nis forts. gueSt at tt:e club once· in 1961 and

B~·rncs ~nd Whyt·~ are members of once in 19i!, for weekends of "golr-Ford's "kitchen cabinet,·• a group of i:ig, eatin~ ar.d sleeping." T~c News friends who ha\"e been meeting occa- quoted Whyte as saying t.1e blHs were sionally since he took O\'er the p:-esi- ;:ilid by U.S. St~el. dency and advisir.g him nn ~dminis- Pine Val\ev's manager. Edward S. tration policy and polici..:Jl ::intters. ~fagee .Jr., "reca\!s "se·1ero.l" Ford

Another member of the exclusive Visits. the 1.:ist one aJout fou: years group is Bryce Harlow, a former ilgo. He said the e,;.penses, in::!uding White House aide in the administra- green fees and caddy fees,. were usu-tions of Dwight D. Eisenhower a'tld ally billed to Whyte and t~at Ford Richard M. :lixon and the Wa~hing- st~·ed at u lodge on the club grounds ton lobbyist for Proc~er &. Gamble. . owned by li. S. Steel.

Markley said in an inter.,·iew th.!t ~tagee said he remembered Ford he had ne•;er raid Ford':i fees when but pnid lit:!e attention to his visits they played golf at Burning Tree or becuu.!e "we have congressmen here other country clubc;. all the time."

f! On occasion, first when Ford was a A code of ethics adooi.ed by the

congressman, L'ien vice president and House in 1)68 forbids an)' membe=-since hc'1' been President. :-laridey from accepting a "gift of substar.tial said, he has given him "my views on value" from anyone ha\'inf! a ''direc: legislation and other problems in ini.erest" in· legislation before con-government affe:tir.g the Ford Motor gress. Co. and the auto industry." In another de\·e!opment, the Walt ~Iark!cy added: ''He has himself Street Journal reported :hat cam-

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'~.';By Bob Woodward . . dent's· involvement. in the _episodes and Carl -Bernstein · ·' .. now under examination.

. Wa.6hl11•tO!l Post StaC! Wme,rs. . .· Special Prosecutor Ruff. as previ-. The Watergate special prosecutor ls · · ·ously reported, has subpoenaed the

investigating what an authoritative · records of three local Republican

. other funds from money that two ma· ritime union~ gave to the. local Kent County "com'mittees .. Kent Cou·nty makes up. the bulk of Mr. Ford's old 5th Congressional District.

government source said yesterday are committees in :.\Ir. Ford's former con· "serious" and ·'significant" allegations '"gressional district. In addition. at that Gerald R. Ford, while a l\Iichigan least eight former local oUicials of congressman, illegally diverted cam· the committees have been interviewed paign contributions to personal or im· by the FBI. proper political use. Ruff has refused to comment on the

A Washington grand fury under the reports but said last week that any direction o( \V atergate Prosecutor subpoenas issued by his office would Charles Ruff began a formal investig:;.. be served under the auspices of the tion into the matter late last month. regular Washington grand jury under Despite the reported seriousness of his control. the allegations, government sources FBI agent~· ha\'e · pointedly asked said yesterday that investigators have some former Michigan Republican of· drawn no conclusions about the Presi· .ficials if Mr. Ford received cash or

The campaign officials said .in inter·· views this weekend that they knew of no such payments to :.\Ir. Ford, other than routine reimbursement to him for such campaign expenses as travel ..

Stephen C. Brandsdorfer counsel · for the local Republican com~ittees iil .. Kent County, said yesterd<:y the com· · mittees' records for· the period under investigation-1964 tc 19"14-support these assertions. . .

An official of one. of the maritime unions, the Marine Engineers B_enefi·.

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-. tROBE, From.-\ l mat ion about the c:ise to Attar::=:.-" .. .', CarliP •.. reportedh· a v"er)• effecti-:-e -... · · Ge.ne~:il Edward H." Levi. · .. · · .·. - .· -·oW;!e lob;.,.._ - o .. <+ iil\"oI·•ed c1al . .\ssoci:ition; 'said yesterday that 1· .,· " l · · t ·· ~Icanwhile, J. ustice Department law_.· '·· n arranom.., arge campaign con r11iu-several thousand dollars in campaign · ·· ·uons to House members over lhc contributions were ;i,·en to the Kent ye rs expressed doubt-" that the Pre~i· · : years. _ .

'Rcpublkan comr:i;ttees c,·ery election de.nt wotdd. be' notified hy the spec:iar Most of the details abciut the special year. spcL·irically at lh~ requc~t of >Ir._, .. prcsecutor of details about the inves~i· prosec~tor"s investigation come fro;n Ford. . .. - : · · . · . gation. even if. :\Ir. Ford were thC:. tar· current acd !armer Rcpublic:m offi·

White House and Ken~ County Re-· . get of the grand jury's probe. · "".".~ cials•-rrr Kent County. publican officials have sought to dis· · ·~·. The FBI- agents' questions ·ha\·~ [C1· count the i:nporta::ce oi news reDorts cused on contributions to the Kent ... Thomas C. Bloodgood .T(.. Kent on the l..,1·es;igatioc. They ua·;e specu- committees fcom the :\Iarine En.gi-· County GOP fina:ic~ chairman in lated that the prohe is designed to em· neers: Beneficfal Association and "the 1969·70, said that in his FBI interview barrass '.\Ir. Ford in the midst of the ·Seafarers International Union. he described how s4.50J from the two

. · · r:n.;iritime unions· made its way to the presidential campaign. :\1arine Engineers President .Jesse ~ . · - ' ·1acal ~ommittee. • ' -·: · : .

· Per5ons who know Ruff well de· :\I. Calhoon- confirmed last week th:it ' " · · · · scribe :he special prosecutor as an,-cx· his union's records have been subpoe· According to Blood:;ood. the urrions tremel:; · ·· cautious lawyer:.._.··very naed. Like White House and Kent Re· gave the money to :\I~. Ford in 197:J. bright. \:ery.bi;iartisaa. and very c:ire· ,pub!ican officials. he expressed baffle· .,. ':He [l\·Ir. Ford] called me from Wash· ful." i:1 the· words of one lawyer. · ment at the investigation. · ington and said he had these c:ontribu· · ··Kno\l.;ng how careful he is.'' said nn· ··. Philip Carlip, ·the Seafarers' chief tions and he "didn't need them. other, --[ can't im:igir.e that. under lobbyist at the House of Representa· . "He said that he wou:d either en-these circumstanc~s. he'd proceed tives for more than 20 years. resigned-. dorse them or they [the unions] would ·withou: \"et"Y geed reason." ~ last month. His friends said it had · send them direct. They were comin;.:

One ~armed so:.:...ree said ::esterday nothing to do with the current investi· to. thz committee here and would be that R'Jff has pro1ided limited intor- gation. . . ., ~ani!able JD!· ~anything the Kent

..,...dtlr1 n:eriublic~ · .. ~Committee needed." · . . ··

Bloodgood said tha the ·54.500 was put in the general Republican account and spent o;:i various campaigns, per· haps including :.\Ir. Ford's.

Concerning his . FBI interview on Friday". Blood<:ood said the ·a g c n t s ."'asked if any of this- mo;:iey from the unions Or any CJ.Sh to the cor.:mittCC· was launderect and t~rncd 01·er to Jerry. I said absolL:tely not."' - ' ·

B!ood.good said thi\t :.rr. Ford for­warded .the S·LiOO to the Kent Ioc:it· committee because "Jerry didn't need to spe:id much on his campai::!ns be­cause he was assured of re-elect"ion."

:\Ir. Ford's 'campaign ccint:-iiJutioa records show that it was not at all un­common for him to transfer iunc;s from his own re-election committees to the c~nty committees or other Repu'.l· l i can candidates throughout the country.

In' 1972. more than Sl5.COO went

from :.\Ir. Ford's campaign committees to oth:?r candidates. accordini; to rec· ords on file at the Federal Election c'ommission.

If such transfers were properly re­ported-as they apparently wcrc­thNe would be no violation of the law.

P:iul Goebel. tile Kent r.cnuhlica:i fi. nanec chairman in 1971-i2. :;aid the fBf asKed him '"if the money t"ror.1 the unions was converted to cash and gll·en to the Ford campaign· or to t!ic individual [:\Ir. Ford]." .

Goebel said .he told the FBT, "There was no cash conversion ... -

They then asked about check paY· ments and yes, there was one trom the committee to . Ford-a sm•1ll amount of about :S50 for travel."

Others interviewed ov the fB[ in­clude Peter Cook. the ·finance chaii·· man in 1965, Harold Garter (1973-i-ll and Eliot Sera(in, another forme:· li· nance chairman.

Brandsdorfer. the local Republic:in counsel. said that he has been sitting· in on the FBI interviews with former Kent officials. He declined td talk about°'thc ir.terviews other than tci co?~firm that .the agents' •·questions were ,·cry broad" and to say ""th~ iu· ,·cstigatjon has been very thorough."

""To my knowledge there is nolhin~ in the records cir known bv the former o[fiC'ials interviewed in rny prcsrtl('(' to support alle:;ations" that Mr. Ford took any money improperly, he said.

Brandsdorfer said that the coml"ilit· tee records show where every dollar­cu.me from and how .it was spent.

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