Page 2 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1976
David S. Broder
Carter, Congress taking
serious look at each other
Bit of Aggieland lost?
Editor:
Much has been written about the
construction going on at A&M; about
the complaints of having to walk
through mud, and how the trees on
the Drill Field are dying because
bulldozers damaged their roots. This
is only a comment on these so-called
improvements.
Located at the rear of Dormitory
10 (Byrd White Hall) was a small
memorial, placed by members of
■'C” Artillery more than 30 years ago.
The memorial was dedicated to
Spot, the company’s mascot, who
was buried at this location. I use the
past tense because the memorial is
no longer there — apparently oblit
erated by the bulldozers working
behind Dormitory 10.
; It was only a small monument left
behind by an outfit that has been
gone for many years. Perhaps it’s
been moved to a safe place until the
Construction ends and can be put
back. But it seems, right now, that
the Board of Regents ‘needs’ for a
'Showcase of America has lost
forever a small piece of Aggieland.
Mark Lyons
To advance in the name of prog
ress, one must necessarily leave
some things behind.
Editor
Spirit erosion
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Editor:
I am dumbfounded that Aggies are
down on organizations that divide
the student body. Why, Ro
McDonald, do you write of a few
Greeks? On this campus we have a
much larger organization that di
vides and isolates students from each
other. And members must walk, talk
and look the same in order to climb
its ‘social ladder.’ That’s right. I’m
speaking of the corps. The corps has
the same basic goals as Greeks
though their methods differ.
But, back to the issue. If we are
going to be down on groups, let’s
start with the non-regs. A&M was
originally all-corps, so we non-regs
started the erosion of that certain
spirit, or did we? But let’s not stop
there. Let’s complain about dorms
creating functions for just their
people while excluding others. What
about the girls. What greater differ
ence can there be which could divide
that spirit? Did it?
You speak, Mr. McDonald, of
your gratefulness for not needing to
buy friends through monthly dues to
a fraternity. Each unity has its price.
Dorms have campus rules and re
stricted visitation. The corps has
even more stricter rules and hours.
If you live on campus, you pay a
price to belong to a group.
Speaking for myself and a few
others, I’m grateful that joining a
group is not a prerequisite for mak
ing friends. I’m also grateful that this
school continues to expand the
number of organizations that: give a
person a sense of belonging; and
spend the time to create an atmos
phere for the development of
lifelong friends for all the lonely
freshmen who don’t wish to join the
corps and who are forced to live off
campus their first year.
Kee Nethery
WASHINGTON In this new
phase of the presidential campaign,
aimed not only at accumulating the
delegates he needs for nomination,
but consolidating the diverse ele
ments of the Democratic Party,
Jimmy Carter is turning serious at
tention for the first time to the con
gressional Democrats.
And having observed his rise with
the same disbelief that has been felt
by others, the members of Congress
are trying now to get Carter in
clearer focus. What they see is a
campaigner who can help the ticket
in almost every district, North and
South, big city and suburban, small
town and rural. They also see an or
ganizer who has enlisted the whole
corps of talented political newcom
ers in the political game.
A few members of Congress are
also beginning to think of what Car
ter might be like as a President. And
for those who have perceived that
the former Georgia governor is a
man who chooses his words with care
and expresses his thoughts with un
common precision — at least when
he has a clear position to enunciate
— his standard discourse on
presidential-congressional relations
sends an unmistakable message.
“I believe,” Carter says, “that the
nation is best served by a strong,
independent, aggressive President
working with a strong, independent
Congress —with mutual respect, for
a change; in harmony, for a change;
in the open, for a change; and with a
minimum of secrecy, for a change.”
Statement worth studying
That sentence is worth parsing. To
go at it backwards, the emphasis on
openness has been characteristic of
Carter’s political career and is sup
ported by his record as governor and
the practices in his current cam
paign. He and his staff are open with
each other and both are accessible to
the reporters covering them. There
is no reason, at this point, to suppose
a Carter White House would be a
closed shop.
The pledge of “harmony” is less
supported in Carter’s record. His re
lationship with the Georgia legisla
ture was anything but harmonious,
which is not necessarily a criticism of
Carter. That legislature is accus
tomed to dominating one-term gov
ernors, who are lame ducks from the
day they take office. And Carter is
not one who is inherently ready to
compromise.
He is, by the testimony of both his
supporters and critics in Georgia and
in the observation of this reporter,
an extremely tough politician, with
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an immense drive to succeed — one
who will fight doggedly for his goals
and worry later, if at all, about his
relations with other politicians.
The commitment to “harmony”
needs to be read in that light, even if
one assumes that a tough Democra
tic President would veto fewer bills
from a Democratic Congress than a
“nice guy” Republican like Jerry
Ford who has basic disagreements
with the Congress’ liberal majority.
What Carter is really saying is that
he does not anticipate Congress
being a policy initiator if he becomes
President. It is no accident that his
ideal President is described as
“strong, independent and aggres
sive” while the ideal Congress is cal
led strong and independent’’ —
period. That interpretation is made
explicit when Carter himself spells
out what he means by the “respect” a
President should show Congress.
Congress unable to lead
sponsible for it, not some commit
tee.”
Take legislation. “Congress has
been talking about tax reform since I
was a child,” he says. “But when
they get around to it, it’s behind
closed doors in the Ways and Means
Committee, and the only people
who ever know what’s going on are
the lobbyists and special interests.”
The solution: Congress should wait
for a comprehensive tax reform pac
kage, which President Carter is
pledged to send to Capitol Hill no
sooner than one year after taking of
fice.
Carter is careful to add that “I
don’t believe in an imperial Presi
dent. I believe in a humble Presi
dent who doesn’t think he has all the
answers.” His model, he says, is
Harry Truman, a revered figure
whose many and bitter battles with
both Republican and Democratic
Congresses tend to be forgotten in
the current wave of Truman nostal
gia.
“I respect the Congress,” he says
in his standard speech, “but the
Congress is inherently incapable of
leadership. Our founding fathers
never 1 thought that the Congress
would lead this country. There’s
only one person that can speak with a
clear voice to the American people,
or inspire the American people to
reach for greatness or excellence, or
call on them to make a sacrifice, or
set a standard of morality, or set out
the answers to complicated ques
tions, or correct discrimination and
injustice, or provide us with the de
fense posture that would make us
feel secure or a foreign policy that
would make us feel proud again. And
that’s the President.”
Whatever one calls it. Carter’s
concept of presidential leadership is
plain. And his current campaign
shows he deserves to be taken seri
ously when he says he will do some
thing.
That is quite a catalogue of func
tions, and if there are those who
think that would leave Congress lit
tle room for initiative in a Carter ad
ministration, they may be right.
Take oversight. Carter says he has
no objection to Congress “monitor
ing” the activities of the Central In
telligence Agency. But the real ans
wer to its abuses is for him as Presi
dent “to take on my own shoulders
the responsibility for telling you (the
public) when something has gone
wrong, who did it and how I intend
to correct it. You can hold me re-
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