Friday, November 8 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Friday, November 8, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three EXI-PRESIDENCY Where do you go after the White House? Hoover Roosevelt Truman Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson WASHINGTON (A) - In American folklore any boy can grow up to be president. The legend is less than fac- tual. But its promise of power and glory has goaded men to seek what Theodore Roosevelt called "a position as great as that of the mightiest mon- arch." It offersto make a man, in Herbert Hoover's words, "a 4 link in the long chain of his country's destiny." But of the men who have dwelt in the White House, many have spoke their disil- lusionment. "My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get in it," cried James Garfield. "The responsibilities of the office ought to sober a man even before he approaches it," said Woodrow Wilson. "I have had enough of it, heaven knows," said William McKinley. "I have had all the honor there is in the place and have responsibilities enought to kill any man." The presidency, in George Washington's eyes, required U "unremitting attention." It was "dignified slavery" to Andreu Jackson; "anxiety, tribulation and abuse" to Abraham Lin- coln. Grover Cleveland, the only president to gain a second term after being defeated for re-elec- tion, said paradoxically: "I do not want the office. It involves responsibility beyond human strength." Harry S. Truman likened being president to riding a tiger: "A man has to keep riding or be swallowed." To run the White House of- fice alone takes 250 people with a payroll of more than $3 mil- lion a year. Lyndon B. John- son's roster lists no fewer than eight special assistants and seven consultants or counsels. As the White House has grown more powerful, presi- dents , have increasingly at- tempted to delegate authority to aides. Some of these assis- tants have become better known and more influential than mem- bers of the president's Cabinet, who often must forego their function as advisors to tend to their own bureaucracies, or elected officials. Harry Hopkins, the man -Next- BARBARELLA SHOWS AT ' 7:10 & 9:20 1-3-5 FOURTH WEEK Franklin Roosevelt turned to most often, acted as ambassa- dor without portfolio; Truman had Clarke Clifford; Sherman Adams became a filter through which passed all access to Eisen- hower, and Kennedy had his brother Bob and Ted Sorenson. Eisenhower advocated a "first secretary of the government," to take on some of the presidency's burdens. A Senate committee rejected the proposal. "Only one official has the constitutional and political power required to assume that role and mainiii n it," the committee said. "That official is the president of - the United States. He cannot be relived ' of his burdens by sup- plying him with a deputy' to do what only he can do." Truman said it more simply a few years earlier with a sign on his desk : "The, Buck Stops Here." )Each president shapes the of- fice to fit his own personality. Roosevelt was a connoisseur of power and he had - no peer in knowing what it was, where and how to get it, and how to use it. Eisenhower brought to the White House a soldier's concept of doing things through chan- nels. When command failed, he was frustrated or efisheartened. He didn't enjoy the politics of power; he was an anti-politician in a politician's seat. Truman, who would have been happy to remain in the Senate the rest of his life, nevertheless became a decisive president. In fact, this distinguished Truman from Roosevelt, who was prone to defer decisions, and from NATIONAL GENERAL CORPORATION y FOX EASTERN THEATRES FUH VILUIGE 375 No. MAPLE RD.-769.1300 MON.-THUR. -- 8:00 FRI. - 6:30-9:15 SUN---1 :00-3:45-6:30-9 :15 SAT-3:45-6:30-9:15 Unlike other classics West Side Story" grows younger! Eisenhower, who believed in a minimal use of presidential power. Critics often have called Truman impulsive, but his sup- porters say, in reality, he soli- cited all shades of opinion be- fore coming to a decision. But once it was made, he expected subordinates to accept and sup- port it. John Kennedy was distrust- ful of bureaucracy and turned, instead, to his brother Robert and to the talented, ambitous, strong-willed men that were his inner circle. Like Roosevelt, Kennedy often set them against each other. Aides have recalled, for example, that he, diked to assign two or more people to re- search a particular action, then pick the best points of each. Lyndon Johnson, p e r h a p s most like Roosevelt in the knowledge of how to get anduse power, looks toward younger men for action and older men, such as Clark Clifford, for ad- vice. Like Eisenhower, Johnson employs a formal chain of com- mand, and uses his staff watch over affairs of various agencies. Unlike Eisenhower, he seldom delegates authority. If the Washington community of legislators, agency offigials and the press sense that the public supports the President, his power to persuade - and hence his power to act -- is enhanced. , Woodrow Wilson, in his effort to have the United States be- come a member of the League of Nations, was a classic example. In order to get Senate ratifi- cation he needed public support. Wilson took his case tothe peo- ple, failed to get public back- ing, and the Senate rejected his efforts. "I suppose I am the most powerful man in the world." Calvin Coolidge said, "but great i power does not mean much ex- cept great limitations. I cannot have any freedom even to go* and come. I am only in the clutch of forces that are great- a er thanti I am." For every president who sur- f gives the office, there is the blessing of retirement to look forward to. But is it a blessing? Retirement to do what? What is left after years in what Tru- man called "the finest prison in the world." Freedom," say& Lyndon John- son. "Fr'eedom to be my own man. To hike in the pastures 14 or 15, miles a day with no phones and no reporters. To sleep under the stars. To be able to take my wife by the' hand and walk through the woods without 40 Secret Service men around." In England, and elsewhere, a man can be voted out of the prime minister's office and still retain his seat in Parliament. America's system of government assigns no role at all to the man who has had the unique experience of being president. "Most people never stop to think about what happens to a roan who has been president -of the United States," Truman said. "The day he is elected president, he suddenly finds himself at the top of the world, where he sits for a while, hold- ing the destinies of millions in his hands, making decisions that change the course of history. Then, just as suddenly, hg is again at the level . of John Jones who lives next door." All that is left for ex-presi- dents, said Herbert Hoover, is "to take pills and dedicate li- braries." But Hoover, Truman and Ei- senhower were active in retire- ment and there is every indica- tion that Johnson will be, too. While he was physically able, Truman lectured at universities. He and Eisenhower :each wrote extensive memoirs and saw to it that memorial libraries, bearing their names were established, primarily for the benefit of his- torians seeking additional data on their administrations. Hoo- ver was called back into im- portant government service by Truman after World War II. Johnson has made extensive plans for memoirs and a libra- ry to house his papers. There are surprises awaiting the man who leaves the White House, just as there are for the man entering. "I look forward to the day when the press won't give a damn about me as copy, when I can walk in and get a beer and a hamburger somewhere without being regarded as outrageous," said Johnson. He might find it doesn't turn out that way. the n e ws day by The Associated Press atzd College Press Service THE 51ST ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of the Bolshevik Revolution in Moscow yesterday reflected growing ties with the United States. The keynote address, delivered by Defense Minister Andrei Grechko was the mildest in years, omitting the usual direct attacks on the United States and even omitting men- tion of the Vietnam War. However, the celebration was not lacking in international tensions. Ambassadors of North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tions boycotted the reviewing stand, reportedly in protest of the Soviet Union's August invasion of Czechoslovakia, " i " THE FOREIGN MINISTERS of Egypt and Jordan withdrew at least temporarily from talks with Israel yesterday, The talks have been going on at United Nations head-,, quarters through a UN intermediary, Gunnar Jarring of Sweden. Both ministers expressed dissatisfaction with the attitude Israel has taken in the discussions. Israel has been report- edly placing emphasis on security rather than the question of the territory it occupies as a result of the June 1967 war. A FEDERAL GRAND JURY has refused to indict nine highway patrolmen on civil rights charges after com- pleting their investigation of the shooting deaths of three black students in Orangeburg, S.C. last February.' The three students-two who attended South Carolina State College and the other an Orangeburg high school student-were fatally shot during a confrontation of young blacks and police on the fringe of the college campus. . The confrontation climaxed racial tension in Orange- burg which resulted from attempts of college students to integrate the only bowling alley in the city. Ithas since been integrated by federal order. . i i i " NEW YORK POLICE arrested scores of anti-war protesters yesterday as they entered the student center at City College of New York where a 19-year-old AWOL soldier had been given sanctuary. Police said at least 135 students were arrested. They had been living at the center in an effort to prevent the arrest of Pvt. William Brakefield, who sought sanctuary there a few weeks ago after going AWOL from Fort Devens, Mass: THE CONTROVERSIAL POLICE DIRECTOR of Ne- wark, N.J. was cleared yesterday of charges that he deli- berately failed to crackdown on gambling. Superior Court Judge Samuel Larner ruled that because Police Director Dominick Spina's methods were different, "less efficient, less successful than those of other agencies, does not establish criminal non-feasance." I Spina's indictment last July followed a charge in the gov- ernor's riot commission that a "pervasive feeling of corrup- tion" existed in Newark. The commission investigated the 1967 racial rioting In New Jersey. A MEMPHIS STRIKE by 1,000 non-,professional workers at city-owned hospitals was settled yesterday. The strike was similar to the one by the city's sanitation workers which brought the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King to Memphis where he, was assassinated April 4. Like the, sanitation workers, most of the hospital em- ployes are black. Both strikes were characterized by num- erous marches on City Hall and boycotts of downtown stores. 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