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books - page four
profiles - page five
January 23, 1977

Number 16



Carter
By JEFF RISTINE
WASHINGTON - He had prom-
ised us "a People's Inaugural,"
daring us to contrast images of
morning coats and top hats and
fancy balls and a stuffy regal
atmosphere with a celebration
somewhat more participatory, as
comfortable as a year-old pair of
blue jeans. It would be an event
the entire nation could enjoy.
And it was easy to sneer with
a sarcastic "Sure .", because
promises had been broken so many
times before. We knew it was too
easy for chief executives to fall in
love with the trappings -of presi-
dential power. A "People's Inaugu-
ral," indeed.
So how come it didn't surprise
Jeff Ristine is the Daily's Managing
Editor.

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inaugura tiOii:
anyone when that's exactly what ple's Inaugural, it was the people
it turned out to be? - the Washingtonians and the vis-
Jimmy Carter did all he could itors - who really made it so. Ev-
to help make the occasion infor- eryone pitched in, in their own
mal. The 350,000 persons along the way, to make the gala affair a
Inaugural parade route didn't mind roaring success.
their frozen feet and chapped lips For a half-dozen soldiers, that
as soon as the word passed brisk- meant working on Pennsylvania
ly through the crowd: "He's com- Avenue in the dead of a frigid
ing!", and, a split second later, night, breaking up a thin sheet of
"He's walking! He's walking!" hazardous, slippery ice with jack-
They applauded, then cheered hammers. A day and a half later,
and waved and shouted, "Hi, Jim- thousands of marching feet and
my!" as if addressing one of their rolling wheels would move over the
friends. He waved back, turning his pavement unimpeded by the pre-
head every so often so that every- cipitation of an unusually harsh
one could see his familiar ear-to- winter.
ear smile for themselves. It was a The merchants, as might be ex-
symbolic kickoff for his wish to pected, struggled for a piece of the
stay close to his constituency, fir- action - but somehow the Carter-
ing them up for a honeymoon Mondale portraits displayed in the
neither side wants to end, window of Garfinckel's - Wash-
Even if he were the President, ington's slightly more expensive
however, he couldn't shape the in- equivalent of J.L. Hudson's-didn't
auguration alone. If it was a Peo- ' .hT

A 'eop'sparty'

1it in weir wih te on eopies 'in-
augural. They cost too much mon-
ey and, besides, the man whose
image they captured has reported-
ly said he doesn't like the idea of
his picture hanging around every-
where.
It was the happy old men and
their sons hawking gaudy buttons,,
posters and pennants which fit
better into the spirit of the trans-
fer of power. One teen-aged en-
trepreneur found himself a choice
spot outside the National Visitor
Center to display his wares and
cry: "Hey! Hey! Hey! Jimmy!" to
grab the attention of passersby. He
was doing very well.
A little further downtown an-
other young businessman was wav-
ing pendants with clear plastic
White Houses and inside each ex-
ecutive mansion was (what else?)
a peanut. "Worth two dollars," he
announced. "Yours for a dollar
fifty." By late afternoon, he still
had a lot left.
It was all pure junk, of course,
and some of it was simply ugly.
But there was a more honest
pleasure in wearing a two-inch,
green and white button with the
Carter family (sans Billy) on it
than there was in just admiring
a formal Carter portrait. The dis-
dain often felt toward such forms
of blatant capitalism took a holi-
day.
YOU COULD LOOK for the spirit
of the People's Inauguration
and find it almost everywhere -
even far below the streets of the
nation's capital on the rails of

"Metro," Washington's sleek new
subway. The disembodied voice of
one conductor on Inaugural Morn
cheerfully greeted his trainful of
passengers on their way to - the
Capitol Hill grounds and, just be-
fore they filed out of the subter-
ranean cars, drawled. "Don't eat
too many peanuts, y'all." It was
the 10,000th peanut joke of the
year and didn't make much sense,
but everyone laughed anyway.
On the way to the swearing-in
ceremonies on The Hill, across the
street from the Library of Congress
and the Supreme Court, everyone
- but everyone - was handed
their free "Inaugural Souvenir" by
the folks from the Washington Bi-
ble College. They were everywhere,
passing out small religious pamph-
lets which came uncannily close in
forecasting the theme of the Presi-
dent's Inaugural Address: "A New
Spirit, A New Commitment, A New
America.
The pamphlet used the inaug-
uration as little more than a
springboard to launch into a fa-
miliar Protestant line. "There is
good news in the midst of despair,"
it assured. "Hope is found, not in
an elected official, but in God's
provision." Recipients glanced at
the sermonettes for a few seconds,
then shoved them into their pock-
ets, unread.
See CARTER, Page 7

Daily Photos by ANDY FREEBERG

r.....Tom Hayden comes full circle --back into t
Democratic party, back to visit his alma mai
By ROBERT WALT became one of the founders of the Democratic Convention - marked on appeal of the decision, the son's control, We wer
Students for a Democratic Society, by bloody cracked skulls, and appelate court reversed the lower flip side of the Demo
--Mdrafting the Port Huron Statement clouds of tear gas - are still vivid courts ruling and freed the people vention, just 10,000 frus
IF YOU HAD passed Tom Hayden which became the backbone of that memories in Tom Hayden's head. now branded "radicals." ple."
on the street last week you organization's philosophy. And the arrest of anti-war pro-

he
Cer
e just the
cratic Con-
trated peo-

w

probably wouldn't have recognized
him especially if you had caught
a glimpse of one of the posters
announcing his arrival. The clean-
cut-image of an aspirant to con-
gress had been left in California.
Hayden might easily have been
mistaken for just another academ-
ic.
Clad in a sloppy blue wool coat
and wearing an Irish tweed hat
over a graying mop of hair, the
one-time leader of Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS), Chicago
Seven defendant, and recent can-
didate for the U.S. Senate in Cal-
ifornia, was back in town where.
he began his political career 20
years ago.
In 1957 Hayden came to the Uni-
versity from Royal Oak. The Michi-
gan Daily was Hayden's spring-
board to campus activism, and it's
not uncommon when thumbing
through old copies of The Daily to
find full pages of nothing but edi-
torial by Hayden. "We use to write

But although his early involve-
ment with SDS made him well-
known in the radical community,
Hayden did not gain wide notice
until the anti-war movement came
into full swing.
The protests outside the 1968

testors which ensued resulted in
one of this nation's most famous
trials, in which the defendants,
including Tom Hayden became
known as the Chicago' Seven.
The trial ended with guilty con-
victions for all the accused. But

Catapulted into a leadership po-
sition with the anti-war move-
ment, Hayden continued fighting
for peace in Indochina, also pub-'
lishing four books between the time
of his release and the end of the
war.
Hayden had left the Detroit
area in 1963. After the end of the
Vietnam war, he remained in Cali-
fornia, living in relative obscurity,.
a radical remnant of a violent era
in American history. But he had
come too far and was too ambiti-
ous to be left sitting on a shelf
gathering dust. In 1976 Hayden ran
for the U.S. Senate in California,
challenging incumbent Democrat
John Tunney. He received 1.2 mil-
lion votes in his bid for the Demo-
cratic nomination, but was sound-
ly defeated by .Tunney who went
on to lose to Republican S. I.
Hayakawa.
Hayden feels that the Chicago
Seven Trial could have been one
of the reasons he didn't win the

LTHOUGH HAYDEN is now af-
filiated with the Democratic
Party, he sincerely believes he
hasn't sold out to anybody. In-
stead he says he has formed a
"grassroots movement" with the
aim of improving the quality of
life for all Americans.
The emphasis of his senate cam-
paign was on a policy of "economic
democracy" - an economic system
which 'combines the market incen-
tives of free enterprise with indus-,
tries that are individually control-
led by all the people who work in
them. It's a progressive philosophy,
yes, but .one which falls short of
anything Trotsky would ever have
endorsed.

But Hayden feels that it's a phil-
osophy which can be implemented.
"Economic democracy is evolution-
ary," says Hayden. "It is by no
means a blueprint; it is by no
other systems fall apart."
This year's politics leave Hay-

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