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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1960
No. 31
John Kennedy Arrives at USC For Final West Coast Campaign
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By BARBARA EPSTEIN
Daily Trojan Feature Editor
While Sen. John F. Kennedy speaks here today, the major issues of this final heated week of the I960 presidential campaign enter their last partisan bid for voter support.
While many of the issues cry out openly, two, perhaps the decisive ones, ?re paddling strongly beneath the surface, explains Dr. Totton J. Anuerson, professor of political science.
“The covert issues are probably the cause of so much indecision on the part of the undeclared voter.” Dr. Anderson says.
Tlie big covert issue and per-har the most obvious one is the religion question brought into play by Senator Kennedy's Catholicism.
Bible Belt
“The problem of Kennedy’s religious belief seems to have become a major issi1* in the Bible Belt of the Midwest and the Deep South,” Dr. Anderson says.
The religious issue is “apparently neutralizing a natural inclination of the farmer to vote Democratic when he is in financial trouble,” the political scientist notes.
Sharing the spotlight beneath the campaign’s clamor is the question of the “comparative image'* each candidate is presenting to the public. Dr. Anderson continues.
Great Debates
“Although Richard Nixon has bad an overwhelmingly favorable press during the past seven years as Vice President, Kennedy was relatively unknown until the famous Great Debates. There is nn doubt but that the debates have shown that Kennedy is equally as resourceful, intelligent and capable as Nixon has appeared to be.” Dr. Anderson adds.
The key factor, however, is to evaluate the relative impression the two personalities are making upon the voter.
“It is very possible that this could readily be the deciding factor in the eampai'm,” Dr. Anderson predicts. “The public at large does not have a great deal of information upon which to evaluate such subiects as Que-mov and Matsu and the gro^s nationalxproduct, but the public has always shown an inst:nctive attraction for a political oerson-alitv in whom the people have conf dence to lead the country in time of crisis.”
Apart from relgion and “images “ the overt issues of the campaign. the pol t’cal scientist explains, fat| into foreisrn and (Continued on Fage ‘It
Twenty dollars in prize money is waiting for the best student-written editorials telling why either Senator Kennedy or Vice President Nixon should be the next President of the Fnited States.
The pri/.e winning editorials will be run side by side on page 1 of the Daily Trojan on Monday, Nov. 7, the day before election. All full-time FSC students are eligible to submit entries.
Editorials must not he more than 800 words and they must be submitted to the Daily Trojan offices. 428 SF, before noon tomorrow.
The winning editorials will be selected by political science nrofessor, Dr. Carl Q. Christ 4. Republican, and history professor, Dr. Russell L. Caldwell, Democrat.
April Decision Gave Kennedy Demo Position
Nixon Knocks Demo Policies In USC Talk
During the initial First-Time Voter Convocation, a little over two weeks ago. Vice President Richard M. Nixon lashed out at what h1 called Senator Kennedy's plans to spend the taxpayer’s money.
The GOP presidential eandi-d te assured listeners that his i domestic program would produce more and cost less than those of j his Democratic opponent.
Nixon explained that the gen-j eral goal or good ends of each party are basically the same, claiming the means of reaching these goals what distinguishes the two parties.
•Practical Progressive’ Terming himself a “practical ! progressive”—a man who is for progress but does not want it by turning problems over to the federal government—Nixon said he wanted to buUd “sound and well-consiructed bridges over the chasms which separate humanity from a better life.”
‘‘rrhe basic difference between the Democrats and the Republicans in the domestic f’eld is that the Democrats start with the federal government and work up to the people," Nixon said.
“I say start with the people and work up to the federal government.” the V’ice President de-cl"red.
Nixon charged that if we make the mistake of turning to the federal government we will weaken the fiber essent’al to our sun iv? in this world struggle.
It took the country seven months, but the Trojan Democratic Club had Sen. John F. Kennedy running for President as early as April.
The TDC members were part of a group who represented USC at the mock Democratic convention held at L.A. State College last spring as delegates from Massachusetts.
Kennedy was nominated early in the mock convention by the USC Demos, and it was only after a pitched battle that the nomination went to A d 1 a i Stevenson.
Described in newspaper accounts as “a determined USC delegation.” the TDC members fought for Kennedy until the third ballot. The Massachusetts Senator gained the number 2 spot on the ticket by a unanimous vote of the delegates at the mock convention.
Election Worker Since the Senator’s nomination at the actual convention last July, TDC members have worked just as strongly for his election.
TDC President Larry Young, who is presently directing Democratic activities from a hospital bed, reports that the club has worked enthusiastically to get out the Kennedy vote.
“We have taken charge of 35 precincts surrounding the university and expect a 70 per cent Democratic majority in these areas,” the ailing Demo said, bounding Fp Cars Young, who took ill Sunday, and is undergoing tests in the infirmary, noted that TDC members have been rounding up cars to help voters to the polls on election day. The club is also distributing campaign literature in the area and preparing an airport welcome for the Democratic standard bearer.
The Trojan Democrats have also sponsored the i)n-campus j appearance of several top sneakers for Senator Kennedy. In re- | cent weeks. Councilwoman Rosa- j lind Wyman, Assemblyman Jesse Unruh. and Michigan's Gov. G. | Mennen Williams have spoken on campus for TDC.
A one-week membership drive ; held bv TDC in front of the Student Union netted 250 new members fo’- the Democratic club. Women’s Division A new feature this year is the addition of a women’s division to TDC. Headed by chairwoman Pam Booth, the women remain active in the USC chanter of the Kennedy Girls and will be available as babysitters for voters’ children on election day.
The w omen's division has sponsored a series of talks on the role of women in politics.
DEMOCRATIC HOPEFUL-Sen. John F. Kennedy swings into his final week cf campaigning today with his appearance before
USC first-time voters. The Massachusetts Senator has criss-crossed the United States numerous times in a bid for voter support.
Kennedy Travels OSd Trail To Reach Present Position
The campaign trail leading Sen. John F. Kennedy to the I USC campus today was being | blazed more than 50 years ago j in the local politics of New Eng-i land.
Growing up in the tradition-| steeped environment of historic ! Boston, young 'ennedy learned | political responsibility at the knees of his two grandfathers as well as from his own father,
| Joseph P. Kennedy, j John F. Fitzgerald, Kennedy’s j maternal grandfather, had been J mayor of Boston and served in ! the House of Representatives for I the same district Kennedy was
to renresent almost half a century later.
, The Senator’s paternal grandfather served in both houses of j the Massachusetts legislature. (While studying academics at Harvard, Kennedy was learning politics from his father, the ambassador to Great Britain from 1937 to 1941.
Kennedy started into politics on his own in 1946 when he was elected to the House of Representatives — the same year Vice President Nixon entered the body as a freshman representative from California.
Kennedy had been only recen*-
Jacks Jackie Combines Cultures
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J.irqueline B.>uvier Kennedy, the lovely young wife of presidential candidate Jehn F. Kennedy. is a rich blend cf the American and Frrneh cultures which are her heritage. She combines the independence of American women with the utter femininity of their Frcnch sister-;.
She hts tasted of the rush. C\ ipctiiinn and excitement of the bu-mc ■> world in <ine <tf its mo l challenging a^jiccts for a woman — the newspaper field. Yet. in her role as wife and mother she exemplifies the homemakev and family comforter whn h ii tv pic.dh Continental.
She differs conspicuou-h from the wife of Vice President Nix-5n. who is actively campaigning across t!ie n-tion. by maintaining her i-ole of wife and not p<>-'itiral “running mate." She feels t is much more important that
the views of her husband are heard by the public and prefers to remain at their Washington. DC., home during the campaign.
When asked if she has political views of her own, Mrs. Kennedy replies that she holds the same political convictions as her Massachusetts senator husband. ‘But, I think he can explain them better than I can,” she adds.
So while Jackie Kennedy fully agrees with her husband in the political sccnc, she refrains from making public statements and has remained out of the press’ eye to a great extent.
A vivid brunette with striking, liold features hi-hh-i led by :aige, wide-set dark eye», Jackie Kennedy i> noted for her beauty, for her Parisienne-like tastes in highly fashionable clothes and for her intentional avoidance" of the public spotlight.
However, she does entertain and sponsor teas and receptions
for political figures.
While she has made a few television and public appearances and writes a small column, "Campaign Wife,” for her husband’s campaign, her first interests are the happiness and welfare of her youthful husband and their two and one-half-year-old daughter Caroline.
The Kennedvs are expecting another child early in December. Earlier, in 1954, Jackie suffered a miscarriage, and two years later, in 1956, the couple lost another baby.
But before assuming the position of wife of a young Massachusetts senatorial hopeful in Sept 1953, Mile. Bouvier averted her independence, business talents and creative ability as "inquiring camera girl” on the Washington Times-Herald.
Earlier she had studied two years at Vassar, earning straight A s, then ventured abroad in her third year of college work to
I study at the Sorbonne in Paris. Returning to the United
■	States, she entered the joumal-i ism field as a senior at George [Washington University where j she also expressed interest in ! foreign service work.
The daughter of French ex-i traction parents, Mrs. Hugh D. 1 Auchincloss and the late John | V. Bouvier III, a Wall St. broker, Jackie spent her childhood in Manhattan at fashionable i Long Island’s East Hampton re-
■	sort. So, while Mrs. Kennedy j grew up in New York society.
| and sampled debutante balls and ! the sophistication of Manhattan j and Washington, D C., she still
maintains her “old fashioned” j v iew of the duties of a wife.
When Jackie married Kennedy in 1953, she joined the distaff | side of another famous New England family, the Joseph Ken-nedys of Boston.
John F. Kennedy is one of nitre cluldren; he has fu^r sisters
(another died in a plane accident), and two brothers (one other died in World War II).
Brothers Ted and Bobby (his campaign manager) and his sis-j ters Eunice, Jean and Fatricia are actively campaigning for their Democratic candidate brother.
And perhaps it is this wide [ enthusiastic family backing by the other Kennedys lhat frees Jackie to be the kind of wife and mother she wants to be.
She is a symbol of the modern homemaker of America and the devoted wife. Mrs. Kennedy and her family attend Mass at Holy i Trinity Chiuch.
It has been suggested that if Kennedy wins the Nov. 8 election, Jackie will be among the loveliest first ladies of ihe land.
: And one can be sure that she sincerely hopes that little Caro-i line and the new Kennedy baby will have a chance to live in the White House.
ly retire«* by the Navy when he began campaigning for the House. Fighting in the South Pacific during World War II. ne was decorated twice for “his courage, endurance and excellent leadership.”
In the House, the freshman congressman distinguished himself as a supporter of the labor movement at a time when anti-labor sentiment was prevalent in Congress.
Voted one of the most outstanding young men in America by the National Junior Chamber of Commerce. Kennedy remained ! in the House for three terms.
In 1952, the seasoned Massa-i chusetts repre entative challenged incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge for the United States Senate and defeated the popular Re-publ can bv 70,000 votes — be-| coming the only Democrat in his ! state to resist the Eisenhower sweep.
Senator Kennedy, only the j third Democrat from his state | ever to hold that title, was re- l elected to the Senate in 1958 with the largest margin ever accorded j any candidate of either party j for any office in the history of j Massachusetts — 870.000 votes. ) In his victorious campaign, Ken- | nedv carried every city and ■ conntv in the state.
Demo Candidate To Speak Today
By JOE SALTZMAN Daily Trojan Editor
First-time voters with seven days left to decide which candidate should run the country, will listen to what j Sen. John F. Kennedy has to say when he appears on campus today at 10:30 a.m.
Speaking to an estimated crowd of 10.000 first-time voters from 13 Southland campuses, the Democratic presidential candidate will deliver “his first major campaign address in the West” in Alumni Memorial Park for the second and last First-Time Voter Convocation.
Vice President Richard Nixon initiated the convocation series on Oct. 14 when he told the students why they should elect a Republican president.
Senator Kennedy will arrive on the campus by motorcade from Beverly Hills at 10:30. He will be accompanied by Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, Sen. Clair Elngle, Attorney General Stanley Mosk and Mrs. Patricia Kennedy Lawford, his sister.
Classes have been cancelled from 9 a.m. to 1! a.m. so that the entire student body, faculty and administration can attend the event in front of Doheny Library.
His first appearance in the Southland will be televis-vised live by KNXT-TV and taped by KTLA-TV for later telecasts. KUSC-TV will provide local coverage in 231 AHF.
Bill Steigerwalt, ASSC president, has invited 27 Southland universities and colleges to send students to the First-Time Voter Convocation.
Senator Kennedy will deliver a brief speech to the first-time voters. He will then answer six questions from the student body which have been selected as the most vital and pressing issues concerning college youth of America.
Steigerwalt will pose the questions for the Democratic nominee.
The official ceremonies will begin at 8:30 a.m. when the Trojan Symphonic Band, under the direction of William Schaefer, presents a concert.
At 9 a.m., the NROTC and AFROTC units will march into place, presenting the colors. After the official party arrives on the platform, the national anthem will be sung, and Dr. John Cantelcn, USC chaplain, will deliver the invocation. President Topping will introduce the Democratic nominee.
More than 70 traveling newspapermen and photographers will arrive with the Senator's party, and the local press is expected to appear in equally large numbers.
Each reporter will be given a kit especially prepared by the USC News Bureau. The kit will include facts about the university, a map of the campus, a copy of the platform seating arrangement, the program highlights and a copy of this Daily Trojan.
While the Democratic nominee is on campus, the University Pclice Department—six men plus Chief Victor E. Sergeant—will work with the secret service men and the Los Angeles Police to guard entrances, check identification and passes and regulate crowds.
Tne First-Time Veter Convocations are being held especially for all young people who will cast their first ballots this year, President Topping said.
“In a critical presidential election year such as this one, USC is willing and anxious to bring to its campus classroom both candidates,” he added.
“We want to Introduce these candidates to the thousands of young people who will be going to the polls for the first time this year,” he added.
The president said that the first-time voter, after hearing both Vice President Nixon and Senator Kennedy, will be better able to answer the important question, “For whom shall I cast my first presidential bailot?”
EDITORIAL
Kennedy was brought into the national spotlight in 1956 when hp narrowly missed beating favorite Estes Kefauver for the Democratic vice presidential nomination. He became a prominently-mentioned choice for th/’ 1960 Presidential nomination ar-h • Stevenson’s <k*feat in 1956.
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Kennedy Must Give High Level Speech
When Sen. John F. Kennedy speaks on campus today, he will have a definite advantage over Vice President Richard Nixon. If he has heard of the Republican nominee’s convocation speech and of the student’s reaction to that speech, he knows two things:
1.	A presidential candidate, no matter how popular or right he may be, cannot “talk down” to a university audience and get away with it. The students will speak up and criticize this type of address.
2.	A presidential candidate who is speaking before a university audience cannot try to give two speeches at the same time. He cannot speak to the students ana to a national audience and win both audiences.
A university audience, as we have pointed out before, wants to learn about the issues and a candidates by squarely looking the facts in the face. It wants to know what the candidate’s platform is and how he plans to implement that platform. It will nut listen to anything less.
When Senator Kennedy speaks to the student body today we hope that he will have profited from Vice President Nixon’s university experience and "speak up” to his audience; and we hope that he will speak directly to the student audience.
Only by dcing this, will he be able to capture the attention and respect of both Republican and Democratic first-time voters alike.
—¡V.K.S.