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he lamented the
government's threat "to jail a
group of eccentric apricot pit
purveyors who had exaggerated
the benefits of their health claims."
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"As children grow older, their
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topic of his Wednesday night
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conference where he predicted a
Ford-Carter confrontation in
November, Wednesday night
Kilpatrick told an estimated crowd
of 1,500 that he thinks the
Democratic convention will be
deadlocked and Sen. Hubert H.
Humphrey, D-Minn. will emerge,
from the smoke-filled room.
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He said he didn't need to be
"riding and speaking on the friedchicken
circuit"--but he said he
enjoyed the opportunity to sing the
praises of Washington, "a
beautiful capital and the center of
the greatest power in the world."
While praising John Rivers, head
of the USC Speakers Bureau, he
noted how unique his conservative
in?iuuua me un many college
campuses. "I'm the token conservative,
usually sandwiched
between Dick Gregory and Jane
Fonda." He said his position is
often described as a "troglodyte, to
the right of Genghis Khan and
south of John C. Calhoun."
Nicolas Von Hoffman, his former
sparring partner on the CBS "60
Minutes, Point Counterpoint"
segment, was called an old friend
who disdained liberals, considering
himself an anarchist. He
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his "big mouth, by his own admission,
got him fired." He expanded
on his seeming
philosophical kinship with Hoffman
by pointing out how differences
between manv on CaDitol Hill "are
largely semantic."
The diminutive, silver-haired
author and columnist, resplendent
in sunburned-face and crimson
blazer, "pulled out all the stops"
when he started naming assets and
liabilities of various and sundry
presidential candidates.
He noted Ronald Reagan's
"impossible dream," but said
Gerald Ford will get the
nomination. On the Democratic
side he seemed to imply that
Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter was a
bigger actor than Reagan.
"He looks like a guitar player,"
Kilpatrick said, adding however,
that he is the "first credible
Southerner in a long, long time.
He's cool under fire and has a
marvelous ability to smile and talk
at the same time."
Humphrey, if elected, will be the
"second oldest president in U.S.
history," Kilpatrick said. He said
he believes the Democratic
nomination will settle down to a
two-man race and "I have a feeling
that 'the Hump' will get it."
The Irishman betrayed a certain
fondness for the candidate"who
never naa a prayer," Alabama
Gov. George Wallace-"I admire
that tough, wiry, indefatigable
person," Kilpatrick said. "Wallace
runs for president the way other
men go bowling." He will always
be a hero to the "little man,"
Kilpatrick stated, and his "send
'em a message" was popular with
those frustrated by Washington's
bureaucracy.
He also commented on: Henry
"Scoop" Jackson is billed as a
conservative, but, Kilpatrick said,
"he's a 100 per cent liberal, votes
that way." He said Jackson peaked
too soon "in May of 1972."
Fred Harris--"The only candidate
to give an honest answer to
an honest question."
Morris Udall~"A Mormon, real
tall, and the only liberal left."
Kilpatrick said under
questioning that he believes there's
still a northern bias toward
southern presidential candidates, a
result of Appomattoxand the civil
rights era. He said, however, that
changing population trends favor
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years" attitudes should soften.
The former newspaperman from
Virginia earlier had announced
that he brought greetings from his
home state, calling North Carolina,
"a veil of indifference between two
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his most effusive praise for
President Ford. "How's your
wife?"
"Compared to what?" was
Kilpatrick's vaudevillian style in
describing the United States'
economy under Ford's "go-slow"
policies. Compare America's inflation
with the rest of the world
and this country comes out
"smelling like a rose," he said.
Other selected comments included-praise
for Secretary of
State Henrv Kis?iino??f
demnation of Woodward and
Bernstein's latest Nixon book;
support for decriminalization of
marijuana laws; support for a
recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling
considered negative to
homosexuals and predictions on
the demise of the two-party system
in favor of multiple parties or no
parties. Also, "ethnic purity" is a
media event; the House and Senate
ethics committees "are full of
ethics for everybody but themselves,
and are overcome with
spasms of morality which smack of
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"Bo" Callaway "inquisition."
During the press conference held
earlier that afternoon Kilpatrick
had to be excused. CBS was on the
phone. They wanted his reply to
Shana Alexander for Sunday's "60
Minutes" show. Later that evening
he expressed dismay when he
learned that his lecture would be
the last to highlight the speakers
Bureau.
Head of the bureau, John Rivers,
told the audience before introducing
Kilpatrick that the
program "will not be returned next
semester due to a change of policy
wnicn 1 ao not agree with."
He thanked those "13,000 people
who had supported us with our
other speakers."
Rivers, who supported the
oponents of the new student body
president, doubted whether the
university will ever again have
national speakers of the caliber
they had this year. "It will be to the
detriment of the students that
(President Dave) Wilsford will not
support the speakers bureau." he
said.
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