• • CBS Correspondent Highlights F~ll 'American Studies- Series Robert Pierpoint, Whit~. House correspondent for the Colu_mbia Broadcasting System! will speak ~t a presentation October 2. sponsored by the American Studies-.l'rogram. The program will be held m the Harding College Main Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. As -CBS White House ~orrespondent since 1957, ·Pierpoint has traveled more than one million miles with Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson ·and Richard Nixon. He has been an eye witness to every major national and international event from the 1960 Paris Summitt Con– ference with Eisenhower and President Kennedy's. assassination to current domestic and international happenings. An honor graduate in economics from the University - of . Redlands, Pierpoint was a freelance broadcaster in Stockholm, before joining CBS in 1949. He covered the Korean War and was Far East Bureau chief for CBS before being appointed White House correspondent. Pierpoint's presentation will be one of a series of nationally known speakers who will be brought to the Harding campus ,·this ·year. -- Other speakers already- ·confirmed include Dr. ·Jack Evans,· president· of Southwestern Christian College in Terrell, Tex., Sept 18, - and Bob Bleiberg, editor of Barron '·s l'fational Business - and Financial Weekly, Sept 22. On Sept. 23, Dr. Max Rafferty, a rioted educator, will speak at the Harding campus in Memphis. t ! - By WAYNE JOHDAt\' backward and roll the clock . Of the Gazette Staff ' -~ back to the 3C-s or even the 20s. SEARCY - ;t\.rkanS'as Senator And I personally don't think ?ale Bumpers c~ances ?f gam- lhat's p-ossible." ;_~~-~ t_he ~en:ocratJc ptcs!dentwl He said the two recent at– nommahon m 1976 are· slinimer tempts to assassinate 1Ir. Ford than_ even a dark horse's, ac- had caused the president to re– cotdmg to Ro~rt Pierpoint, sLnct his a.-~cessibility to voters CBS News White House corre- and l1ad caused the Secret Serv– spondent. icc to beef up its bodyguard Bumpers has been mentioned force along \Yith other police in some p-olitical circles. as beinu agencies that provide security a compromise Democratic can~ during Mr. Ford's trips. odidat·e if the 1976 convention - "The president. - and I'm ·caru1ot ·agree ·(m any of the an· happy to ~'ay. this - -has ~ut nounced c.andidate,s. ?own on the 1clea of plungl!Jg Pierpoint, who has covered ·;,nto ~rowels,'' Pierpoint said. the White House for CBS since .Th~,t s a very dangerous srtua1957, said here Thursday· "I twn. .think that we've "ot so n{any · · · presidential candid~tes that he's · 'Nuts A;e Coming got to stand in line. Since he :has Out of Woodwork' not yet announced and there are _ He said assassination at– a great_ many other~ who have, tempts appear to run in cycles that thts probably Is not Dale and cunently "All of the nuts :Bu,mpers_' ye.~r, or next year arc coming out of the woodwork 1s-n t hrs y-ear. r~ • ". All of us who cover the · Pierpoint, who was here to president think it's a good time :speak .at Hardin1g College about for the president to cool it. But h.r·s -expericnces with five presi- 1. ~ere .is no perfect answer." I' dents made the remarks .about Pwrpomt was asked whether 'Bum;crs at a dinner meeting ~Ir. F?rd was a liberal or a con- . 'Defore his s•pc•ech. He· also an· s.~rv~trv~. He re;ponded,. "He \1)wcred questions about Reprc- Cl!_dn t rntroduce~ any smglc . St~.tati\'e Wilbur D. .-Mills of J;_Icce of new lcc:Jshl!On the 20 ;Kensett and Presid:ent Ford. f - , On Bumpers, he ,s.aid the ~ , state's junior senator hadn't ~ been on the national scene long .\enough to he recogniz-ed -by the 'average voter in other states. :He said if voters in other states 1were as·ked "what do you think ; aoout Dale Bumpers, they'd ~say, 'Dale Who'?" I :'In the Future lie May Well Be' • P i e r p o i n t said Bumpers :·wasn't in the presidential -cate- .;., -.gory at this time, ''although in i i-i:, :the future he may v-ery well . be" · . f: "As far as Wilbur Mills is con- • ;cemea, my feeling is that there 'are a great many people who feel sorry for ?.Ir. Mills and wish all of this hadn't happened," ;I'ierpoint said. ' Moills was removed from the :-chairmanship of the House's •power-ful Ways ·and Means Com– 'mitt€e during his well publiciz,ed lbou:t w~th alcoholism ahd his as-· :sociation . with Fanne Foxe, a !South .4merican stripper who has said she loved the congress– ]n;on and hac, wrilccn a lJC :i t– sellin;:; book about their affair. During a question and answer sc~;sion after dinner, Pierpoint sairl h;:; Liggcslcrilicism of fiir. l'urr~L f:l.nd ~~is p,;lLcy aclvi;;.-:rs was "that they don't seem to hav(' iimovativc :ll1.'\\'crs to the proL,l·.:n15 lh<l~ this ccL!nt ry )faces. They seem to want to look ROBERT PIERPOINT years that he was in Congress. That would indicate to me that he doesn't have many new ideas • " ~-He probably likes the way things have been in the past. Tl1at means , in my view, he is fairly conservath·c." 1-Ic P .. l~o to~d the dir : I~~~:: C 1 .lldi· ence, which ill'cludcd · some of Harding's strongest " financial supporters, that reportcro wer– en't supposed to tell "what you want. to hear, but :t·c: l, ·,:th that they· see in the events lhcy re– port. ":\Ir. Fod i:< a I'C i·~- <lec~nt, fine human b~ing," Pierpoint said. "And I wonld also say - allows us to have a diaJogue and I think he would be in per- with t!1esc people, 1vhether we feet agreement with this- he is agree \iilh them or not," Pier– not very much of an intellectual point said. "It was probably human being. He was never one only Rich a r t1 Nixor1 who who particularly ·liked to stay could've opened that dialogue. U home in his room an1 reaci a a Dc:-nocrat had tried to do· it, position paper." he might have been h:ammer<'d He also said tha·t he thought out of office as being pro-Com– l>Ir. Ford's current campaign to muni.st. :1\obody could make ilia! gather support for next year's charge against Richard Nixon.' presid-ential race wasn't sue- However, during the five·plus cceding because "he's preach- years that Nixon was in office, ing to the alread.y converted. He .the "White House became ;;_ for– tells everyone what they want to ,tress,," Pierpoint said. "Richa•rd hear. He's not convincing any Nixon saw and trusted fewer ind£pendents and Democ:ra.ts.'' '· and fewer P,eaple the long.er he ·stayed in office.'' Intimate Episodes Recitedby Speaker Nixon ,Aides Cited During his speech to about 1,- For Situation 000 persons a.t Harding, Pier- Pierpont said this was "pa;·t– p-oint told the audience about ly the result" of efforts by Nix– several intimate episodes with on's two chief aides, H. R. (Bob) ihe presid£nts he had covered Haldeman_ and John D. Ehr– and_ his impression of thcr!l as J ichman. He s~aid Haldeman and prcs~dent? and a_s hun:an bemgs. ,Ehrlichman successfully shut _Pwrportll!t sard Rrcha:rd IlL oil accessibility to the president Nrxo~ ha? made sevNal historic and gained power. "Proximity contnbutwns to the country's to power is power itself'' he welfare despite his personal .aid. ' shortcomings and u l t i m a t e He s1aid Nixon allowed Halde– downfa·ll. He mentioned Nixon's man and Ehrlichman to cut out negotiations with llie Russians the outside world. and Chinese, revenue sharing "They played on his basic hos– and his and Secretary of State tility to pel)ple," Pierpoint s:aid. Henry A. Kissinger's mostly "Richard Nixon never felt com· successful attempts to settle the fortable with people and thev war in th€"11-riddle East. played on his tcnde~,cy toward "I think he <V,.·i!l receive high ·paranoia, until - in my view– marks in history for opening the they he1ped him destroy him– path to Moscow a-nd Peking -that self." Gazette Sfatr XE:'W~ Seiyipe SEARCY - Robcr.t Pierpcint, White House C<Hl'CSp0ndent for the Columbia Eroad-2a:sdng Sys– tem, v:ill socak at 7:30p.m. Oc· · •tober 2 in the Main Auditoriu,m at JiardJnR.Cilllc_ge here as part of the,.school's Ani-e,rkan Studi'es Progr.am lec-ture s·eries. Pierpoint ·has been a CBS W h i t c Hous-e corresp-ond-ent since 19.'>1 and 00vercd tl1c aci– minis.trations of the ].ate Pn;si– dents Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and former President Richard l\f. Nixon. He wa·s a freelance broadcaster at Stod:– holm, Sweden, before joining CBS in 1949 and wa·s· Far East bureau chief for the network be– fore !being <lppointcd ·1o the White House p0sit,ion. Dr. Billy Ray Cox, director_of t-he-"1\mer1ca-n Studios P<rogram, said reserved seat .tic-kets-wo-uld be iss.ued. For inform-ation, con– ta-ct Dr. Cox at the -college. · ' ... • f
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