Nixon reverses himself on wage-price controls
by Norma Milligan
Newsweek Feature Service
WASHINGTON-When
President Richard Nixon talks
about wage-price freezes, he
talks from experience. He's
been there before.
It was January 1942, and
there was another period of
inflation and another price
freeze, when Dick and Pat
Nixon moved out of their
garage apartment in Whittier,
Calif., and took their first long
train-ride to Washington, D.C.
Vast new governmental
bureaucracies were forming all
around the city and lawyers
were in demand, expecially
young lawyers who couldn't
command large salaries. The
28-year-old Nixon walked into
the newly created Office of
Price Administration and asked
for a job. He was interviewed
by Thomas I. Emerson, now a
law professor at Yale.
"DICK NIXON came into
my office without warning,"
Emerson now recalls. "He just
walked in and said he had
come to Washington to get into
the war effort. I found he had
a very good record at Duke and
a good law practice in Whittier.
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there."
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"The offices were crowded
and very hot in the summer,"
Thomas E. Harris, Nixon's first
boss at OPA. "Out in the bays
where Nixon was, there was no
air-conditioning and the
temperature ran around 110."
Harris is now general
counsel of the AFL-CIO and
more or less on the other side
of the political spectrum from
his former employe.
Understandably, he takes a dim
view of Nixon's unhappiness
with price controls.
"NIXON COULDN'T have
worked on price control for
more than a week or two-and
that experience was at a fairly
low level-before he was
transfered to work on tire
rationing. So when he refers to
his experience at OPA on price
control, he's giving you the old
stuff. As an exceedingly junior
lawyer, he would never have
been in an important
conference on prices."
Though Harris was never
close to Nixon, he remembers
him as "conscientious,
hard-working, rather shy and
self-effacing. I think he was
probably considerably less
sophisticated than a good deal
of the staff."
For his own part, Nixon felt
something of an outsider
among the largely liberal OPA
staffers. In later years, he
spoke often of his
"disillusionment" with
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the "mediocrity of so many
civil servants," and he
disapproved strongly of "the
remnants of the old, violent
New Deal crowd."
BUT THERE WERE a few
kindred souls in the OPA and
Nixon found companionship.
He was particularly close to J.
Paul Marshall, a Yale law
graduate who is now with the
American Association of
Railroads and a director of the
Washington Redskins pro
football team.
"We were young lawyers,
the same age and probably the
only two who were so-called
conservatives," Marshall
remembers. "A number of the
others at the time were quite
far to the left, so we had a
closer natural bond."
Nixon stayed half a year at
OPA, got several advancements
and was making nearly $6,000
when he left to join the Navy.
Subsequently, and in speech
after speech, he harked back to
the experience as all the proof
he needed that controls do not
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work. On October, 17, 1969,
for example, he told a
nationwide television audience:
"My own first job in
government was with the old
OPA, and from personal
experience let me say this:
wage and pric; controls are bad
for business, bad for the
workingman and bad for the
consumer. . . and I will not
take the nation down that
road."
BUT TIMES CHANGE and
so, now and then, do the
strongest-held opinions. People
change, too, and few who
knew Dick Nixon in 1941
could have foreseen his rise.
"We had quite a bright
crew, and he was not exactly a
shining light," says Ann L.
Diamond, another OPA veteran
who now practices law in San
Rafael, Calif. "But he was very
dependable and hard-working,
and I must admit that he didn't
try to fit into the mold by
pretending to be a New
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Mrs. Diamond was bowled
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