 It's time for the Lawn Jean Chronoscope, a television journal of the important issues of the hour brought to you every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, a presentation of the Lawn Jean Wittner Watch Company, maker of Lawn Jean, the world's most honored watch, and Wittner, distinguished companion to the world-honored Lawn Jean. Good evening. This is Frank Knight. May I introduce our co-editors for this edition of the Lawn Jean Chronoscope? They are CBS News Correspondents Larry Lasser and Winston Bridette. Our distinguished guest for this evening is the Honorable Thomas H. Kiekel, United States Senator from California. The fact that the Republicans are going to hold their presidential nominating convention in San Francisco next year certainly underscores what most of us suspected, that the state of California is beginning to outshine most of the East in political importance. Senator Kiekel, the state of California is not only important politically, but it's interesting politically. We ask you just where you stand in these recurrent arguments between your senior senator, Mr. Noland, and the president on questions like the defense of the offshore islands from China? Yes, let me say this to you. First of all, I believe that the overwhelming vote which the Congress of the United States gave to the Formosa Resolution indicates that the government and the people of the United States are completely in accord with the need for the islands of Formosa and the Pescadores to remain in the hands of free China. I think that's conceded to be the position of every military leader in this country from the president, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General MacArthur, and others. I voted for that resolution. That resolution clothes the president with such authority as he may deem appropriate to see that that island chain remains free of communist aggression. Now, so far as the intervening islands are concerned, in my judgment that constitutes a problem for the president under the Formosa Resolution. In other words, whether or not the islands of Komoi and Matsu should be protected by the military might of the United States is a question of tactics, of judgment, of decision by the president himself as to their importance with respect to the Formosa Resolution. The responsibility is the president's. That's where in my judgment it should be. That's where the people of this country would want it to be. He is the only person in the government of our country who is capable and qualified on the basis of understanding all the facts to make that decision. And so I shall approve both as a citizen and as a senator the decision which he makes if he is required to make it. In other words, without criticizing Senator Noland, do you back the president in his view? Yes, sir. That is my position exactly. Well, tell me, is there going to be a big fight in the San Francisco Convention halls next year over the question of who is going to be vice president? There is a lot of jucking for that position right now. Well, let me say this to you. Of course, first of all, in your question and the way you phrase it, I am sure you are assuming as I do that the president will be nominated again by the Republican National Convention. If that happens, as I believe it will, then I think it has been the traditional history of political conventions that the candidate for president pretty much indicates to the convention who he desires to have as his running mate. On that basis, it will then be the decision for President Eisenhower to make. Now, I would assume that the cordiality of the president and the vice president since they both came into office, the manner in which the president has delegated additional authority to Vice President Nixon, that the president probably would be minded to indicate the same choice in the next convention that he did in last. Well, Senator, why have the Republicans chosen San Francisco as the site for the convention next year? Well, of course, I would like to say first of all, as a good Californian, that I think it is recognition on the part of a great national political organization of the growing importance, not alone of California, but of Western America. California will have the second largest delegation at the convention, or at any rate, it will have the same strength as Pennsylvania does. California's vote in the next presidential election will be important. And I believe that is part of the reason why the convention went there. Now, there's one more reason, as I see it. In my judgment, the people of California are pretty generally in favor of the way in which our federal government has been handled these last two years. I'm not going to say they agree with everything that's come along, and I'm certainly not going to say it's unanimous. But I believe I can tell you that the state of California is a pro Eisenhower state, and I think that's another reason why the convention is being held there. Senator Kekel, you assume, nevertheless, that the vice presidential nominee is going to be a Californian, I take it? Yes, I think that's a pretty good assumption. Well, actually, to go back to the case of your senior senator, Senator Nolan, he said not long ago that he wasn't in favor of drafting a reluctant man to be president of the United States. And apparently he was referring to Eisenhower. Now, do you feel that Republicans can win without Eisenhower? I think the Republican candidate for president two years from now can make a very strong case to the American people on the basis of how our government is being conducted today and how it has been conducted these last two years. But the question I must add, I think, is a little academic because in my judgment, the American people want Dwight Eisenhower to continue as their leader, and I am sure, I don't know how you would define the word draft, but speaking for myself, I am sure that the Republicans of this nation will indicate very vigorously that they want Dwight Eisenhower to make the necessary sacrifice to continue for four more years shouldering what is a heavy burden on any man who inhabits the White House. Well, Senator, from what you say, I gather that you believe that President Eisenhower will not be a reluctant candidate, but a willing candidate to run again. I think this. Here is a man who has shouldered leadership for the last quarter of a century that has been tremendous. Military decisions that have been his have been the most onerous kind to bestow upon a man's shoulders. I don't know that we would begrudge the President a desire to live a few years in comparative peace, but he's a man that has run his life by duty and what duty requires of him, and I believe on that basis he would exceed again to what he felt was his duty and a call to that duty by the people of this country. Well, Senator Keke, there seems to be some doubt in the mind of the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Noland. Now, do you think that Senator Noland is a candidate then for President? I don't think that Bill Noland is a candidate for President in the sense that he is opposing Dwight Eisenhower, and let me say this, because Bill Noland is my friend, and Bill and I have worked together in the Senate, and I say that in spite of the fact that I have disagreed with him on a number of occasions. Bill Noland has helped in the Senate to write into law a great portion of the recommendations of the President. So on that basis, no, I do not want to say because I do not believe that Senator Noland is a candidate for the presidency in the sense that he's opposing the President of the United States. Senator Kekel, the California Sun may be outshining the East politically, but how about figuratively? What are you people doing out there about all this smog we hear about? Well, that's a very good question. So far as air pollution is concerned, it has ceased to be a problem for the people of the city of Los Angeles alone. You here in New York a year or so ago ran into a day or so of what the local newspaper is called SMASE, and across this country, particularly in the populated areas, you have had considerable air pollution. That has been a subject attacked pretty much by local government. I've interested myself in it in Washington, and have introduced legislation along with my colleague and the two senators from Pennsylvania to authorize the federal agencies, which the appropriate federal agencies, the Department of Health Education and Welfare, Commerce and Interior, to utilize their scientific research and tackle the problem of air pollution on a federal level to supplement the inquiry scientifically that is now going on by local government. And I want to tell you that just in the last two or three days as a result of a meeting with members of the several agencies, I look forward to that legislation passing. The President observed the problem when he spoke to the Congress in his State of the Union message, so that there is a national aspect to this question of air pollution. In other words, the climate of California isn't changing, but you're making all that smoke out there yourself. Thank you very much, Senator Kekela of California. 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