THE CAMPAIGN: The Confrontation of the Two Americas

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and I got very excited. Now we're [he and his wife] active in the ecology movement." Benway favors busing: "I want my kids exposed to blacks, and to poor blacks. I think it would be nothing but good." But the basis of his support for McGovern is Benway's commitment to "total nonviolence." Says he: "Kids with guns aren't allowed in our yard. We're trying to stress that we feel killing is bad." He sees an ethic of militarism in Nixon: "We're supposedly a democracy, and yet we're approaching an authoritarian state here."

>Samuel Koffler, 66, is a dapper Chicago importer who grew up in a Jewish enclave of Harlem. He has donated $1,000 to the McGovern campaign and plans to give more. "What concerns me," he says, "is that Nixon and his Government treat us as chattels, as if this country were their own special province and they lead us to do what is right for them. We are spending $80 billion a year on defense, and frankly I don't feel any safer." The specifics of McGovern's proposals don't concern Koffler. "I've learned not to pay attention to campaign oratory," he explains. "My feeling is only that McGovern is to be trusted. To me, McGovern represents the good, solid, wholesome America around which our traditions were built. Rather than putting billions into destroying Viet Nam, think what a wonderful country this would be if we invested the same amount into jobs and hospitals and housing."

> Harold Willens, 58, calls himself "a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist." A wealthy Los Angeles realtor, he started out in utter poverty. "McGovern," says Willens, "is a man whose concerns are deeply human and deeply moral. As things are, we are putting our money where our myths are—like the myth of the domino theory—and we napalm little children and contravene the ideals for which this country was founded. We have lost our soul in Indochina, and this has created a fantastic crisis of confidence. People have lost faith in their Government, and the economy depends on confidence in our democracy." Nixon, says Willens, "is looking at the world through a rear-view mirror. Meantime these devastating problems are creeping up on us. We need leadership that's interested in the country and the world rather than its own hang-ups—cliches like not being the first President to lose a war." Nor is Willens concerned that McGovern's tax policies would ruin his own fortune. "We will get what we pay for," he says. "Not an extra mink coat for Mrs. Willens, but more stability and the survival of the system that I love and that has worked for me. We must share in order to keep."

> Golfrey Connally, 53, is a liberal economics professor at Texas' San Antonio College. He is also the younger brother of former Treasury Secretary John Connally, who now heads Democrats for Nixon. Golfrey and Brother John do not see eye to eye on the presidential campaign. "Nixon," says Golfrey Connally, "is a master of the art of manipulation—equating patriotism with support of his policies. By implication, critics are subversives." Nixon understands the public fear of dramatic change, says Golfrey Connally, "but there is no alternative to coming to grips with the complex issues.