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10/5/1960
Report
Nixon-Lodge Campaign Headquarters.
Summary of Opinions in the News.
Broadcast Report. 11 Pages.
47
7
11/20/1959
Report
Schedules 1-9 not including 5. Re:
Committees: Advisory, Political, Executive,
Public Relations, Women's, Membership,
Special Functions, Legal, Letters to the
Editor and Speakers Bureau. 10 Pages.
47
7
11/20/1959
Letter
From Peter Flanigan. Re: Memo and Exhibit
attached entitled New Yorkers for Nixon. 3
Pages.
47
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11/29/1959
Memo
Re: New Yorkers for Nixon. Duplicate copy
of memo and exhbit on 11/20/1959. Memo
and exhibit not scanned. 2 Pages.
47
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4/7/1961
Newsletter
Human Events Newsletter. Re: Did Biased
Reporters Cost Nixon the Election? Only
first page scanned. 4 pages.
47
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n.d.
Memo
Re: New name for "Vixens for Nixon"
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
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NIXON-LODGE CAMPAIGN HEADOUARTERS
SUMMARY OF OPINIONS IN THE NEWS
WEDNESDAY, 303 OCT. 5, 1960
Broadcast Report
Radio dwelt mainly on Nixon statements re cost of living, Kennedy, GOP
waste, several mention Christian Science Monitor endorsement. John Daly, ABC,
appears leaning GOP in discussion of budget surplus. Beatty says space conquest
cancels out U-2 problems. Van Horn off on sudden pro-Democratic kick. Edward
Morgan gloom and doom as usual, says Khrushchev doesn't think we have what it
takes. CBS, 8 AM, quotes Kennedy on one million out of work because of Nixon-
backed policies re depressed areas. NBC-TV, 6:45 PM, Kennedy, Southern Illinois,
SOF hard times. Brinkley on camera, brief mention Nixon activities. CBS, 8 AM,
silent Vice President and Mrs. Nixon with crowds, Johnson, SOF, small crowd.
Today Show, Blair says New Jersey GOP cheered by turnout, silent RN with Robinson,
hecklers rebuked. Blair says crowds bigger than Kennedy's. Comments Nixon has
new gloves off policy. Agronsky interview with Memphis Commercial Appeal editor
and Nashville Tennesseean. Commercial Appeal man predicts Republican victory.
Ladybird interviewed by Garroway, no special political overtones. WTOP radio-TV
editorial blasted House Rules Committee, said RN will be forced to change stand
if elected and he wants to get anything done. Rash finds bad news for GOP in
fiscal developments.
Coverage
Morning coverage, considering the competition with Nikita and the plane
accident, was for the most part front page for both candidates. Reporters traveling
with Sen. Kennedy, except for NYT and Balt. Sun treat him. gently so far as sparse-
nees of crowds was concerned. Weaver in the NYT pointed cut that the police esti-
mate of the Nixon crowd in Patterson, N. J., appeared low. Norton in the Balt. Sun
described the crowd at the West Orange armory as "the wildest, the noisiest and the
most unmanageable rally--in a friendly sort of way--that Nixon has experienced in
this campaign." So far as crowds went during the day, Norton said "There were
groups
waiting
all
along
the
route
but it couldn't be described as anything more
than a friendly reception. It was not a triumphal tour." Albright described the
crowds as good but said they generally fell below those of his opponent. Potter
described Kennedy's Indianapolis crowds as being the poorest of his campaign. Joseph
Hearst in the Chicago Tribune said Kennedy's Indianapolis speech was modeled after
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one FDR used in the 1932 campaign.
Editorials
RN
Endorsement
Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 4: "The Christian Science Monitor is an
independent newspaper. But we do not equate independence with neutrality
and so
in 1960 we have concluded that Vice President Nixon is best fitted to fulfill the grave
demands of the presidency
oth presidential candidates are vigorous, imaginative
and politically skilled. But one clearly surpasses the other in his preparation for
coping with world affairs
Mr. Kennedy
has gone so far as to say that organized
labor's aims are America's aims. Mr. Nixon has frankly told union workers that
he could not be for them in every situation because a President must put the interests
of all first.
Balt. Sun, Oct. 5: Evoking memories of the political conventions in July,
Mr. Nixon calls on Mr. Kennedy to say exactly where he agrees, and exactly where
he disagrees, with his party's platform. It is a good question. It is also a question
not likely to get any answer but a vague one. It is, further, a question that could
be asked as well of Mr. Nixon, with no likelihood of any but a vague answer
Political platforms are valuable exercises. The process of their making first exposes,
than as a rule reconciles, the diverse elements of a party. They are valuable also
as general statements of party philosophy: within them can be discovered, along with
much that's wooly, what a party fundamentally stands for. But as Mr. Nixon has
said and as Mr. Kennedy knows whether he says it or not, a platform is at most a
starting point. It is not platforms that win elections, but men; and it is not a plat-
form that sits in the President's chair in the White House. 11
Schenectady Union-Star, Oct. 1: "In the same week Schenectady has welcomed
both aspirants for the presidency
Vice President Nixon was greeted last night with
a degree of warmth and enthusiasm equivalent to that extended the day before to
Senator Kennedy
Neither Senator Kennedy nor Vice President Nixon said anything
new to the voters here. But at a time when the United Nations is the scene of so
much that is repugnant to a people so idealistic as Americans, Mr. Nixon had one
message that should continue to stick out no matter how tough the rough and tumble
campaigning may become
It was: 'The world struggle will be decided in the minds
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and hearts and souls of men, not in the struggle of arms or for superiority in econ-
omic strength
Faith in God and belief in the integrity of men must be a message
to be carried to the world by the next President of the United States
We must
strengthen the idealism of our country and its moral and spiritual values. We must
see America remain strong in its hearts, souls and beliefs. It is, we think, a
wonderful commentary on our nation that a candidate engaged in so bitter campaign
as that being waged by Senator Kennedy and Vice President Nixon could take time out
to put emphasis on idealism--which not very often is an ingredient of practical politics.
Richmond Times-Dispatch, Oct. 4: "To Virginians fed up with Mr. Khrushchev's
insults, directed at the Administration, and Mr. Kennedy's obligato of criticism,
Vice President Nixon's Capitol speech may have proved reassuring--that the country's
future is not as black as the other: two would have us believe. Here was no 'give
'em hell' Trumanade dealing in personalities. It was an earnest, factual comparison
of platforms, and in welcome contrast to the inhibited, amateurishly stage-managed
TV debate
Warmth and vigor lent emphasis to Mr. Nixon's logical analysis of
major issues
Mr. Nixon made it plain that he is not insensible to Southern resis-
tance (to civil rights). But he pointed out that the problem is not confined to the
South
Mr. Nixon, unlike Mr. Eisenhower
is familiar with the executive as well
as legislative functions in constitutional government. If elected he will not be able
to plead 'ignorance of the law' in extenuation--should he fail to live up to yesterday's
explicit pledge to abide by the constitutional interdict against aggrandizement of
federal powers
He reiterated what may become the GOP's most effective campaign
slogan: 'It's not Jack's money--but yours--they propose to spend.' Mr. Nixon stands
unashamed on his platform. That's more than can be said for Virginia Democrats
who ask us to vote for Kennedy."
Perhaps the best comment on RN's appearance in Richmond was the statement
of Kennedy's Virginia campaign chief that it is vital that the Democratic nominee
make a second appearance in that state before November 8.
WSJ, Oct. 5: "When the two political conventions had done their business, it
seemed clear to everyone that the Republican candidate was well ahead
But now,
get
so we hear, six will/you only five, either way. Mr. Gallup has. the two candidates
neck and neck, and Newsweek magazine's latest poll gives the Democratic ticket a
slight edge. We don't think it's too hard to see the reasons why
To be sure
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Senator Kennedy was at the beginning a less well-known person, less established in
the public eye as a man of leadership. More exposure has done much to alter this,
and almost surely any change had to be in his favor. Apparently some gentlemen in
Mr. Nixon's camp are taking comfort from the inevitability of this. But we suggest
that this should be small comfort to them. For something else has been happening
in this campaign more discouraging to Mr. Nixon's supporters and more heartening
for Mr. Kennedy's
Senator Kennedy has got himself a political product to sell.
It is by-the-bye that this is by now a somewhat tattered package. It is clear and
definite. And Mr. Kennedy is selling it with all the ardor and persistence of a
door-to-door salesman
Mr. Kennedy is having no truck with this notion that he
and Mr. Nixon 'share the same goals for America and differ only in means
The
desire for more Government intervention is a goal as well as a means. Thus Sen.
Kennedy sharpens, rather than dulls, the difference between himself and the Republi-
can candidate
Mr. Kennedy has learned a lesson from old-pro Harry Truman. H
does not wear kid gloves when he attacks the Eisenhower Administration, the Repub-
lican platform or Mr. Nixon's personal record. Like Mr. Truman, he is a scrappe
Meanwhile, Mr. Nixon goes about stating everything in muted tones. He puts in
appearances; he states in a general way that he differs from Senator Kennedy on the
role of Government; he recalls the virtues of the Eisenhower Administration. But
what is missing is that ardor which says to an audience, 'Here is what I. deeply
believe, and these things are vital to the country.' The product he offers in the
political market place all too often seems merely a pale imitation of the Democratic
product
All this
is wholly unnecessary. For in the freedom of the citizens fr.
a greater burden of taxes, from the frauds of inflation, from the oppressions of va
new Government schemes for managing our private lives
there is a political prod
of inestimable value. And if Mr. Nixon doubts that it is saleable, he might have a
look at the way
Mr. Goldwater is finding ardent customers out there on the same
hustings
Senator Kennedy has offered Mr. Nixon some fine targets, if only he
finds the will to shoot at them. There are at least two things of which the Americ
people are rightly fearful--inflation, and adventuring in foreign affairs. The conse
quences of the Democratic promises in terms of what they must inevitably do to th
people's money are there to be dramatized by any political leader of skill and ima
of the foreign affaire ideas of many of the Dema
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who talk of more adventuring all over the globe
We are well aware of the theory
that this is not the way for the Republicans to win an election. That the Republican
candidate, too, must be 'liberal,' that he must be above the turmoil; that his best
chance is to coast to victory on the coat-tails of the Eisenhower record and in the
hope that the voters will not swap experience for inexperience
But there is the
fact--Mr. - Nixon has slipped, Mr. Kennedy has gained. That is a practical matter
that ought to dispose any man to look. to his weapons, and to suggest to any Repub-
lican that he who forgets 1948 may be doomed to repeat it. If a leader does not
persuade people that he himself believes strongly in his cause, who will follow him?"
Paul Duke, in a piece on the editorial page of the WSJ, also comments on
RN's strategy and what he describes as the behind-the-scenes thinking on the matter.
Duke concludes "Undoubtedly Mr. Nixon will take an increasingly tougher tack as the
campaign progresses. The last few days have already seen several subtle changes in
his campaigning
But some pros doubt Mr. Nixon will ever return to the round-
house assaults of olden days."
Cedar Rapids Gazette, Sept. 19: 'We'll confine our observations to the vice-
president's unique approach to working out a farm program of his own, an approach
which he talked about informally before detailing 'Operation Consume'
Along with
many in the 25,000 audience who expressed opinions, we were pleasantly surprised to
hear about the farm problem from a man who openly admits he is a novice when it
come to agricultural matters. Usually it's the other way around
He expressed
a willingness and a desire to learn rather than a 'I have all the answers' attitude
that is too commonplace on the part of too many politicians
Ad libbing after his
formal remarks were finished, Nixon said what thousands of farmers and non-farmers
alike have been wanting to hear from a top politician for, lo, too many years. 'We
must not be inflexible on this farm situation with our side saying "only this is right"
(etc.).
This, we repeat, is what thousands of Americans have been waiting to hear.
Now, they'd like to see the words translated into action. 11
Davenport, Iowa, Daily Times, Sept. 19: "The country needed to be reminded
that the farmer is an asset, not a liability, and Vice President Nixon has done it.
Vigorously presenting his four-point farm program, Mr. Nixon courageously made it
plain that di sposal of the overhanging surplus cannot be done without cost
It is
true each of (his) proposals has been made at various times but it is impossible to
draft a formula to aid the farmer without drawing upon previous planning. In every
farm program there are drawbacks and ways must be found to minimize their effects.
There were sneers at Mr. Nixon's program from Democratic spokesmen on the
national level. That, of course, is a nonsensical way to treat any proposal seriously
put forth as a help to farmers. It should not be overlooked by farm families in this
great bread basket that any program which does not undertake to protect them against
growing Southern competition is sure to have a grave impact upon their future
Every Democrat, North and South elected to House and Senate contributes to the
fastening of Southern control upon Congress and that control means the Southern
farmer will draw the advantage in legislation."
Kennedy
John M. Cummings, Phila. Inquirer, Oct. 5: "In the words of a song hit in
'South Pacific, Sen. John F. Kennedy has washed that man right out of his hair.
The Democratic nominee
declared in St. Paul
he is not 'mad' at President
Eisenhower and is unlikely to fire criticism in the direction of the White House
From this it would appear that in his first political speech of the battle last week in
Chicago, the President scored a bullseye. For weeks the country has been told that
the Administration had been leading the country, even the world, in the direction of
disaster. Now we have it on the word of the chief spokesman of the malcontents that
Mr. Eisenhower and all his works are no longer issues. Senator Kennedy says his
quarrel is with Vice President Nixon
Since Mr. Nixon is as much a part of the
Administration as Ike himself, it is difficult to see how Senator Kennedy can avoid
one while slugging the other. 11
Joe Alsop finds Kennedy's speeches vastly more masculine than Adlai Stevenso
Alsop, now traveling with Kennedy, says In the Kennedy campaign safari, the buoyar
the optimism, the sense of being on a rising curve, are now SO strong that they are
all but tangible. 11 He comments at great length on the enthusiasm of the crowds whic
Kennedy has been attracting. With specific reference to Kennedy's speeches, he says
"The themes, by now, are all familiar
Underlying the publicized themes, however
there are other things that have received less attention. There is an intense sense
of this particular moment in history. There is a somber estimate of history's possi
ble movement. And there is a desperate urgency about the measures to assure a
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decent future. 'These are somber times,' he says, and there is no doubt he means
it. The very fact that he means it combines with his visible, almost overly visible,
confidence in his own power to find a safe way through. It is this combination that
moves the crowds, and makes the old women want to touch him.
Roscoe Drummond says the second debate should be better than the first for
two reasons: "(1) Because it will deal more with foreign policy (2) because both
(RN & JK) have been dealing in such large generalities that it has become nearly
impossible for the country to discover wherein the two really disagree
Nixon is
far too intelligent to believe everything is as snug and rosy for America and the
West as his speeches imply. If he doesn't begin speaking more candidly and more
realistically soon, he runs the risk of creating the impression that he doesn't grasp
the dangerous uncertainties around us
Kennedy is far too intelligent to believe that
American prestige and influence are falling apart all over the world
If he doesn't
begin soon' to expound his criticisms with greater precision and restraint, he runs
the risk of creating the impression that he would not deal with these problems with
precision and with restraint
Mr. Nixon has a difficult political problem. He must
defend the Eisenhower record and yet persuade the country that he is not blind to
what's gone wrong. He is doing the first very well but neglecting the second
Sen. Kennedy has his favorite over-simplification". When he is asked to document
his broad contention that American influence and prestige are graveling declining
around the world, he quickly cites the Congo, Cuba and the Japanese rioting
It
seems to me that here Mr. Kennedy is resting his argument very largely on what
D. W. Brogan has called 'the myth of American omnipotence. Drummond goes on
to say that Kennedy hasn't proved his case in this prestige matter and continues,
I am sure that Mr. Kennedy never considered it fair, or even rational, to blame
the Truman administration for the conquest of mainland China
or for the Communist
aggression against South Korea. Both candidates have a duty to put their views on
the whole range of foreign affairs more precisely and realistically. If one does so
and the other doesn't, he could well turn the voting in his direction.
David Lawrence: "Sen. Kennedy has promised that if elected
he will
'announce to the world a specific course of action to aid the restoration of freedom
in Poland and the captive nations
What does this promise mean? Will America
take forceful action to 'liberate' Poland and the other captive nations? In view of
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the vehement criticism launched by Democratic party speakers in the 1952
campaign
and continued ever since against. Eisenhower as well as Dulles, because they
spoke of 'peaceful liberation' and 'rolling back the Iron Curtain,' the question now
is whether the Democrats have forgiven the Republicans or whether the 'action'
which Sen. Kennedy promises is going to be subject to Republican attack on the
ground that, if elected President, he might drag the United States into a war
Sen. Kennedy is today saying the same thing as Gen. Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles
did in 1952
These are strong words, and yet will they now be misinterpreted to
imply that peaceful liberation' means something else? Two wrongs do not make a
single right. The fact that Adlai Stevenson and other Democrats of prominence have
ever since 1952, maligned John Foster Dulles as having really promised military
liberation of Eastern Europe, when his speeches permitted no such inference, should
hardly be an example for Republican partisans to follow
It is encouraging news
that both parties in America are committed
to do everything, short of the exercise
of military force, to assist in the liberation of the enslaved peoples of Eastern
Europe.
11
Des Moines Register, Oct. 1: "Sen
Kennedy came out strong for production
and marketing control in his speech on farm policy
He will get a favorable res-
ponse from many farmers who are alarmed about the build-up of grain surpluses.
But his only specific example was on wheat controls, and this wheat plan leaves
some big questions in feed grain and livestock producers' minds
Kennedy mentioned
that he would require wheat farmers to participate in the soil bank in order to get
certificates. That would cut down the excess wheat output to some extent but not
much. He also said that all feed grains would be reduced by a land retirement
program. Something more than that would have to be done or else the wheat surplus
would simply be dumped into the livestock industry
Control by bushel allotments
won't work for feed grains, because most feed grains are fed on the farm where
grown. So, it finally comes down to acreage allotments. Inefficient as they are,
acreage allotments may be the most practical tool for getting a reduction in total
grain production. Obviously, if acreage allotments are applied for corn, they will
have to be applied for wheat.
Portland Oregonian, Sept. 30: "Statistics refute Sen
Kennedy's contention
that the American economy has stood still during the past eight years. But nobody
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has to rely on statistics, such as the half-trillion-dollar gross national product rate,
to prove to himself that the country has moved forward under the Eisenhower Admin-
istration. All he needs to do is to look about at the physical evidence of change for
the better.
The editorial goes on to list many improvements in the Portland area
and comments "This progress has been accomplished in spite of--more likely because
of the Administration's cautious approach to governme nt spending. It should be proof
that the country can move forward without turning the Treasury inside out. Sen.
Kennedy appears to have made his main pitch for the presidency on the theme that
the country has stood still while a Republican president occupied the White House
and will continue to stand still if a Republican president is elected in November.
Anyone with eyes to see must know that the country got going again years ago. If
the buildings all about do not convince the skeptic, the extra money in his pocket,
the new appliances and automobiles, the hundreds of pleasure boats on the rivers
and a hundred other signs of a prosperous and forward moving nation should do so
beyond a doubt."
Charleston News & Courier, Oct. 1: "Candidate Kennedy was right
in raising
questions about six areas of the world in which he said communism has gained in the
last year. The status of the cold war is the biggest issue before the American people
Both candidates have an obligation to avoid banal comment on the situation.
Not
unexpectedly, Sen. Kennedy was partisan in his discussion of the trouble zones
The Democratic candidate was less than honest. Had he stuck to the facts, he would
have had to confess that it was pressure from Democrats that caused the Eisenhower
administration to retreat from stern policies the GOP set forth in the 1952 campaign.
The record shows that emphasis upon coexistence rather than American victory has
been and is today the theme of the most influential Democrats. Chester Bowles
favors a soft policy toward Red China. He also believes the U.S. should spend
more on foreign aid and channel it through the U.N. Adlai Stevenson is the man
who wanted to halt H-bomb tests four years ago. " The editorial goes on to list
such Democrata as Charles O. Porter, Fulbright, James Roosevelt, and concludes
"The Eisenhower administration is not guiltless in its conduct of foreign relations
since 1953. But the administration's guilt, such as it is, consists of not fighting
hard enough against 'liberal' Democrats who constantly advocate appeasement policies.
The record shows that Kennedy, Stevenson, Bowles & Co. are the America-lasters. 11
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Columbia, S.C., Record, Oct. 1: The efforts by Sen Kennedy and some
of his associates to downgrade America have gone well beyond the well-recognized
right of criticism in a free country, because the deprecations lack validity. The
birth of this particular tactic is to be found in the 1960 platform of the National
Democratic Party. It was there that Chester Bowles and his liberal confederates
gave to the Democratic Party this unfortunate and campaign-designed cue for reckless
attacks upon its own country. The strongest rebuttal to it has now come from
President Eisenhower. In his address at Chicago the President said: 'We do not
want leadership that sees only dark continents of despair in American -leadership
that has a stultifying preoccupation with our faults.' No candidate for President
should be unaware of the 'faults' of his country. At no time has the United States
been without fault, The blight which has now fallen upon the Democratic campaign
is not that of the recognition of faults and the recommendation of remedy; it is the
gross exaggeration of our faults and the reckless and vote-hungry use of them in
the campaign. This hasn't been a constructive concern over these faults; it has
been a concern over winning the election. The running-down of America
especially
in times such as these, is something that should give sincere Democrats pause
Since the keel for all of this was laid by Mr. Bowles
sincere Americans who are
sincerely supporting the Democratic ticket, might well re-examine the nature of the
whole company of persons who are advising and directing Sen, Kennedy. They might
want to ask themselves which is more important, (1) this 'stultifying preoccupation'
with its dangerous extremes or (2) a true and safe evaluation of America."
Kansas City Star, Oct. 2: Devotes its entire editorial columns to the
President's leadership in foreign affairs and reviews the history of the last 7-1/2
years and concludes: "Our concern in this editorial is the bland assumption that
current troubles are evidence of a world decline in U.S. prestige and leadership.
People who are honestly given to such waves of despondency or hysteria are poorly
prepared to face the years ahead. No matter who is elected President
in four
years or eight years, the United States must be prepared to face crisis after crisis.
For the foreseeable future, the only alternative to recurring crises is a world war
which guarantees nothing but catastrophe. For the long pull events may discourage
the Communist program of fomenting trouble. The great hope for the long future is
a peaceful world. But in the meantime the test of an American leader is his ability
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to hold a firm course without either yielding to fear or resorting to reckless action
from frustration. We believe President Eisenhower has lived up to the great
requirements of world leadership. 11
Polls
Gallup reports that in the South RN and JK are neck and neck. Results:
Nixon-Lodge and "lean" to Nixon-Lodge - 46%; Kennedy-Johnson and "lean" to
Kennedy-Johnson - 46%; Undecided - 8%. Gallup comments "If Republican strength
in November should be near the 50 per cent mark
as is now indicated, it would
be the third Presidential election in a row in which the Republicans have made
serious inroads in (the South). 11
Fletcher Knebel, who is conducting his own survey of voter sentiment reports
in the Des Moines Register, Sept. 30. on South Carolina. "The Republican Party
only a few years ago a tatterdemalion handful of no repute, is today large, respect-
able, excited and organized in half of South Carolina's counties. The Nixon-Lodge
ticket is on the move and the signs are here for all to see
A random poll of 45
passersby at a main intersection in Greenville showed 26 for
Nixon, 7 for Kennedy
and 7 undecided, and 5 Democrats who said they would abstain from voting. " He
also comments on the names announced as members of South Carolina Democrats
for Nixon and Lodge. "Almost every name on the list reeked with respectability
and not a single one would have been caught dead endorsing a Republican candidate
15 years ago." He also stresses the religious issue as a pronounced factor in the
situation in South Carolina and reports William F. Gaines, editor of the Greenville
Piedmont, is saying that the state is going Republican.
NY Times' survey of Minnesota's third Congressional District reports that
foreign affairs is the top issue and judging by the comments he reports from the
various people he interviewed, RN has a lead.
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Confidential
Schedule I
11/20/59
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Responsibility: The Advisory Committee is to be composed of the
senior and/or outstanding people who are willing to
lend their names to New Yorkers for Nixon but who are
not in a position to devote much time to its activities.
This Committee will meet only occassionally for the
purpose of giving advice to the Chairman.
The Advisory Committee will be made up of certain
members of the Organizing Committee (which will be
dissolved) and of other outstanding people who join
New Yorkers for Nixon in the future. The names of the
members of the Advisory Committee and of the
Executive Committee (see Schedule III) will be listed
alphabetically on the masthead of New Yorkers for
Nixon.
Membership:
Mr. Barney Balaban
Mr. Frank Gifford
Mr. W. Alton Jones
Mr. Barry Leithead
Mr. Henry Loeb
Mr. Chalres S. Payson
Mr. William E. Robinson
Mrs. Adele Rogers St. John
Mr. Charles E. Saltzman
Mr. Henry Sargent
Mrs. Carmel Snow
Mr. Joseph Binns
Mr. Lloyd Dalzell
Professor Peterson
Mr. Thomas Perkins
Mrs. Raymond Moley
Mrs. William Nichols
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Schedule II
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POLITICAL COMMITTEE
Responsibility: It will be the responsibility of the Political
Committee to advise New Yorkers for Nixon as to its
activities with regard to party politics. It must be
remembered that for such activities the regular polit-
ical organizations of New York State are not available
to Nixon supporters. Members of this Committee will
be experienced in politics and can consider problems
from the professional political, rather than the
"Citizens" or public relations, viewpoint. For
publicity purposes this Committee will not be
announced but its members will be included in lists
of the Advisory and Executive Committees. The Polit-
ical Committee will meet informally and as often as
occassion demands.
Membership:
Charles E. Saltzman, Chairman *
H. R. Haldeman **
Jeremiah Milbank, Jr. **
Peter M. Flanigan **
George M. Vetter **
F. Cliffton White **
*
Member of Advisory Committee
** Member of Executive Committee
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Schedule III
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Responsibility: The Executive Committee will be charged with the
planning, staffing, and operation of New Yorkers for
Nixon. This Committee will accept or reject program
ideas, make up a schedule of activities, and provide
for putting the program into effect. It will be
guided by suggestions from the Advisory and Political
Committees, but will operate independently of those
Committees and on its own authority. This Committee
will meet at least every other week on a fixed date,
and in addition will meet whenever called by its
Chairman.
Membership of the Executive Committee will be made
up of the chairmen and co-chairman of the operating
committees, plus certain members of the Political
Committee.
Membership:
Mr. P.M. Flanigan, Chairman
Mrs. E. Hilson
Mr. G. M.Miller
Mr. J. Stewart
Mrs. R. Salant
Miss L. Gerli
Mr. D. O'Scannlain
Mr. C. Bradley
Mr. Jeremiah Milbank, Jr.
Mr. Robert Tardio
Mr. H. R. Haldeman
Mr. George Vetter
Mr. F. Cliffton White
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Schedule V
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PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE
Responsibility: The public image and the public awareness of New
Yorkers for Nixon will be the responsibility of the
Public Relations Committee. New Yorkers for Nixon must
be thought of as a citizens movement, having repre-
sentation from all New York groups and levels. The
public must realize that the Nixon movement is growing
bigger and stronger, partly through the realization of
the parallel growth of New Yorkes for Nixon. Both
these public reactions are dependent on the proper
choice of activities, the success of those activities
and the publicity given to them. The Public Relations
Committee will be charged with the preparation of a
program of activities calculated to produce the above
effects, and with handling the publicity for such
programs. The Public Relations Committee will also be
responsible for the preparation of such brochures,
throw-aways, and other literature and materials as are
necessary.
Membership:
Mr. G. M. Miller, Chairman Teas 8:45 re brochere
R. McCabe
Miss L. Baldridge
Mr. W. Kent
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Schedule IV
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WOMEN'S COMMITTEE
Responsibility: The Women's Committee will be the largest of the
several committees and consequently will be charged with the
responsibility for more than a single activities. Among such
activities will be:
1. Organization and assignment of volunteer workers
for staffing the office to provide complete cover-
age.
2. All membership contacts, including
(a) Drafting and mailing of requests for contri-
butions.
(b) Drafting and mailing questionaires and
notices.
(c) Providing other Committees with appropriate
members, and with workers when their member-
ship is insufficient for an activity under-
taken.
3. Files, including
(a) Membership files, by master and by catagories
and the completeness and accuracy thereof.
(b) Clipping files, both on New Yorkers for
Nixon and on Nixon in general.
(c) A file of documents, cards, etc. used by New
Yorkers for Nixon for its own organization
to be available for use in organizing other
Nixon Clubs.
4. Preparation and procurement of materials including
(a) Membership cards.
(b) Contributors pins.
(c) Letterhead stationery.
5. All mailings, whether national, state, city or to
specific groups.
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6. Correspondence, to the extent it exceeds the
capacity of the Executive Secretary.
7. Continuity of "Tell-Ten" Program by
(a) Stimulating members.
(b) Making use of results.
8. Putting into effect all programs not specifically
assigned to other Committees.
Membership:
Mrs. Hilson, Chairman
Mrs. Ellinger
Mrs. Guth
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Schedule VI
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MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
Responsibility: The Membership Committee will be charged with
assuring an even growing and varied membership of
New Yorkers for Nixon. The public reaction to and the
success of the entire effort will be largely deter-
mined by the quantity and quality of the membership.
While the only prerequisite for membership is
enthusiastic support for Nixon, a conscious effort
must be made to include a large number of leaders
from the business, social, artistic and professional
worlds, to have good representation from each major
ethnic group to include a substantial number of
active Democrats and Independents and to have the
membership weighted on the side of youth and energy.
Lists of additions to the membership will be re-
leased from time to time, and each list should con-
tain all the elements noted above.
Membership:
M. J. Stewart, Chairman
*
*
A vice-chairman might be chosen from each of the major groups
from which members should be drawn.
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Schedule VII
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SPECIAL FUNCTIONS COMMITTEE
Responsibility: When the program of activities of New. Yorkers for
Nixon calls for a special function, the detailed
planning of, procurement for, and management of such
function will be the responsibility of the Special
Functions Committee. An example of this type of
activity is the recently held opening of the head-
quarters at 555 Madison Avenue.
Dick mccabe
Membership:
Mrs. R. Salant
Co-Chairmen
Miss L. Gerli
YOUTH ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE
Responsibility: The Youth Activities Committee will be responsible
for Nixon activity among various young groups through-
out New York City and State. Such activity might in-
clude the formation of Nixon Clubs on the campuses of
the various universities. After their formation, these
Clubs should be given direction and materials, and their
activities coordinated by this Committee. Work might
also be done with the Young Republican Clubs in an
effort to swing them to Nixon, or at least to keep them
neutral.
Membership:
Mr. D. O'Scannlain
Co-Chairmen
Mr. C. Bradley
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Schedule VIII
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LEGAL COMMITTEE
Responsibility: The Legal Committee will provide answers to any
legal problems confronting New Yorkers for Nixon.
Among other things, this Committee will make sure
that all New York State election laws are complied
with, and that all filings are made in due course.
Problems with regard to fiscal reporting will be
brought before this committee.
Membership:
PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEE
Responsibility: The Professional Committee will include a distin-
quished member of each major profession (doctor,
lawyer, architect, etc.). Each such member will
write a letter stating his preference for Nixon and
his reasons for that preference. Prior to a primary
these letters will be sent to all members of the
respective professions in the State holding the
primary over the signature of the author.
Membership:
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Schedule IX
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COMMITTEE
Responsibility: Opportunities to write a letter to the editor of a
paper or magazine will come to light through the
clipping file, the membership, and the gratuitous
suggestions of outsiders. The Letters to the Editor
Committee will take advantage of those opportunities,
as well as make their own opportunities through re-
search, to write letters to publications in support
of Nixon's candidacy. Such letters will be particularly
important when written to local publications in States
in which primaries are to be held.
Membership:
SPEAKERS BUREAU
Responsibility: As the only Nixon organization in New York State,
New Yorkers for Nixon will undertake to supply speakers
to plead the Nixon cause before meetings and in debates.
Prior to supplying such speakers or debaters, a research
file will have to be compiled and speakers of ability
chosen. If enough members so desire, a short course in
public and political speaking can be held.
In the weeks immediately prior to the primary in a
State near New York, the Speakers Bureau will send week-
end Speakers Teams to help in the campaign in such
State.
Membership:
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Attached hereto is a Memorandum plus Exhibit, which is the
subject for the meeting at 3:00 PM on Monday, November 23rd. The
meeting will be held on the fifth floor of the Manufacturers Trust
Company branch at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in a room reserved
under the name of Mr. Robert Tardio, Vice President.
While the Memorandum will be discussed on Monday, and the
thinking behind it examined, no final conclusions will be reached.
Participants at the meeting will be asked to study the problems raised
by Memorandum and at the meeting. A subsequent meeting will be
scheduled for a day later in the same week at which meeting final
conclusions will be reached and a plan of action agreed upon.
Peter M. Flanigan
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NEW YORKERS FOR NIXON
11/20/59
MEMORANDUM
New Yorkers for Nixon is now a reality. To date its
activities have been (a) its formation, (b) its public announcement,
and (c) the physical and formal opening of its headquarters. These
three activities, comprising the birth of New Yorkers for Nixon,
have been carried through with the most simple organizational
structure. That structure has been made up of an Organizing
Committee, a Political Committee, a Chairman, an Executive Secretary
and a group of inspired and selfless workers who have taken on
specific tasks. I think it is fair to say New Yorkers for Nixon has
been well started.
Now New Yorkers for Nixon is beginning the second period in
its life, the period between its birth and the choice of the
Republican candidate for President in 1960. This period may not
end until the Republican Convention in July of 1960, or it may end
at such earlier date as the only candidate other than Nixon with-
draws from the race for the Republican nomination. The third and
final period in the life of New Yorkers for Nixon will be the time
between the choice of Nixon as the candidate and his election in
November 1960.
To properly function and to be effective during this second
period, New Yorkers for Nixon needs a new and more complicated
organizational structure, with specific line and staff responsibil-
ities assigned to various individuals and committees. Exhibit A
attached hereto outlines a Table of Organization, with suggested
candidates to fill the key posts shown thereon. Schedules I through
IX deal with the various committees, giving specific suggestions as
to the membership of some of those committees, plus detailing the
responsibilities assigned to each committee.
NEW YORKERS FOR NIXON
Exhibit A
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TABLE OF ORGANIZATION
ADVISORY COMMITTEE (Sch.I)
POLITICAL COMMITTEE (Sch.II)
CHAIRMAN
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (Sch.III)
Mr. P.M. Flanigan
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TREASURER
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
ASSISTANT TO CHAIRMAN
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Mr. J. Milbank, Jr.
Miss J. McKee
Mr.R. Tardio
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WOMEN'S COMMITTEE (Sch. IV)
PUBLIC RELATIONS
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
SPECIAL FUNCTIONS
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COMMITTEE (Sch.V)
(Sch. VI)
COMMITTEE (Sch. VII)
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Chrm. Mrs. E. Hilson
Chrm. Mr. G.M.Miller
Chrm. Mr. J. Stewart
Mrs. R. Salant
Co-Chrm.
Miss. L. Gerli
YOUTH ACTIVITIES
LEGAL COMMITTEE (Sch. VIII) PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEE
LETTERS TO THE
SPEAKERS BUREAU,
COMMITTEE (Sch.VII)
(Sch. VIII)
EDITOR COMMITTEE
(Sch. IX)
(Sch. IX)
Mr. D. O'Scannlain
Co-Chrm
Mr. C. Bradley
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Vol. XVIII, No. 14-Section II
HUMAN EVENTS
W/letter
April 7, 1961
Did Biased Reporters Cost Nixon the Election?
Fy,
By WILLARD EDWARDS
Capitol Hill correspondent for the Chicago Tribune
T
HIS IS A REPORT on some research since the elec-
attempting to buy the people's votes with their
tion last November on a subject which has
money-not his.
disturbed the newspaper world, although it has
gained very little public notice.
But when I mentioned these things, people looked
at me blankly. "When did Nixon make these re-
To put the question simply-did a substantial
marks?" they asked. They hadn't read them in the
portion of the American press sabotage Vice Presi-
newspapers.
dent Nixon in the Presidential campaign, thereby
cheating the American public of its right to a fair
So I decided to do a little research and discover
and unbiased report of the Republican candidate's
just what they had been reading. Since these were
words and activities, and thereby helping him to
residents of Washington, D. C., I concentrated on
lose the election?
the newspapers which are read in the Capital.
I covered the Nixon campaign from the time of
The task was enormous. A one-man survey could
his nomination at Chicago in late July to election
do little more than make a spot-check. And yet, the
day, November 8. I heard every Nixon speech—
results were significant. I began to understand why
hundreds of them-was present at all press con-
some supporters of Nixon grew indifferent as the
ferences and traveled a total of 64,000 miles in-
campaign progressed.
cluding the flights to Alaska and Hawaii.
First, let me make you acquainted with the at-
After I returned to Washington November 9 and
mosphere among the newspaper followers of the
had a couple of days rest I re-entered the civilized
Republican candidate. Ninety per cent of this press
world and joined in the great Washington sport of
corps, which ranged between 50 and 100 at various
explaining the election outcome.
periods in the campaign, were all-out supporters
I attended a number of gatherings of conserva-
of Kennedy. They were not only opposed to Nixon,
tives and here I first ran up against the complaint
they were outspoken in their hatred and contempt
of him.
that Nixon had lost the election because he con-
ducted a me-too campaign. He hadn't hit Kennedy
hard enough. There were, of course, other reasons
T
HIS ATTITUDE was not concealed. It was loud
discussed but this one complaint has grown in
and open. When Nixon was making a speech,
volume until it has reached the peak of alleging that
there was a constant murmur of ridicule from many
Nixon threw away a sure victory, just like Dewey in
in the press rows just beneath the platform. It
1948, through the soft and ineffectual nature of his
was an extraordinary hostility and I can recall no
campaign.
precedent for it in all the campaigns I have covered.
I was confounded by the complaints of Nixon's
Their adulation of Kennedy was just as open.
me-tooism. In arguments on the point, I would cite
Most of them shifted back and forth between Nixon
from speeches he made during the campaign.
and Kennedy during the campaign. They regarded
service with Kennedy as a lover regards a honey-
Here are some of the things he called his op-
moon and assignment to Nixon as a penalty-an
ponent:
enforced association with a discreditable character.
Dangerously irresponsible, reckless, utterly unfit
I have not drawn too strong a picture and I think
to assume the duties of a President.
the condition can best be described by telling an
incident which occurred during Nixon's whistle-
He lashed Kennedy for downgrading the United
stop tour in mid-October. On October 26, as the
States and caught him in falsehoods. He accused
train was pulling out of Cincinnati, a stranger
him of aiding Communist propagandists. He called
appeared in the press car where some 50 newsmen
him a bare-faced liar, dangerous and dead wrong. a
were present.
rash, impulsive, immature, inexperienced young
man who wanted to use the White House for job-
The man was introduced as Mario G. Remo, a
training. He said repeatedly-and these are his
New York Department store executive, who had
exact words-that Kennedy stood for wild spend-
been serving as finance chairman of the Democratic
ing, higher taxes, higher prices, seizure of industry
National Committee's Nationalities division.
and raiding of the Treasury.
Mr. Remo was a man of high standing in Demo-
cratic party councils in New York City and his post
He also called Kennedy an ignoramus, a divider
was a very important one in the campaign.
of America, one of Khrushchev's most helpful aids.
He had decided to quit his job and switch over
On the domestic side, he said that Kennedy's
to Nixon. Leonard Hall, the Republican campaign
program would bring about ruinous inflation. He
chairman, regarded his decision as SO important that
jabbed at Kennedy's wealth and charged him with
he had asked Remo to join the Nixon train and
explain his position to the big press group, thereby
This article is the transcript of an address made by Willard Edwards at the
gaining the maximum publicity for what appeared
HUMAN EVENTS Political Action Conference in Washington on January 6.
to be a big political break for Nixon.
Copyright 1961 by HUMAN EVENTS
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MEMORANDUM
RE: New name for "Vixens for Nixon"
1. While "Vixens for Nixon" was a catchy name for the opening
ceremonies of the headquarters at 555 Madison Avenue, it
is not a name we would like to be stuck with for the entire
campaign. The connotation of the word "vixen" could make
us the butt of some rather effective jokes.
2. Life Magazine wishes to take pictures of the "vixens" but
before having the picture taken we want to have a new name.
Among the suggestions given so far are "Nixon Gals" and
"Dolls for Dick".
3. Please try to come up with a suggestion for a name which
we can discuss at the meeting at 3:00 on Friday, November 27th.