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Letter size manila file folder titled RN Statement - 1968. 1 pg. [Other Document], N.D.
Statement of RN issued on the occasion of visit to B'nai B'rith Triennial Convention in Washington, D. C. on Sunday, September 8. Handwritten corrections by unknown person. 8 pgs. [Other Document], 9/8/1968
Letter size manila file folder with label "CLEVELAND 10/30/68" lined through. 1 pg. [Other Document], N.D.
Handwritten notes by unknown author (possibly RN) RE: Urban Affairs Group, house, Sandoval, church services, N.S.C., etc. 2 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
RN Schedule. Handwritten notes by unknown author. 1 pg. [Other Document], 11/27/1968
Handwritten notes by unknown author (possibly RN) RE: Budget, Transporation, Agriculture, Treasury, U. N., staff, poverty, etc. 2 pgs. [Photograph], N.D.
Memo from Buchanan to Bob Haldeman RE: Final three cabinet appointments. 1 pg. [Memo], N.D.
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: John Mitchell, the new Attorney General. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: John Volpe, the new Secretary of the Department of Transporation. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: George Romney, the new head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 2 pgs. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: George Romney, the new head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 2 pgs. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: Clifford Hardin, the new Secretary of Agriculture. 2 pgs. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: Winton Blount, the next Postmaster General of the United States. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: William Rogers, the next Secretary of State. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: Walter Hickel, the Secretary of the Interior. 1 pg. [Photograph], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: Melvin Laird, the Secretary of Defense. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: Maurice Stans, the Secretary of Commerce. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Draft of speech introducing the new Cabinet members by unknown writer. 7 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Safire, including William P. Rogers, John Mitchell, George Romney and Bob Finch with handwritten revisions by unknown person. 5 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
Memo from Raymond Price to RN RE: Notes on Cabinet appointees. Handwritten comments by unknown person. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning William P. Rogers. 2 pgs. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning George Romney. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning Clifford M. Hardin. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning Winston M. Blount. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning Walter J. Hickel. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning John Mitchell. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning David M. Kennedy. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning Melvin Laird. 2 pgs. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning George P. Schultz. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning John A. Volpe. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning Robert H. Finch. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning Maurice (Maury) Stans. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Memo from Buchanan to Bob Haldeman RE: Buchanan and Price's remaining Cabinet appointees and introduction speech. 1 pg. [Memo], N.D.
Memo to RN from Buchanan RE: Points that might be made during the introduction of the new Cabinet appointees. 1 pg. [Memo], N.D.
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Patrick J. Buchanan, concerning George P. Shultze. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Patrick J. Buchanan, concerning Robert Finch. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Patrick J. Buchanan, concerning David Kennedy. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Handwritten notes by unknown author RE: Speech notes for a law firm (Nixon Mudge) dinner December 17, 1968. 1 pg. [Other Document], N.D.
Suggested comments written by Patrick J. Buchanan for RN to deliver in a speech at the Nixon Mudge Dinner. 4 pgs. [Other Document], 12/17/1968
Handwritten speech notes written by unknown author (possibly RN) RE: Introducing the new Cabinet appointees. 9 pgs. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
List of Cabinet departments and names with pertinent comments. Handwritten notes by unknown author. 3 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
Handwritten notes by unknown author (possibly RN) RE: Speech to be given at a September 1968 dinner. 2 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
Handwritten notes by unknown author (possibly RN) RE: Speech to be given at a January 5 Kennedy - Schultz dinner. 2 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
Memo from Pat Buchanan to RN RE: Thoughts on the Chicago Kennedy - Schultz (Shultz) drill. 2 pgs. [Memo], 12/28/1968
Memo from Don Hughes to RN and PN RE: Details concerning the Stone Dinner in Chicago. 2 pgs. [Memo], 1/3/1969
Service program for the Marble Collegiate Church, Sunday, December 15, 1968, order of service. Handwritten comments by unknown author. 3 pgs. [Other Document], 12/15/1968
Service program for the Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church, November 10, 1968, order of service. Handwritten comments on cover by unknown author. 5 pgs. [Other Document], 11/10/1968
Letter from Franklin A. Lindsay, President of the Itek Corporation, to RN RE: Attached memorandum prepared by the Task Force on Organization of the Executive Branch. 1 pg. [Letter], 12/17/1968
Biblical passages from 1 Kings, Exodus, Jeremiah, 2 Thessalonians, Genesis and Ecclesiastes. Handwritten note by unknown author specifying the pages should be filed under Billy Graham, November 1968. 5 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
Thoughts on Vietnam titled "Vietnam Strategy". Handwritten note by unknown author specifying the pages should be filed under Billy Graham, Jan. 5, '69. 8 pgs. [Other Document], 1/5/1969
Report titled "Some Observations on Oriental Psychology and U.S. Far-Eastern Policy" by Donald E. Hoke, President of Tokyo Christian College, Japan. 2 pgs. [Report], N.D.
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This file contains:
Letter size manila file folder titled RN Statement - 1968. 1 pg. [Other Document], N.D.
Statement of RN issued on the occasion of visit to B'nai B'rith Triennial Convention in Washington, D. C. on Sunday, September 8. Handwritten corrections by unknown person. 8 pgs. [Other Document], 9/8/1968
Letter size manila file folder with label "CLEVELAND 10/30/68" lined through. 1 pg. [Other Document], N.D.
Handwritten notes by unknown author (possibly RN) RE: Urban Affairs Group, house, Sandoval, church services, N.S.C., etc. 2 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
RN Schedule. Handwritten notes by unknown author. 1 pg. [Other Document], 11/27/1968
Handwritten notes by unknown author (possibly RN) RE: Budget, Transporation, Agriculture, Treasury, U. N., staff, poverty, etc. 2 pgs. [Photograph], N.D.
Memo from Buchanan to Bob Haldeman RE: Final three cabinet appointments. 1 pg. [Memo], N.D.
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: John Mitchell, the new Attorney General. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: John Volpe, the new Secretary of the Department of Transporation. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: George Romney, the new head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 2 pgs. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: George Romney, the new head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 2 pgs. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: Clifford Hardin, the new Secretary of Agriculture. 2 pgs. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: Winton Blount, the next Postmaster General of the United States. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: William Rogers, the next Secretary of State. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: Walter Hickel, the Secretary of the Interior. 1 pg. [Photograph], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: Melvin Laird, the Secretary of Defense. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan RE: Maurice Stans, the Secretary of Commerce. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Draft of speech introducing the new Cabinet members by unknown writer. 7 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Safire, including William P. Rogers, John Mitchell, George Romney and Bob Finch with handwritten revisions by unknown person. 5 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
Memo from Raymond Price to RN RE: Notes on Cabinet appointees. Handwritten comments by unknown person. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning William P. Rogers. 2 pgs. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning George Romney. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning Clifford M. Hardin. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning Winston M. Blount. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning Walter J. Hickel. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning John Mitchell. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning David M. Kennedy. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning Melvin Laird. 2 pgs. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning George P. Schultz. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning John A. Volpe. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning Robert H. Finch. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Raymond K. Price, concerning Maurice (Maury) Stans. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Memo from Buchanan to Bob Haldeman RE: Buchanan and Price's remaining Cabinet appointees and introduction speech. 1 pg. [Memo], N.D.
Memo to RN from Buchanan RE: Points that might be made during the introduction of the new Cabinet appointees. 1 pg. [Memo], N.D.
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Patrick J. Buchanan, concerning George P. Shultze. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Patrick J. Buchanan, concerning Robert Finch. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written by Patrick J. Buchanan, concerning David Kennedy. 1 pg. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
Handwritten notes by unknown author RE: Speech notes for a law firm (Nixon Mudge) dinner December 17, 1968. 1 pg. [Other Document], N.D.
Suggested comments written by Patrick J. Buchanan for RN to deliver in a speech at the Nixon Mudge Dinner. 4 pgs. [Other Document], 12/17/1968
Handwritten speech notes written by unknown author (possibly RN) RE: Introducing the new Cabinet appointees. 9 pgs. [Other Document], 12/11/1968
List of Cabinet departments and names with pertinent comments. Handwritten notes by unknown author. 3 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
Handwritten notes by unknown author (possibly RN) RE: Speech to be given at a September 1968 dinner. 2 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
Handwritten notes by unknown author (possibly RN) RE: Speech to be given at a January 5 Kennedy - Schultz dinner. 2 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
Memo from Pat Buchanan to RN RE: Thoughts on the Chicago Kennedy - Schultz (Shultz) drill. 2 pgs. [Memo], 12/28/1968
Memo from Don Hughes to RN and PN RE: Details concerning the Stone Dinner in Chicago. 2 pgs. [Memo], 1/3/1969
Service program for the Marble Collegiate Church, Sunday, December 15, 1968, order of service. Handwritten comments by unknown author. 3 pgs. [Other Document], 12/15/1968
Service program for the Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church, November 10, 1968, order of service. Handwritten comments on cover by unknown author. 5 pgs. [Other Document], 11/10/1968
Letter from Franklin A. Lindsay, President of the Itek Corporation, to RN RE: Attached memorandum prepared by the Task Force on Organization of the Executive Branch. 1 pg. [Letter], 12/17/1968
Biblical passages from 1 Kings, Exodus, Jeremiah, 2 Thessalonians, Genesis and Ecclesiastes. Handwritten note by unknown author specifying the pages should be filed under Billy Graham, November 1968. 5 pgs. [Other Document], N.D.
Thoughts on Vietnam titled "Vietnam Strategy". Handwritten note by unknown author specifying the pages should be filed under Billy Graham, Jan. 5, '69. 8 pgs. [Other Document], 1/5/1969
Report titled "Some Observations on Oriental Psychology and U.S. Far-Eastern Policy" by Donald E. Hoke, President of Tokyo Christian College, Japan. 2 pgs. [Report], N.D.
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
White House Special Files Collection
Folder List
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
6
12
N.D.
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Safire, including William P. Rogers, John
Mitchell, George Romney and Bob Finch
with handwritten revisions by unknown
person. 5 pgs.
6
12
12/11/1968
Memo
Memo from Raymond Price to RN RE:
Notes on Cabinet appointees. Handwritten
comments by unknown person. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Raymond K. Price, concerning William P.
Rogers. 2 pgs.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Raymond K. Price, concerning George
Romney. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Raymond K. Price, concerning Clifford
M. Hardin. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Raymond K. Price, concerning Winston
M. Blount. 1 pg.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Page 1 of 8
Box Number Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Raymond K. Price, concerning Walter J.
Hickel. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Raymond K. Price, concerning John
Mitchell. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Raymond K. Price, concerning David M.
Kennedy. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Raymond K. Price, concerning Melvin
Laird. 2 pgs.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Raymond K. Price, concerning George P.
Schultz. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Raymond K. Price, concerning John A.
Volpe. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Raymond K. Price, concerning Robert H.
Finch. 1 pg.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Page 2 of 8
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Raymond K. Price, concerning Maurice
(Maury) Stans. 1 pg.
6
12
N.D.
Memo
Memo from Buchanan to Bob Haldeman RE:
Buchanan and Price's remaining Cabinet
appointees and introduction speech. 1 pg.
6
12
N.D.
Memo
Memo to RN from Buchanan RE: Points that
might be made during the introduction of the
new Cabinet appointees. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Patrick J. Buchanan, concerning George
P. Shultze. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Patrick J. Buchanan, concerning Robert
Finch. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Cabinet introduction speech for RN, written
by Patrick J. Buchanan, concerning David
Kennedy. 1 pg.
6
12
N.D.
Other Document
Handwritten notes by unknown author RE:
Speech notes for a law firm (Nixon Mudge)
dinner December 17, 1968. 1 pg.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Page 3 of 8
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
6
12
12/17/1968
Other Document
Suggested comments written by Patrick J.
Buchanan for RN to deliver in a speech at
the Nixon Mudge Dinner. 4 pgs.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Handwritten speech notes written by
unknown author (possibly RN) RE:
Introducing the new Cabinet appointees. 9
pgs.
6
12
N.D.
Other Document
List of Cabinet departments and names with
pertinent comments. Handwritten notes by
unknown author. 3 pgs.
6
12
N.D.
Other Document
Handwritten notes by unknown author
(possibly RN) RE: Speech to be given at a
September 1968 dinner. 2 pgs.
6
12
N.D.
Other Document
Handwritten notes by unknown author
(possibly RN) RE: Speech to be given at a
January 5 Kennedy - Schultz dinner. 2 pgs.
6
12
12/28/1968
Memo
Memo from Pat Buchanan to RN RE:
Thoughts on the Chicago Kennedy - Schultz
(Shultz) drill. 2 pgs.
6
12
01/03/1969
Memo
Memo from Don Hughes to RN and PN RE:
Details concerning the Stone Dinner in
Chicago. 2 pgs.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Page 4 of 8
Box Number Folder Number Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
6
12
12/15/1968
Other Document
Service program for the Marble Collegiate
Church, Sunday, December 15, 1968, order
of service. Handwritten comments by
unknown author. 3 pgs.
6
12
11/10/1968
Other Document
Service program for the Key Biscayne
Presbyterian Church, November 10, 1968,
order of service. Handwritten comments on
cover by unknown author. 5 pgs.
6
12
12/17/1968
Letter
Letter from Franklin A. Lindsay, President of
the Itek Corporation, to RN RE: Attached
memorandum prepared by the Task Force on
Organization of the Executive Branch. 1 pg.
6
12
N.D.
Other Document
Biblical passages from 1 Kings, Exodus,
Jeremiah, 2 Thessalonians, Genesis and
Ecclesiastes. Handwritten note by unknown
author specifying the pages should be filed
under Billy Graham, November 1968. 5 pgs.
6
12
01/05/1969
Other Document
Thoughts on Vietnam titled "Vietnam
Strategy". Handwritten note by unknown
author specifying the pages should be filed
under Billy Graham, Jan. 5, '69. 8 pgs.
6
12
N.D.
Report
Report titled "Some Observations on
Oriental Psychology and U.S. Far-Eastern
Policy" by Donald E. Hoke, President of
Tokyo Christian College, Japan. 2 pgs.
6
12
N.D.
Other Document
Letter size manila file folder titled RN
Statement - 1968. 1 pg.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Page 5 of 8
Box Number Folder Number Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
6
12
09/08/1968
Other Document
Statement of RN issued on the occasion of
visit to B'nai B'rith Triennial Convention in
Washington, D.C. on Sunday, September 8.
Handwritten corrections by unknown person.
8 pgs.
6
12
N.D.
Other Document
Letter size manila file folder with label
"CLEVELAND 10/30/68" lined through. 1
pg.
6
12
N.D.
Other Document
Handwritten notes by unknown author
(possibly RN) RE: Urban Affairs Group,
house, Sandoval, church services, N.S.C.,
etc. 2 pgs.
6
12
11/27/1968
Other Document
RN Schedule. Handwritten notes by
unknown author. 1 pg.
6
12
N.D.
Photograph
Handwritten notes by unknown author
(possibly RN) RE: Budget, Transporation,
Agriculture, Treasury, U.N., staff, poverty,
etc. 2 pgs.
6
12
N.D.
Memo
Memo from Buchanan to Bob Haldeman RE:
Final three cabinet appointments. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan
RE: John Mitchell, the new Attorney
General. 1 pg.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Page 6 of 8
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan
RE: John Volpe, the new Secretary of the
Department of Transporation. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan
RE: George Romney, the new head of the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development. 2 pgs.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan
RE: George Romney, the new head of the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development. 2 pgs.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan
RE: Clifford Hardin, the new Secretary of
Agriculture. 2 pgs.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan
RE: Winton Blount, the next Postmaster
General of the United States. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan
RE: William Rogers, the next Secretary of
State. 1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Photograph
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan
RE: Walter Hickel, the Secretary of the
Interior. 1 pg.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Page 7 of 8
Box Number Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan
RE: Melvin Laird, the Secretary of Defense.
1 pg.
6
12
12/11/1968
Other Document
Introduction written by Patrick J. Buchanan
RE: Maurice Stans, the Secretary of
Commerce. 1 pg.
6
12
N.D.
Other Document
Draft of speech introducing the new Cabinet
members by unknown writer. 7 pgs.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Page 8 of 8
RN Statement-1968
(mwy)
FOR RELEASE:
5:00 PM EDT
Sunday, 9/8/68
Statement of
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RICHARD M. NIXON
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Issued on Occasion of Visit to
B'nai B'rith Triennial Convention
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Sunday, September 8, 1968
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Four fundamental facts of life are evident in the Middle East
today.
(Ellection year a
First, the danger of war increases in direct ratio to the
confidence of certain Arab leaders that they could win that war.
Second, the Soviet Union has the definite aggressive goal of
extending its sphere of influence to include the Middle East.
Third, the United States has a firm and unwavering commit-
ment to the national existence of Israel, repeated by four Presidents. And
after Inauguration Day next year, it will be repeated by another President.
Fourth, the foundations for a permanent peace will be laid when
hunger and disease and human misery have begun to disappear from the
Arab world, and the breeding ground of bitterness and envy is removed.
America must look hard at those facts of life to determine how
we can change the collision course of the nations of the Middle East, and
avert a confrontation of the major powers.
The danger of war increases in direct ratio to the confidence of
certain Arab leaders that they could win that war.
have fad Since the six-day war, the Soviet Union has systematically
rebuilt the armed forces of the U.A.R. Their goal was not to restore a
balance of power; their goal was to further Soviet ambitions.
- 2
To a disturbing extent, they have introduced new and more
sophisticated weapons. Their Middle Eastern clients are growing more
confident that they could win a war of revenge and drive Israel into the
sea.
Therefore, the free world must act to maintain a balance of
power to remove the confidence of would-be aggressors. Certainly a
only
balance of power is a short-term solution; but when survival is at stake,
short-term solutions are necessary.
Israel must possess sufficient military power to deter an
attack. As long as the threat of Arab attack remains direct and imminent,
"sufficient power" means the balance must be tipped in Israel's favor.
An exact balance of power, which in any case is purely theoretical and
not realistic, would run the risk that potential aggressors might miscalcu-
late, and would offer them too much of a temptation.
For that reason - to provide Israel a valid self-defense -- --
I support a policy that would give Israel a technological military margin
to more than offset her hostile neighbors' numerical superiority. If
maintaining that margin should require that the U. S. supply Israel with
supersonic Phantom F-4 jets we should supply those Phantom jets.
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Second, the Soviet Union has the definite aggressive goal of
extending its sphere of influence to include the Middle East.
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In the Middle East and the Mediterranean, along the southern
flank of NATO, we have been witnessing the advancement of Russian
imperialism. This is no Communist innovation, but an age-old Russian
geopolitical goal that the Soviet rulers inherited from the Czars.
- 3 -
Consider the pattern:
--in June of 1966, the Warsaw Pact nations blatantly declared
the incorporation of the Middle East into the Communist sphere to be one
of their aims.
--during the next year, they provided the weapons and
unleashed a propaganda campaign that inflamed tensions and led to the
six-day war, which they consider only a temporary setback.
--since June of 1967, the Mediterranean complement of Soviet
ships has more than quadrupled -- from 11 to nearly 50 ships. And for the
first time in 60 years, the Soviets have moved a fleet into the Persian Gulf,
which extends into the heart of West Asia.
--since the take-over of Czechoslovakia, the Soviets have
stepped up their anti-Semitic propaganda, concocting a "Zionist plot"
in Prague to win support in the Middle East.
These are the clear-cut moves of a superpower seeking
domination. Confronted with this diplomatic and military policy of
I belin
expansionism on the part of the Soviets, the American response has been
uncertain and ineffectual.
We can hardly ignore the fact that during the past five years
of active Soviet penetration, the U. S. government has at times seemed
to hide its head in the sands of the Middle East; this Administration
has failed to come to diplomatic grips with the scope and seriousness
of the Soviet threat.
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What must we do now? Short-range, we must counter the
military buildup, as I have indicated. We must take the initiative for
near-term settlements. Looking ahead, we must deal directly with the
Soviets on the subject of the Middle East.
Without belligerence, we have to make it crystal clear that
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the stake of the free world in the Middle East is great; we must impress
upon the Soviets the full extent of our determination; and then, and only
then, will we cause them to re-examine their own policy to avoid a
collision course.
The third fact of life in the Middle East: The United States
has a firm and unwavering commitment to the national existence of Israel.
Some of America's critics abroad say that support for Israel
by American political leaders is purely an election-year exercise. They
say it is a device to capture Jewish votes at home.
But these critics don't understand the American point of view.
America supports Israel because we believe in the self-
determination of nations; America supports Israel because we oppose
aggression in every form; America supports Israel because it is threatened
by Soviet imperialism; and America supports Israel because its example
offers long-range hope to the Middle East.
There is another reason that goes beyond diplomacy: Americans
admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis
have shown qualities that Americans identify with; guts, patriotism, idealism,
and a passion for freedom.
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We can justify our firm support on the basis of principle but
there is that human element involved as well.
All those reasons taken together add up to why we are not
about to abandon Israel. America's word is good. It has cost us enough
to prove that.
We recognize Israel's predicament; can
one its enemies afford
to fight a war and lose, and come back to fight again; Israel cannot
afford to lose once. America knows that. And America is determined
that Israel is here in the family of nations to stay.
The fourth fact of life: The foundations for a permanent peace
will be laid when hunger and disease and human misery have begun to
disappear from the Arab world.
Some Arab leaders equate America's support of Israel as being
"against" them. That is simply obsolutely not true. (not guin, Eschal)
The United States should work with every nation of the Middle
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East willing to live in peace with its neighbors on a far-reaching develop-
ment program.
The imaginative Eisenhower Plan to bring water -- and thus
food and employment to the Middle East is one such proposal. This
plan would provide atomic plants for the desalting of sea water water
so desperately needed to irrigate deserts. The first of these plants would
produce as much fresh water as the entire Jordan River system does today,
opening a new life to hundreds of thousands of Arab refugees. We must
explore every avenue to turn the arms race into a race for development.
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Right now, the United States must take the lead in forging an
acceptable settlement in the Mid-East.
Included in the terms of that settlement should be solid
guarantees that the currently occupied territories will never again be
used as bases of aggression or sanctuaries for terrorism. Access for
the ships of all nations through the re-opened Suez Canal and the Straits
of Tiran should be guaranteed. The settlement should include recognition
of Israeli sovereignty, its right to exist in peace, and an end to the state
of belligerency.
It is my view that for Israel to take formal and final possession
of the occupied territories would be a grave mistake; at the same time,
it is not realistic to expect Israel to surrender vital bargaining counters
in the absence of a genuine peace and effective guarantees.
To find a just peace in an area of the world that has known only
armed truces and three major and bitter wars in a generation is not an
easy task. But the United States is not without diplomatic and economic
resources, and its private and public men are not without cogent ideas
to get directly at the underlying problems of refugees and water.
We should thwart the temptation for aggression by helping Israel
to maintain her defense; we should engage in some direct, hard negotiation
with the Soviet Union to remove one underlying cause of the tension; we
should assert some leadership in bringing about talks first with the
moderate Arab leaders, and later with the militants; and we should open
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up vistas of growth and development that can gradually end the
bitterness and envy that exist.
That's an ambitious task. But the only way to succeed, or
even partially to succeed, is to make the effort. Any future Mid-East
war could bring together in a sudden collision not only the nations of the
Mid-East, but the great powers of East and West. We must not allow
the cradle of civilization to become its grave.
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Dr. Lee Dubridge
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11:00 a.m.
Ambassador Robert Murphy
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Dr. Kissenger
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The final three will be up there just as soon as they
are done.
Buchanan
12/11/68
JOHN MITCHELL
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
The new Attorney General is a brilliant lawyer and
the one of the best administrators in the country, and I can
personally attest to both facts. He is John Mitchell of
New York, my partner both in work and politics.
I selected him because I believe his enormous
capabilities and competence are what is needed to marshall the
resources of the Department of Justice in an effort to make
new ground -- especially against organized crime.
During the campaign, I stated time and again my
belief that one of America's first priorities is to restore
security to the streets of this country; and freedom from
fear to the America's homes. In naming John Mitchell the
chief law enforcement officer of the United States, I think we
have a strong man in most demanding job.
Justice in our system implies respect for the rights
of all, guilty and innocent alike; it implies social justice
as well as criminal justice. In John Mitchell we have a man with
recognition of that fact.
12/11/68
JOHN VOLPE
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
The youngest Department in our Government is the
Department of Transportation. It is really an infant as far as
Government Departments are concerned. It was established in
recognition of the modern problems of travel which affecting
the great cities of America.
It was established in recognition of the problems of
air and sea and surface travel in America; recognition of the
interrelationship of these modes of travel and recognition of
need for planning for America's future.
The man I have chosen for this post is the former
United States Highway Administrator under President Eisenhower.
He is the man who launched the $40 billion Federal highway
program, which has been called the rightly one of the greatest
construction projects ever undertaken by man; he is the
Governor of Massachusetts, John Volpe.
I would like to add a personal note about Governor
Volpe, the new Secretary. He is a living example of the promise
of America. His parents were Italian immigrants, and Governor
Volpe reached where he has today through courage and determination
and hard work.
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12/11/68
GEORGE ROMNEY
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
During the campaign I said time and again that there
was no ground more important than the ground we stand on. The
crisis of the American city is really the crisis of America.
How we resolve it will determine what kind of future our children
have.
No Department is more intimately involved in that
crisis than the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
It is the Department of the cities and the man I have chosen to
lead it the next four years is Governor George Romney of
Michigan.
In all my years of public life I have never met a
man who worked harder or who was more deeply committed to the
cause of social justice in this country. But we need more than
commitment in HUD. We need a man of action, a doer and not just
a talker, a man who understands and has already established in
his own state an example for the nation of what can be done by
volunteer action working with government.
To solve these problems of America's cities, to bring
Americans together, to move this country forward with progress for
every American, this is a task we have to accomplish, it is a
task to which we most devote twenty-four hours a day. I think
that in George Romney the nation has a man who will approach
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this task with the kind of missionary zeal that it requires
today.
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12/11/68
CLIFFORD HARDIN
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
During the presidential campaign I told the American
farmer that if elected I would name to the Department of
Agriculture a man who would speak for them to the President of
the United States and not the other way around. I think I have
found that man in Nebraska.
Clifford Hardin, the next Secretary of Agriculture, is
chancellor of the University of Nebraska, and formerly dean of
the school of Agriculture at Michigan State University.
His educational background stretching back over thirty
years has been exclusively in the field of agriculture and
related problems. He will not be the chosen representative of any
one particular farm group; he will not just represent one
particular farm crop
He brings to his position a tremendous scope and range
in the field of agriculture; he will be the spokesman for all of
America's farmers in the Councils of government; he will be
the Cabinet's voice of rural America.
With his knowledge and background we expect more of
him than we expect from a normal Secretary. We are going to depend
on him to keep the country aware not only of the problems of
rural poverty and unemployment, the problems of farm income
and crop surpluses; but more than that we will expect from him
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ideas and initiatives on how to put America's plenty on the
dinner table of the world's hungry.
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12/11/68
WINTON BLOUNT
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
The next Postmaster General of the United States
hails from Union Springs, Alabama. He is Winton Blount, currently
President of the United States Chamber of Commerce.
In naming Red Blount to this post we are hoping to
put an end to the tradition of naming political and party leaders
to this office in the Cabinet. I have chosen Mr. Blount because
of his brilliant background as a business executive and because
I believe that the postal service in the United States today can
be dramatically improved in terms of speed and efficiency.
We are going to try to introduce to the United States Post Office
the modern business practices and we mean to improve the mail
service and reorganize the Department to see if we can't make
it a going concern.
So, when the letters don't get there on
time, this will be the man to call.
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12/11/68
WILLIAM ROGERS
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
In my acceptance speech for the Pepublican nomination,
I stated that it was my belief that we are about to enter into
an era of negotiations with the Soviet Union, and that within
the term of the New Administration, the dialgoue with mainland
China would have to begin.
With these considerations foremost in my mind that
I have chosen William Rogers to be the next Secretary of
State of the United States.
He is the best qualified man I know to sit across the
table from friend and adversaries alike and represents the
legitimate interests of the United States. He is a brilliant
attorney, the most capable negotiator I have ever met; he has
spent a lifetime in public service he is a former Attorney General
of the United States under President Eisenhower ; he was an able
administorator at the Department of Justice -- something we
need today at the Department of States; he will be the youngest
Secretary of State in the century. He will make a brilliant
advocate for his new client -- the United States.
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Quint confider
12/11/68
WALTER HICKEL
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
In this modern era, the Secretary of the Interior
of the United States has no more important role to play than to
serve as custodian of America's natural resources. The rivers
and forests and mountains and wilderness lands of America are
unmatched anywhere in the world. They were God's gift to the
people who first came to this land. It is our intention to
hand that heritage down secure for future generation. The man
I have chosen for that assignment is able suited. He is a man
of the West, the Governor of America's largest state, our last
fronter of Alaska.
Walter Hickel is a young Secretary of the Interior.
He went to Alaska as something of a pioneer, without a dime in
his pocket, thirty years ago. He helped to build Alaska into the
great state and land of opportunity it is today. He will bring
to his position in our Cabinet an ingrained love of this
country and its outdoors. He will be great and effective
Trustee of America's Natural Resources.
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12/11/68
MELVIN LAIRD
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
The Secretary of Defense will be the youngest in the
nation's history; and yet he will bring more experience in the
field of national security to that job than any other of his
predecessors with the sole exception of General Marshall. He
is Congressman Melvin Laird of Wisconsin, a veteran of 16 years
in the House of Representatives, a man whom even his Democratic
colleagues regards as one of the most brilliant in the Congress.
He will name as Deputy Secretary of Defense will be
names an executive with full responsibility for managing the
Pentagon.
Congressman Laird, rather Secretary Laird will be
the man on whom I will depend to determine the national security
needs of this coutnry. I know of no more ideal man for this
post. He blends years of experience in national security affairs;
he shares my views completely with the need to keep America
second to none in terms of military strength; and he shares my
concern last too much of America's resources be wasted on arms
that are not needed and taken from the more profitable pursuit
of the words of peace.
XXX
12/11/68
Patrick Buchanan
Secretary of Commerce
The new Secretary of Commerce brings with him to that
post a tremendous reputation in the American business community.
He is a certified public accountant who once handled the largest
account in the world in the late fifties when he was budget
Director of the United States under President Eisenhower.
I will count upon Secretary Stans as I have in the
past for advice and counsel on the domestic economy, and will
call upon him for ideas in dealing with the problems of poverty
and unemployment. He is an able counsellor, a man of great
integrity, a good friend and he will make a great Secretary of
Commerce.
I know I need not dwell on the importance of this annouce-
ment this evening. Every citizen in America will, I hope,
give close attention to what takes place here, because these
outstanding men, given the concurrance of the United States
Senate, will be functional leaders in their respective areas
for at least the next four years.
There are twelve great Executive Departments in our gov-
ernment, each headed by a Cabinet officer. I have only a few
minutes to make them known to you. Tonight, therefore, I will
tell you in the fewest possible words the most compelling rea-
son why I have selected each man. I must confine my remarks
to this central thought respecting each -- and, of course,
tomorrow and later, every citizen can find in his newspapers
the detailed history of every one.
First, the Senior Cabinet position in our government -- the
Secretary of State. William P. Rogers of Maryland is my choice.
Four months ago in my Acceptance remarks at the Miami conven-
tion, I stated that America is now entering a period of nego-
tiation, leaving a time of confrontation. This, I believe very
deeply. For Secretary of State, therefore, I have selected a
man whom I know personally, from many years of close associa-
tion, to be one of the most skillful, competent, toughest ne-
gotiators in America. The youngest Secretary of State in this
century, I predict that Mr. Rogers will be one of the most suc-
cessful Secretaries of State in the history of our country.
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For Secretary of the Treasury I have selected Mr. David
Kennedy of Illinois. In this time of extreme gravity in in-
ternational monetary affairs and in fiscal concerns here at
home, it was imperative to select a very specially qualified
man for this post. That is David Kennedy. Not only his major
banking competitors rank him at the top of their lists, but
also international bankers regard him with the highest respect
and esteem. Both of my last two predecessors in the Presidency
considered this outstanding man, who heads the Continental
Bank of Chicago, for this same position. In point of years
he is the senior member of the cabinet, but from personal
discussions with him I know that the more youthful members
will be hard-put to match his vigor and drive.
For Secretary of Defense, I propose Congressman Melvin
R. Laird of Wisconsin. He is one of the ablest men I have
met in public affairs since I came to Washington 21 years
ago as a new member of the House of Representatives. Through
his Congressional work he has not only risen to leadership
in the Legislative Branch; he has also mastered in remarkable
degree the complexities of national defense planning and oper-
ations. He will take office as the best prepared man for this
post in its broadest implications of any Secretary of Defense
since this Department was created 21 years ago, excepting
possibly only General George C. Marshall. Our national secur-
ity, the readiness of our military strength, the scores of
billions of dollars invested in our military forces -- all this
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immensely important area will be, I am convinced, wisely ad-
ministered by Mr. Laird.
For Attorney General of the United States I propose
Mr. John Mitchell of New York. There is no more respected
or successful lawyer in the United States. This man, with
whom I have worked professionally in the private practice
of law, has a remarkable talent, over and beyond the law, in
picking top people and in directing large organizations. He
is profoundly dedicated to restoration of law and order
throughout the nation. He will mount an all-out attack on
buregoning crime. He will be fair and he will be firm.
I will simply say there has never been a better qualified
Attorney General.
For Postmaster General of the United States I propose
Mr. Winton Blount, of Alabama -- probably the most highly
experienced business manager to this post in this century.
Relatively young, immensely successful in business, a skil-
led manager, he is today the President of the U. S. Chamber
of Commerce. With me he is committed to vastly improving
the postal service. I am convinced he will be extraordinarily
successful in this.
For Secretary of the Interior I recommend Governor Walter
Hickel of Alaska -- a far-Westerner in the tradition of this
post. Governor Hickel brings youth, energy, imagination, and
a remarkably successful personal record to his post, as well as
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detailed knowledge of the huge problems of this Department,
in particular relationship to the vast Western reaches of
America. He is a man of remarkable abilities, who I am con-
vinced, will write a great record for this Department.
For Secretary of Agriculture I propose Dr. Clifford
Harden. Dr. Harden is Chancellor of the University of
Nebraska. Born and raised on the farm, one who has oper-
ated a farm, today he is an acknowledged expert in the ex-
ceedingly complex problems of agriculture, a subject which
he studied at Purdue University and taught at Michigan State
University before taking the leadership of the University
of Nebraska. He knows it will be his responsibility, in the
new Administration, to speak up for the farmer, and for the
rural American. He brings to this task a remarkable grasp
of its problems and a deep understanding of the needs of
the people in the farming areas of our country.
For Secretary of Commerce I propose a man of encyclope-
dic knowledge and experience in government - a man also eminently
successful in the business world -- Mr. Maurice Stans of New York.
This man has become a recognized leader in every field he has
undertaken. He is dedicated, as I am, to developing greatly
improved methods for increasing the involvement of the private
sector in the most pressing problems of our society, and he has
the know-how and he has the ability to help us acheive this
goal.
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For Secretary of Labor I intend to propose Dr. George
P. Shultz, one of our nation's leading mediators of labor
disputes -- a man with previous service in the Department
of Labor during the Eisenhower Administration, an expert
in economics, and Dean of the University of Chicago School
of Business Administration. He is tops in his field and
will bring expertise and distinction to his post.
For Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare I propose
a man of youth, imagination and boundless energy, the second
highest elected officer in the most populous state in the
Union -- Lt. Governor Robert Finch of California. Mr. Finch
shares my commitment to the creation of a humane, understand-
ing and responsive Administration. As leader of the Depart-
ment most concerned with the personal problems of the Ameri-
can people, he has the force, the compassion, the decisive-
ness and the experience gained in dealing with these pro-
blems in California to evolve sound conclusions. He will
provide distinguished leadership in the fields of health,
education, and welfare.
For Secretary of Housing and Urban Development I propose
a distinguished American known to every citizen as a man of
profound personal commitment to the well-being of the people.
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He is a leader in urban affairs, an outstanding administrator -
a person who also has dedicated himself to encouraging the
greatest possible volunteer action in meeting America's urban
and rural problems. I refer to Governor George Romney of
Michigan, and am particularly proud that he is joining the
new Administration in devising new and workable solutions to
our most pressing domestic problems.
For Secretary of Transporation I propose another distin-
guished governor, one who served as Director of Highway Pro-
grams during the Eisenhower Administration -- Governor John
Volpe of Massachusetts. This state leader is a man of phen-
omenal energy and devotion, He has specialized in the com-
plexities of modern transporation both as Governor of Massa-
chusetts and in his previous federal service. He too, like
Governors Finch and Romney, has an intense concern relating
to our vexing urban problems. He will contribute to their
solution far beyond the confines of his own Departmental
assignment.
In presenting these men to you this evening, I am con-
vinced that from their combined efforts, joined with min as
your President, will come great good for our country. This is
a grouping broadly distributed georgraphically; intellectually
distinguished; youthful and vigorous; skilled in their func-
tional areas; and versed in the intricacies of the political
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system in which we live. I have the utmost confidence in
them. I believe they will earn your total trust and, in
time, your hearty approval.
Tonight marks my first public listing of the most major
appointments of the new Administration. There will be many
other important announcements in the immediate future which
will complement the Cabinet named this evening. I am deter-
mined that every significant aspect of American life find
appropriate representation in the leadership of our country,
and this will be done. We have moved far in that direction this
evening, and I commend these distinguished men to you as an
effective and forceful new leadership for America.
Safire/Cabinet Introduction
What is a babinet?
Allt too often, a cabinet is a collection of the heads of
government agencies departments. Some Presidents have avoided
their cabinets; some presidents have preferred "kitchen cabinets"
of close friends and advisors; and some presidents have used
their cabinets creatively.
much more than
I daxnet believe that a cabinet is a collection of department
heads. I beleive a cabinet, in this modern day, is at the core
of an Administration's effectiveness. And I believe that a cabinet
has a unity, an identity, as a cabinet wheih is why I wanted you
to meet them collectively tonight.
ROGERS
And now for a post held in our early days by Jefferson and
Madison
and recently by men like Dulles and Dean Rusk.
You often hear its said that a Preisdent will be "his own
Secretary of State." I dont agree. The President has enough to
do being his own President.
One of the formost problems we face is to Beestabilsh respect
for Americamx abroad
so the next secretary of state had to be a
man of respected stature.
One of this kmmediate tasks will be to oversee the most delicate
kind of negoications for peace...and so we needed a skilled negociator.
And finally, we needed a man at the helm of State who understood
the workings of a major department who could move surely and
decisively.
William P. Rogers was Dwight Eisenhower's Attonry General. In my
mind, he la is the best negoociator in the United States today---he's
the kind of man you want on your side of the conference table.
As one who has effectively operated the Department of Justice, he will
know how to move quickly to take over the reins at State.
Your secretary of State must be a man of intellect; Rogers is that.
He must be young enough to withstand the rigors of the job; Bill
Rogers is in his mid-Fifties. And most of all, he must speak for you
and me with a force of chamacter, and the quietness of strengbh and
that is the kind of Secretary of State BillRogers will be.
MITCHELL
What sort of Attonry General do we need?
More than ever, today we need a man who knows the difference
withx between strength and bluster
between talk and action.
John Mitchell is my choice.
The Attorney General has to have a deep understanding Bf, and a
love for, the law and John Mitchell, who has been my law partner
for the past few years, is as fine a lawer as I have ever met.
What's more, state and municpple law has been his specialty;
he knows the proplbems of our cities.
There were a lot of raised eyebrows when I chose him to be the
manager of my campaign for the Preisdency- my friends pointed out
he had never managed a campaign before. He was a success for at
least three reasons: a fine mind, always learning; character;
and executive authroity.
John Mitchell is I a tough-minded man, ever since his days as a
torpede boat commander in the Pacific. But he is also a compassionate
fair-minded man.
feared
An attorney general should be frezed by racketeers and criminals;
organized crime will have good reason to worry about John Mitchell.
At the same time, the Attoryney general must have the trust and
respect of the citizen who needs his rights protedted and bohn
Mitchell will earn that trust.
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ROMNEY
Housing and Urban Devleopment is one of the newest
government departments but it deals with the age-old problem of
how and where people live, and the quality of their life in the
cities.
Right now, there are two overriding needs in this deaprtment:
first, a tightening up of administration; and second a belief
in the ability of private amdxenterprise and government, working
togetehr, to meet our housing needs.
George Romney culd have held one of several cabinet posts; but
in HUD he will be especailly effective. He's a proven
administrator
as cehef executive of a great auto company, and
later as cheif executive of the state of Michigan
But he's more than a fine administrator. He's one of those
practical dreamers, one of these men with an abiding belief in the
power of our system to overcome its weaknesses.
He's a problem solver; and there are plenty 6f urban problems
that need faxixamdxlongeramgexattenxxmmxx solutions.
FINCH
For the post of Health, Education and Walfare, we reached out
West, to California for its Lt. Governor, Robert Finch.
Bob Finch is the youngest member of the cabinet, age 43
(IS THIS RIGHT?). He's a man for today, and 2 man for tomorrow.
In Calffornia, he headed a Job Training Council that opened up
opportunities for thousands of unemployed
the whole field of new
job opportunities is an important area of his concern.
He is a regent of the University of California, and a man with a
outtanding interest in education and health care.
I have alsways gelt that education is the longrange answer to
so many of our nation's needs; in Bob Finch, I have an HEW secretary
with a passion for excellence in education, and a desire to extend
educational opportunity to every child in every corner of this land.
Wednesday 11 December
From: Price
To:
RN
Subj: Notes on Cabinet appointees
1. This packet is incomplete; it's as far as I'd gotten by
the 1:00 deadline.
2. A few general thoughts:
a. The new Administration is going to be a ministry
of talents. Its members are men of outstanding brilliance,
of broad gauge, of national stature in their own right, even
though several are not yet nationally known, men with the capaci-
ty to see a problem whole and not merely in one or another of
its specialized facets.
b. The magnitude of the problems we as a nation face
demands nothing less.
C. They are not all men who see eye to eye on everything,
either with one another or with RN. That's the way RN wants it
-- he wants this to be an Administration in which ideas contend
on the basis of their own merits, and in which new avenues are
constantly being opened and explored for the achievement of our
common purposes as a nation.
d. I think an argument can be made that, with Kissinger,
Moynihan, etc., this is the kita brainiest Administration ever
put together.
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SECRETARY OF STATE
RAYMOND K. PRICE
The Secretary of State bears some of the most awesome
responsibilities in America. The quality of his judgment weighs
heavily in the chances for peace and war; his skill as a
negotiator can be crucial to the future of freedom in the world.
No one in America has a better combination of negotiating
skill, balanced judgment and intellectual brilliance than the
man I am especially pleased to have persuaded to serve as
Secretary of State.
The period we are entering will be one of intensive
negotiations on many fronts, as the United States seeks new
relationships with friend and adversary alike. I can think of no
one I would rather have negotiating on behalf of the United States
that William P. Rogers.
The most effective of our past Secretaries of State
have often come from the ranks of international lawyers, as does
the man I have chosen. He served as Attorney General of the
United States under President Eisenhower, and won a reputation
for skill and great brilliance.
At the same time, he has proven himself highly effective
at running a major department of government; he has served for
three years on the National Security Council, where his contributions
were always keenly insightful; he is dedicated to the pursuit of
peace, and at the same time toughlyrealistic in his judgment, in
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his measurement of the possible and in his determination to
achieve it.
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12/11/68
Raymond K. Price
George Romney
The Department of Housing and Urban Development will be
one of those at the center of the great effort to develop new
and more relevant approaches to the crisis of America's cities.
For Secretary, I wanted a man who not only knew urban problems,
but who cared and one not stuck in the old ways, but dedicated
to innovation, and especially to the finding of new ways to enlist
the full range of our resources -- private as well as public -- in
the struggle for better cities.
Beyond this, I wanted a man who was capable of mastering
the immense administrative burdens of this very demanding office.
My choice is Michigan's Governor George Romney -- a
experied
brilliant administrator, both as a highly successful business
executive and as Governor of a major industrial state, a man who
has a deep feel for the problems of the cities and an intense
dedication to the solution of those problems. Probably no man
in America better understands the uses of private resources to
solve public problems, or has taken more vigorous leadership in
the enlistment of the voluntary and private sectors. As a man of
both government and business, and innovator as well as an
administrator, whose own career offers one of the nation's leading
examples of citizen participation in public affairs, Governor
Romney's will be a strong voice of experience and imagination.
12/11/68
Raymond K. Price
Clifford M. Hardin
For Secretary of Agriculture, I wanted a man who was
thoroughly knowledgeable in the problems of agriculture -- not
only the problems of farming itself, but the larger picture as
well -- agricultural marketing, food and hunger. And, as I
often stated during the campaign, I wanted a Secretary of
Agriculture who would speak for the farmers to the President,
instead of for the President to the farmers%
I have found a man who meets these critieria brilliantly,
and who also has the stature and the intelligence to contribute
broadly to the development of policies within the Administration
which affect the agricultural community. I have chosen as
Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin, the chancellor of
the University of Nebraska and former dean of the school of
agriculture at Michigan State University. Under Secretary Hardin's
leadership, the farmers of America will have a powerful voice
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within the Administration -- and at the same time, his deep
interest in the problems of world hunger will, I am confident,
lead to the development of imaginative new ways of using America's
agricultural genius to the fullest in the cause of world peace
and human well-being.
12/11/68
Raymond K. Price
Winston M. Blount
In the past, The Postmaster Generalship has often been
used as a reward for deserving politicians, or as a place for a
top political adviser to hang an official hat while spending most
of his time on politics.
In choosing a Postmaster General, I wanted one who
would concentrate on running the postal service -- and at the
same time on overhauling the postal service, to make it more
efficient for the benefit of everybody. So I've picked for the
job one of the leading businessmen of the nation and one of the
smartest -- the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a
dynamic young doer from Montgomery, Alabama -- Winston M. Blount.
I'm confident that when Red Blount gets through, we'll have a
postal service geared to the rapidly mounting needs of the 1970's,
one of which the postal employees can be proud, and with which
the people of America will at last be satisfied.
12/11/68
Raymond K. Price
Walter J. Hickel
This is a post that can be of tremendous importance
in shaping the America of tomorrow -- in conserving our natural
resources, preserving and developing recreational facilities,
and generally restoring the quality of life in an ever-more-
crowded America.
Traditionally, the Secretary of the Interior has been
a Westerner. There are a lot of Cabinet traditions that I
discarded, but this is one that I felt was valid. Most of the
responsibilities of the Interior Secretary have primarily to do
with the Western states, and the interests of the Western states
are closely and vitally bound up with the decisions made in the
Department of the Interior.
While wanting a Westerner, however, I did not want a
man who had been personally identified with one side or the
other of the great public-vs-private power or water disputes;
and I did want a man who had the brains, the drive and the
imagination to make of this office the major force that I believe
it must become in the years ahead.
The Governor of America's largest state, and one of its
newest, will, in my view, superbly meet these criteria, and it is
my intention to appoint as Secretary of the Interior Governor
Walter J. Hickel of the state of Alaska.
12/11/68
JOHN MITCHELL
RAYMOND K. PRICE
The new Administration is going to be dedicated
to a restoration of respect for the law in America-- not repressively,
but firmly, with even-handed) justice and a humane order that
makes freedom possible.
The man whom I have chosen as the new Attorney
General is a brilliant lawyer, a strong personality, and a man
dedicated to the twin concepts of order and justice. As one of
my former law partners, and as manager of my Presidential campaign,
I have known him well -- and have developed enormous respect for his
brilliance, his balance, and his unruffled capacity to steer
a true course whatever the winds.
Under John Mitchell's leadership, I am confident that
the Department of Justice will be vigorously what its name implies
-- an advocate of the people's rights, a guardian of law and a
temple of justice.
As the nation's chief law enforcement officer, John
Mitchell can be counted on for fairness, for vigor, and for a
recognition that an effective system of law must be a just system
of law.
12/11/68
TREASURY
RAYMOND K. PRICE
At a time of acute worldwide concern over international
monetary matters, the new U. S. Secretary of the Treasury must,
more than ever, be a man who understands international finance
and who has the stature to command the respect of the financial
community both at home and abroad.
For this post, I have chosen David M. Kennedy, the
chairman of the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust
Company of Chicago and a former special assistant to the
Secretary of the Treasury.
In soliciting recommendations for this extremely
sensitive post, I was immensely impressed by the universal esteem
Mr. Kennedy is held in by his colleagues and competitors, both
at home and abroad. He is a man of broad outlook, of immense
ability, with both the personal and the professional stature
this post so pre-eminently requires. He was largely responsible
for building the Continental Bank into one of the world's largest
financial institutions, and also for greatly expanding its
international operations; I am especially pleased that vigor,
imagination and drive will now be put in the service of the nation.
12/11/68
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
RAYMOND K. PRICE
Often in the past, Presidents have named as Secretary
of Defense top executives of major corporations, on the theory
that the vast managerial requirements of the office made the
need for business managerial experience pre-eminent.
In my choice, I took a different course. The Under
Secretary will be a managerial expert, but for Secretary I
wanted a man whose basic orientation was toward the great national
policy questions that the Secretary of Defense is increasingly
and inescapably involved in-- and at the same time, thoroughtly
one knowledgeable about the awesome intricacies of the defense
establishment.
So, for Secretary of Defense, I intend to appoint
Congressman Melvin Laird of Wisconsin.
On both sides of the aisle, Mel Laird has long enjoyed
a reputation as one of the smartest man ever to sit in Congress.
His long service on the Defense subcommittee of the House
Appropriations committee made him one of the best-informed men
in Congress on defense policy, and he also is thoroughly expert
in the need to keep defense expenditures within manageable bounds.
Mel Laird will bring to the Cabinet a wide-ranging, first-
rate intelligence, immense vigor, and a keen sensitivity to the
proper relationships between the Executive and Legislative
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branches -- and, when the great decisions are being made, a
probing mind that can be counted on to ask the right questions
and come up with fresh approaches.
12/11/68
SECRETARY OF LABOR
RAYMOND K. PRICE
To represent the voice of labor effectively in the
Cabinet, a Secretary of Labor must have the confidence of
organized labor; to function effectively on the national scene,
and especially at times of intense labor-management crisis, he
must also have the confidence of business.
Seldom has one man enjoyed the confidence of both
to the extend that George P. Schultz does -- a confidence won
as one of the nations's most outstanding mediators of labor
disputes.
As dean of the University of Chicago's Graduate
School of Buisness, Dr. Schultz, like others in the Cabinet,
has a broad range of intersts and experience beyond the specific
requirements of his own Cabinet post. Thus labor will be
represented in the Cabinet by a Secretary whose voice will be
heard and respected on a wide range of issues -- urban affairs, and
education, for example, which have special relevance to the needs
of labor as well as general significance for the nation.
12/11/68
TRANSPORTATION
RAYMOND K. PRICE
As the Cabinet officer with chief responsibility
for untangling the nation's vast transporation snarl, I have
chosen a Governor of first-rate talents and extensive experience,
at both the Federal and state level, with problems of both
public and private transporation.
John A. Volpe, the Governor of Massachusetts, served as
Federal Highway Administrator under President Eisenhower; as
Governor, he has grappled with the problems of transportation
that plague our metropolitcan centers. A successful self-made
business man, he is a skilled administrator; and equally
importantly, he is broadly knowledgable in the whole complex
of urban problems that are inseparable from the transporation
picture.
In an increasingly mobile nation, transporation
cannot be viewed apart from its impact on the patterns of both
urban and rural life. Governor Volpe will bring to the Cabinet
this broader experience, as well as his own expert knowledge
of the transporation field.
12/11/68
HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE
RAYMOND K. PRICE
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare
can be a great fountain of ideas, a place of creative confrontation
with the problems that wrack our cities and that will determine
the quality of our national life for many years to come.
For Secretary of HEW, I have turned to one of my
closest associates, a man with whom I have worked through
much of my public life -- whose judgement I respect immensely,
and whose energy is boundless -- the Lieutenant Governor of
California, Robert H. Finch.
Idealism
As Lieutenant Governor, Bob Finch has involved
himself deeply in the human crises that strain our cities,
in problems of education and jobs and welfare, in the relations
between the races -- and he's a man who's never satisfied until
a problem is on the way to solution.
I have immense confidence that with Bob Finch At
HEW, the department will take on a new life -- that it will be a
place of ideas and of action, and deep humanitarian concern with
the needs of all our people everywhere. In few areas are new
ideas so urgently needed as in the fields of HEW's concern, and
I know of no man in America better able to stimulate those ideas
and translate them into action than Robert H. Finch.
12/11/68
MAURY STANS
RAYMOND K. PRICE
For Secretary of Commerce, I intend to appoint
Maurice H. Stans. As a business man, Maury Stans has
proven his skills through success in the fastest track in the
world -- Wall Street. Beyond this, he knows government as
few men do. He served as Director of the Bureau of the Budget
under President Eisenhower -- and anyone familiar with the
operations of the Federal government knows that the Budget Bureau
is where the lines of policy and administration all finally
cross.
Maury Stans is a man of intelligence and humanity.
He will be a forceful advocate of the business point of view.
and at eh same time a man who can help provide that link
between business needs and government repsonsibilities that is
so essential if each is to play its role to the fullest in
the years ahead.
MEMO TO BOB HALDEMAN
From Buchanan
Attached are the remnants of Buchanan and Price's Stuff
on the Cabinet guys and introduction.
Buchanan
MEMO TO: RN
FROM: Buchanan
Points that might be made in the introduction:
1) RN has selected a Cabinet of men, nearly all of whom grew
to manhood in the years of the Depression and the World War, as
RN did. They know the meaning of poverty in this nation; they know
the ravages of war first hand; they are committed to social
justice; they know the requirements of peace.
2) RN might well take note that while every section of
America can claim at least one of these men; some five of them
hail from the Midwest.
3) In selecting these men, RN sought to bring men with
special capacities for their particular job, but also men with
knowledge and understanding and background in other areas; a
Secretary of State who was also an Attorney General; a Secretary
of Defense who was minority whip and one of the most brilliant men
in the House of Representatives; a university dean who is also a
businessman as Secretary of Labor; a university chancellor who is
also one of the nations most knowledgeable men in agriculture.
RN feels that the cross fertilization of ideas and experience
will make the whole Cabinet really greater than simply the sum of
its parts.
4) They are men of RN's generation.
12/11/68
GEORGE P. SHULTZE
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
Some of the most imaginative thinking in the nation
today-- for new approaches for America's social problems -
is taking place at the University of Chicago. The new
Administration intends to tap that source; and we have named
to the Cabinet as Secretary of Labor, George P. Shultze, the
Dean of the Graduate School of Business.
Dean Shulz has a doctorate in economics, an
outstanding record in the academic coummunity, as well as broad
experience as a business executive.
His job will be the implementation of the long-range
programs of which we talked during the campaign. He will have
a hand in the development of our concept of black capitalism
for the urban slums, and the creation of the national computer
job bank to enable anyone in the nation in the need of a job
to find one.
We look to him for ideas as well as for administration
and arbitration if disputes; we look to him as a transmissionbelt
to the academic community; we look to him to speak up for the
interests of the American workingman organized and independent.
12/11/68
ROBERT FINCH
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the
new Cabinet, will be one of this Administration's two ranking
ambassadors to and attorneys for those Americans who, because of
discrimination or poverty, have been denied a full and fair share
of this country's blessings.
The man who holds that post must be "afflicted with a
special conscience," and deeply committed to social justice for
every American.
The man I have chosen brings that kind of conscience
to his job--and a great deal more. He is Lieutenant Governor
Robert Finch of California.
He will some into office with new ideas, a passion for
reform of America's welfare structure, the experience of twenty
years in public life and two years as Lieutenant Governor of the
largest state in the Union.
I have known Bob Finch since he got out of college
and these is no man in whom I have more confidence in his
imagination and ability, character and compassion. I believe that
he is the man to make progress with a crisis that has so far
resisted the best of intentions and billions of dollars.
12/11/68
DAVE KENNEDY
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
The senior member of the Cabinet is, the new Secretary
of the Treasury, David M. Kennedy.
He is the chairman of the board and former president
of the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of
Chicago. He has in the past been an assistant Secretary of the
Treasury and he spent 16 years on the staff of the Federal Reserve
Board, before and during World War II.
The endorsements and recommendations of Dave Kennedy
for the post of Treasury Secretary not only came from American
bankers but from bankers in Europe and around the world.
I have chosen him for this post for three basic reasons.
First, he is a brilliant economist on fiscal matters; secondly,
he has an intimate working knowledge of international monetary
problems; and third, he brings a touch of that midwestern
concervatism to the job that we like to see in the men who handle
the taxpayers money.
In candor, the problems of inflation and employment here
in the United States, and the crisis of the dollar and the free
world monetary system abroad are among the most critical the next
Administration will confront. They are more difficult to resolve
today than they have been for thirty years. That is why I have
chosen a man who understands international finance, as well as the
fiscal matters at home. That is why I have selected Dave Kennedy
for one of the most difficult and challenging jobs in this
Administratio.
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SUGGESTED COMMENTS
NIXON MUDGE DINNER
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
It was a little more thatn five years ago that I
joined the firm here. It seems longer than that right now. I
remember coming east as a struggling young California lawyer,
with a mixed won-and-loss record, looking to relocate. I think
that I have benefited greatly, speaking in a personal sense, from
the associations here--and I trust that you gentlemen have as well.
Certainly, we've both come up in the world since then.
I shall take to Washington many fond memories of
New York and the men with whom I worked for five years.
I remember when I first arrived. I came, as you
recall from California after the press and I at a get-together after
the gubernatorial campaign had decided that the law rather then
politics held out the greater promise in the way of a career.
Anyhow, I arrived here in New York, and although I
had been the Vice President, I had few personal friends here. Most
of them were in California or Washington.
It was then that Bob Guthrie took me in tow and said,
"Dick you have to forget about California and get to know a new
crowd of folks here in New York. They're great fellows here. Get
out and play some golf. Let me introduce to the Country Club set.
So, with his advice and sponsorship, I joined Baltusrol County Club.
(pause)
There as the years went by my interest turned back
again to the political arena, which I must say in candor has
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remained my first love. But in moving back into the arena I
shall never forget the support, the cooperation and the understanding
of you gentlemen in this room. Without them we could never have
hoped to be successful.
I recall Milton Rose suffering in silence while
Midwestern and Southern politicians lounged in the lobby, turning
these hallowed legal halls into smoke-filled rooms.
Bob Guthrie and John Mitchell raised no voice in
protest when politicans took their daughters off to work from
dawn to midnight in the campaign---and sometimes beyond.
And John Alexander even volunteered to write a major
speech on tax reform for use late in the campaign -- that speech
should be ready any day now, John?
There were no complaints when we hauled John Sears
off to be a political theoretician and liasion with Governor Agnew,
when we hauled off Tom Evans to run the Citizens operation, when
we took Marty Pollner off to handle our law and order research,
when we took Len Garment out of the Litigation Department to handle
the Media Campaign, when we took Frank Lincoln off to manage the
transition, and when we took off one of the name partners, John
Mitchell, to be the new Attorney General.
Like William Pitt, I can say I thank you and the nation
thanks you as well. Never before in the history of political
conflict has so much been done by one law firm for so little in the
way of return.
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The only rewards "Nixon, Mudge" has received to my
knowledge is some free national publicity from Drew Pearson.
A minute ago, I mentioned our new Attorney General,
John Mitchell. We almost didn't get him. If you gentlemen will
recall late in the campaign John felt a little embarrassed by the
generosity of some of our contributors, and decided not to report
those comtributions to the Clerk of the House. As least that is
what my friends in the press tell me.
Although John's intentions were the best I am sure,
technically that constituted a violation of the Corrupt Practices
Act, which my good friend Mr. Ramsey Clark, has enthusiastically
pointed out.
So, we may yet see a first here, an outgoing Attorney
General prosecuting his successor.
If we need a lawyer for John we'll be back to the
firm here. My own view is that Ramsey Clark ought to go ahead
with it, because there's been too much permissiveness lately, and
we've got to crack down on it.
In seriousness, speaking not only for me, but for
those others of the staff -- the non-lawyers - -- who worked here
with the firm for months, some of them years, I apreciate the
contributions you have all made to your success, and the time you
have given to our efforts.
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Jack Kennedy once said after he was elected in 1960,
and when some papers were criticizing him for his choice of
friends, that "A President doesn't make new friends; he has
to keep the ones he's got." I think, I know, that iN this room,
I have many good friends, and I shall keep them in the years ahead.
Thank you.
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man in great tradito J June mitchel-
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confiden y Busin T. labor - in
mediating dispute -
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fresh eye - belief j we this mation can new desire silease
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Department of Defense
Sen. Henry Jackson
Department of State
Robert Murphy
(appointment extremely well received)
Walter Judd
(His naming as Asst. Sec. for Far East would
be very well received; has more recommendations from the right than
almost anyone
and
Bob Hill (has support among conservatives)
Bryce
Department I Dean Earl of Butts Agriculture ( RN knows him) quere Farm Bureen
Don Paarlburg
Shuman of the Farm Bureau
FOREIGN POLICY GENERALLY & Defense
Frank Armbruster
Herman Kahn
Stefan Possony
Harold Brown, Secretary of the Air Force,
Franz Michel, Sino-Soviet Institute at G.W.
David Nelson Rowe at Yale, Asian Affairs
Frank Trager, NYU
age
Ellis Briggs, former Ambasqador
Paul Bethel, on Cuba, former Foreign Service Officer
Walter McConnaughy
Dr. Stepehn Tan, President of East Asia Research Institute
Joe Blatchford, California, good in Latin America, worked out a
private Peace Corps type thing which was heraled in the 1950s.
John W. Haynes, head of the Bureau of Security and Consular
affairs under Ike
? John Hane?
Negroes
Dr. Tom Matthews, Black Capitalism man
Rev. Leon Sullivan
Arthur Fletcher, RN's friend who lbst in Washington
Wesley Williams, former presidenti of the D.C. Board of Education
his son is on the city council there under Fauntroy. Wesley Williams
Jr., voted for RN in D.C.
LABOR
good
MXMXMike Bernstein, head of the Minorities Staff on the House
Education and Labor Committee, Wants to be on the NLRB
Education
Carl Hansen, bounced from the D.C. school system
Max Rafferty (how do you like that one?)
James Coleman, author of the Controversial Coleman report, Buchanan's
believes he is highly regarded.
BLACK CAPITALISM
Chad McClellan, Reagan's man
Dick Cornuelle
Other names recommended by Conservatives
M. STanton Evans of the Indianapolis News
Bill Rickenbacker, who has written books on soliver and gold
for a lower position at the Treasury
Bill Mittendorf for a lesser position at Treasury
Governor Tim Babcock
Tom Curtis, with the exceptionof Judd, Curtis gets as many plaudits
as anyone else
Tom Miller, CBS young Executive,
Dr. Harold Demsetz, University of Chicago for Economics
Bruno Auginstien, vice presicent for research at the Ran N Corporation
Patrick Boarman, took over Pendergast's job at the House Conference
Committee. (professor, with good conservative credentials)
Otto Otepka, backto his own job (?)
allen Walles, Rochester University
Sept
1968
T.V. cames later
file
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December 28, 1968
MEMO TO: President-Elect Richard M. Nixon
FROM:
Pat Buchanan
Below are some random thoughts on the Chicago Kennedy-Shultz drill.
It is a pleasure being back in the city of Chicago, a city that has been
good to me, one about which I have the fondest of memories. I was nominated
for Vice President here in 1952, nominated for President of the United States
in 1960, and 600,000 Chicagoans gave me the greatest political welcome I have
ever received here three months ago.
I would have been back here sooner to thank Illinois for going Republican
this fall, but I wanted to wait until all the returns have come in from Cook
County.
I can say candidly that no other city in America has done as much for the
Nixon Administration as Chicago -- they have given me a Budget Director, a
Secretary of Labor and a Secretary of the Treasury.
What Missouri did for Truman, what Massachusetts did for Kennedy, what
Texas did for Johnson, the Mid-West is going to do for the Nixon Administration --
We have five Cabinet members from here, more than any other area in the United
States.
GEORGE SHULTZ
Recognition of the higher interest of the national need and the national
good that convinced Dave Kennedy to make the sacrifice he has -- to work in the
United States Treasury.
Similar motivations I think propelled George Shultz from the Groves of
Academe to the Department of Labor.
Page 2
With the enormous concentration of economic power today in corporations
and unions, when they collide there must be an impartial and just man to
oversee and look out for the interest of the common man. George Shultz is such
a man. He has the respect of business, the academic community and the American
labor community.
In addition, George has gotten experience in confrontation politics. He
knows all about sit-down strikes and sit-ins and violence along the picket
lines and things of that nature. He has had the best training grounds for
political and social combat that I know of today -- the Dean's office at a
major university.
As Dean of Business, George Shultz has been refereeing fights between
faculty members and professors -- we are just moving him up now to referee
some of the heavyweight fights - and we are confident he will do a fine job --
for the Administration and for the Country.
The State of Illinois was the closest State in the 1960 Election and it
was the linchpin of our 1968 victory. For that, as well as for two Cabinet
members and a Budget Director, you have my thanks.
DAVE KENNEDY - BAREFOOT BOY OF THE LOOP
I read in the paper the other day the enormous amount of money that Dave
Kennedy is going to have to give up to take a job in Government. I think it is a
credit to him that he is willing to make this kind of sacrifice for his Nation --
it needs him. It needs that streak of Mid-Western conservatism that I referred
to when I introduced him to the country last month. Incidentally, President
Johnson read about all the money that Dave is giving up -- he called me and said,
"Dick, you can't do that --- if Kennedy quits working there will be a minor
recession.
Frankly, I wish that Lyndon had been running the Treasury as well as Dave
has been running his bank -- there might be a little something for us to work with
when we get there.
Aboard Air Force One
January 3, 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR: President-Elect and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon
FROM: Don Hughes
SUBJECT: Stone Dinner, Chicago
1. At 6:45 PM, Mr. Stone will escort you to the Reception Suite
where Charles Percy, Mayor & Mrs. Daly, Governor-Elect & Mrs.
Ogilvie will be present (and possibly Mr. & Mrs. Kennedy and Mr. &
Mrs. Shultz, along with Mr. & Mrs. Mayo). RN will greet this group
briefly then proceed with the group to the Grand Ballroom.
2. At the dinner, Mr. Stone will introduce Governor Shapiro and
Mayor Daly who will welcome the Nixons to Chicago. Cardinal Cody will
deliver Invocation. 'American Liberty Singers" will sing the National
Anthem.
3.0 After the dinner:
a. Mr. Stone will call on Governor-Elect Ogilvie, who will
introduce Edward Levi, Chancellor of the University of Chicago. Mr. Levi
will introduce Kennedy, Shultz and Mayo for brief remarks. Mrs. Stone
will present Mrs. Nixon with an orchid which has been labelled "The Pat
Nixon Orchid".
b. There will be a 6-8-minute Piano Concert by a 10-year-old
girl, Rita Reichman, a student of Interlochen School of Music which Mr.
Stone is a greater contributor to and supporter of.
C. Mr. Stone will then introduce RN for brief remarks.
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The Marble Collegiate Church
Reformed Church in America
Fifth Avenue and 29th Street, New York
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE, D.D., LL.D., Minister
Sunday, December 15, 1968
ASSOCIATE MINISTERS
Parish
from
Eugene M. Pierce, S.T.B.
Education & Counseling
Donald W. Hoffman, B.D.
Administration
Arthur P. Caliandro, B.D.
Stewardship
Howard G. Teusink, B.D.
Evangelism
Edwin G. Mulder, B.D.
Pro Tem
David W. Jenks, B.D.
Elders
Willard L. Burbank
Carl L. Cleaver
Milton D. Ketchum
John M. Kyle, Jr.
Col. Frank L. Moore
L. Homer Surbeck
Deacons
John M. Ely
Arthur Fleming
Ely Francis
John D. Moody
John J. O'Connor
Dr. Martin H. Sommer
Church Administrator
Robert Owens, Jr.
4
Choir Director and Organist
CHURCH FOUNDED IN 1628; PRESENT EDIFICE ERECTED IN 1854
Alden W. Clark
Finch Lind
Brann
Sunday, December 15, 1968
TODAY AT MARBLE CHURCH
Order of Service - 9:45 and 11:15 A.M.
Churchtime Nursery-for children six years and younger, second floor, during both morning
services.
Upon entering the church, let all be quiet and in meditation.
Church School-classes for all ages. Registration 11 A.M., second floor, Church House.
ORGAN PRELUDES
Bible Class for men and women of all ages, 11 A.M., Recreation Room, Church House. Lecture
In dulci jubilo
J.S. Bach
by Dr. Robert W. Strain, followed by discussion. Topic: "What Assurance Have the Faithful?"
From heaven above
J. Bach
Interesting Tour of the Church (thirty minutes)-begins in Poling Chapel after second service;
OPENING CHORALE
sponsored by Men's League.
Break forth, 0 beauteous heavenly light
J. S. Bach
THE INVOCATION AND LORD'S PRAYER (use "debts")
Visitors and Members "Brunch"-after second service, Burrell Hall ($1.00), for Men's League
Scholarship Foundation.
THE PSALTER-PSALM 121 (Page 315 in the Liturgy)
The People Standing
All members living in Areas 7 and 8 are invited to a luncheon following the second service.
THE GLORIA
The People Standing
Mr. and Mrs. W. Norman Eastwood, Chairmen, and Mr. and Mrs. William A. Boetcker, Vice
HYMN 125
The People Standing
Chairmen for Area 7 (West 25 to West 76 Streets, Fifth Avenue west to river-Zones 1, 18,
READING OF THE SCRIPTURE
19, 20, 23, 36). Mrs. Gertrude B. Steele, Chairman, and Mr. and Mrs. Blaine G. Wiley,
Vice Chairmen for Area 8 (Fifth Avenue and Bowery-Zones 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 38).
ALTO SOLO
Messiah:
Handel
Young Adults' Coffee Hour (ages 21-35)-at 12:15 P.M., Recreation Room, Church House.
o thou that tellest good tidings to Zion
Hosts: Don and Ute Easterly, Lorrie DeGilio. Welcome, all young people.
PRAYER AND RESPONSE
Young Adult Fellowship (ages 21-35)-supper, 5:15 P.M. and program, 6 P.M., Burrell Hall.
HYMN 302
The People Standing
Speaker: Mr. Tom Skinner, author of "Black and Free," and Director of the Tom Skinner
Crusades.
OFFERING
OFFERTORY ANTHEM
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17
Healing Service-12 Noon, Poling Chapel,
In mirth and in gladness
Niedt
Marble Club-dinner meeting, 6:30 P.M.,
3 W. 29th Street. One-half hour service led
Bay Hall. Program: Christmas Concert by
by The Reverend William V. Pietsch, Amer-
SERMON
The Community Singers of Queens, (more
ican Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry.
INNER STRENGTH TO MATCH OUTER STRESS
than fifty voices). Dinner by reservation
Young Adults (ages 21-35) - Christmas
only. Members $2.00; guests $2.50.
Caroling - meet promptly, 8 P.M. at the
Dr. Peale
Church, for caroling throughout the city via
HYMN 106
The People Standing
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19
bus. Refreshments in Burrell Hall after
caroling.
THE DOXOLOGY
The People Standing
American Red Cross Workshop - will not
meet December 19, 26 and January 2. Will
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20
BENEDICTION AND CHORAL AMEN
The People Standing
resume on Thursday, January 9, 10:30 A.M.,
Church School Christmas Pageant, 7:30
ORGAN POSTLUDE
second floor, Church House. All women in-
P.M., Burrell Hall. Program by the chil-
vited. Bring a sandwich; tea and coffee will
dren followed by refreshments and informal
After the service, please greet your neighbor.
be served.
entertainment.
TO OUR VISITORS
found in the pew rack. If you wish to receive Dr. Peale's printed sermons, please
Peanat Center
LOOKING AHEAD
Sunday, December 29
A cordial welcome is extended to all visitors. Please sign the Welcome Visitor card
Morning Worship, 11 A.M.
indicate it on the card and leave it on the pew.
A WONDERFUL TIME IN SIXTY-NINE
Please do not take flash pictures in the sanctuary. In addition to causing distraction,
Dr. Peale
there is risk of damage to the television equipment.
Sinars a
Tuesday, December 31
Dr. Peale's Sunday morning sermon will be broadcast from 6:15 to 6:45 P.M. on WOR A.M.
Watch Night Service, 11:15 P.M.
Am
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Reverend Caliandro
Christmas Sunday, December 22, 11 A.M.
THE GREATEST MAN EVER BORN
Marble Club invites everyone to a New Year's Party following Watch Night Service, December
Dr. Peale
31, Bay Hall.
GENERAL NOTICES
Dr. Peale wishes to express appreciation to his many friends in Marble Church for their
prayers and concern for him during his recent illness.
Infant Baptism-Dr. Peale will administer the Sacrament of Baptism on Sunday morning,
December 22, at 11 A.M. Parents who are interested are requested to contact the Church
Office as soon as possible.
Personnel Placement Service-applicants interviewed in Church Office Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. If you have employment opportunities, please contact
Mrs. Robert Sacré. Phone: 686-2770.
Dr. Peale's printed sermons available in vestibules before 9:45 A.M. and after 11:15 A.M.
services. To receive printed sermons through the mail, sign Welcome Visitor card in pew rack.
Dial 889-7155 any time to hear an inspirational message from Dr. Peale - sponsored by
Guideposts Magazine.
Books by Dr. Peale, Guideposts subscriptions and Mustard Seeds may be obtained in down-
stairs lounge after the second service.
Envelopes for a special Christmas offering are in the pew racks. If you would like to add the
Church to your Christmas list, please write your name and address on the envelope and place
it on the offering plate.
ALTAR FLOWERS
In loving memory of
Robert Cyrus Griffith
by Miss Eugenie C. Stamler
The Choir
Sopranos
Altos
Tenors
Basses
Helen Rosengren, soloist
Rosalind Hupp, soloist
Jack O'Neill, soloist
Jay Hilborn, soloist
Barbara Hoffman
Alice Marie Nelson
Lester Clark
Mike Connally
Doris Phillips
Suzanne Horn
Merrill Lemmon
Peter Schroeder
Dilys Smith
Ushers COL. FRANK L. MOORE, Chairman
MILTON D. MALONSON, Assistant Chairman
Balcony
South Aisle
Center Aisle
North Aisle
Ronald L. Getty
Dr. Joseph W. Bird
Norman W. Eastwood
Maurice E. Nicklin
T. William Hagen
Harley L. Dangremond
Col. Vincent A. Lane
Louis B. Phillips, Jr.
Tracy W. Haines
U. Amel Rothermel
Charles H. Walther
Emory Ward
John Hall
Blaine G. Wiley
Arthur Henning
Chapel
Greeters
Leonard M. Moreland
Albrecht S. Weber
John W. Reilly
Television Technicians
Harry Baker
John W. Reilly, Jr.
Bay Hall
Leon Hojegian
Orton J. Beekman
Capt. Robert A. Reilly
Alexander Berkenhoff
Frank Bosnack
Robert Sacre
John E. Brandt
Richard E. Gines
David E. Bright
A. Raymond Seaman
John J. O'Connor
Warren G. Wetzel
Frank Waller
Don Leskiw
Richard W. Engl
Roy De Blieck
Robert Grausam
William Groll
Harold Robles
Robert Sacre
Geri Vartanian
Missionaries:
Rev. and Mrs. Paul Alderink, Annville, Kentucky; Rev. and Mrs. Ray G. Hays, Gray Hawk,
Kentucky: Miss Doris Lewis, Brewton, Alabama: Rev. and Mrs. Frank Love, Mescalero, New
Mexico: Mrs. Angeline Lubbinge, Annville, Kentucky; Mrs. Bettye Spencer, Pompano, Flor-
Ida; Rev. and Mrs. Albert Van Dyke, Denver, Colorado; Dr. Mary Bruins Allison, Kuwait,
Arabia; Rev. William J. Burke, Jr., Taiwan; Rev. Harvey T. Hoekstra, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Reformed Church Colleges and Seminaries: Central College, Pella, Iowa; Hope College, Holland, Michigan;
Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa: New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Bruns-
wick, New Jersey; Western Theological Seminary, Holland, Michigan.
Church Office 1 West 29th Street, Tel. 686-2770
A House for
Widding amant
the family of God
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REVERENCE IN THE SANCTUARY
THE PURPOSE OF THIS CHURCH
Many find God in quietness. Please do not
is to lead men and women to a saving knowledge of
unthinkingly disturb them in their quest.
Jesus Christ and to help them grow in Jesus Christ.
The Pastor
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John A. Huffman, Jr.
AT THE 7:30PM SERVICE TONIGHT -- we will be favored by a
Music Director
---
James Bennett
presentation by Miss Juanita Coyer of her ministry in
S. S. Superintendent
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William H. Cole, Sr.
the hospital at Kwanju, Korea. She will be showing us
The Tape Ministry
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C. Brasie and C.Seaman
slides of her work there and sharing incidents of that
Spanish Translator
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Mrs. Howard S. Coffey
ministry.
NOVEMBER 10, 1968
THE FLOWERS IN OUR SANCTUARY TODAY are placed here
11:00 A. M. Worship Service
today by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Searle to honor and in
the service of our Lord.
Organ Prelude: Chromatic Fugue
Pachelbel
*Processional Hymn 14: Ye Servants of God
FAMILY NIGHT SUPPER, WEDNESDAY, 6PM -- Make reservations
Call to Worship
Elder Eugene Rankin
today for this covered dish supper, placing your yellow
*The Lord's Prayer
reservation slip in the offering plate. Reservations, &
*The Doxology
late cancellations, must reach Mrs. Sid (Cathy) Slade by
*The Apostles' Creed
8pm on Tuesday. Phone: 361-2315. Adults: 50c; children
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under 8, 40c.
Scripture Lesson: Romans 14:1-13
Pastoral Prayer - Choral Amen
AT 7PM WEDNESDAY -- we will meet together in the sanctu-
Anthem: Jesu, word of God Incarnate
Mozart
ary as a family. After the first hymn, the young folks
Announ cements
(Now Sign Christian Fellowship Card)
***
pre-school age thru Junior High will retire to their own
separate groups. The highschoolers and adults will meet
*Hymn 50: Great is Thy Faithfulness
in the sanctuary for the study in the book of II Timothy
Offering
conducted by Rev. Huffman. The Nursery will be open.
Anthem: Create In Me A Clean Heart, 0 God
Mueller
Sermon
John Huffman
DEACONS' MEETING -- will be held two days earlier than
Topic: "Here Comes the Judge"
Text: Romans 14:7-13
schedule and announced in Newsletter: on Nov. 12, 8pm.
*Hymn 380: 0 Master, Let Me walk with Thee
DON'T FORGET:
Benediction
Sevenfold Amen
MEN'S PRAYER GROUP - Wednesday - 7am -- pastor's study.
Organ Postlude
WOMEN'S PRAYER GROUP Wed., 9am, in the choir room.
CHANCEL CHOIR PRACTICE held each Wednesday, at 8pm.
GUESTS AND MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO STAY FOR COFFEE AND
JR. CHOIR PRACTICE (grades 4 and up) - each Wed., 5-6pm.
FELLOWSHIP FOLLOWING THIS MORNING'S WORSHIP SERVICE.
TOUCH FOOTBALL At 10am each Saturday all the young
fellows of our church are invited to participate in
supervised touch football games, with Dave Carroll and
Jim Martin.
*Please stand where indicated by single asterisk.
**Everyone -- including guests -- please sign Christian
THE "JUNIOR JUNIOR" CHOIR (children in grades 1, 2 & 3),
Fellowship Card.
meets Saturday, at 10:30am, with Miss Marie Fuller.
***Ushers will seat latecomers.
OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL MEETS AT 9:30AM, WITH CLASSES FOR ALL!
How Do I Become A Christian?
fact of sin - Romans, chapter 3, verse 23;
and Romans, chapter 3, verse 10.
condition of sinner - Ephesians, chapter 2,
verses 1-3.
penalty of sin - Romans, chapter 6, verse 23.
penalty must be paid - Hebrews, chapter 9,
verse 27; and Romans, chapter 14, verse 12.
penalty paid by christ - Romans, chapter 5,
verse 8.
salvation a free gift - Ephesians, chapter
2, verses 8-9; and Titus, chapter 3, verse 5.
we must receive christ - Gospel of John,
chapter I, verses 12-13; and Revelation, chapter 3,
verse 20.
assurance of eternal life - I John, chap-
ter 5, verses 11-13; and Gospel of John, chapter 6,
verse 47.
Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church
160 Harbor Drive - Key Biscayne
MIAMI, FLORIDA 33149
LITHOGRAPHED BY MWM COLOR PRESS INC. AURORA MO 65608 44,065
SPECIAL SEATING IS AVAILABLE FOR
any with a hearing loss and also for any wishing to
hear the Sunday morning simultaneous Spanish translation
THE FLOWER CALENDAR --- is up on the bulletin board be-
hind the choir loft. If you wish to provide flowers for
the sanctuary, just indicate the Sunday you would like
and give your phone number. Our Flower Chairman -- Mrs.
George Meade - will contact you near the indicated date.
OUR MISSIONARIES --
Mexico:
Ben and Tina Gutierrez
Taiwan:
Gene and Blair Craven*
Jamaica:
Werner and Inge Burklin
Brazil:
Tom and Sandy Roddy
Korea:
Dwight and Marjory Linton; Dave and Mary Seel;
Juanita Coyer*
Andros:
Cassie Rolle
Miami:
Les and Carolyn Thompson, serving all Latin-
speaking countries through Logoi, Inc.
* (on furlough)
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE SERVICE --
Joan Walton (Wash. State)
Jerome Buzzelli, Jr. (Va.)
Jeff Griffin (Vietnam)
Robert O. Buzzelli (Fla.)
William D. Slade (Wash. DC)
James S. Kemp (Vietnam)
John M. Coffey (Texas)
R. Fred McDowell (on S. S.
Guy W. Rindge (Tenn.)
Patrick Henry)
Sanford L. Horn, III (Tex.)
Curt Hungerford (on U.S.S.
Douglas E. MacLean (Ga.)
Basilone)
Kendall S. Schaefer (Vietnam)
OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN THE MINISTRY --- Jack Spears; Kent
E. Kelley; Frederick McDowell, Sr.; Todd Allen; M. E.
Howland; William Serjak; Herbert Broadwater; Richard F.
Altork; Ronald A. (Smokey) Smith; William Link; Miss
Deanne Manship; Miss Jeanne Lawrence; & Miss Doris Ryen.
TAPE RECORDINGS: All of John Huffman's and Ben Haden's
messages are available at $1 for 1 message, or $1.50 for
two messages on one tape. Les Thompson's study of GALA-
TIANS costs $8.25. Sam Rowen's study of RUTH is $3;his
CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE SERIES is $12.75. Postage is extra.
THE CHURCH NURSERY IS OPEN FOR ALL OUR WORSHIP SERVICES.
COMING ATTRACTIONS --- On Wednesday evening, November
27, we look forward to the Burklin family being with us
at our supper hour, and Mr. Burklin will be speaking at
the 7pm service, sharing with us his YFC ministry on the
island of Jamaica.
LOYALTY DINNER -- will be held in our church building on
Wednesday, DECEMBER 4, at 6:30pm. Reserve this date!!
M.O.C. FALL RALLY -- December 6, at Miami Shores Presby-
terian Church. Registration & dinner cost, $2.50. Din-
ner at 6pm. Special speaker, Rev. D. James Kennedy, pas-
tor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. Get your tic-
kets from either Jim Martin or Frank Race.
WEST INDIES MISSION --- 40th Anniversary Dinner Rally at
Everglades Hotel on Thursday, Nov. 14, 7pm. Speaker will
be J. Allen Thompson, General Director of the Mission --
and guest soloist, Bill Hoyt, of Columbia Bible College.
The Mission was founded in Cuba in 1928 and now has min-
istries in 12 Caribbean and South American nations. The
combination of a sacred concert and a look to the future
by J. Allen Thompson will make this an exceptionally in-
teresting evening. Make reservations today. Call West
Indies Mission (444-8883), or our church office. An of-
fering will be received at the banquet to cover costs.
ON DECEMBER 1 --- there will be a CONGREGATIONAL MEETING
for the purpose of electing Elders. Nominations for
Elders should be submitted, in writing, to Clerk of Ses-
sion, Gene Rankin, on or before NOVEMBER 17.
ON DECEMBER 8 --- there will be election of Deacons held
at a CONGREGATIONAL MEETING. Nominations for Deacons
are to be submitted, in writing, to Clerk of Session,
Gene Rankin, on or before NOVEMBER 24.
LES THOMPSONSON'S RECORD, "DISCOVERIES" -- is obtainable
in monaural recording in the church office, @ $3.95.
WE ALSO HAVE AVAILABLE --- in the Tape Room -- copies of
LEIGHTON FORD'S book, The Christian Persuader, @ $3.95.
RESERVING SEATS --- IN CHRISTIAN FAIRNESS, NO SEATS CAN
BE RESERVED AFTER THE BEGINNING OF THE WORSHIP SERVICE.
ITEK CORPORATION - 10 MAGUIRE ROAD
LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02173 - (617)-276-3001
FRANKLIN A. LINDSAY PRESIDENT
December 17, 1968
The Honorable Richard M. Nixon
450 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10022
Dear Mr. President-Elect:
The attached memorandum has been prepared at your
direction by your Task Force on Organization of the Executive
Branch. We have tried in this study to identify a limited
number of actions that might be taken in the early days of
your administration to preserve options, to take advantage of
opportunities, and to begin to get at urgent problems. We
have also outlined a longer term program for achieving effec-
tive reorganization which we believe will preserve your initia-
tives and give you the most flexibility.
We urge that you move quickly in outlining your organi-
zation programs in order to seize and hold the initiative, and
we have outlined a specific program for your consideration.
Although these recommendations did not anticipate Mr.
Moynihan's appointment as Assistant for Urban Affairs, we be-
lieve that our recommendations are consistent with this appoint-
ment and demonstrate their flexibility to your needs.
We are pleased to be asked to do this study and hope it
will be of assistance in the tasks that lie ahead.
Sincerely,
Franklin Jimpay Lindsay
Chairman,
Task Force on Organization
of the Executive Branch
FAL:db
Attachment
1 Kings 3:7-12
"And now, 0 Lord my God, thou hast
made thy servant king instead of
David my father: and I am but a
little child: I know not how to.go
out or come in.
"And thy servant is in the midst of
thy people which thou hast chosen,
a great people, that cannot be numbered
nor counted for multitude.
"Give therefore ,thy servant an under-
standing heart to judge thy people,
that I may discern between good and
bad: for who wholis able to judge this
thy so great a people?
"And the speech pleased the Lord, that
Solomon had asked this thing.
"And God said unto him, Because thou
hast asked this thing, and hast not
asked for thyself long life; neither
hast asked riches for thyself, nor
hast asked the lifegof thine enemies;
2.
but hast asked for thyself understanding
to discern judgment;
"Behold, I have done according to thy
words: lo, I have given thee a wise
and an understanding heart; SO that
there was none like thee before thee,
neither after thee shall any arise
like unto thee
Exodus 33:12-15
"And Moses said unto the Lord, See,
thou sayest unto me, Bring up this
people: and thou hast not let me
know whom thou wilt send with me.
Yet thou hast said, I know thee by
name, and thou hast also found grace
in my sight.
"Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have
found grace in thy sight, shew me now
thy way, that I may know thee, that I
may find grace in thy sight: and
consider that this nation is thy people.
3.
And he said, My presence shall go
with thee, and I will give thee rest.
"And he said unto him, If thy presence
go not with me, carry us not up hence.
THE BIBLE: ITS IMPORTANCE
Jeremiah 8:9
"The wise men are ashamed, they are
dismayed and taken: 10, they have
rejected the word of the Lord; and
what wisdom is in them?
POVERTY
Exodus 23:3 (RSV)
"Neither shalt thou be partial to the
poor man in his poverty
(No book in the world makes more generous
provision for the poor or has esta-
blished fairer laws to protect them.
4.
But partiality is warned against.)
WELFARE
2 Thessalonians 3:10
" if any would not work, neither
should he eat."
Exodus 20:9
"Six days shalt thou labour, and do
all thy work?
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
There are at least ten Hebrew words
for "kill", one of which is murder.
Exodus 20:13 actually reads "Thou
shalt not murder."
There are at least six Greek words
for "kill", one of which is murder
and wherever the New Testament refers
to Exodus 20:13 it uses the Greek
word for murder.
5.
Genesis 9:6
" Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man
shall his blood be shed: for in
the image of God made he man
PROMPT PUNISHMENT
Ecclesiastes 8:11
"Because sentence against an evil
work is not executed speedily, there-
fore the heart of the sons of men is
fully set in them to do evil.
for fill
VIETNAM STRATEGY
1. The entire war strategy is designed
to win a military and political
victory for the United States over
the enemies of South Vietnam, thus
denying the South Vietnamese the
heritage of winning their own victory.
-- The Oriental is neutralized and
loses faith when he is forced to
depend on a white man's military
might and not his own.
-- In my judgment we should gradually
change the tactic of Americans
leading the South Vietnamese
military machine and let the
South Vietnamese dictate plans
for defeating the enemy.
-- The present strategy, whether
successful or not, still leaves
South Vietnam military units
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lacking in responsibility to
maintain and win the victory.
ILL: If you hired a man who was making
$15.00 a week to accomplish a task
and you paid him $100.00 a week
while so doing with the stipulation
that he drop back to $15.00 when
the task was completed, you have
removed the incentive to complete
the project and have even set up
a penalty of $85.00 a week when
he succeeds.
-- A situation has now been
manufactured where a person has
been penalized for succeeding.
-- It is not his fault that he
doesn't want to be poor again;
it is our fault for not working
out a formula for a personal
reward as incentive to overwhelm
his enemies who are keeping him
from this reward.
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-- The South Vietnamese should
gradually accept responsibility
and activity for defeating the
enemy in their own way, with the
United States adopting a backup
position, not a frontline strategy.
-- The Viet Cong are now free to
engage in battle activities un-
hindered by the self-imposed
ethics we have imposed on our
own military.
-- The South Vietnamese should be
free to defeat the enemy with
either ethical or unethical
methods (from our point of view)
familiar to the Oriental, with us
supplying the military equipment.
-- Thus we will free South Vietnam
to conquer the enemy and also
free us of criticism for the
methods and means used to
accomplish the task.
4
--- If their strategy calls for the
liberation of North Vietnam then
we should let them.
-- We have now neutralized the South
Vietnam war potential by dictating
strategy and leading in combat.
THE IMMEDIATE ALTERNATIVES:
1. Tell Hanoi privately, "Negotiate or
else", and put a time limit.
-- Emphatically declare that a
coalition government is not
acceptable and there will be no
recognition of the NLF.
-- That total American pullout from
major bases we have built is not
possible.
-- Will agree to withdrawal of major
forces if North Vietnamese pull out
completely, including their bases
in Cambodia.
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-- Am convinced that ARVN can handle
VC if North Vietnamese withdraw.
IF HANOI REFUSES TO ACCEPT THIS, THEN
WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE?
1. First, put pressure on Prince Sihanouk
to see that those bases in Cambodia are
evacuated immediately. Otherwise we
will destroy them.
2. The closing of the harbor at Haiphong.
-- General Brown, Commander of the
Seventh Air Force, says it can be
done, giving a week's notice to
all ships in the harbor.
3. This may mean the calling of China's
bluff. They should be informed through
private channels that if they intervene
then nuclear weapons will be used to
destroy their military potential.
-- We should not allow these
negotiations to drag on.
-- The Oriental respects toughness
and force. The dragging on of
this war has caused the United
States to lose tremendous prestige
throughout the Orient. If we
adopt a tough no-nonsense policy,
I am convinced that most of Asia
will rally to our side.
-- Pompeii of Rome once said there are
THREE WAYS TO WIN A WAR:
1. Destroy the enemy's productivity.
2. Destroy the enemy's military power,
even if it means sacking the cities.
3. By amassing such military power
that the enemy cowers and
surrenders.
-- This is the policy adopted by the
Soviet Union in Czechoslovakia. They
amassed such military power that not
a shot was fired.
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-- The strategy in Vietnam has been very
unwise. It has lost us many friends in
Asia, cost thousands of American lives
and tens of thousands maimed for life.
It has drained American resources. I
am convinced that a tough policy will
have such a psychological impact that
the North Vietnamese may well negotiate
in good faith. It is American un-
certainty, vascillation and hesitation
that gives them hope that they can
eventually win.
-- There is no doubt that by October 30,
1968, we almost had the war won. Now
the enemy is moving huge supplies into
the South through the Ho Chi Minh trail
and also through Cambodia. Their
present tactic is terrorism and
assassination. They also want to use
Cambodia as a sanctuary in order to
strike at Saigon in order to influence
world public opinion at the Paris peace
talks.
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-- The Paris peace talks are giving the
North Vietnamese tremendous prestige,
to think that a little country can sit
down as an equal to the mighty United
States practically begging for peace.
This looks ridiculous to Oriental eyes,
even to our critics in Japan.
BG:MW
January 3, 1969.
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Some Observations on Oriental Psychology and U.S. Far-Eastern Policy
by Donald E. Hoke,
President of Tokyo Christian College, Japan
The prestige of the United States has never been at lower ebb in the Far East
than it is at the present time. This is especially true in the advanced
nation of Japan, where I have lived for the past 16 years.
Our failure to win and maintain friends in the Far East in the post-war period
has been due, I feel strongly, to a failure to understand the basic psychology
of the Orientals. The wishful thinking of uninformed people in Washington
cannot and has not erased the religious and cultural conditioning and thought
patterns of centuries here. And there seems to be no serious effort to under-
stand these attitudes which are vital to an effective policy in dealing with
these nations.
Dr. Edwin Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, points out in his significant
book, Beyond Vietnam, the fact that the United States never seems to have had
a Far-Eastern policy. He also indicates that there are fundamental psycholog-
ical problems here which should determine our attitudes and articulation of
that policy. He lays down several clear premises on this, though I feel his
conclusion is weak in that he feels there is not a clear, viable road to
peace at the present time.
To summarize my convictions concerning the Far Eastern situation, I believe
that there's a lack of understanding on the part of Americanssthat the Oriental
respects only strength and authority. Equivocation, delays due to indecision,
and often even kindness are interpreted as weakness and therefore receive
only scorn and increasing disrespect.
Aware as I am of some of his weaknesses, nevertheless General MacArthur
understood the Oriental mind thoroughly. As a result though he came in as
the authoritative commander of a conquering nation and imposed upon the people
here rigid laws and radical revisions in their political and social structure,
he was, nevertheless, not only widely respected but virtually worshipped. His
picture still appears in many Japanese homes. Quietly, but with rock-hard
firmness and a dash of showmanship he laid down the law to the Japanese nation,
and from the prime minister to the workmen he was respected for his unwavering
firmness, albeit tempered with kindness.
This respect for firmness may be seen in the Japanese viewpoint of the Bataan
death march. This was an act of barbaric and savage cruelty to the Western
mind. But it was not considered unusual by the Japanese, and they were sur-
prised at the intensity of our resentment. Some of their own soldiers were
treated little better in the course of their discipline. A Japanese friend of
mine told me about being in the army during World War II. During inspection
one day a soldier near him was found to have his uniform inadequately prepared
for inspection. The commanding officer seized the rifle from the offending
soldier and smashed the butt into the soldier's face, shattering his jaw and
knocking out most of his teeth. This was considered understandable discipline.
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Still another illustration of the principle may be found in the inexpli-
cable contrast between the attitude of the Japanese toward the American
return of Okinawa to them, and their almost total silence concerning the
return of the Kurile Islands by Russia. The firm, unalterable position of
Russia is understood and consequently little is ever said about it in the
press. No riots are held by Japanese students in resentment of the Russian
occupation, while many riots have been held regarding the return of Okinawa.
Our show of kindness and consideration for their request, and our willingness
to bargain on the issue has, in effect, created these troubles. As far as
the Russians are concerned, toward this matter and many others, the
Japanese have a phrase, "shikata ga nai"--"there's nothing that can be done
about it." And so it is accepted.
Applying this to our policy concerning Vietnam, the apparent American
inability to bring the war to a victorious conclusion has caused rapidly
declining respect here. We give international publicity to our own internal
dissension over the issue, and reap correspondingly decreasing respect here
in the Far East. The Pueblo incident was the last blow. During the first
few hours there were loud declarations of prompt and decisive action on the
part of the President and the State Department. Within a few days this
subsided to puerile protestations. The Orientals do not understand this--
it is to them an open indication of internal weakness.
I personally believe that the "domino" theory is correct, if for no other
reason than the Oriental psychology. To the degree that the United States
takes a weak position, or even restrains itself from all-out victory as it
has done for the past two years, to that degree the Oriental imputes weak-
ness to US. Though centuries of religious, cultural, and military condition-
ing, the Oriental has been trained to respect authority, force, and decisive-
ness. The Oriental cannot understand the equivocating position of America
in Vietnam in failing to press the war to a victorious conclusion, and in
acting as pusillanimously as we have in the Pueblo incident.
Situated in the heart of American air bases here in Japan, I've had
frequent conversations with American pilots and servicemen on "R and R" from
Vietnam. A further serious moral question is frequently voiced by them as
they tell of being forbidden to bomb military targets such as air fields
and the Haiphong harbor in their countless raids over North Vietnam in the
past two years. This also is not unknown to Japanese and other Oriental
observers, and provokes credulity and scorn.
As a loyal American citizen who has spent 16 years in the Orient, I strongly
feel that every power at our nation's command should be used to bring our
present unfortunate, indecisive policy to an end. It will only breed further
distress, disrespect and scorn on the part of our Allies, as well as our
enemies in the Orient.