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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 46 21 n.d. Report Nixon's contributions to Republican representation in Congress. 11 pages. 46 21 n.d. Other Document Handwritten Republican workshop notes. 5 pages. Thursday, May 31, 2007 Page 1 of 1 The implication promulgated by some political observers that Nixon was a drag on party success in the 1960 campaign does not bear up under examination of the election results. is study of House and Senate election returns clearly shows that Nixon contributed heavily to the increase in Republican representation in the Congress. For example, in the Congressional races, where Republicans had their most conspicuous success, Nixon ran ahead of the elected Republicans in all but four of the 31 districts affected. In the Senate races, Nixon ran ahead of the ticket in 19 of the 26 states where there was a genuine contest. He ran far ahead of such conservatives as Curtis, Dworshak, Mundt, Schoeppel and Tower. In fact, the only Republican now in the Senate to run ahead of Nixon in 1960 who is generally designated as a conservative is Bridges. Nixon carried four- teen states where there was a Senatorial contest, but in only ten of these states was the Republican senatorial nominee successful. Moreover, Nixon ran ahead of the ticket in the nine states where both Nixon and the Republican candidate for Senator were defeated. (Supporting data which follows is from The Congressional Quarterly) 1960 ELECTION RESULTS A total of 280 Senate and House candidates ran five percentage points or more ahead of their party's Presidential ticket in their State or District, a Congressional Quarterly survey shows (#15, April 14, 1961, P. 636). Of the 280, 226 were Democrats (30 of them running without major party opposition) and 54 were Republicans (3 running without major party opposition). While 210 of the elected Democrats ran 5 percentage points or more ahead of Kennedy, only 53 out of the 188 elected Republicans similarly bested Nixon's record. Ran Ahead 5% Ahead 10% Ahead 20% Ahead DEMOCRATS 331 226 70 19 REPUBLICANS 133 54 22 1 Regional breakdown of those who ran 5 percentage points or more ahead: East Midwest South West Total DEMOCRATS 36 38 122 30 226 REPUBLICANS 24 14 3 13 54 SUMMARY House Seate: Republicans regained 26 seats which had been held by Democrats, but in so doing they also lost 5 seats making a net Republican gain of 21 seats. In 29 of the 31 states affected, Nixon ran ahead of the ticket and it has been conceded by impartial observers that he had considerable impact in getting additional Republican representation in the House. He clearly outdistanced Kennedy in this respect. Senate Seats: Republicans regained 2 Senate seats and held 11. In 19 of the 26 states, where there was a genuine contest, Nixon ran ahead of the ticket. In 7 states where Republican Senatorial nominees were victorious Nixon ran behind, though he gained the electoral votes in 4 of these states. Except for 2 avowed conservatives (Bridges and Thompson) Nixon led the ticket by percentage points ranging from 1.1% to 5.8%. There were only 3 states where Republican nominees were elected to the Senate but failed to give Nixon their electoral college votes. However, Nixon carried 4 states where the Republican nominees lost. In 9 states where both Nixon and the Republican nominees lost, Nixon ran ahead of the ticket by percentage points ranging from .8% to 12.8%. REPUBLICAN GAINS IN 1960 HOUSE ELECTIONS CALIFORNIA - 25th District Nixon 194,271 57.0% Rousselot, John - R 182,545 53.6% Kasem, George - D 158,289 46.4% COLORADO - 2nd District Nixon 158,081 59.2% Dominick, Peter - R 150,964 57.6% Johnson, Byron - D 111,077 42.4% CONNECTICUT - 2nd District Nixon 90,681 48.2% Seely-Brown, Horace - R 93,971 50.1% St. Onges, William - D 93,515 49.9% 4th District Nixon 167,778 53.4% Sibal, Abner - R 160,654 51.3% Irwin, Donald - D 150,205 48.0% INDIANA - 5th District Nixon 122,780 57.1% Chambers, George - R 106,882 50.0% * Roush, J. Edward - D 108,870 50.0% 6th District Nixon 95,811 58.5% Roudebush, Richard - R 84,662 52.0% Wampler, Fred - D 78,247 48.0% 9th District Nixon 80,310 56.6% Wilson, Earl - R 71,402 50.6% Hogan, Earl - D 69,761 49.4% 10th District Nixon 107,446 58.1% Harvey, Ralph - R 104,885 57.1% Harmon, Randall - D 78,716 42.9% 11th District Nixon 166,202 57.7% Bruce, Donald - R 154,676 53.7% Barr, Joseph - D 133,153 46.2% * Declared winner June, 1961 (Cont'd) PAGE 2 IOWA - 2nd District Nixon 113,006 53.4% Bromwell, James - R 108,137 52.6% Wolf, Leonard - D 97,608 47.4% KANSAS - 2nd District Nixon 115,640 57.8% Ellsworth, Robert - R 95,346 52,3% George, Newall - D 86,905 47.7% 3rd District Nixon 59,639 59.9% McVey, Walter - R 49,429 51.2% Hargis, Denver - D 47,127 48.8% MAINE - 1st District Nixon 91,135 55.6% Garland, Peter - R 85,821 53.8% Oliver, James - D 73,826 46.2% 2nd District Nixon 76,120 54.5% Tupper, Stanley - R 71,271 53.2% Donovan, John - D 62,309 46.5% MARYLAND - 6th District Nixon 119,461 52.6% Mathias, Charles - R 115,088 52.0% Foley, John - D 106,098 48.0% MINNESOTA - 3rd District Nixon 150,829 48.8% Mac Gregor, Clark - R 154,847 51.6% Wier, Roy - DFL 139,908 46.6% MISSOURI - 7th District Nixon 129,106 65.0% Hall, Durward - R 107,208 54.9% Brown, Charles - D 88,162 45.1% MONTANA - 2nd District Nixon 83,071 52.3% Battin, James - R 78,277 50.9% Graybill, Leo - D 75,507 49.1% (Cont'd) PAGE 3 NEBRASKA - 4th District Nixon 92,989 65.4% Martin, Dave - R 69,754 51.1% McGinley, Donald - D 66,699 48.9% NORTH DAKOTA - At Large Nixon 154,310 55.4% Nygaard, Hjalmar - R 127,118 53.8% Anderson, Anson - D 109,207 46.2% OHIO - 17th District Nixon 102,529 63.9% Ashbrook, John - R 79,609 53.0% Levering, Robert - D 70,470 47.0% OREGON - 4th District Nixon 97,614 51.3% Durno, Edwin - R 96,022 51.1% Porter, Charles - D 91,947 48.9% PENNSYLVANIA - 10th District Nixon 81,193 45.8% Scranton, William - R 97,012 54.8% Prokop, Stanley - D 80,097 45.2% 19th District Nixon 104,491 62.2% Goodling, George - R 88,776 53.2% Quigley, James - D 78,043 46.8% SOUTH DAKOTA - 1st District Nixon 135,381 57.9% Reifel, Ben - R 126,033 54.8% Fitzgerald, Ray - D 103,755 45.2% VERMONT - At Large Nixon 98,131 58.6% Stafford, Robert - R 94,905 57.2% Meyer, William - D 71,111 42.8% WISCONSIN - 1st District Nixon 103,540 55.0% Schadeberg, Henry - R 97,662 52.7% Flynn, Gerald - D 87,646 47.3% SEATS HELD BY REPUBLICANS LOST IN 1960 IDAHO - 2nd District Nixon 102,705 56.4% Budge, Hamer - R 86,100 48.8% Harding, Ralph - D 90,161 51.2% NEW JERSEY - 8th District Nixon 77,059 44.4% Kennedy, Walter - R 74,165 43.8% Joelson, Charles - D 88,100 52.0% NEW YORK - 1st District Nixon 216,655 57.0% Wainwright, Stuyvesant 184,549 49.6% - R Pike, Otis - D 197,667 50.4% NEW YORK - 5th District Nixon 80,598 51.1% Archinal, George - R 68,631 46.5% Addabbo, Joseph - D 79,088 53.5% NEW YORK - 12th District Nixon 61,680 46.3% Dorn, Francis - R 64,899 49.6% Carey, Hugh - D 65,996 50.4% STATES CARRIED BY NIXON WHERE A REPUBLICAN WAS ELECTED SENATOR REPUBLICAN NIXON STATE NOMINEE % POINTS Colorado Allott * + 1.1 Idaho Dworshak * + 1.5 Iowa Miller +4.8 Kansas Schoeppel * : 5.8 Nebraska Curtis * + 3.2 South Dakota Mundt * + 5.8 Kentucky Cooper * - 1.7 Maine Smith * - 4.6 New Hampshire Bridges * - 6.9 Wyoming Thompson - 1.4 STATES LOST BY NIXON WHERE A REPUBLICAN WAS ELECTED SENATOR Delaware Boggs - 1.7 Massachusetts Saltonstall * -16.6 New Jersey Case * - 4.5 STATES CARRIED BY NIXON WHERE A DEMOCRAT WAS ELECTED SENATOR Alaska McKinley +14.3 Montana Fjare + 1.8 Oklahoma Crawford + 4.4 Oregon Smith + 7.2 STATES NOT CARRIED BY NIXON AND WHERE A DEMOCRAT WAS ELECTED SENATOR Illinois Witwer + 4.6 Michigan Bentley + .8 Minnesota Peterson + 7.0 Missouri Hocker 2.9 New Mexico Colwes +12.8 North Carolina Hayes +9.3 Rhode Island Archambault -15.7 Texas Tower +7.4 West Virginia Underwood 2.6 * Incumbent COMPARISON OF REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL NOMINEES with RICHARD NIXON's VOTES 1960 ELECTIONS ALASKA Nixon 30,953 50.9% McKinley 21,937 36.6% COLORADO Nixon 402,242 54.6% * Allott 389,428 53.5% DELAWARE Nixon 96,373 49.0% Boggs 98,874 50.7% IDAHO Nixon 161,597 53.8% * Dworshak 152,648 52.3% ILLINOIS Nixon 2,368,988 49.8% Witwer 2,093,846 45.2% IOWA Nixon 722,381 56.7% Miller 642,463 51.9% KANSAS Nixon 561,474 60.4% * Schoeppel 485,499 54.6% KENTUCKY Nixon 602,607 53.6% * Cooper 644,087 59.2% MAINE Nixon 240,608 57.0% * Smith 256,890 61.6% MASSACHUSETTS Nixon 976,750 39.6% * Saltonstall 1,358,556 56.2% * Incumbent (cont'd) PAGE 2 MICHIGAN Nixon 1,620,428 48.8% Bentley 1,548,873 48.0% MINNESOTA Nixon 757,915 49.2% Peterson 648,586 42.2% MISSOURI Nixon 962,221 49.7% Hocker 880,576 46.8% MONTANA Nixon 141,841 51.1% Fjare 136,281 49.3% NEBRASKA Nixon 380,553 62.1% * Curtis 352,748 58.9% NEW HAMPSHIRE Nixon 157,989 53.4% * Bridges 173,521 60.3% NEW JERSEY Nixon 1,363,324 49.2% * Case 1,483,832 55.7% NEW MEXICO Nixon 153,733 49.4% Colwes 109,897 36.6% NORTH CAROLINA Nixon 655,420 47.9% Hayes 497,964 30.6% OKLAHOMA Nixon 533,039 59.0% Crawford 385,646 44.6% OREGON Nixon 408,060 52.6% Smith (Elmo) 343,009 45.4% * Incumbent (cont'd) RHODE ISLAND Nixon 147,502 36.4% Archambault 124,408 30.7% SOUTH DAKOTA Nixon 178,417 58.2% * Mundt 160,181 52.4% TEXAS Nixon 1,121,699 48.5% Tower 926,653 41.1% WEST VIRGINIA Nixon 395,995 47.3% Underwood 369,935 44.7% WYOMING Nixon 77,451 55.0% Thompson 78,103 56.4% * - Incumbent Repub Workshop idmit bias my Reput interest tred completely to RN at young age have met of worked - with many top men of time both lew. & pol. Corp. presis, Goos, Sens, Cab on Pres Eirahower, Kennedy, Hoover Univ Pres. prout Heabing Brown Rocky Hatfield Daken Morton Lools RN way above all in ability, intellect, etc Hanley Stratton leas. Roges First dispose of cam paign criticisms - my feelings on them no point in discussing - but might be of interest to state / debates - chmn committed before conventions to long. Commes - between conv. final decision time - Rep. 10 pt. behind - legit crit. is of format - holding debates was unavoidall shldn't have let neto pressive into snappy out. instead of debate in depth. were deliberately designed to enter tain, not inform -50state big city forces wld not have been chgd by physical pre - breadth of campaign resulted in canying more statest more long. dists than K - needed to force him into south-made Rep townly 3- religion - our Cath frds wanted us to use Bailey Memo & fact of JFK's minister film to show Caths being used but RN refused to discuss - matter of principle 1 even if he had wouldn't have chgel vote hit harder - was 1st probly only 50 state camp. - physical every day hit on basic sive - pro init us ofed control -press didn't accurately reflect depth of speeches Covered form but not enuf content - how many know of or read 12 posit papers too deep to cover in speech - had to get out faithful X sway undecided 5- the sooner - geared to last 3weeks - Ike would have but didn't feel Kserian threat - thus nore effective than it Canned speech all probs trace back to need for strong party development esp. big cities bring in all elements - young, Negro, labor, etc get away from social club work for cause no honest election if one party control in cities machines coop with Denis - mechan Connel clean up voting by sublicity presence RN plans to devote his time to public party affairs Concerned about Row feelle org. is esp. big cities look at situation- in 60 us 52 = outreg 3-2, 2-1 margin had y/5 as many Good as 52 30 No 14 in cong. 153 long vs control in 52 592 san 200 857 1/4 as many state loges (26 7) 1942 reps us 2809 must win local state - exp Good of NJ, mich, Pa. etc party org more interested in cour thouse than statehous we had to get 8-10 million Demos +55-60% of Inds effect of press need big crowds. etc not for Cand but for recection psych. need to force coverage start now to develop relation - X inform must have sound planning for events use our critical facilities in each discussion meeting praise or damn current acts publicije your action - make news every meeting this influences gradually milds public openion member of minority party must express in terms of others interests take local actions don't wait for direction from Warl too many different elements no real power letter writing is effective Get rid of non-partisan an solitics make it be partisan Belair Repub women my job in campaign Beta alumni pre him - set up offices, club org. recruited and hand 18 adv men + 15 rally men campaign - tour mgr of chaef of advance men travelled w/ RN to all 50 - 64At + 75AA =140 incl previous (56+58) over 200 st miles w/tfor RN adv. man's job - outline procedure & details fire engine in road in Roghfad Beloit Buffalo BBQ story Crowds for train non stops run Then typical schedule " " AM check list will attempt to be objective - but admit bias to RN - also speak only for myself implications of anyone elses view discuss campaign criticisms - don't mistake candor for apology /- Debates - - nail chmn committed to long. comms before conventions Tunets wanted to obscure payola t rigging scandals - poll in convention interlude showed K-J min. 10pts ahead of any Rep. combination - we weren't ahead fair criticism is of format decision to hold them shedn't have let nets pressure into snappy entertainment instead of discussion in depth classical debate - had to get 8-10mill Dems plus 55-60% of Inds. -almost did. were deliberately designed to extertain, not inform 2- 50 State - big city forces wld not have been that changed lyphysical pres. Dem. machines, labor vote, minorities, plus weak Repub org. - estab, Repub astruly national party great strides in South wld not have camed more states t long dists than K. 3. religion - our Cath. friends wanted usto use Bailey memo -Caths being "used" RN refused to descuss principle - religion no bearing on capability 4- Ike sconer - - -geared to last 3 weeks - more effective to build up Hewould have - but didutfical K. serious Theat tel end hence was more eff. fighter than with canned speech 5- hit harder - fat allegation no pres. cand ever enunciated Reput. - at least one speech each day basic cleavage of philosophy philosophy more clearly than RN individual american private sector rs, rely on Fed. Good. - -major position papers science, education form tax, Communion & press gave form, notenufcoxtent- - nodepth perhaps events - more probly heavy factor than philorophy per This was first & only 50 state campaign Lubell Peale - RN illness- Lodge - alger = nocontrol, hurt badly look at stration in 60 -vo 52 -outreg 3-2, 2-1margin in Sen, HR+ Gous. 14 gous is 30, 72 house control states us 26 153 long. us control of House lessons- - /- overhaul primary system - toomany disparites - cands, wealth 2- shorten campaign 3 - media need to examine then repponsibilities report in depth, unbrased, Candslide prediction 3wks early experts on Nin East befor polls clored 1000- Ifa 15 4- im portance of individual vote + prob of being cast counted Willard Edwards - Ted White Spellman need to maternize ballot box machinery revise eligibility laws - count absentees same day discripances in makeup of ballot Texas fraud fake (in of machine counts areas RN 40,000 ahead of(k) Chicago 2ndw - 22 voters, 82 apps., 77 votes Cast andlia Cty P27 Tex- 86 voters, 17/cast- 147K, 24N Fannin Cty Tex - K 3-1 - 6138 cast, 4895 elegible voter 5. electoral college reform - prop. to long. dest. -RNwld have won only way to prevent is before election day - organization results 2/10 of / % in 69 million votes - -X 000 in States 2 wldchg. each person can have a pet theory why we lost relate to ad. campaign eval, if Raybarn right worst depression since 32 RN remarkalt Canied 228 long Dist us 206 fack gaind 2 gove 7 more house states 21 Cong. RN 200Al letter more Than Kacc. to Sen PO basic problem is Repub party organization big city machines -no honest election if party control must bring in all elements young, Negro, labor, etc mustnow criticize Dens - dont concede abundoned platform Bobby not legally competent missile gap mc Namaras back pay call for increased discipline us massive Fed handouts 11 employer steps to cucb dollar flow us demand for min, wageraine in all your meetings - pass resolutions of damn or praise publicize them we must win in local & state - Govs, etc RNworking on party org. Calif notl. you can too.