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Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters. Cover page and letter. Letter from Dick Nixon to "Friend" re: letter of appreciation. 2 pages. [Report], 4/28/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "Forward" tab. 2 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "Instructions" tab. 4 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "How Can I Help?" tab. 3 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "I'm For Nixon Because" tab. 3 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "Voters' Calendar" tab. 1962 California, Voters' Election Calendar. 3 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "Biographical Material" tab. Interesting notes about Dick Nixon's Background. 12 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "1960 California Returns" tab. How the people of California voted for Dick Nixon in 1960. 4 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "Announcement For Governor" tab. Statement of Candidacy by Nixon at press conference, Los Angeles, September 27, 1961. 5 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "Fair Campaign Practices" tab. Excerpts from a letter to LA County Central Committee Chairman and at the Lincoln Day Dinner. 3 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "State Government" tab. Remarks of Richard Nixon on experience, participation, and the role of state and federal government. 7 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
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Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters. Cover page and letter. Letter from Dick Nixon to "Friend" re: letter of appreciation. 2 pages. [Report], 4/28/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "Forward" tab. 2 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "Instructions" tab. 4 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "How Can I Help?" tab. 3 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "I'm For Nixon Because" tab. 3 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "Voters' Calendar" tab. 1962 California, Voters' Election Calendar. 3 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "Biographical Material" tab. Interesting notes about Dick Nixon's Background. 12 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "1960 California Returns" tab. How the people of California voted for Dick Nixon in 1960. 4 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "Announcement For Governor" tab. Statement of Candidacy by Nixon at press conference, Los Angeles, September 27, 1961. 5 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "Fair Campaign Practices" tab. Excerpts from a letter to LA County Central Committee Chairman and at the Lincoln Day Dinner. 3 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual, 1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign Headquarters; "State Government" tab. Remarks of Richard Nixon on experience, participation, and the role of state and federal government. 7 pages. [Report], 4/1/1962
Excerpts from Town Hall Talk, April 24, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon. Addresses federal involvement in Ca. redevelopment, the National Defense Education Act, California's economic situation, need for state constitutional reforms. 3 pages. [Other Document], 4Sl
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Document Description
64
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04/28/1962
Report
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual,
1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign
Headquarters. Cover page and letter. Letter
from Dick Nixon to "Friend" re: letter of
appreciation. 2 pages.
64
10
04/1962
Report
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual,
1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign
Headquarters; "Forward" tab. 2 pages.
64
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04/1962
Report
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual,
1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign
Headquarters; "Instructions" tab. 4 pages.
64
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04/1962
Report
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual,
1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign
Headquarters; "How Can I Help?" tab. 3
pages.
64
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04/1962
Report
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual,
1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign
Headquarters; "I'm For Nixon Because" tab.
3 pages.
64
10
04/1962
Report
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual,
1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign
Headquarters; "Voters' Calendar" tab. 1962
California, Voters' Election Calendar. 3
pages.
Monday, October 01, 2007
Page 1 of 2
Box Number Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
64
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04/1962
Report
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual,
1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign
Headquarters; "Biographical Material" tab.
Interesting notes about Dick Nixon's
Background. 12 pages.
64
10
04/1962
Report
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual,
1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign
Headquarters; "1960 California Returns" tab.
How the people of California voted for Dick
Nixon in 1960. 4 pages.
64
10
04/1962
Report
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual,
1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign
Headquarters; "Announcement For
Governor" tab. Statement of Candidacy by
Nixon at press conference, Los Angeles,
September 27, 1961. 5 pages.
64
10
04/1962
Report
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual,
1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign
Headquarters; "Fair Campaign Practices"
tab. Excerpts from a letter to LA County
Central Committee Chairman and at the
Lincoln Day Dinner. 3 pages.
64
10
04/1962
Report
Nixon For Governor Speakers' Manual,
1962. Nixon for Governor State Campaign
Headquarters; "State Government" tab.
Remarks of Richard Nixon on experience,
participation, and the role of state and federal
government. 7 pages.
64
10
04/1962
Other Document
Excerpts from Town Hall Talk, April 24,
1962 - Richard M. Nixon. Addresses federal
involvement in Ca. redevelopment, the
National Defense Education Act, California's
economic situation, need for state
constitutional reforms. 3 pages.
Monday, October 01, 2007
Page 2 of 2
NIXON FOR GOVERNOR
SPEAKERS' MANUAL
1962
NIXON FOR GOVERNOR STATE CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
3908 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles 5 . DUnkirk 5-9161
RICHARD NIXON
April 28, 1962
Dear Friend:
I am delighted that you are going to be one of
our speakers in the vitally important campaign that
lies ahead, and I want you to know how much I appre-
ciate your effort.
Of all the jobs to be done, getting our message
across to every voter in California is top priority. I
intend to do everything I possibly can -- but this will
not be enough. No matter how effective our message
may be, no matter how forceful the case we present
for vigorous new leadership in Sacramento, it will do
us no good unless we have a legion of spokesmen.
That is where your efforts will count.
The material in this manual will give you some
of the ideas and the ammunition you need. My campaign
staff is at your service.
Thank you for your help and may we have great
success on the campaign trail.
Sincerely,
FORWARD
This Speakers' Manual has been prepared in looseleaf binder fashion
so that you can insert additional materials as they are sent to you by
headquarters and because it is felt you will want to include materials
of your own choosing which are particularly pertinent to your campaign
efforts in your part of the state.
If, at any time, editorials, columns, endorsements, local polls, etc.,
appear which you believe would be helpful to other speakers in other
counties, please send a copy to state headquarters immediately. Only
in this way, can such materials be widely and quickly distributed.
In addition, you may have suggestions for items of general value to
be added to the manual. These may be your personal suggestions or
suggestions developed as a result of questions asked you by people
you address. All suggestions are welcome. But we can enable others
to use your ideas only if you tell us about them.
As you know, many more issues will be developed as the campaign
progresses. You will be kept informed regularly about them as they
are presented.
In every campaign, timing is important and statements must be re-
leased when they make news.
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INSTRUCTIONS
INSTRUCTIONS
I PRELIMINARY
When an organization asks you to speak on behalf of Dick Nixon,
it is important that you make the best presentation possible. The
following recommendations are set down to help you do that.
Find out in advance:
1. The correct name of the organization.
2. The time and location of the meeting (exactly how to get
there if meeting is distant from your home or place of
business).
3. Brief history and purposes of sponsoring organization.
4. Kind of meeting,
i.e., formal or informal; home or meeting hall; tea, dinner,
coffee hour; seminar, debate, forum, etc.
5. Total time allotted to you including speech and question
and answer period or, if formal speech is not scheduled,
time for each presentation if debate, panel, or other pre-
sentation.
6. Your position on program.
7. Names and titles of other speakers (if any) and their posi-
tions on programs.
8. Names of President, Hostess, Program Chairman and Pre-
siding Officer.
9. Will lecturn be provided or will you stand behind table,
be seated, etc.
10. Anticipated size of audience, age, sex and interests of
its members.
II PREPARING YOUR SPEECH
1. Know how to choose your subject, then
a. Know your subject.
b. Know how to attack.
C. Know how to defend.
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2.
Remember these ingredients for effective speaking:
a. The fewer issues the better.
b. Speak of Dick Nixon's record and his stand on issues
rather than of the attacks on them.
C. Clear structure
introduction
body (contains proof)
conclusion
d. Humor.
3. Remember that Dick Nixon will be the prime target of all
California Democratic office seekers, their supporters,
and numberless Democrats who are appointees and legis-
lators from Washington, D. C. and from other states.
III GIVING YOUR SPEECH
1.
Speak from notes or memorize what you have to say but
do not read your speech.
There is only a handful of capable "reader-speakers" in the
entire country today.
2.
Communicate visually with your audience.
a. Reinforce what you are saying with smooth body move-
ments.
b. Remember that eye contact with your audience is neces-
sary.
C. Avoid distracting body motions such as taking off and
putting on your glasses, "hacking, " unsmooth motions
of your hands, maintaining a disconcerting eye level
above the heads of your audience, etc.
3. Develop your own effectiveness.
- Do not imitate the style of other speakers.
4.
Be sure to study the section of this manual which lists some
of the things members of your audiences can do to help in
the campaign and tell your audiences what they are.
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5.
If the program schedule calls for time for a question and
answer period, (and you should prepare for it even if you
have to cut short your formal speech) be sure the audience
knows. If the Program Chairman is not wise enough to
"plant" a question or two as a warm-up, you should have
an additional comment in reserve which you might phrase
in the way of a question to yourself to start the ball rolling.
(Example: "Many Californians have asked me what they
can do to help Dick Nixon to be elected Governor.' ")
IV AFTERWARDS
1. Write "thank you" notes immediately to those presiding at
the meeting (and the hostess if the meeting was held in a
home).
2. Complete the Speakers' Bureau report form about the meeting
which you have addressed and forward it as quickly as pos-
sible to the Speakers' Bureau.
3. If anything occurred at the meeting which should be made
known to the campaign organization immediately, please
do SO. Do not wait to incorporate it in your written report.
4.
If persons at the meeting tell you they want to help Dick
Nixon, take their names and addresses and give them im-
mediately to the campaign organization so that they can be
contacted and put to work.
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HOW CAN I HELP?
"WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP?"
You have joined our candidate on the battle line of his campaign.
Every day from now through November 6, over a cup of coffee at the
corner drug store - creamed chicken and peas at lunch, or -- creamed
chicken and peas at night, you're going to be talking "people-to-
people" about Dick Nixon. Whether it's one person or a thousand,
they want to be asked to help. We need them. Tell them SO. But
you need to do more than ask them to help. You need information
about what they can do.
Here it is.
1. Address and/or stuff envelopes at their community centers. Be
sure to give them the name and address of the person in charge
of volunteers and his phone number. Repeat it slowly so that it
can be written down.
2. Insert telephone numbers on precinct sheets or lists to have
them ready for telephoning to GET OUT THE VOTE FOR NIXON ON
ELECTION DAY.
3. Have a NIXON NIGHT in their homes to discuss the campaign,
the candidates, and the issues, and distribute campaign mate-
rials or build such a gathering around a particular TV campaign
program followed by discussion. (You might suggest that they
get their friends to have a NIXON NIGHT, too. Campaign litera-
ture, buttons, etc., are available at their community center.)
4. Do precinct work. Every block in every California town needs
a worker. We need them.
5. Get out their Christmas card lists, membership lists of organi-
zations to which they belong, and write all these people in
California - and their relatives - urging them to VOTE FOR NIXON.
6. Give financially to the campaign - pennies or dollars.
7. Young women can be "Nixonettes, or precinct workers or recruit
their friends as telephoners or baby sitters on Election Day.
Young men can help Dick Nixon by putting windshield and bumper
stickers on cars in shopping center and other parking lots (after
receiving permission!) or drive voters to the polls or do precinct
work.
8. Get 10 people to talk about and work for Nixon.
9. Make sure their neighbors on both sides and across the street
have literature about Nixon and stickers for their cars.
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10. Recruit other people to volunteer whatever time they can to work
at headquarters or at home.
11. Serve on a committee for Nixon with other people in their pro-
fession.
12. Show their support for Nixon through public use of their names.
13. Tell the Nixon story to organizations to which they belong.
14. Impress on their friends the importance of each INDIVIDUAL
VOTE - at the June Primary as well as the November General
Election. Elections have been lost by 1/2 vote per precinct!
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I'M FOR NIXON BECAUSE
I'M FOR DICK NIXON BECAUSE:
Since the earliest days of his public service almost 16 years ago, he
has honorably and tenaciously fought communists here at home and
abroad. He is the prime target of the communists. As Governor, he
will lead us in responsible means to know them and defeat them.
Dick Nixon knows that Californians resent machine-boss politics and
he has pledged that there will be no boss rule imposed in his admin-
istration.
California is for Dick Nixon
and he's for California. In every one
of his campaigns -- 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1956 and 1960 -- his
fellow Californians showed their love and admiration for him by car-
rying the state for him. It takes hundreds of thousands of Democrats
and Independents to do that.
Dick Nixon is a man whose heart is in public service and who be-
lieves that the most exciting and challenging position in which he
can serve is as the Governor of California.
Dick Nixon wants to, and, as Governor will know how to, help us
make California first in education, first in culture, first in law en-
forcement, first in urban development, first in housing and employment
opportunities for all Californians, first in the quality of top-rate
people in state government, first in government efficiency, first in
opportunity, and a proud example for all the people of America.
He believes that California needs a governor in the great independent
tradition of California governors, and if elected, he intends to be
that kind of a governor.
Dick Nixon is proud of his record of fourteen years of public service
to the people of California and thinks that experience will help the
next Governor of California serve the people of his state better. He
knows that decisions made in Washington, D. C., and in foreign
capitols around the world influence our welfare here in California --
defense contracts, civil defense, natural resources, highways and
transportation systems, agriculture, urban renewal, water, power,
narcotics control, taxes, etc.
He believes in the state loyalty oath.
He believes in capital punishment as the only and ultimate deterrent
against the rapists, murderers, and others who terrorize the people
of our state.
He is a man who refuses in this campaign, as he did in every one
previously, to campaign against other Republican candidates in the
Primary election, but, instead, is directing his campaign against
the Democratic candidates who may be our opponents in the final
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election. He knows that in California a Republican can win only by
securing the support of hundreds of thousands of Democrats and Inde-
pendents as well as Republicans. He knows that bitter personal
feuds in the Primaries in the past have destroyed the chances for
success in the final election of Republican nominees.
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VOTERS' CALENDAR
1962 CALIFORNIA
VOTERS' ELECTION CALENDAR
PRIMARY ELECTION DAY
June 5
Last Day to Register for General Election
Sept. 13
GENERAL ELECTION DAY
Nov. a 6
Absentee Ballot -- Primary Election. Apply to your own County Regis-
trar of Voters May 7 to May 29, inclusive. Absentee Ballots must be
returned to the Registrars' Office not later than June 2.
Absentee Ballots -- General Election. Apply October 8 to October 30,
inclusive. Absentee Ballots must be returned to clerk not later than
November 3.
To REGISTER TO VOTE a person must be at least 21 years of age and a
resident of
California for 1 year prior to date of election
County for 90 days prior to date of election
Precinct for 54 days prior to date of election
TO VOTE a person must register or re-register if he has lost, or does
not have, the right to vote for any of the following reasons:
1. Voter desiring to change Party affiliation on official registration
records. In a Primary Election a voter may vote only for the
party under which he is registered. In a General Election he may
vote either Party, regardless of how he is registered.
2. Did not vote in 1960.
3. Newly moved into the State, County or Precinct. Many votes
are lost each election because voters fail to re-register when
they move from one address to another address.
4.
Change of name by marriage or other legal procedure.
5.
New voters, reaching the age of 21 years prior to election day,
may register before registration closes.
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OFFICERS TO BE VOTED UPON
State Offices
Governor
Secretary of State
Lieutenant Governor
Controller
Attorney General
Treasurer
Four Members of the State Board of Equalization - one from each
equalization district.
Congressional Offices
One U. S. Senator - 38 Representatives in Congress
Legislative Offices
20 State Senators (even-numbered districts)
80 Assemblymen
Judicial Offices
Judges of the Superior Court
where terms expire or vacancy occurs.
SCHOOL OFFICE
Superintendent of Public Instruction
In addition, there are over 900 million dollars in bond issues and
several initiative and referendum measures.
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BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL
INTERESTING NOTES ABOUT DICK NIXON'S
BACKGROUND
Dick Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California on January 9, 1913.
He grew up in nearby Whittier, a town that was regarded as a "Quaker
Community. II There he learned habits of hard work and thrift, a re-
spect for his fellow man regardless of race or creed, and a deep re-
spect for the rights of individuals. An unswerving devotion to the
truth wherever he found it, and to personal integrity, also became
part of his Quaker heritage.
As a boy Dick Nixon worked in the family store, delivered groceries,
and sold gasoline and so helped to put himself through school.
EDUCATION
Nixon attended the public elementary school in Yorba Linda, Cali-
fornia, until his parents moved to Whittier in 1922. He completed
his grammar school education there. He graduated from Whittier High
School in 1930 at the age of seventeen.
He maintained an "A" average through high school. He won the
Constitutional Oratorical Contest, an interscholastic public speaking
competition, three years running.
On graduating from high school Nixon won the California Interscho-
lastic Gold Seal Award for scholarship. He also won the Harvard
Award as "best all-round student, " which entitled him to a scholar-
ship at Harvard University. Unable to accept, Nixon chose Whittier
College.
At Whittier Dick maintained a high academic standing while prominent
in extra-curricular activities. He was graduated second in his class.
He was President of his Freshman class, Vice President of the Student
Body in his Junior year, and President of the Student Body in his
Senior year. He was associate editor of the student newspaper. He
represented Whittier in more than fifty intercollegiate debates and won
most of them.
After graduation from Whittier, Nixon went to Duke University Law
School in North Carolina on a scholarship. He was graduated from
Duke in 1937, at age twenty-four. He stood third in his class and
was elected to the Order of the Coif, an honorary law fraternity.
Dick Nixon was elected President of the Duke Bar Association and
served as a member of the staff of the Duke Law Review.
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CALIFORNIA LAWYER
Nixon passed his bar examination in November, 1937, at age twenty-
four. He went to work for the Whittier law firm of Wingert and Bewley
and, about a year later, was made a member of the firm. The firm
name became Bewley, Knoop and Nixon.
From 1937 to 1942 Dick practiced law in Whittier and served as
Assistant City Attorney. At that time it looked as though a career as
a small town attorney might be in store for him. Dick liked trial work
but disliked divorce cases. When these came his way he often man-
aged to reconcile the litigants.
WAR TIME SERVICE
In January, 1942, Nixon went to work for the U. S. Office of Emergency
Management, later the Office of Price Administration in Washington,
D. C. Here he gained an understanding of the problems of Federal-
local relations and at the same time crystalized a strong dislike for
centralized economic direction.
In August, 1942 Nixon was commissioned a Lieutenant (j.g.) in the
Navy and, after indoctrination at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, was
assigned first to duty in Iowa and then, in May, 1943, to the South
Pacific with the South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command.
He served on Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Vella Lavella, and Green
Island and won two South Pacific battle stars. He received a Letter
of Commendation from the Commander, South Pacific Area and South
Pacific Force for "meritorious and efficient performance of duty as
Officer in Charge of the South Pacific Air Transport Command.
"
After fifteen months overseas Nixon was transferred to the Fleet Air
Wing at Alameda, California and later, the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
in Washington, D. C. At the end of the war he was engaged in nego-
tiating the termination of Navy contracts with aircraft manufacturers
in Baltimore, Maryland. For his performance on this assignment Nixon
received a second Letter of Commendation.
He was released from active duty as a Lieutenant Commander in
March, 1946.
FIRST CALIFORNIA VICTORY - 1946
In 1946, after the war, an unusual event started Dick Nixon on his
political career.
A committee of one hundred citizens had formed in the old Twelfth
Congressional District of California for the purpose of seeking out
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the best qualified man they could find to run for Congress against the
incumbent, Jerry Voorhis. They found Dick Nixon.
After interviewing and rejecting eight applicants the Committee de-
cided, well in advance of the primaries, that Dick Nixon was their
man. They persuaded him to make the race, and they successfully
mobilized a unified effort in support of their choice.
In this 1946 campaign Dick worked hard and was elected with about
15, 000 votes to spare. He studied the issues and mastered his points
of disagreement with his opponent, Jerry Voorhis. He challenged
Voorhis, who had been in office ten years and was considered unbeat-
able by many, to a series of debates. The two contestants actually
met on the same platforms in a series of discussions on the issues in
all parts of the District. Republicans, Democrats, and Independents
packed the high school auditoriums to hear the candidates match
their wits, their principles, and their ability to put their ideas across.
At the start of the campaign few observers gave the young challenger
much of a chance to beat the "Champ." 11 When Nixon won his party's
nomination (with a popular vote of about 7, 000 below the incumbent's
total), his supporters thought he had done well, but they didn't
expect him to be able to win the general election.
But Nixon's views on the issues, expounded dramatically in the color-
ful debates where the two candidates could be compared in action,
convinced the people of the Twelfth District that Dick Nixon was the
man they wanted. When the votes were counted in November he was
ahead by 15, 000. He had won the nod from thousands of Democrats
as well as Republicans.
SECOND CALIFORNIA VICTORY - 1948
Dick's extraordinary work as a freshman Congressman won him immense
popularity in his home District. In 1948 he scored a smashing victory.
He was nominated by the Democrats as their candidate for Congress
as well as by the Republicans of his District!
In other words, the majority of the Democrats, as well as the Repub-
licans wanted Dick for Congress!
The state laws at that time permitted candidates to file on both tickets,
and they usually did SO under the old cross-filing law. Sometimes
they "won" in the primaries by being nominated by both parties.
THE HISS CASE:
It was during his second term in the House of Representatives that
Richard Nixon became involved, as a result of his membership on
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the House Un-American Activities Committee, in the explosive and
fateful issue of Communists in Government.
The issue was dramatized in the case of Alger Hiss, an important
Government official, a man who enjoyed the confidence of many people
in high places and a person who seemed to many to be above suspicion.
As a lawyer Nixon had had experience in judging the veracity of a
witness. Now he bacame convinced that Hiss was lying about his
alleged Communist connections.
Of course, Dick Nixon was fully aware of the risk to his own political
career which was involved in questioning the loyalty of Hiss. It
would not be enough to be right. He would have to be able to prove
that he was right. There was an easy way out. He could have assumed,
as many others did, that a man of Hiss' prominence could not possibly
be tainted with Communism.
Dick Nixon took the hard way. He had a duty to pursue the facts, and
he responded to that duty. Personally, carefully, and almost alone
he persisted in drawing out the evidence. Ultimately, Hiss was con-
victed of perjury. As President Herbert Hoover said to Nixon: "The
conviction of Alger Hiss was due to your patience and persistence
alone. "
THIRD CALIFORNIA VICTORY - THE SENATE - 1950.
By 1950 Dick Nixon's popularity had reached new heights. It was no
longer confined to his home congressional district; it had spread
throughout California. Nixon was the logical candidate of his party
to run against the veteran Sheridan Downey for the office of U. S.
Senator from California.
After Dick Nixon had announced for the race, Senator Downey withdrew
as a candidate. Conservative Democrat, Manchester Boddy, and
Congresswoman, Helen Gahagan Douglas engaged in a bitter primary
contest for the Democratic nomination. Representative Douglas won,
but not until after she had been identified up and down the State by
her Democratic opponents as being on the lefthand margin of the
Democratic Party.
Thus, Dick Nixon was again confronted, as he had been in his first
race for Congress, with a clear cut contest between his own concept
of constitutional government and free enterprise and the "let the
government do everything" concepts of that day. The campaign was
a hard fought one, along these established lines. In November, 1950,
the people of California chose Dick Nixon as their new Senator.
In this contest Nixon won with a plurality of about 680, 000 votes,
although Democrats outnumbered Republicans in California by about
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three to two. It is evident that hundreds of thousands of Democrats
voted for Dick Nixon and against Douglas.
EISENHOWER AND NIXON - 1952
After only two years in the Senate, Dick Nixon was involved in an-
other campaign. This time it was a national campaign and as candi-
date for Vice President of the United States.
He had made such a fine record as a moderate, progressive Republican,
as an articulate spokesman for his point of view, and as a scrapping,
votegetting campaigner - the like of which his Party hadn't seen in
years - that nominee Eisenhower put the name of Dick Nixon at the
top of the list of those he would like to have for a running mate. The
team of Ike and Dick was formed. In 1952 Dick was elected Vice
President.
It was the first time in nearly a quarter century that a Republican had
been elected to office in nation-wide balloting; Ike and Dick broke the
long adverse record
A NEW KIND OF VICE PRESIDENT:
As Vice President of the United States Dick Nixon continued to set
new precedents. President Eisenhower liked him and trusted him, not
only in political matters on which he has been regularly consulted,
but on matters of National Policy.
"In the last four years you have brought to the office of Vice
President a real stature that formerly it had not known;
you
have worked tirelessly and effectively to interpret to the people
of America - and to forward - the policies of this Administration.
For all of this I am personally indebted to you
"
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, 1956
The President named Dick Nixon a regular member of the Cabinet.
At Cabinet meetings he sat across the table from the President. He
always participated as a member of the Cabinet. He presided when
the President was absent.
Vice President Nixon was, by statute, a member of the National
Security Council. Here, too, he presided over meetings in the ab-
sence of the President. Dick Nixon was made Chairman of the
President's Committee on Government Contracts and Chairman of
the Cabinet Committee on Price Stability for Economic Growth.
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President Eisenhower also called on Dick Nixon for a series of nine
important missions abroad. As Vice President he traveled more than
150, 000 miles as the President's representative.
In 1953 he went to the Far East, in 1955 to Central America. In 1956
he went to Brazil for the Presidential inauguration, to Asia, and to
Austria and Germany to study the Hungarian Refugee problem. In 1957
he made his trip to Africa and Italy, and in 1958 came his trip to South
America.
On this last trip, in Caracas, Venezuela, the motorcade in which Dick
and Pat Nixon were traveling was stopped and attacked by a Communist
inspired mob. The great personal courage and the cool good judgment
which Dick Nixon showed when Pat's life and his were in danger, won
him many admirers. After the South American trip the House of Repre-
sentatives commended Nixon for "his courageous and dignified con-
duct. "
In August, 1959, the Vice President went to Russia to open the Ameri-
can Exhibition at Moscow. This was the occasion of his famous de-
bates with the Premier of the U.S.S.R., Mr. Khrushchev.
The Vice President's trip to Moscow and to Poland won him wide re-
spect and admiration.
The jobs that the Vice President held in the Executive Branch (which
were in addition to his duties as Presiding Officer of the Senate) gave
him a wide understanding of the critical areas of national administra-
tion, and of the impact of national administration on state and local
affairs.
His service in the Cabinet made him familiar with the problems of
administering the Executive Branch.
His Chairmanship of the President's Committee on Government Contracts
gave him a continuing role in the drive of the Eisenhower-Nixon Ad-
ministration to secure equal civil rights for all, and to eliminate dif-
ferences in the treatment of U.S. citizens based on differences of
race or creed.
His Chairmanship of the Cabinet Committee on Price Stability for
Economic Growth put him in the forefront of the Administration effort
to promote maximum sustainable economic growth with price stability
and, therefore, the nation's domestic well-being.
THE STEEL STRIKE:
Dick Nixon, working with the Secretary of Labor, got the steel strike
settled. He got it settled on a basis that satisfied both labor and
management and was fair to the public.
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This is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable and creditable accom-
plishments of recent years.
*
This strike had taken a bite out of U. S. production and
economic growth half as big as the bite taken by the entire
recession.
*
Everybody wanted a settlement, but labor-management atti-
tudes had hardened. Although the cooling-off period was
drawing to a close, no meeting of the minds was in sight.
*
Costly resumption of the strike or emergency legislation or
both seemed to be in prospect.
*
At the express direction of President Eisenhower, Nixon
undertook to bring about a settlement. The Federal Mediation
Service had tried long and hard to bring the disputants to-
gether, but negotiations had bogged down. New ideas were
needed.
*
Dick studied the facts objectively and came up with a new
proposal which both sides found satisfactory.
*
Mr. Roger Blough, U. S. Steel Chairman, said this proposal
was "perhaps the only one possible for both sides to accept. "
Mr. Blough estimates the increase in average annual earnings
for employees would be 3.75% per year. This was less than
the Aluminum settlement of 5.2% or the Can settlement at
4.5% or the Kaiser Steel settlement at 3.82%. It was well
below the 8% average in prior steel settlements.
As James P. Mitchell, Former Secretary of Labor, said:
"Without the Vice President we would not have had a settle-
ment. "
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NIXON AND LODGE - 1960
In July of 1960 at Chicago, the Republican National Convention nomin-
ated Dick Nixon, by acclamation, for the office of President of the
United States, and Henry Cabot Lodge for the office of Vice President.
Dick campaigned in every one of the fifty states--the only time a
Presidential candidate ever appeared in all the states of the union.
He was defeated for the Presidency by the narrow margin on one-tenth
of one per cent of the popular vote in the closest campaign in the
history of our country. Although the electoral vote favored Kennedy
by 303 to 219 for Nixon, with 15 electoral votes for Senator Harry
Byrd, yet Dick Nixon won a majority of the states, twenty-six,
including California. Dick Nixon maintained his string of election
victories in his native state.
As Vice President, and President of the Senate, Dick presided over
the counting of the electoral ballots that made his opponent, John F.
Kennedy, President of the United States. When the record was com-
plete, Dick Nixon told the Joint Session of Congress:
"This is the first time in 100 years that a candiate for the presidency
announced the result of an election in which he was defeated and
announced the victory of his opponent. I do not think we could have
a more striking and eloquent example of the stability of our consti-
tutional system and of the proud tradition of the American people of
developing, respecting, and honoring institutions of self-government.
"In our campaigns, no matter how hard fought they may be, no matter
how close the election may turn out to be, those who lose accept the
verdict and support those who win. "
As in Whittier, California, so in Washington, D. C., his respect for
the Constitution of the United States and for government according to
law remained paramount.
Following his very narrow defeat for the President of the United States,
Dick Nixon made the decision to return to his native state to practice
his profession as Counsel to the firm of Adams, Duque and Hazeltine.
He accepted a contract with Doubleday and Company to write a book
on THE SIX CRISES in his life and made an agreement to write a nation-
ally syndicated column on national and international affairs.
Despite these obligations and the unprecedented financial reward they
brought to the Nixons, the old urge to serve in a public capacity could
not be quelled. Deeply ingrained in the philosophy of Richard Nixon
is the idea that no American should leave behind him only an estate -
he must also leave a record of devotion to the cause of freedom.
In September of 1961 he decided to implement his conviction that the
United States could not survive without the successful, vigorous ad-
ministration of each of the fifty sovereign states. Dick Nixon an-
nounced his candidacy for the Governorship of California.
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DICK AND PAT
No account of Richard Nixon's career would be complete without the
story of Pat Nixon, his wife.
Mrs. Nixon was born in Ely, Nevada in 1913. Christened Thelma Ryan,
her Father nicknamed her "Pat". The family moved to a small farm
near Artesia, California, while Pat was still a baby. There the Ryans
raised vegetables on a ten acre "ranch." Pat remembers that she
"worked right along with my brothers in the fields. "
Her Mother died when Pat was twelve, and for five years she had
charge of the Ryan household. Her Father died when she was seven-
teen. After that Pat Ryan was on her own.
For a year after her Father's death she worked in a local bank; then
she drove East with relatives and took a job in a hospital near New
York. Returning to Los Angeles at nineteen, she studied merchandising
at the University of Southern California, working vacations and holi-
days at Bullock's - Wilshire store. Occasionally she made some extra
money doing bit parts in the movies.
After graduation Pat wanted to be a buyer for a big store, but the offer
of a teaching job paying $ 190 a month in the Whittier High School
was too attractive to turn down; so Pat came to Whittier.
Here she met Richard Nixon. They tried out for parts in a Little
Theatre play and won the two romantic roles. Wasting no time, Dick
proposed to Pat the night they met. But Pat was in no hurry. Dick
courted her for two years before they were married in June, 1940.
Pat and Dick are both experienced in making their own way. During
the war, Pat often took jobs to supplement the family income. As a
California Congressman's wife, living in a two bedroom apartment in
Virginia, she was cook, laundress, maid, seamstress, and baby
sitter for the household - with no outside help.
Vice President and Mrs. Nixon had some help at their home in Wash-
ington, but it still took a good deal of doing on Pat's part to make
ends meet. A Vice President has no allowance for "quarters" or for
entertainment expenses. All of this comes out of his salary. (The
Vice President's "expense allowance" from the government is only for
expenses incidental to official activities.)
The Nixons have two daughters, Tricia, 16, and Julie, 13. Every
effort has been made to give the girls a normal life despite their
Father's rise to fame and their Mother's determination to stay by his
side and compensate for all the difficulties of public life on a limited
budget. Recently, in Fresno, the girls made their official political
debut when they insisted on joining their famous parents in a receiving
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line. As much as they sometimes long for a private family life of
their own, both Tricia and Julie appreciate the dedication of their
parents to public duty. They also appreciate the importance of other
values.
Today in Los Angeles, Dick Nixon and his family regularly attend
Protestant services in their neighborhood. Currently they attend the
Westwood Community Methodist Church.
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ELECTION RESULTS IN 1950
In 1950 Dick Nixon ran for the United States Senate seat being vacated
by Senator Sheridan Downey.
California then had twenty-three Congressional Districts and 5, 007, 017
registered voters. Of these voters, 3, 062, 205 were Democrats and
1, 944, 812 were Republicans.
The young Congressman was up against a new problem with a registra-
tion of three to two against his party. Nevertheless, he won that race
by a margin of 680, 847 out of 3.7 million votes cast.
The results of that election were:
Nixon
Douglas
Other
General election
2, 183, 454
1, 502, 507
354
These election results show that Dick Nixon was able to win the sup-
port of Democrats in very large numbers in his statewide campaign
very much as he had been able to do in his home Congressional Dis-
trict. Only on this assumption can his margin of victory be explained
in California where the registration was then three to two Democratic.
His total vote of 2.2 million actually exceeded the total Republican
registration of 1.9 million.
About 800, 000 Democrats voted for Dick Nixon in this election. If we
assume that the turn out was 74% and that Nixon got 90% of the Repub-
lican vote, there would be 880, 000 Independent and Democrat votes
required to make up the total actually polled.
This would imply that one California Democrat voted for Dick Nixon
in 1950 for every two that voted for Douglas.
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1960 CALIFORNIA RETURNS
HOW THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA
VOTED FOR
DICK NIXON
IN
1960
In 1960 the Republican registration in California was 40.52% of the
total registration. Yet Dick Nixon carried California against John F.
Kennedy by 50.27%. In every California county Nixon's vote exceeded
Republican registration. He won support from Democrats throughout
the state.
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1960
1960
Nixon's %
Registration - Gen. Elec.
COUNTY
Nixon
Kennedy
of Tot.
Rep.
Dem.
Rep. %
Northern Calif.
Alameda
183,354
217,172
45.77
172,341
281,384
37.98
Alpine
132
40
76.74
132
78
62.85
Amador
2,175
2,690
44.70
1,875
3,634
34.03
Butte
20,838
15,163
57.88
18,288
22,752
44.56
Calaveras
2,820
2,509
52.91
2,438
3,763
39.31
Colusa
2,497
2,348
51.53
2,190
3,372
39.37
Contra Costa
82,922
93,622
46.96
75,038
122,057
38.07
Del Norte
3,024
3,225
48.39
2,740
4,715
36.75
El Dorado
6,065
6,175
49.54
5,293
8,883
37.33
Fresno
57,930
72,164
44.52
46,696
101,751
31.45
Glen
3,911
3,410
53.42
3,460
4,800
41.88
Humboldt
18,074
20,391
46.98
17,425
27,012
39.21
Kings
6,991
9,439
42.55
5,280
13,475
28.15
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Lake
4,176
2,897
59.04
3,830
4,308
47.06
Lassen
2,365
3,472
40.51
2,033
4,771
29.87
Madera
5,869
8,126
41.93
4,789
11,443
29.50
Marin
37,620
27,888
57.42
36,633
32,619
52.89
Mariposa
1,599
1,338
54.44
1,369
1,985
40.81
Mendocino
9,301
9,476
49.53
8,796
13,286
39.83
Merced
11,990
15,545
43.54
10,085
21,091
32.34
Modoc
1,839
1,691
52.09
1,578
2,428
39.39
Monterey
33,428
25,805
56.43
28,769
36,966
43.76
Napa
15,125
13,499
52.84
13,793
18,495
42.71
Nevada
5,419
4,633
53.90
5,245
6,404
45.02
Placer
10,439
13,304
43.96
9,506
17,401
35.32
Plumas
2,015
3,333
37.67
1,916
4,363
30.51
Sacramento
84,252
109,695
43.44
78,189
140,134
35.81
San Benito
3,056
2,876
51.51
2,835
4,079
41.00
San Francisco
143,001
197,734
41.96
139,299
253,236
35.48
San Joaquin
48,441
42,855
53.05
39,248
63,711
38.12
San Mateo
104,570
97,154
51.83
99,377
119,014
45.50
Santa Clara
131,735
117,667
52.82
121,242
145,043
45.53
Santa Cruz
24,858
16,659
59.87
22,728
23,609
49.04
Shasta
9,462
14,691
39.17
8,768
18,367
32.31
1960
1960
Nixon's %
Registration - Gen. Elec.
COUNTY
Nixon
Kennedy
of Tot.
Rep.
Dem.
Rep. %
Northern Calif.
Sierra
576
647
47.09
584
905
39.22
Siskiyou
6,297
8,245
43.30
5,830
10,984
34.67
Solano
18,751
26,977
41.00
15,480
36,143
29.98
Sonoma
34,641
29,147
54.30
32,277
39,909
44.71
Stanislaus
30,213
30,302
49.92
26,712
41,995
38.87
Sutter
7,520
4,379
63.19
5,890
7,451
44.14
Tehama
5,522
5,483
50.17
4,957
7,479
39.86
Trinity
1,418
2,262
38.53
1,394
3,329
29.51
Tulare
29,456
24,887
54.20
24,002
38,240
38.56
Tuolumne
3,691
3,781
49.39
3,190
5,623
36.19
Yolo
10,104
12,395
44.90
9,399
16,090
36.87
Yuba
5,293
4,882
52.01
3,962
7,756
33.81
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1,234,757
1,331,983
48.10
1,126,901
1,756,333
39.08
Southern Calif.
Imperial
10,606
9,119
53.76
8,464
14,918
36.19
Inyo
2,962
2,443
54.80
2,639
3,535
42.74
Kern
52,800
51,440
50.65
39,454
80,560
32.87
Los Angeles
1,302,661
1,323,818
49.59
1,165,002
1,742,190
40.07
Mono
912
457
66.61
799
760
51.23
Orange
174,891
112,007
60.95
153,915
154,373
49.92
Riverside
65,855
50,877
56.41
61,474
69,197
47.04
San Bernardino
99,481
90,888
52.25
84,660
128,256
39.76
San Diego
223,056
171,259
56.56
199,260
235,259
45.85
San Luis Obispo
17,862
14,975
54.39
16,660
22 505
42.53
Santa Barbara
38,805
29,409
56.88
36,222
38,018
48.79
Ventura
35,074
35,334
49.81
30,951
49,436
38.50
2,024,965
1,892,026
51.69
1,799,500
2,539,007
41.47
Statewide
Totals
3,259,722
3,224,009
50.27
2,926,401
4,295,340
40.52
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR GOVERNOR
STATEMENT OF CANDIDACY BY RICHARD NIXON
AT PRESS CONFERENCE
STATLER HILTON HOTEL, LOS ANGELES
SEPTEMBER 27, 1961
Since my return to California I have had an opportunity to see first
hand some of the problems of this State and of its government in
Sacramento. I have reached some conclusions about those problems
and those conclusions can be summed up in a sentence: The Govern-
ment, the State House in Sacramento, is in a mess and somebody has
to clean it up.
We find today that our government expenditures in this State are the
highest in the nation, and the efficiency of state government is among
the lowest. We find that law enforcement in the State of California is
below the national average. We find that education has been short-
changed, and most important of all, we find that the jobs that are
necessary to provide employment for the 250, 000 new job applicants
that come into this State every year are not keeping pace with the new
increase in population.
These are complex problems. They are difficult problems. And I have
reached the conclusion, as I know not only many Republicans but many
Democrats and Independents in this State have reached, that the ami-
able but bungling man who presently is the Governor of this State
cannot clean up this mess for which he is partially and, in many in-
stances, substantially responsible.
California needs a new Governor. It needs a new leader. And among
the attributes that new Governor and new leader must have, in my
opinion, are these:
He must be a man, first of all, who is strong enough in his own right
that he can be independent of any pressure group and can always
speak and act for all the people of this State.
He must be a man who is strong enough and who is respected enough
to attract into state government men and women of the very highest
caliber to take the posts that are there to be served and to be handled.
And finally, and most important of all, the next Governor of this State
must be a man who will devote not part but all of his energies to this
job. He cannot do as Governor Brown did: be elected Governor, and
then within six months, start running for the Presidency of the United
States of America.
That is why tonight I have two decisions to announce to the people
of California and to the people of this nation.
First, I shall not be a candidate for President of the United States in
1964.
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I shall be a candidate for Governor of the State of California in 1962.
In making this announcement, I base it on several circumstances, a
few of which I would like to share with this group tonight. First,
there is a selfish reason: I often hear it said that it is a sacrifice for
men or women to serve in public life. For me, I have found it to be
the other way around. On my return to private life, I have found that,
from a salary standpoint, the income has been beyond anything I could
ever have dreamed. And I have found, of course, other things in private
life that are very attractive. But after fourteen years as a Congressman,
as a Senator, and as Vice President of the United States, I find that
my heart is not there -- it is in public service. I want to be in public
service. And I have concluded that, as far as my present opportunities
to serve are concerned, the most challenging, the most exciting posi-
tion that I can seek, and in which I could serve, next to being President
of the United States itself, is to be Governor of what will be the first
state of this nation.
I also have reached this conclusion, because I believe that I will be
able to unite the members of my own Party, attract members of the
Democratic Party, and independent voters in sufficient numbers, as I
have on the five previous occasions that I have been a candidate for
public office in this state -- sufficient numbers to win.
And then, I have, in conclusion, this one thought to leave with the
people of this state and the people of the Nation, for that matter, be-
cause they have a stake in what happens in California -- a conclusion
with regard to what I will try to work for as a candidate and what I
will try to work for as Governor of this State. California in 1963 or
1964 will be the first state of this nation in population. I want
California to be the first state of the nation in education, not only in
quantity, but in quality. I want it to be the first state in law enforce-
ment, and not in crime. I want it to be the first state in our urban
development, in the beauty of our cities, our parks and our beaches.
I want it to be the first state in the quality of top-rate people we
bring into government and not in the quantity of second-raters for
which we make government jobs.
I want it to be the first state in efficiency of government, and not in
waste. And above everything else, I want California to be the first
state in opportunity -- opportunity for all and not first just in hand-
outs.
I was born in this state. My wife and I grew up here, were educated
here, were married here. I am proud of being a Californian. I look
forward to the opportunity of running for office and for becoming the
Governor of this State.
In the campaign just a year ago we heard about the new frontiers for
America. California is the frontier and I want the first state of this
nation to be a proud example for all the people of America. It is in
that spirit that I announce tonight my intention to seek the Governor-
ship of the State of California.
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SAMPLE OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM
PRESS CONFERENCE OF RICHARD NIXON
STATLER-HILTON HOTEL
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
SEPTEMBER 27, 1961
NO SLATE
Q.
Have you decided on a lieutenant governor and the rest of your
slate ?
A.
I have not decided on any slate and there will be no slate. Cali-
fornians resent machine-boss politics. They resent the fact that
the Brown administration has fallen into the error of attempting to
impose that kind of boss rule on California. We don't want any
part of it in any administration in which I have a part and the time
to begin is now. There will be no slate for state offices and no
deals or trades of any kind as far as I am concerned.
ATTITUDE TOWARD OTHER GOP CANDIDATES IN PRIMARY
Q. Will you engage in television debates against members of your
party in the primary?
A. I have no quarrels with members of my own party, and I will not
debate with them. I will have only good things to say about them
because any one of them might become the candidate, and I don't
want to say anything in the primary that I would have to take back
in the final.
JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY
Q. Will you accept support from the John Birch Society
A. I am not going to accept support from any individual, or from any
group which uses tactics in fighting political battles that I do
not approve of. I think that J. Edgar Hoover in a statement last
week end said something that all Americans should pay attention
to. And that is that we must be on the alert against communism
in this country, but that we must not fall into the error of assum-
ing that anyone who disagrees with us is therefore a Communist
or pro-Communist. As far as my credentials in this field of
fighting communism are concerned, I don't think anyone can
question them. I fought the Communists all of my political life,
and they fought me. And I intend to continue to fight them; and
further, I think there is something that can be done at the state
level in the field of education, on the Communist issue, which
is sensible, which is fair, and which is necessary which is not
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presently being done. I will develop this during the course of
the campaign.
But whether I am governor or as a private citizen I will always
fight for the right of any individual to express his views on any
issue. I will always fight against any individual who in my opin-
ion is using tactics that are not American in their character.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Q. Mr. Brown has taken a very definite stand on capital punishment
during his administration. Do you care to comment what your
stand will be on that?
A.
I emphatically disagree with Governor Brown on capital punish-
ment. I respect him for his position. I know that he takes it
honestly and sincerely. I think he is dead wrong. I believe that
as far as this state is concerned, with the crime rate that we
have, the rapists, the murderers, and the others who terrorize
the people of the cities of this state, we have to have a deter-
rent, and I believe that the only deterrent is the ultimate deter-
rent, capital punishment, and I would oppose any attempt to
change the California law in that respect.
PROMISES OF SUPPORT
Q.
Do you have any promises of any support right now from labor,
business or any other groups of people or individuals?
A.
I have none. One of the things that I can offer to the people of
California -- and this may be unprecedented in the history of a
gubernatorial candidate -- is that because I have not announced
my intentions until now and have not disclosed them to anybody,
that I have no promises whatever for press support, for financial
support, or for political support from anybody in California or
from any group, from labor, from business, from education.
And as far as I am concerned, I am glad it is that way. As I
have indicated earlier, California needs a governor in the great
independent tradition of California governors, and if elected I
intend to be that kind of a governor. And the chips will have to
fall where they may. I will owe nothing to anybody and I can
speak for and act for the people at all times.
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FAIR CAMPAIGN PRACTICES
FAIR CAMPAIGN PRACTICES
EXCERPTS FROM A LETTER TO
LOS ANGELES COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
JULIUS A. LEETHAM
FROM RICHARD NIXON
NOVEMBER 7, 1961
With regard to the principle of avoiding personal attacks on other
Republican candidates, it has been my practice throughout the years
I have been in public life never to campaign against other Republican
candidates in the primary but always to direct my campaign against
the Democratic candidates who may be our opponents in the final
election. This is a practice I shall continue to follow in this campaign.
I hope that Republican candidates for all offices in California will re-
cognize that in this State particularly, where to succeed we must win
the support of hundreds of thousands of Democrats as well as Repub-
licans, we should always avoid the bitter personal feuds in a primary
campaign which, in the past, have had the effect of destroying the
chances for success in the final election of our Republican nominees.
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PARTY UNITY
REMARKS OF
RICHARD NIXON
AT THE LINCOLN DAY DINNER
OF THE SANTA MONICA REPUBLICAN CLUB
MIRAMAR HOTEL
FEBRUARY 9, 1962 - 8 p.m.
One of Lincoln's lessons for us today is that if this country is to have
a two party system, each party must have room for people to disagree
and yet remain united. How else can our opponents manage to embrace
both James Eastland and Hubert Humphrey, Harry Byrd and Arthur
Schlesinger and, when convenient, Pat Brown and Paul Ziffren.
Yet, they would like to slice up our party into small packages, labeled
liberal, conservative, extremist, middle-of-the-roader, or moderate,
ultra-conservative or you name it and they have called us that.
It is the old trick of divide and conquer. And, we must not fall for it.
There is a great principle which unites us today and will carry us to
victory because most of the people believe in it with us. We must
not lose sight of that great principle, which is the heart of the Repub-
lican Party and which is the keystone of our American way of life.
Lincoln himself enunciated that principle when he said:
"The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community
of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all or
cannot do so well for themselves in their separate and individual
capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for
themselves, the Government ought not to interfere.
That principle has served America well for the past one hundred years
and it stands well today. The principle which should unite the
Republican Party today is the same principle of individual opportunity
and enterprise that Lincoln espoused. That principle is now being
reversed completely by the incumbents in Washington and in Sacramento
who contend that wherever there is a problem we must look to the
government first to solve it rather than to the individual. And on that
issue we are united. On that issue we can win the election in
November, because on that principle a majority of the people of
California of both parties agree.
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STATE GOVERNMENT
EXPERIENCE IN GOVERNMENT
REMARKS BY
RICHARD NIXON
AT THE
SACRAMENTO PRECINCT WORKERS DINNER
DANTE CLUB, SACRAMENTO
FEBRUARY 16, 1962
I want to plead guilty to my experience in national and international
affairs. I am proud of my record of fourteen years of public service
to the people of California and to the people of the nation. Further-
more, I think that experience will help the next Governor of California
serve the people of his state better.
California no longer stands on the shores of the Pacific in isolation.
The decisions made in Washington, in London, in Paris, and in
Moscow influence the welfare of the people of California--sometimes
indirectly and sometimes directly--and I think the people of California
want a governor who has knowledge of what is going on in the world,
beyond the borders of our state--and not one who seems to think
ignorance of and lack of interest in such subjects is something which
is a desirable qualification for that office.
For example, defense plants account for 23 percent of all factory jobs
in California. Missile and aircraft production provide 82 percent of
all jobs in San Diego and 27 percent of all jobs in the Los Angeles and
Long Beach area. It should be perfectly clear that anyone who is
Governor of California must have experience with national defense
matters. He must be able to keep abreast and judge the course of
disarmament negotiations. He must know the meaning behind the
announcements which come out of the Kremlin and foreign capitols
across the world.
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PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT
REMARKS OF
RICHARD NIXON
DINNER OF WHITTIER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
CELEBRATING MR. NIXON'S 49TH BIRTHDAY
JANUARY 9, 1962
The last thing my mother wanted me to do was to get into politics be-
cause of the attacks a man in public life must undergo. But, I have
no regrets for the decision I made 16 years ago. Too many people sit
on the sidelines wringing their hands about what a dirty business
politics is instead of getting into it themselves and cleaning it up.
Both our major parties need responsible leadership which will avoid
the extremes of the far left and the far right. Radicals of the right
and radicals of the left are a small minority in the nation. But their
influence is far greater than their number because they are so active
and SO noisy. The answer to the crooks and the crackpots in politics
is for responsible people, who make up the great majority in every
community, to participate more actively in political affairs.
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STATE AND NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
REMARKS BY
RICHARD NIXON
AT THE
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN DINNER
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
NOVEMBER 13, 1961
There is almost no activity on the part of our state government that
is not affected by Washington. Whether it is our welfare programs,
highways, colleges and schools, airports, agriculture, water, power,
urban renewal, narcotics control, civil defense, beaches and forests,
taxes and economic growth -- all are connected in myriad ways to
national programs or attitudes and cannot be understood, administered
or made more effective unless they are approached with the broadest
sort of vision and experience in these matters.
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STATE ADMINISTRATION
REMARKS OF
RICHARD NIXON
BEFORE THE
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY
SANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 2, 1961
The problem is twofold. We must maintain a high level of employment
and economic expansion to provide jobs for our growing population.
And we must provide for necessary state services for the growing pop-
ulation within a revenue structure which will not stifle this economic
development. We can afford no administrative waste and no political
padding of the budget.
The state's administrative machinery needs a drastic overhaul--a
basic one, and not just frosting on the same stale cake. There are
now more than 350 agencies, commissions, committees, departments
and councils which report directly to the Governor. This is obviously
an impossibility, and has led to empire building, bungling bureaucracy,
waste and inefficiency. Governor Brown has heralded his "agency"
plan as the answer to the problem of administrative chaos. But his
solution is to create 8 super agencies, 4 of which have already come
into being. These are simply superimposed on the existing structure.
Nothing is trimmed--nothing is saved. And new super directors get
$25, 000 a year each, plus staff, and every one of them a "political
plum". This is not a partisan view of the bungling bureaucracy in
Sacramento. Hundreds of thousands of Democrats agree with one of
Brown's key associates, Bob McCarthy, who resigned as Director of
Motor Vehicles in disgust. He said one of his main reasons for doing
so was that "during the past two years, more than $4.5 million has
been saved in the operation of this department with no support what-
soever from you. Leadership on your part could have saved the people
of California additional millions of dollars in the operation of other
state departments. " McCarthy described the administration of Governor
Brown as a "spineless administration that lacks courage and principle.'
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SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES
REMARKS OF
RICHARD NIXON
BEFORE THE
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY
SANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 2, 1961
California will soon become first in population in the nation. I say
it is time to mount a crusade in this state for new leadership to see
to it that California will not also be first in crime, first in high taxes,
and first in bungling bureaucracy.
In 1960 I had the opportunity to campaign throughout the length and
breadth of our 50 sovereign states. And I found that they aren't so
sovereign any more. It is impossible to build a strong, virile Republic
without strong state governments. Our state government is drifting
into a position of absolute subservience to national government. The
hard job is in the state houses of 50 states with the Constitutional
obligation to maintain--or regain--their sovereignty. That job must
be done. I believe that the job can best be done by a Californian
who has had national and international experience and sees the dan-
gers of centralized government clearly.
We are fighting a battle of survival for the Republic. We can best
fight it at the state level by making state government vigorous and
strong and independent.
It is clear that what is involved in this contest is the single question:
"When we have a problem, where do we look for the solution My
answer--underscored by my votes and conduct in 14 years of public
life--is that we look first to the individual citizen. If the task is too
great for the individual or his family, we turn next to our private or
non-governmental institutions. If private groups cannot do the job
we turn to local government--to our cities and towns and special
districts. Only if the level of government closest to the people fails
in its task, or lacks the resources, do we turn to the higher level of
government.
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LEADERSHIP AND QUALITY OF GOVERNMENT
REMARKS BY
RICHARD NIXON
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY DINNER
FEBRUARY 14, 1962
We need the best brains available in every field without regard to
partisan affiliation--agriculture, business, labor, transportation,
and water supply--to help make California the first state in the Union,
not only in population but in the efficiency and quality of our state
government.
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EXCERPTS FROM
TOWN HALL TALK
APRIL 24, 1962
RICHARD M. NIXON
I believe the education of our children, the water resources of
our state, our immediate business and employment situation are
at least of equal importance to me and my family and to you and
yours as any actions taken by our federal government.
And I have been moving across our state making this point,
emphasizing that the people of California must become aware of
federal encroachment upon our state domain and beware of what
is happening to our ship of state.
Walk just a few steps from the Biltmore Hotel here in Los
Angeles and what do you see? You will see signs designating
the Bunker Hill redevelopment project - with the costs of land
acquisition and clearance underwritten by federal loans and
gran!s. What you will not see and probably do not know is that
federal rales and regulations govern the size of the signs and
the size of the lettering on those signs.
The National Defense Education Act, a praiseworthy effort in
its objective, by itself, has triggered in a mere three years'
time a major shift in emphasis in our public schools toward an
intensive concentration on science, mathematics and language
study. How did the federal government do this? By legislating
that any state or local school board wanting a share of federal
funds under this Act must accept federal curriculum control and
federal definition of what is and what is not important to
teach in our local schools. There are many more examples that
could be cited. But the point would be the same in any case.
Whoever pays the bill calls the tune.
Just so long as our states and cities abdicate their traditional
responsibilities to Washington, D.C., there will be federal
bureaucrats ready and eager to take over. This is a vast under-
statement. There will be federal bureaucrats not only ready
and eager - but convinced that they know what is best for all
of us. Whenever our states and cities leave unfilled a vacuum
of public service, the federal government will seize on the
opportunity to move in. It will take a high degree of both
skill and experience for our state and local leaders to detect
these devious threats to local autonomy, and then move
vigorously to thwart them.
The challenge to state leadership here in California is just
about twice as great as it is anywhere elese. First of all,
California is a state-on-the-move. Soon to be number one in
population, its people will never settle for less than the
best in any major field of human activity, economic, social,
or (lt ral.
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Then, too, California is entering a period of tough competition
with other states and other areas of the country. This competi-
tion ranges over the whole sweep of public and private affairs
and involves everything from attracting the best young
scientists and technicians to attracting a steady flow of new
business and industry. It involves retaining a fair share of
defense contracts, awarded on merit, and maintaining our world-
wide markets for the incredibly varied produce of California's
farms and factories. Unless we provide more and better in-
centives, richer and more widely-shared rewards for the creative
enterpriser, the competition will leave us behind.
To complicate the problem and compound the challenge, California
labors under one of the nation's most archaic constitutional
systems - and this is a barrier to growth and progress in every
other field. For the next Governor of this State, there can be
no more urgent assignment than to lead the fight
for at least four major constitutional reforms.
First is a complete, top-to bottom overhaul of the present hornet's
nest of more than 350 swarming independent and semi-independent
commissions and bureaus and agencies and departments that comprise
the executive branch of state government. It is not enough to
take a piecemeal stab at the problem and certainly not one
that deliberately flies in the face of legislative recommenda
tions, nor one that simply piles a new layer of super-agencies
on top of all the others. What we need is a statesmanlike re
organization of the Governor's office to provide the people of
California more and better services, with solid accomplishment
to show for every tax-dollar spent.
Second is the institution of annual legislative sessions in
which proposals can carry over from one year to the next with-
out being subject to stop-and-go consideration and to the
Governor's arbitrary "special call" during the off-year budget
session. Annual sessions would permit long-range committee
investigations in depth, with no danger of simply putting off
major issues two years at a time or until the next "regular"
session rolls around.
Third is the need to "unfreeze" that 2/3rds of the annual state
budget which now is not subject to review or control by the
legislature. In the current budget of $2.9 billion only a
little over $900 million is subject to the legislature's will.
Only by defrosting the mandatory appropriations and earmarked
funds in our state budget can we adopt new sound and responsible
fiscal policies, and then to follow through on them. Only this
way can we plan and carry out long range programs in fields as
varied and vital as highways and freeways, public education,
and public welfare.
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And fourth on the list of constitutional reforms, is Senate
reapportionment to give a vigorous legislative voice to
every county and every area of the State.
These reforms are needed. Good institutions are no guarantee
of good government. But bad ones can impose an impenetrable
barrier. Each of the four reforms that I have proposed would
rid this State of some hangover from the past which has long
since outlived its usefulness. These reforms would clear the
way for good men with good ideas.