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    "ocrText": "Sidewalks\nCorruption\n00 your\nSlippery\nAnd Democracy\nGulch\nBy CARL GASTON\nNEW YORK POST, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1960\nQUESTION: The State Direc-\nBy Max Lerner\ntor of Transportation suggests\nBy Murray Kempton\ncar tolls in the Holland and\nLincoln Tunnels be increased to\n$1.50. What do you think?\nThere seems be common agreement among the more\nChandigarh, India.\nPLACE: Lower Manhattan.\nperceptive observers, whether they come to praise or blame him,\nThe big news of the week-end has been the conference of the\nruling Congress Party, held this year at Bangalore. Congress in\nGEORGE KANAKARIS, en-\nthat Richard Nixon's style was formed in college as the champion\ngineer, Manhattan If New\ndebater of Southern California.\nIndia means not a parliament but a party-the one that gained\nYork State is\nBut Nixon learned the arts of persuasion for hire when he\nfreedom for the nation and power for itself, and is still less a\nparty with grass-roots organization than a loose tent-covering\ntrying to dis-\nwas younger still.\nfor the power elite and the mass-following of Nehru.\ncourage people\nEarl Mazo tells us that, when he was only 14, the Vice\nfrom coming to\nPresident of the U. S. served \"two stints of three weeks each as\nNo party like the Congress exists, still in power, anywhere\nour city, in-\nbarker for the wheel of chance at the 'Slippery Gulch Rodeo'\nin the world. The Moslem League in Pakistan has been buried\ncreasing the\nin Prescott, Ariz.\nby Ayub Khan, while in Burma the overall Anti-Fascist League\ntunnel tolls to\n\"Nixon barked for the legal front of the concession, where\nwhich inherited power from the revolution has been split into\n$1.50 is a won-\nthe prizes were hams and sides of bacon, which was a 'come on'\nthe \"Clean\" and \"Stabile\" factions of U Nu and U Ba Swe. In\nderful way of\nfor a back room featuring poker and dice. Pay was based on\nIndonesia the Nationalist Party, which also inherited a revolution,\ndoing it. It\ntotal concession earnings, front and back. Nixon earned $1 an\nis being outstripped in growth by the Communists, SO that\nshould also dis-\nhour the first year, quite a windfall for a 14-year-old. The next\nSukarno must govern by his personal appeal along with General\ncourage a lot of people from do-\nNasution's army.\ning business with us. I can't\nwas a depression year and his pay fell to 50 cents.\"\nSet aside all Baptist moralities about children who start in\nMAGAZINE PAGE FOUR\nThe Congress Party alone, of all the parties that won their\nsee anyone paying the increased\ntolls without protest.\nlife steering for crap games. The issue is not what Nixon sold\nrevolutions in Asia, still is strong and stable, and still governs by\nbut the way he sold it. What is important is that he was a\nthe methods of a parliamentary democracy.\nE. J. O'CONNOR, ticket ex-\nteenage pitchman.\n+\n+\n+\naminer, Newark-This would\n*\nNehru holds a monthly press conference, usually during the\nbenefit the com-\nmuter railroads\nSerious sociological research into the character of the pitch-\nfirst week of the month, in a biggish auditorium, where he\nmounts a teacher's platform in a classroom atmosphere. He first\nconnecting New\nman is consequently necessary to any judgment of the future\nYork with New\nof the republic. It is research hard to come by. The pitchman\nasks for the topics on which the students-I mean the newsmen\nIt\nhas been so diffused through our society that in pure form he\n-have some questions, and having jotted them down on a pad,\nwould also re-\nhas almost disappeared.\nhe takes them up in succession, with interruptions for more\nlieve the traffic\nThe closest specimen immediately available is Charles\nquestions on the same topic. Unlike the American President's\ncongestion in\nKasher, who was an ornament for nearly 15 years at the\nconference, with its rapid-fire questions and brief answers, Nehru\nthe city and\nCanadian National Exposition, which remains to the pitchman\nsometimes delivers a lecture on some theme.\nhelp the park-\nwhat the Palace was to vaudeville. Kasher withdrew from the\nIn this month's conference his main theme was a defense\ning situation. I\nof his government and his party against the charges of nepotism\nbelieve it would be an interest-\nstruggle for a sedentary and successful life in direct mail adver-\nand corruption. Since Nehru was talking just before the Banga-\ning experiment which might\ntising and as an off-Broadway producer.\npay dividends in the long run.\n\"Now the first thing to remember about the pitchman,\" says\nlore conference, his remarks had added point. Not only have\nKasher, \"is that it doesn't matter to him what he sells. The\nthere been the usual crop of charges and stories about corrup\nJACK ROTHSTEIN, cab own-\nessence of the art is to sell the least for the most money. The\ntion, but also a protracted fight about conditions in the Punjab\ner-driver, The Bronx-What are\nless you gave and the more you got-that was the measure.\nstate government, from whose new capital of Chandigarh I am\nthey trying to\ndo to the motor-\nThe bad ones got stuck to sell things of value.\"\nwriting. It had been thought that the party leaders might be\nforced to take some housecleaning action to meet the criticism.\nist? Isn't he\nBy such a standard, you begin to appreciate Richard Nixon's\n*\n+\npaying enough\nearly promise. If he hadn't been good, even at 14, they wouldn't\nnow as it is? I\nhave stuck him outside. Anybody can sell a crap game; moving\nThe leaders were presented with a troublesome concrete\nhope all car\nhams takes talent.\nchallenge. A man of great prestige in India-C. D. Deshmukh, of\nowners will\n\"Now what you got to do is to stop 500 people standing on\nthe Universities Grants Commission-proposed a small high-level\nband together\ntheir feet in a noisy, upsetting fair. So, in making a pitch, you\ntribunal to sift corruption charges against government officials,\nand fight this\ngot to make everything focus. For instance, that's why most of\nand force their resignation or dismissal if the evidence against\nsuggestion.\nthe good ones can make every disease emerge from constipation.\nthem was incriminating.\nWhy can't they\nThey cure everything for everybody. I was a little embarrassed\nIt was known that the powerful Congress Working Com-\nthink of other ways of getting\nby constipation SO I used to blame everything on lack of vitamins\nmittee, which not only runs the party but also makes many of\nrevenue than always taxing the\nthe important government decisions, had voted against the tri-\nmotorist? Let's put a stop to\nand minerals in the blood. But you always have to sell a cure-all.\nthis before it gets any further.\n\"Nixon's Checkers speech was a typical pitchman's perform-\nbunal idea and that it was as good as dead. Hence Nehru's little\nance. You have to start by saying that if two and two makes four\nspeech was mainly important in giving the thinking behind the\nRALPH HARARY, novelty\nwhat I am going to say makes sense. You start people where\naction of the Working Committee.\nshop owner, Brooklyn- As a\nthey live, with a wife and a dog. You never let them know\nHis reasoning was persuasive. The charges, even when they\nsolution to the\ncity's traffic and\nthey're being carried along. And then, when you get them on\nwere not simply rumors, were hard to prove under the rules of\nparking prob-\nyour side, you very quietly sneak your pitch into your talk.\"\nevidence. You could of course cut across the judicial safeguards\nlem it may not\nAdmiration was sneaking into Kasher's tone.\nand get action, as the tribunals are doing in Pakistan, but that\nbe a bad idea.\n\"We used to say that Franklin Roosevelt was the greatest\nwould smell strongly of dictatorship.\nIt certainly\npitchman of them all. He even had that high sort of nasal tone\nIf you set up a watchdog group on the theory that even\nwould discour-\nyou need to cut through the noise of the fairgrounds. You've\nministers could not be trusted, who would watch the watchdogs?\nage many mo-\ngot to reduce every problem to one simple thing. Isn't that what\nThe whole atmosphere would become one of suspicion, and a\ntorists fr\nEisenhower did when he said, 'I'll go to Korea'?\"\npremium would be put on the hurling of charges, in the hope\nusing their\n*\nthat some might stick. The business of government would be\ncars when com-\nRichard Nixon has said that he doesn't mind speaking to\nhurt, not helped, because every administrator would try to play\ning to the city from New Jer-\naudiences, but that he could never go to a man face to face and\nit safe, and none would assume any risk or responsibility.\nsey. It would also help the\ntry to sell him something.\n+\ncommuter railroads. Many peo-\nThis is persuasive but doesn't cut very far under the surface\nple would rebel at such a price\n\"I guess in a way we were all misfits,\" says Kasher. \"When I\nfor use of the tunnels.\nwas young I could never have been a salesman and worked with\nof what ails the new governments of Asia, with their undeveloped\nindividuals. I was even uncomfortable when there were only\neconomies, their hunger for the spoils of office, and their newness\nIRVING RUDERMAN, cab\nowner-driver, The Bronx-This\nfour or five people around at the beginning, but, when the\nto democratic habits. There are three prime questions each of\nwould drive all\ncrowd got bigger, the whole thing became impersonal and then\nthese governments must face: How can you get things done?\nthe motorists\nI became strong and powerful. Television's even better; it's even\nHow can you get them done honestly? How can you draw the\nto the George\nmore impersonal. Later on, when people began to walk away,\npeople into helping get them done?\nWashington\nI was SO convinced myself that I used to wonder how anybody\nThe first is the question of efficiency, the second of clean\nBridge and we\ncould walk away from these pearls of wisdom. When you are\ngovernment, the third of a grass-roots democracy. The Pakistanis,\nwould have the\npitching you believe it. You don't have to be persuaded except\nunder President Ayub Khan, are impressing observers and visitors\nbiggest traffic\nwhen you're doing it. You don't have to believe it later.\nwith their progress in the first, and Ayub's military elite is also\ntieup in our\n\"It doesn't make much real difference, if you believe enough,\nsetting new standards in fighting the entrenched corruption. On\nhistory. If New\nwhere you take them. I used to knock the doctors and let nature\nboth scores Pakistan is getting under the skins of Nehru and\nYork City\ndo it. Remember Bernarr MacFadden; he'd outlived all the\nthe Congress leaders. Hence Nehru's anxiety to point out that\nwants to lose\na lot of business, this is the\ndoctors. I'd tell them that what I was selling was not medicine;\nPakistan is a dictatorship, while India remains a democracy.\nway to do it. I can't see any\nthis is food. And still they'd come up afterwards and say, 'I'll\nBut does this solve the malaise in India? Nehru is probably\nsense in the idea at all. It\nhave a bottle of your medicine, Doc.' What we were practicing,\nright in rejecting the Catonian tribunal of Deshmukh, but does\nwould be bad for all concerned.\nI suppose, was mass hypnosis.\"\nthe rejection help to achieve either a more efficient or a more\nThat was a formidable prep school of Dick Nixon's.\nhonest administration? If not, then one may be sure that some-\nthing deep in the ancestral cónsciousness of India will respond\nThe Cheerful Cherub\nto the ever-increasing charges that Western-model democracy\nis a failure in Asia.\nIF I could only free\nSurprise\nmy mind\nJames Aldridge, quoted in \"Captain Cousteau's Underwater\nDidn't Choose to Serve\nFrom wanting foolish\nTreasury,\" edited by Jacques:Yves Cousteau and James Dugan,\nthings I see\n(Harper, $5.95).\nThe sea is full of debris, all of it fascinating, some of 11\nFrom \"The Anatomy of Freedom,\" by Judge Harold R. Medina\nMy thoughts, exploring\nembarrassing. Also informative. I was lying on my stomach in\n(Holt, $3.50).\nunrestrained,\nthe shallows one day, reading an abandoned newspaper which\nWhen I presided over the trial of the 11 Communist leaders\nwe had a panel of some 300 odd jurors to pick from. The first\nMight bring more\nlay on the bottom. It was an article on the ancient Minoan water\nlasting things\nsystems. I had to dive to read the small print. I was called\nthing I did was to ask those who did not wish to serve to give\nto me.\naway before I had finished the article. Next day I returned to\ntheir excuses. The result was that every single business man or\nRM-CANCE\npick up where I had left off, but the paper was gone with the\nwoman or person with a position of responsibility asked to be\nsea. I spent a little time looking for it, diving on every scrap\nexcused. I was positively ashamed. True, it was likely to be a\nof paper in the area. I didn't find it: but thereafter in that\nlong trial, but in a democracy such as ours we must all make\narea I could never see a sheet of newspaper below without div-\nsome sacrifices.\ning to see if it was my unfinished article.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n32\nSidewalks\nLoser's Share\nof NewYork\nBoredom\nNEW YORK POST, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1960\nBy CARL GASTON\nQUESTION: Carl Sandburg\nBy William V. Shannon\ndedicated a school and said it\nBy Murray Kempton\nhad dangerous rivals-including\nmovies, radio and television.\nWashington.\nWhat do you think?.\nThe Democrats will hold their Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner\nAlthough the Democratic liberals in the Senate lost by an\nHERB MERKSAMER, stu-\nunder circumstances unfamiliar to habitual attendants at these\noverwhelming margin in their party caucus last week, they have\ndent, Huntington, L. I.-I agree.\nbeen reaping some substantial concessions. Sen. Johnson (D-Tex.),\nWhen I at-\nfeasts. Lyndon Johnson will be the main attraction and, by\nGeorge Meany's personal decision, there will be none of those old\nthe majority leader, picked up all the glittering headlines after\ntended high\nschool I found\nfamiliar faces from the labor political leagues.\nthe caucus rejected the proposed liberal reforms but he has\nit hard to study\nquietly yielded part of what his critics demanded.\nMeany has told James McDevitt, director of the AFL-CIO's\nproperly and\nCommittee on Political Education, that, even if the spirit should\nThere are to be many more party caucuses. The first in the\nfound the radio\nmove him to spend his own money, he must not go to the Demo-\nnew series was held yesterday to discuss the aid-to-education\nor television\ncratic dinner.\nissue. Previously, Johnson had held only one caucus a year, to\nvery distract-\ndeliver his personal \"State of the Union message\" at the begin-\ning. Now that\nMeany's decision not to grant the union label to the Demo-\nning of the session.\nI'm in college\ncrats this month-it would be hyperbole to call his action a boy-\nSecondly, Johnson has tacitly instituted a significant change\nmy mother\ncott, but a boycott it will be called-lends support to the mount-\nputs me down in the cellar to\nin the makeup of the Democratic Policy Committee. This group\ning current of Washington opinion that Meany is resigned to the\nstudy, making sure nothing dis-\nwas the object of the liberal reform proposal which, if it had\nturbs me.\nelection of Richard Nixon in 1960 and will ride with it by indors-\ning no candidate.\nbeen adopted, would have expanded the policy unit from 9 to 15\nHAL RAPAPORT, account-\nMAGAZINE PAGE FOUR\nmembers and made them elective, rather than appointed by the\nant, Queens-That is a danger-\n*\n+\nmajority leader.\nous half-truth.\nJohnson's prominence at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner\nThe big change has consisted of adding the three members\nThe movies, ra-\nwill also be owing to a mounting current of Washington opinion\nof the Calendar Committee to the Policy Committee.\ndio and televi-\nsion are actual-\nthat he is not only a serious candidate for the Presidency of the\n*\n*\n*\nly allies of edu-\nUnited States-who, after all, isn't?-but a likely one.\nTo understand the significance of that change one has to go\ncation. More\nA major recruit to this view is Richard Nixon who is re-\nback to immediately after the November, 1958, elections which\npeople know\nported saying privately that he expects that he will have to de-\nbrought the biggest Democratic majority in the Senate since\nmore about\nfend America against a Johnson-Kennedy ticket, which he be-\nNew Deal days. Sen. Clark (D-Pa.), the sparkplug of the liberal\nwhat's going on\nlieves will be very good for the country. I should expect Nixon to\nin the world to-\ndrive, proposed to Johnson then that the new facts of life be\nday than ever\nbelieve that what is good for Richard Nixon is good for America,\nrecognized and the Policy Committee revamped to reflect the\nthis being the corporation closest to his heart.\nbefore. I think these media are\nincreased Northern, Liberal strength.\ntoo important in our shrinking\nNixon's judgment in these matters is universally accepted,\nJohnson brusquely rejected Clark's request.\nworld to be dismissed this way.\nbecause everyone knows that he is an intense political scientist.\nWhen Sen. Proxmire (D-Wis.) subsequently took up the cry\nCONSTANTINE KOUSOU-\nBut he also suffers from the occupational hazard of political sci-\nfor more caucuses and a larger, democratically-elected Policy\nLAS, student, Queens-I agree\nentists, which is reading newspaper columnists too closely. He\nCommittee, he was told by Sen. Mansfield (D-Mont.), the party\nto a certain ex-\ntent. One must\ninformation. gets it from them and then hands it back; it thus becomes inside\nwhip and Johnson's loyal adjutant, that it would take a change\nconsider that\nin the Congressional Reorganization Act of 1946 to increase the\nrelaxation is al-\nThe prevailing mood in Washington is that of the girl who,\nsize of the committee. Nevertheless, Johnson began having the\nSO very impor-\nhaving accepted one too many propositions, begins to ask herself,\nthree members of the Calendar Committee meet with the policy\ntant to the\ngroup. The function of the three members of this obscure com-\n\"Why not?\" at even the less appetizing ones. Having said, \"Why\nmind. I have\nnot Nixon?\" the city has passed to \"Why not Lyndon Johnson?\"\nmittee is to serve as watchdogs for the party when the calendar\nfound that soft\nThese, of course, are questions asked out of boredom. Boredom is\nof pending bills is called and object, when necessary, to prevent\nmusic on the\nthe key to the Washington mood; George Meany is bored like\nthe other party from slipping through obnoxious bills. This is\nradio has\nthe rest of us; it is hard to blame him if he refuses to face the\na minor, tedious chore, traditionally assigned to freshmen\nhelped me to\nSenators to help them learn the ropes. Clark served on this com-\nstudy and to absorb much more\nmoment when he will, according to habit, vote Democratic, and\nmittee in 1957-58.\neasily what I read. However, I\ntherefore lets informed opinion guess that he may not vote at all.\nThe three members currently are Sens. Hart (Mich.), Engle\nwouldn't recommend viewing\nTV if a college student really\n(Cal.) and Bartlett (Alaska). They occasionally met with the\nwants to keep his mind on his\nSomeone was saying yesterday that the problem of the Dem-\nPolicy Committee last year but did not have a vote.\nwork.\nocrats is to find a candidate who can promise to do what the\nGERALD BUCHMAN, ac-\nDemocrats have not done for the last six years and make people\n*\n*\n*\ncountant, Brooklyn I can't\nbelieve it. Since Lyndon Johnson has been majority leader of the\nOn Monday, Jan. 18, less than a week after Johnson's\nquite agree. Be-\nSenate for the last six years, he is therefore personally respon-\nhighly-touted victory over the liberal reformers, Mansfield told\ncause of these\nsible for what everyone agrees has been a miserable Democratic\nthe Senate that the members of the Calendar Committee did have\nmedia, most\nrecord and thus the worst possible man to make such a promise.\na vote and should henceforth be considered part of the Policy\npeople are well\nIf you lived in a city where the insiders increasingly agree that\nCommittee.\nup on current\nJohnson will be rewarded for these services with the Democratic\n\"He (Johnson) has given them the same privileges a regular\nevents and\nworld\nnomination for President, you might vote for him but you cer-\nmember on the committee has. So what we have in effect at the\nissues affecting\ntainly wouldn't send your subordinates to a Democratic dinner.\npresent time is a 12-man committee,\" Mansfield said.\nour everyday\nBut the insiders, as usual, are probably wrong. Johnson prob-\nThis interesting disclosure came in a colloquy between Mans-\nlives. This in\nably won't get the Democratic nomination and the AFL-CIO will\nfield and Proxmire. It represented quite a change from the\nitself is a form\nindorse whoever does, listlessly and negatively, which is how\nofficial line Mansfield was expounding a year ago.\nof important education which\nthey worked for Harry Truman, who was their last national win-\nJohnson doubtless enjoyed his press clippings about the\ncannot be ignored. Unfortunate-\nly, radio and TV don't give\nner. Most people, after all, vote by habit, politics being personal;\n\"smashing rout\" of the liberals, but without losing face or contra-\ndicting the fanfare he has tried to meet the liberals at least\nenough time to educational pro-\nand labor leaders are habitual Democrats, the way corporation\npresidents are habitual Republicans.\ngrams which would further ben-\npart way.\nefit the people.\n*\n*\nTwo of the three newcomers, Hart and Engle, are firm on\nCHARLES TESORIERO, stu-\nStill, it is all terribly sad. What must it be to really believe\nthe key issue of civil rights.\ndent, Brooklyn-Most of the pro-\nin something in the United States and still be politically active,\n*\ngrams on TV\n*\n+\nwhich means being a Republican and going to national dinners to\nare trash and\nThe liberals have not, of course, won all they seek. The\na student\nhear Nixon or being a Democrat and going to your party's most\ncommittee is still appointed, not eiected. And the Steering\nshouldn't waste\nsacred fiesta to hear Lyndon Johnson? Under these circum-\nCommittee, which assigns members to legislative committees, is\nhis time with\nstances it is not a political but an esthetic act to stay away.\nstill wholly under Johnson's control. There is also the problem\nthem. Those\nPresumably something is struggling to be born in American\nof unequal regional representation. The Policy Committee is\neducational\npolitics. But the fact is that right now the inside story is simply\ntop-heavy with Southerners and Westerners. The Atlantic Sea-\nprograms that\nthat everyone is at once bored himself and compelled to seek sig-\nboard and the industrialized Midwest are badly under-represented.\ndo appear on\nnificance in the actions of others who are simply bored too.\nTV are present-\nClark has pointed out that the states north of Alabama and\ned too carly in\nEast of the Mississippi River contain 58 per cent of the national\nthe morning for us college stu-\npopulation, have 23 of the 65 Democratic senators, and 297 of\ndents, who study late into the\nthe 537 electoral votes, but they have only two of the 12 seats\nnight. As for radio and movies,\nThe Artist\non the Policy Committee.\nthey can be helpful culturally if\nyou do your selecting carefully.\nFrom \"Adventures of a Biographer\" by Catherine Drinker Bowen\n*\n*\n*\n(Atlantic-Little, Brown, $4).\nThe first of the new party caucuses held yesterday was\nThe Cheerful Cherub\nBy evil men, I do not mean those who were merely self-\nfairly well attended; 33, or about half the members, were present.\nRegretting failures in\nindulgent or a trifle perverse in their habits. Tchaikovsky was\nThe question under discussion was legislative strategy on\na homosexual; after my book \"Beloved Friend\" appeared, I think\nthe education bill. The Senate Labor Committee has reported out\nthe past\nevery deviate in the state of Pennsylvania looked on me as his\na bill by Sen. McNamara (D-Mich.) which would provide $500,000,\nWill never help me\nchampion; they came and told me their hearts until I was al-\n000 a year for two years exclusively for school construction.\ntogether surfeited.\nMcNamara favors the more ambitious Murray-Metcalf bill\nanyway\nwhich would also provide funds for teacher salaries, but he\nBut only steal my time\nBut Tchaikovsky was first of all an artist, who did not let\nand thought\nlove or terror block his work. In mortal fear of exposure, tor-\nbelieves his own bill is the only one that can be passed as long as\nEisenhower is in the White House.\nAnd keep me from\ntured by a marriage undertaken to silence scandal, Tchaikovsky\nput all fear and all torment of frustration into his art.\nSen. Hill (D-Ala.), the committee chairman, indorsed Mc-\nsuccess today.\nNamara's position.\nRMCANN\nWhether or not his symphonies are to one's taste, no\nClark spoke for the opposing view, which is to amend the bill\norchestral music ever gave back more intimately the image of\nto include salaries. Johnson spoke but did not commit himself.\nthe composer. In such a man the struggle assumed heroic\nNo binding decision was reached and none was expected.\nproportions. Inexhaustible musical talent on the one hand,\nunremitting temptation and fear on the other, and over all the\nBut the caucus performed the preliminary function of clarify-\ning the alternatives and eliciting rank-and-file opinions.\nA\ncourage to surmount-this was \"plot\" enough for any biographer.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nNEW YORK POST, SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1960\nMAGAZINE PAGE ELEVEN\nThe Latest Nixon\nPaperbacks\nEvergreen Review No. 12\nWeekly BOOK Reviews\nTHE REAL NIXON: An Inti-\nwas plain fortunate. Pat has\n(Grove Press, $1) This\nmate Biography. By Bela Kor-\nbeen a tremendous help to me.\nissue includes Albert Camus'\nnitzer. Rand McNally. 353 pp.\nEven my critics agree that she\n\"Reflections on the Guillo-\nhas done a thorough job with\n$3.95\ntine,\" first published by\nboth her family and her official\nEvergreen Review in 1957.\nMURRAY KEMPTON\nresponsibilities.\"\nTalking of Books\nThe Story of Psychoanalysis\nThis\nis\na\nbook\nHe is talking about the wom-\n-Lucy Freeman and Mar-\nwritten in the style of a lackey,\non he loves; and the tone would\nvin Small (Cardinal Origi-\nBy MARTHA MacGREGOR\n\"It's particularly important\nwhich I should define as un-\nseem cold in a U. S. Steel report\nnal, 50c)-Simple, nontech-\n\"You'll find me poor copy,\"\nto give something up when\nAmerican if it were not SO gen-\nabout the Morristown plant.\nnical presentation of key\nsaid Clifton Fadiman. \"Wife,\nyou find you can do it, unless\nerally the style of American\n*\n+\n+\nfigures: Mesmer, Piner,\nchildren, happy home, hobby-\nyou absolutely need the job for\ncampaign biographies.\nAnd yet he was a good boy\nCharcot, Breuer, Freud,\nwines. Nothing to interest\nbread and butter.\nKornitzer seeks the riddle of\nand helped around the home,\nJung, Adler, Rank, Jones\nreaders.\"\n\"When you have solved the\nand in the beginning loved his\nand others.\nNixon in his childhood in Yorba\nOutside the sun shone on an\nproblem it's a good time to stop.\nLinda, California, in his family\nfamily. There is even a school\nexpansive exurbanite lawn, in-\nThat's why I've never kept any\nand in his Quaker upbringing.\npaper he wrote about his little\nside on a big glass-walled study.\njob. I'm just an employe of\nthat is a spontaneous\nact\nand\nThis search seems to me largely\nbrother who died young; it is a\nDressed in baggy country\nwhoever wants to employ me.\na brief one.\nirrelevant for two reasons, one\ngenuinely moving document.\nclothes, Fadiman, publisher,\nIntellectual vagabondage suits\n*\n*\n+\neditor, teacher, critic, radio and\nme.\"\nof Nixonry and one of America.\nMr. Kornitzer does us all no\nThe irrelevancy produced by\nfavor by printing the full text of\nThis thing goes on and on\nTV personality, talked with the\n*\nNixonry is the family Quaker-\nthis and then following it with\naccording to plan: parodying\nhumility only the successful\nAt the moment, this. Vaga.\nism, a theme which runs\nthe most sacred notions by\ndare show.\nthe entire Checkers speech.\nbond King's employers include\nthrough Kornitzer's chronicle.\n\"My message to the American\nwhich Americans once lived, de-\n\"My pattern is simple to the\nthe Encyclopedia Britannica,\nNow the Society of Friends is a\npeople: exposing this adminis-\nfiling the combat soldier by\npoint of banality. I do some-\nHoliday and the Book-of-the-\nfree church, but it is not one\ntration, the corruption in it,\nmock-modest self-comparison,\nthing until I find out I either\nMonth Club.\nwithout doctrine.\nthe communism in it I went\ninvoking the name of God to\ncan or can't do it. In either\nHis wife, the former Annalee\nIn the last three weeks, Rich-\nto the South Pacific area\nI\nrun for office, dragging the\ncase I give it up.\nJacoby, says a large share of\nard Nixon has made two state-\ngot a couple of letters of com-\nspeaker's wife through a pub-\nhis enthusiasm these days goes\nments of policy. He has come\nmendation, but I was just there\nlic place. And yet the man who\nto educational TV \"He's been\nout in favor of capital punish-\nwhen the bombs were falling\ndelivered it was the boy who\nworking with the Ford Fund\nment and he has blessed Harry\nI believe it's five that a man\ncould write an honest piece\nfor the Advancement of Educa-\nTruman for dropping the atom\nlike Governor Stevenson, who\nabout his brother dead.\ntion\" and Fadiman himself\nbomb on Hiroshima.\ninherited a fortune from his\nI cannot consider that his\nwants people to read his newest\nIf these views reflect his early\nfather, can run for President\nparents have anything to do\nbook, \"The Lifetime Reading\ntraining in Quakerism, then I\nI'm not a quitter. And Pat's\nwith that man; he has out-\nPlan\" (World, $3.75), a guide\nam the Pope in Rome.\nnot a quitter. After all, her\ngrown them and is simply an\nto 100 books and authors from\n*\n*\n*\nname was Patricia Ryan and\nAmerican success story.\nHomer to Faulkner.\nThe second irrelevancy is\nshe was born on St. Patrick's\nI do not trust these Hungar-\n\"My book is aimed to get\nAmerican. Kornitzer does not\nDay, and you know the Irish\nians. Kornitzer pretends to be\npeople into the bookstores and\nnever quit.\"\na fool but his game is clear. He\nthe libraries. I hope it will act\nI should say, reading it\nis not only anti-Nixon; he is\nas a spark.\nafresh, that this is the most\nanti-American. Both those at-\n\"People start new habits at\ndisgusting speech delivered by\ntitudes are his privilege, but\n80. You never can tell-someone\na political figure in my life-\nhis technique seems to me be-\nwho has never opened a book\ntime.\nlow the belt.\nmay try mine and say, I'll give\nIt is disgusting because it is\nIt is simply not fair to em-\nthis crazy guy a chance.\"\ncontrived and because it is SO\nploy the style of a writer for\n*\n+\n*\nlong; Jim Eastland may belch\nScreen Guide and use it to de-\nShould people read so many\non the floor of the Senate but\nfame the republic.\nCLIFTON FADIMAN\npages a day? \"No, not unless\nthey're systematic people. Make\na regular habit of reading over\nA New Kind of TV Novel\na long period of time. Dr. Eliot\nused to talk about 15 minutes\na day. That's just hooey.\"\nHow about Fadiman's own\nGOLK.\nBy\nRichard\nStern.\nCri-\nto\nconfine\nit\nwithin\nsimple-\n-and makes of it an all-purpose\nreading? \"It depends on what\nterion. 221 pp. $3.95.\nminded morality fables.\nterm and a household word.\nI happen to be interested in. I\nThe truth is that television\nA golk is an unrehearsed real-\nalways try to put aside a couple\nBy DAVID BOROFF\nlife situation with the camera\nthe whole new wave of technol-\nhours a day for books that I\nThe standard novel about tele-\nogy, in fact is a garish and\neye trained on people caught up\nhave no practical reason to read\nzany new frontier for which the\nin unpremeditated drama. It is\nvision is likely to have a preda-\n-not review books.\ntory central character riding\nold vocabularies are unsuitable.\nan henest This Is Your Life.\n\"Once I spent some time try-\nGolk has an irresistible im-\nherd over his subordinates, some\n+\n*\n*\ning to learn Welsh. One year I\npudence in setting up situations\ngot interested in medieval his-\nRICHARD NIXON\nof whom, at least have a linger-\n\"Golk\" is the first book to\nbut also a true artist's sensitiv-\ntory.\"\ning decency.\ncome along to have some sense\nity to human nuance, as he mis-\n*\n*\nseem to understand the essential\nIt is a world of voracious ap-\nof these new dimensions. There\nchievously exposes other peo-\npetites, careening egos, dirty in-\nare no virtuous heroes, no crass\nAt this point Kim, nine, and\nthat Americans are parricides,\nple's discomfiture.\ntycoons stifling creativity. In-\nAnne, going on seven, appeared.\nin a nice way of course. They\nfighting, and tireless tumbling\n(The camera is always hid-\n\"Are you children here for a\nadvance by so eliminating the\nin and out of bed. (Al Morgan's\nstead, there is a curiously amor-\nden, and at the end of each\nimage of their parents as to\n\"The Great Man\" is perhaps the\nal world, dominated by the huge\npurpose?\" said Fadiman.\ngolk, the unlucky victim is in-\n\"Mommy won't let me use\nmake it unrecognizable in them-\nbest of the lot.)\nelectronic eye and an oddly self-\nformed that he is \"on camera.\")\nselves.\n+\n+\nAnd, of course, it has only an\nmocking Faustian itch.\n*\nthe power drill,\" said Kim.\naccidental relationship to the\nGolk cunningly arranges\nAfter backing Mommy up,\nYou can meet an Italian or\nGolk himself is a mad genius\ntruth. What it leaves out of the\nwhose bald head bobs to the sur-\ngolks which show up public fig-\nFadiman said he thought Kim's\nEnglishman and tell by looking\nat him who his father was; this\nface in the swirling currents of\nures for what they are. A gov-\nquestion largely rhetorical. \"But\npicture is the sheer entrepre-\nis impossible with Americans of\nneurial magic of TV and the\nthe new television era. He as-\nernment official shoots his\nhe may know how to use it-\nsumes the name Golk-his real\nmouth off about the electorate.\nthey do know the darndest\nthe Nixon type.\nimpassioned energies of its\nThey get ahead by obliterating\nname is a drab Sydney Pomeroy\n(\"Yes, the rotten meat draws\nthings, continually surprising to\nimagination. We do it violence\ntheir own background; whether\nthe pack.\")\nan old gentleman like myself.\"\nYorba Linda is in California,\nA union leader, flattered by\nThe reference to his age was\nbeing invited to lunch on a\nrhetorical, too; Fadiman will be\nNorth Carolina or Michigan,\nwhen its sons get to the big\nPerle: Political Party Girl\nyacht, leaks indiscretions.\n56 on May 15.\n*\n*\n\"Very domestic household\ntowns, they are indistinguishable\nfrom one another.\nPERLE-MY STORY. By Perle\nSaul Bellow, in a warm en-\nhere,\" he said. \"The children\none knows, she became Tru-\nSuch men have mothers, of\ndorsement of the novel, salutes\nwalk in and out as I work. If\nMesta with Robert Cahn.\nman's Minister to Luxembourg.\na journalist can't work under\ncourse; but their mothers are\nThis is a warm, happy, comfort-\nStern as one of the writers \"who\nnot the best of witnesses be-\nMcGraw-Hill. 241 pp. $4.50.\nare not repelled by the world and\nthese conditions he should cas-\nable book which makes light,\ncause their sons are strangers.\nPerle Mesta is noted for her\npleasant, but not very exciting\nhave kept an appetite for exper-\ntrate himself.\"\nreading. M. M.\nience.\"\n*\n*\n*\nKornitzer spent a long time with\ncharm, which dazzles nobodies\nTrue enough-but there is a\nNixon's mother, who seems to\nClifton Fadiman speaks of\nas well as notables. One of the\nbe a lady of substance, but I am\nkind of sophisticated moral an-\nhimself as a journalist and says\nafraid she is irrelevant on the\nnicest things people say about\narchy about the novel that ulti-\nhe has been influenced by Men-\nthe hostess with the mostest is\nmately subverts it.\nevidence of her son's letters,\ncken-\"not appreciated now as\nIt offers a dazzling display of\nwhich are reprinted here and in-\nhe should be.\" Fadiman began\nthat she looks after strays at\nvariably begin: \"Dear Mother\npyrotechnics, but does the read-\nreviewing books for the Nation\nher parties.\ner care? One wonders whether\n(colon)\" and almost cry out,\nwhile at Columbia and for The\n\"Dictated but not read.\"\nDoes the charm come\nthe American novel can really\nNew Yorker while an editor for\n+\n+\n*\nthrough in this autobiography?\nsurvive the collapse of ideology,\nSimon and Schuster. He now\nand that is what we are witness-\nUnder such circumstances the\nTo some extent, but the book\ndoes a book column for Holiday.\ning now.\nword \"intimate\" seems especially\nhas two disadvantages. First,\n\"Whatever came my way I said\nStern is as talented a young\ninappropriate in any study of\nTV and the press have already\nyes to.\nwriter as any who have come\nNixon. The problem, I'm afraid,\npublicized most of the events\n\"I wanted to see what things\nalong. The prose is marvelously\nis one of simple emotional\nof her life. Second, Perle Mesta\nwere like. I still do. I've found\nis too kindhearted to write a\ntangy; he has an extraordinary\npoverty.\nit worthwhile to take chances. I\nsense of the comic curlicues in\nThis, for example, is what\nreally amusing book. There's\neveryday experience.\ntried short stories, was unsuc-\nNixon says of his marriage: \"It\nscarcely a mean word in the\nBut the direction of the novel\ncessful, gave it up.\nentire 200-odd pages.\ncan be seen in the lowering of\n\"I tried verse, sold it to The\nDaughter of an Oklahoma oil\nthe word golk. Initially, it is\nNew Yorker, read some good\nMysteries\npromoter and hotel man, she\ndefined \"as to look with a criti-\nverse by E. B. White, gave that\nmarried Pittsburgh C n\ncal eye.\"\nup. It's important to recognize\nThe Schultz Money-Malcolm\nGeorge Mesta, was a World\nBut Golk, when he is cast out\nyour limitations-don't waste\nGair-GOOD\nWar I hostess in Washington,\nfrom his creative Eden, lets\ntime.\"\nThe Man in the Cage-John\nwhere her husband served as a\non that the word really means\n\"My own limitations are quite\nHolbrook Vance-FAIR\ndollar-a-year-man, and as, every-\nPERLE MESTA\na fool. \"Golk\" chills as much\nwide,\" said Fadiman, a very\nas it charms.\nmodest man.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nNEW YORK POST, THURSDAY, MAY 5. 1960\n51\nThe Trophy\nMURRAY KEMPTON\nNicely, nicely, poor Richard Nixon was pushed and shoved-\nthe only victim forbidden by protocol to complain-about the\nNew York World Trade Fair in the Coliseum yesterday.\nHe shook the extended palms of all the world-from Bulgaria\nto South Korea-with the firm, non-partisan grip of salesman\nto salesman. He took home an Indian tea kettle-his wife is a\ncollector; a stuffed black dog from West Germany--his daugh-\nter is about to be a collector; a large Benelux bowl of blue\ntransparent glass; a volume of Israeli photographs of Biblical\nlandscapes; a thing that looked like a lute with hangman's ropes\nattached from South Korea; and a cluster of flags from the\nEuropean common market.\nHe told an Indian that the new agricultural program was a\n\"stabilizing, ahhh\"; he told a Brazillan that his new capital was\nlike Washington, D.C., and built from the ground up and the\nPresident agrees; he told the European common market that it\nwas a great stride forward; he told Israel that it too was a great\nstride forward; he told the Austrians that it was a thorn in his\nflesh that only 5 per cent of the tourists who went to Paris\nwent on to Vienna; he told the Sicilians that there would have\nbeen no California without the Di Giorgio farms; he didn't men-\ntion the Di Giorgios to the Mexicans but he told them that they\nwere friendly and had pyramids older than Egypt's and also\nthe shrine at Guadalupe; he told the Poles that his grandmother\nhad a feather bed; he told the Bulgarians that theirs was one\ncountry where he and his wife had never been but that, by all\nevidence, it had pretty girls; he told the Aubusson tapestry\nindustry-behind its back-that its designs were a little over\nhis head but certainly striking; and he told the South Koreans\nthat he had gone to school with a Korean boy and that he and\nPat would never forget, etc.\n*\n¥\n%\nAnd through it all he was steamed and baked and crushed\nby the animal flesh of scribes from the prints and the Pharisees\nfrom the Coliseum management-\"I started to hit one of those\nreporters, but I figured he was too important\"-and tripped by\ntelevision wires, and pushed into artificial flowers-\"Clear out\nIsrael; we're taking him there\"-and through it all he remained\npleasant, informing, and anxious to please, a single agreeable\nisland in a sea raging with the unpleasant.\nHe ended his journey inspecting a detailed relief map of\nNew York and environs provided by the New York Port Authority,\nwith light-ups of its installations and a battery of telephones\nwhich the intellectually curious might pick up to hear a recorded\ndescription of the tentacles of that octopus. The Vice President\nof the United States picked up the phone and nodded his head\nand heard the description all the way through. When it was\nfinished he hung up. Thank heaven, there is one limitation to\nRichard Nixon's manners: he does not say \"Thank you\" to a\nrecorded announcement.\n\"This is the way you teach \"people,\" he told the Port Author-\nity's attendant. \"They see the phone and they pick it up because\nthey're curious and then they listen because they're interested.\"\nHe tried to heist the telephone. It was anchored to its place, an\nexample of the abiding faith his servants have in the common\nman. \"I see,\" he said, \"you have them all nailed down.\"\nA policeman was following him carrying his presents. The\nVice President asked his bearer how long he had been on the\nforce. Three months, the policeman answered. \"That's what it is\nto be a recruit,\" said Mr. Nixon. \"You have to carry the loot.\"\nHe was through it all a mine of information. He has been\neverywhere except Bulgaria. He knows the population of the\nEuropean common market; he knows the percentage of tourists\nwho go on from Paris to Vienna; he knows that in other Asiatic\nnations besides India you greet a voter by putting your hands\ntogether and inclining the forehead forward; he appreciates\nPolish hams.\nHe could even ask the Mexicans about a friend of his named\nSierra. \"We used to go to parties together. Does he still do those\ndances? No, I guess he doesn't. He has to be dignified, I guess.\"\n*\n*\nHow dreary it is to be Richard Nixon. There must have been\na little fun in Mexico-hower ceremonial and hollow-and now\n2-1\nthe man's been promoted and is only a memory as jackanapes.\nm\nThere are left just the maps and the figures on the Indian five-\nis\nyear plan. What must it be like to be an American tourist and\nnever get to see the \"Folies Bergeres,' which you would have had\no\nthe taste not to like, of course, but could at least have talked\nn\nabout as though you liked it as any other tourist can? There is\nn\nleft only the world in the form of small talk.\ni.\nGod, how Nixon must envy Khrushchev, who can drink\nPepsi-Cola and spit it out in public disgust. What a terrible\nS\ncurse it is to embody America as a constant apology to the world.\nBut then there is the expense account and there are the\ntrophies. I think of the Nixons in their golden years, the Vice\ne\nPresidential family emeritus of the United States, with Mr. Nixon\nsaying in the long winter evenings in San Luis Obispo, \"Pat,\nshow me that thing the South Koreans gave us before the night\ne\nfell.\" He at the Dutch Treat Club. I bet it was\nS\nRichard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nDutch treat.\nNEW YORK POST, SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1960\nMAGAZINE PAGE ELEVEN\nThe Latest Nixon\nPaperbacks\nTHE REAL NIXON: An Inti-\nEvergreen Review No. 12\nwas plain fortunate. Pat has\nWeekly BOOK Reviews\n(Grove Press, $1) This\nBiography By Bela Kor-\nbeen a tremendous help to me.\nissue includes Albert Camus'\nnitzer. Rand McNally 353 PP\nEven my critics agree that she\n\"Reflections on the Guillo-\n$3.95.\nhas done a thorough job with\nboth her family and her official\ntine,\" first published by\nEvergreen Review in 1957.\nBy MURRAY KEMPTON\nresponsibilities.\"\nThe Story of Psychoanalysis\nTalking of Books\nThis is a terribly soggy book\nHe is talking about the wom-\n-Lucy Freeman and Mar-\nin the style of a lackev\non he loves; and the tone would\nvin Small (Cardinal Origi-\nBy MARTHA MacGREGOR\nwhich should define as\nseem cold in a U. S. Steel report\n\"It's particularly important\nnal, 50c)-Simple, nontech-\nabout the Morristown plant.\n\"You'll find me poor copy,\"\nto give something up when\nAmerican it were so gen-\nnical presentation of\nkey\nsaid Clifton Fadiman. \"Wife,\nyou find you can do it, unless\nerally the style of American\n*\n*\n*\nfigures: Mesmer,\nPiner,\nchildren, happy home, hobby-\nyou absolutely need the job for\ncampaign biographies.\nAnd yet he was a good boy\nCharcot, Breuer,\nFreud,\nwines. Nothing to interest\nbread and butter.\nKornitzer seeks the riddle of\nand helped around the home,\nJung, Adler, Rank, Jones\nreaders.\"\n\"When you have solved the\nNixon in his childhood in Yorba\nand in the beginning loved his\nand others.\nOutside the sun shone on an\nproblem it's a good time to stop.\nLinda, California, in his family\nfamily. There is even a school\nexpansive exurbanite lawn, in-\nThat's why I've never kept any\nand in his Quaker upbringing.\npaper he wrote about his little\nside on a big glass-walled study.\njob. I'm just an employe of\nThis search seems to me largely\nbrother who died young; it is a\nthat is a spontaneous act and\ngenuinely moving document.\na brief one.\nDressed in baggy country\nwhoever wants to employ me.\nirrelevant for two reasons, one\nclothes, Fadiman, publisher,\nIntellectual vagabondage suits\nof Nixonry and one of America.\nMr. Kornitzer does us all no\n*\neditor, teacher, critic, radio and\nme.\"\nThe irrelevancy produced by\nfavor by printing the full text of\nThis thing goes on and on\nTV personality, talked with the\n*\n*\n*\nNixonry is the family Quaker-\nthis and then following it with\naccording to plan: parodying\nhumility only the successful\nism, a which runs\nthe entire Checkers speech.\nthe most sacred notions by\ndare show.\nAt the moment, this Vaga-\nthrough Kornitzer's chronicle.\nbond King's employers include\n\"My message to the American\nwhich Americans once lived, de-\n\"My pattern is simple to the\nNow the Society of Friends is a\npeople: exposing this adminis-\nfiling the combat soldier by\npoint of banality. I do some-\nthe Encyclopedia Britannica,\nfree church, but it is not one\nHoliday and the Book-of-the-\ntration, the corruption in it,\nmock-modest self-comparison,\nthing until I find out I either\nMonth Club.\nwithout doctrine.\nthe communism in it\nI\nwent\ninvoking the name of God to\ncan or can't do it. In either\nIn the last three weeks, Rich-\nHis wife, the former Annalee\nto the South Pacific area\nI\nrun for office, dragging the\ncase I give it up.\nard Nixon has made two state-\nspeaker's wife through a pub-\nJacoby, says a large share of\ngot a couple of letters of com-\nments of policy. He has come\nmendation, but I was just there\nlic place. And yet the man who\nhis enthusiasm these days goes\nout in favor of capital punish-\nwhen the bombs were falling\ndelivered it was the boy who\nto educational TV \"He's been\nI believe it's five that a man\ncould write an honest piece\nworking with the Ford Fund\nment and he has blessed Harry\nlike Governor Stevenson, who\nabout his brother dead.\nfor the Advancement of Educa-\nTruman for dropping the atom\ntion\" and Fadiman himself\nbomb on Hiroshima.\ninherited a fortune from his\nI cannot consider that his\nwants people to read his newest\nIf these views reflect his early\nfather, can run for President\nparents have anything to do\ntraining in Quakerism, then I\nbook, \"The Lifetime Reading\nI'm not a quitter. And Pat's\nwith that man; he has out-\nam the Pope in Rome.\nPlan\" (World, $3.75), a guide\nnot a quitter. After all, her\ngrown them and is simply an\nto 100 books and authors from\n*\nname was Patricia Ryan and\nAmerican success story.\nHomer to Faulkner.\nThe second irrelevancy is\nshe was born on St. Patrick's\nI do not trust these Hungar-\n\"My book is aimed to get\nAmerican. Kornitzer does not\nDay, and you know the Irish\nians. Kornitzer pretends to be\npeople into the bookstores and\nnever quit.'\na fool but his game is clear. He\nthe libraries. I hope it will act\nI should say, reading it\nis not only anti-Nixon; he is\nas a spark.\nafresh, that this is the most\nanti-American. Both those at-\n\"People start new habits at\ndisgusting speech delivered by\ntitudes are his privilege, but\n80. You never can tell-someone\na political figure in my life-\nhis technique seems to me be-\nwho has never opened a book\ntime.\nlow the belt.\nmay try mine and say, I'll give\nIt is disgusting beçause it is\nIt is simply not fair to em-\nthis crazy guy a chance.\"\ncontrived and because it is SO\nploy the style of a writer for\n*\n+\n+\nlong; Jim Eastland may belch\nScreen Guide and use it to de-\non the floor of the Senate but\nfame the republic.\nCLIFTON FADIMAN\nShould people read SO many\npages a day? \"No, not unless\nthey're systematic people. Make\na regular habit of reading over\nA New Kind of TV Novel\na long period of time. Dr. Eliot\nused to talk about 15 minutes\na day. That's just hooey.\"\nwithin\nHow about Fadiman's own\nGOLK. By Richard Stern. Cri-\nto\nconfine\nit\nsimple-\n-and makes of it an all-purpose\nreading? It depends what\nterion. 221 pp. $3.95.\nminded morality fables.\nterm and a household word.\nI happen to be interested in. I\nThe truth is that television-\nA golk is an unrehearsed real-\nBy DAVID BOROFF\nthe whole new wave of technol-\nlife situation with the camera\nalways try to put aside a couple\nhours a day for books that I\nThe standard novel about tele-\nogy, in fact is a garish and\neye trained on people caught up\nhave no practical reason to read\nvision is likely to have a preda-\nzany new frontier for which the\nin unpremeditated drama. It is\n-not review books.\ntory central character riding\nold vocabularies are unsuitable.\nan honest This Is Your Life.\n\"Once I spent some time try-\n*\nGolk has an irresistible im-\nherd over his subordinates, some\n*\n+\ning to learn Welsh. One year I\npudence in setting up situations\nRICHARD NIXON\nof whom, at least have a linger-\n\"Golk\" is the first book to\ngot interested in medieval his-\nbut also a true artist's sensitiv-\ning decency.\ncome along to have some sense\ntory.\"\nity to human nuance, as he mis-\nseem to understand the essential\n*\n+\n*\nIt is a world of voracious ap-\nof these new dimensions. There\nthat Americans are parricides,\nchievously exposes other peo-\npetites, careening egos, dirty in-\nare no virtuous heroes, no crass\nple's discomfiture.\nAt this point Kim, nine, and\nin a nice way of course. They\nfighting, and tireless tumbling\ntycoons stifling creativity. In-\n(The camera is always hid-\nAnne, going on seven, appeared.\nadvance by so eliminating the\nin and out of bed (Al Morgan's\nstead, there is a curiously amor-\nden, and at the end of each\n\"Are you children here for a\nimage of their parents as to\n\"The Great Man\" is perhaps the\nal world, dominated by the huge\ngolk, the unlucky victim is in-\npurpose?' said Fadiman.\nmake it unrecognizable in them-\nbest of the lot.)\nelectronic eye and an oddly self-\nformed that he is \"on camera.\")\n\"Mommy won't let me use\nselves.\nYou can meet an Italian or\nAnd, of course, it has only an\nmocking Faustian itch.\n*\n*\n+\nthe power drill,\" said Kim.\nEnglishman and tell by looking\naccidental relationship to the\nGolk himself is a mad genius\nGolk cunningly arranges\nAfter backing Mommy up,\ntruth. What it leaves out of the\nwhose bald head bobs to the sur-\ngolks which show up public fig-\nFadiman said he thought Kim's\nat him who his father was; this\nis impossible with Americans of\npicture is the sheer entrepre-\nface in the swirling currents of\nures for what they are. A gov-\nquestion largely rhetorical. \"But\nneurial magic of TV and the\nthe new television era. He as-\nernment official shoots his\nhe may know how to use it-\nthe Nixon type.\nimpassioned energies of its\nmouth off about the electorate.\nthey do know the darndest\nsumes the name Golk-his real\nThey get ahead by obliterating\nimagination. We do it violence\nname is a drab Sydney Pomeroy\n(\"Yes, the rotten meat draws\nthings, continually surprising to\ntheir own background; whether\nthe pack.\")\nan old gentleman like myself.\"\nYorba Linda is in California,\nA union leader, flattered by\nThe reference to his age was\nNorth Carolina or Michigan,\nbeing invited to lunch on a\nrhetorical, too; Fadiman will be\nwhen its sons get to the big\nPerle: Political Party Girl\nyacht, leaks indiscretions.\n56 on May 15.\ntowns, they are indistinguishable\n+\n¥\n+\n\"Very domestic household\nfrom one another.\nPERLE-MY STORY. By Perle\none knows, she became Tru-\nSaul Bellow, in a warm en-\nhere,\" he said. \"The children\nSuch men have mothers, of\nMesta with Robert Cahn.\nman's Minister to Luxembourg.\ndorsement of the novel, salutes\nwalk in and out as I work. If\ncourse; but their mothers are\nMcGraw-Hill. 241 pp. $4.50.\nThis is a warm, happy, comfort-\nStern as one of the writers \"who\na journalist can't work under\nnot the best of witnesses be-\nable book which makes light,\nare not repelled by the world and\nthese conditions he should cas-\ncause their sons are strangers.\nPerle Mesta is noted for her\npleasant, but not very exciting\nhave kept an appetite for exper-\ntrate himself.\"\nKornitzer spent a long time with\nreading. M. M.\nience.\"\n*\n+\nNixon's mother, who seems to\ncharm, which dazzles nobodies\nTrue enough-but there is a\nas well as notables. One of the\nClifton Fadiman speaks of\nbe a lady of substance, but I am\nkind of sophisticated moral an-\nhimself as a journalist and says\nafraid she is irrelevant on the\nnicest things people say about\narchy about the novel that ulti-\nhe has been influenced by Men-\nevidence of her son's letters,\nthe hostess with the mostest is\nmately subverts it.\ncken-\"not appreciated now as\nwhich are reprinted here and in-\nvariably begin: \"Dear Mother\nthat she looks after strays at\nIt offers a dazzling display of\nhe should be.\" Fadiman began\npyrotechnics, but does the read-\nher parties.\nreviewing books for the Nation\n(colon)\" and almost cry out,\ner care? One wonders whether\nwhile at Columbia and for The\n\"Dictated but not read.\"\nDoes the charm come\nthe American novel can really\nNew Yorker while an editor for\n*\n*\n*\nthrough in this autobiography?\nsurvive the collapse of ideology,\nTo some extent, but the book\nand that is what we are witness-\nSimon and Schuster. He now\nUnder such circumstances the\nhas two disadvantages. First,\ning now.\ndoes a book column for Holiday.\nword \"intimate\" seems especially\nTV and the press have already\nStern is as talented a young\n\"Whatever came my way I said\ninappropriate in any study of\nNixon. The problem, I'm afraid,\npublicized most of the events\nwriter as any who have come\nyes to.\nis one of simple emotional\nof her life. Second, Perle Mesta\nalong. The prose is marvelously\n\"I wanted to see what things\npoverty.\ntangy; he has an extraordinary\nwere like. I still do. I've found\nis too kindhearted to write a\nsense of the comic curlicues in\nit worthwhile to take chances. I\nThis, for example, is what\nreally amusing book. There's\nNixon says of his marriage: \"It\nscarcely a mean word in the\neveryday experience.\ntried short stories, was unsuc-\nentire 200-odd pages.\nBut the direction of the novel\ncessful, gave it up.\ncan be seen in the lowering of\n\"I tried verse, sold it to The\nDaughter of an Oklahoma oil\nMysteries\nthe word golk. Initially, it is\nNew Yorker, read some good\npromoter and hotel man, she\ndefined \"as to look with a criti-\nverse by E. B. White, gave that\nmarried Pittsburgh tycoon\nThe Schultz Money-Malcolm\ncal eye.\"\nup. It's important to recognize\nGeorge Mesta, was a World\nGair-GOOD\nBut Golk, when he is cast out\nyour limitations-don't waste\nWar I hostess in Washington.\nThe Man in the Cage-John\nfrom his creative Eden, lets\ntime.\"\nwhere her husband served as a\nHolbrook Vance-FAIR\non that the word really means\n\"My own limitations are quite\ndollar-a-year-man, and as, every-\nPERLE MESTA\na fool. \"Golk\" chills as much\nwide,\" sald Fadiman, a very\nas it charms.\nmodest man.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nSlippery\nGulch\nrec-\nests\nBy Murray Kempton,\nand\nto\nThe\nseems to be common ag eement among the more\n1.\nperceptive whether they ome to praise or blame him,\nen-\nthat Richard Nixon's style was formed in college as the champion\new\ndebater of Southern California.\nis\nBut Nixon learned the arts of persuasion for hire when he\nS\nwas younger still.\nple\nEarl Mazo tells us that, when he was only 14, the Vice\nto\nPresident of the U. S. served \"two stints of three weeks each as\nin-\nbarker for the wheel of chance at the 'Slippery Gulch Rodeo'\nhe\nin Prescott, Ariz.\nto\n\"Nixon barked for the legal front of the concession, where\non-\nthe prizes were hams and sides of bacon, which was a 'come on'\nof\nIt\nfor a back room featuring poker and dice. Pay was based on\nis-\ntotal concession earnings, front and back. Nixon earned $1 an\ndo-\nhour the first year, quite a windfall for a 14-year-old. The next\nn't\nwas a depression year and his pay fell to 50 cents.\"\ned\nSet aside all Baptist moralities about children who start in\nlife steering for crap games. The issue is not what Nixon sold\nbut the way he sold it. What is important is that he was a\nX-\nld\nteenage pitchman.\n%\n*\n%\nSerious sociological research into the character of the pitch-\nman is consequently necessary to any judgment of the future\nof the republic. It is research hard to come by. The pitchman\nhas been so diffused through our society that in pure form he\nhas almost disappeared.\nThe closest specimen immediately available is Charles\nCasher, who was an ornament for nearly 15 years at the\nCanadian National Exposition, which remains to the pitchman\nwhat the Palace was to vaudeville. Casher withdrew from the\nstruggle for a sedentary and successful life in direct mail adver-\ntising and as an off-Broadway producer.\n1.\n\"Now the first thing to remember about the pitchman,\" says\nCasher, \"is that it doesn't matter to him what he sells. The\nessence of the art is to sell the least for the most money. The\ne\nless you gave and the more you got-that was the measure.\nThe bad ones got stuck to sell things of value.\"\nBy such a standard, you begin to appreciate Richard Nixon's\nearly promise. If he hadn't been good, even at 14, they wouldn't\nhave stuck him outside. Anybody can sell a crap game; moving\nhams takes talent.\n\"Now what you got to do is to stop 500 people standing on\ntheir feet in a noisy, upsetting fair. So, in making a pitch, you\ngot to make everything focus. For instance, that's why most of\nthe good ones can make every disease emerge from constipation.\nThey cure everything for everybody. I was a little embarrassed\nby constipation so I used to blame everything on lack of vitamins\nand minerals in the blood. But you always have to sell a cure-all.\n\"Nixon's Checkers speech was a typical pitchman's perform-\nance. You have to start by saying that if two and two makes four\nwhat I am going to say makes sense. You start people where\nthey live, with a wife and a dog. You never let them know\nthey're being carried along. And then, when you get them on\nyour side, you very quietly sneak your pitch into your talk.\"\nAdmiration was sneaking into Casher's tone.\n\"We used to say that Franklin Roosevelt was the greatest\npitchman of them all. He even had that high sort of nasal tone\nyou need to cut through the noise of the fairgrounds. You've\ngot to reduce every problem to one simple thing. Isn't that what\nEisenhower did when he said, 'I'll go to Korea?''\n+\n+\n+\nRichard Nixon has said that he doesn't mind speaking to\naudiences, but that he could never go to a man face to face and\ntry to sell him something.\n\"I guess in a way we were all misfits,\" says Casher. \"When\nI was young I could never have been a salesman and work with\nindividuals. I was even uncomfortable when there were only\nfour or five people around at the beginning, but, when the\ncrowd got bigger, the whole thing became impersonal and then\nI became strong and powerful. Television's even better; it's even\nmore impersonal. Later on, when people began to walk away,\nI was so convinced myself that I used to wonder how anybody\ncould walk away from these pearls of wisdom. When you are\npitching you believe it. You don't have to be persuaded except\nwhen you're doing it. You don't have to believe it later.\n\"It doesn't make much real difference, if you belieye enough,\nwhere you take them. I used to knock the doctors and let nature\ndo it. Remember Bernarr MacFadden: he'd outlived all the\ndoctors. I'd tell them that what I was selling was not medicine;\nthis is food. And still they'd come up afterwards and say, 'I'll\nhave a bottle of your medicine, Doc.' What we were practicing,\nI suppose, was mass hypnosis.\"\nThat was a formidable prep school of Dick Nixon's\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nlost\nDon't\nCall Me\nre-\nBy Murray Kempton\nBene-\nWhen the steel strike was over, Richard Nixon went virtuously\nrook-\ninto the shadows. There remained, however, one small duty to the\ncountry he had served so well and SO modestly.\nINA,\nHe had to brief the prints.\na\nAnd so the Secretary of Labor of the United States of America\ntory.\nsat down with the Vice President of the United States to divide up\none\nthe high governmental duty of calling the magazines and giving\nis\nthem the inside story of Mr. Nixon's part in the settlement.\nthey\nIt is reported that Mr. Nixon immediately took on the assign-\narry\nthe\nment of calling Elliott V. Bell, publisher of Business Week. The\nh\nconference proceeded to United States News and World Report.\ney\nmble\nSecretary Mitchell was modest about his standing with David\ngive\nLawrence, and it was thus duly decided that Vice President Nixon\nfor\nwas the best man to represent the firm here.\nh e\nAnd so we have Richard Nixon himself to thank for the\nhing\nflowering of \"Inside the Steel Settlement\" this week on the cover\nof Business Week, in the bowels of Newsweek, (\"The Facts of\nook-\nLife by R. Nixon\"), in the middle of United States News (\"The\ntoo\nInside Story of What Happened in Steel\"). This way, no one got\nbeat but the Nation.\n*\nGet this fellow workers, you're free. Richard Nixon has\ninvented the greatest thing for tired journalists since the wire\nservice. It'll be him in the White House and us in the Press Club\nbar. No one will have to work except the publishers, who will sit\nin their offices waiting for the phone to ring. Considine will have\nto stick around to help Hearst with his syntax, but then he's\nalways worked harder than the rest of us anyway.\nThere will be no more White House press conference; there\niss\nwon't even be press releases. Richard Nixon will have found that\neel-\nnational purpose that everyone was so worried about; in him the\nain\nVoice of America will speak loud and clear: \"Don't call me;\nI'll call you.\"\nNewsweek starts off its inside story this way:\n\"The Vice President of the United States stood up before the\nict\n10 top leaders of the nation's steel industry, the Steel Companies\nto\nCoordinating Committee. His tone was quiet and friendly but firm\nvn\nas a girder. 'I just want to tell you gentlemen some of the facts\nld\nof life,' he said.\ned\nThe assumption-or at least the hope is-that the leg man in\ne-\nthis case was not the Vice President but the Secretary of Labor.\ny.\nThere then comes to mind this dialogue, assuming that Malcolm\nn-\nis\nMuir, Sr., editor-in-chief of Newsweek, was on the desk when\ne\nMitchell called up:\nS\nThe Secretary of Labor; \"First a quote and then the color,\n0 O.K.?\"\na\nMuir, \"O.K., but fast, huh?\"\na\nThe Secretary of Labor: \"O.K., O.K., Nixon said, my notes\naren't very good but make it 'Gentlemen' and then-yes this is\nclear-'I just want to tell you gentlemen some of the facts of life.'\nHe was very quiet about it, quiet but I'd say friendly but firm,\nvery firm, firm as a girder.\"\nMuir: \"All right, all right, go ahead.\"\n*\n*\n*\nThere will be those, there always are, who do not consider this\nan entirely wholesome trend. For one thing, the inside story seems\nin every case to come from one of two parties, the Vice President\nof the United States and stringer for McGraw Hill or the Secretary\nof Labor and stringer for Newsweek. The other parties were less\naccommodating; no one for instance seems to have remembered\nwhat Roger Blough said when stringer Nixon began explaining\nthat there were the birds and, on the other hand, there were\nthe bees.\nWhat we have, in short, is the government's version of events.\nIt is a wonderfully delusive prospect Richard Nixon holds out\nbefore us; from whom could one gather the real inside inside story\nof the Vice President of the United States better than from the\nVice President of the United States? Lie down, boys, and relax in\npeace; Big Brother will fill you in.\nRep oduce he Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nMAGAZINE PAGE FIVE\nNEW YORK POST, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1960\n43\nBrains Race\nMAX LERNER\nWhile most Americans are focusing on two men in the\nEVERYTHINGS\nPresidential election campaign, they are in danger of forgetting\nthat their choice will carry with it much more than the choice of\nFINE!\nthe man. It also carries the traditions and future direction of his\nparty.\nVOTE\nRichard Nixon is obviously gunning for the \"independent\nFOR\nvoter\" whose party ties are slight, and for the marginal Demo-\nNIXON\ncrat who might be wooed away from his party. Hence he stays\naway from his own Republican party links, attaching himself to\nPresident Eisenhower as a person but not to the Republican\nparty. It is a smart tactic, and may work.\nBut it is worth saying that party government has some point\nUSIA\nto it, and party attachments have meaning if they are not fol-\nREPORT\nlowed blindly. The party system in America keeps the mass of\nGAITHER\nvoters from becoming merely a collection of stray unattached\nPRESTIGE\natoms whirling about in the void. The two major parties in\nREPORT\nAmerica are like polar magnets. Each has traditionally attracted\nON\nSTANFORD\nits own kind of loyalties, its own brand of leaders and members\nDEFENSE\nand interest groups.\n*\n*\nThe other day a New York morning tabloid attacked Kennedy\nfor \"the company he keeps,\" singling out J. K. Galbraith and\nArthur M. Schlesinger Jr. for specially derisive treatment. It is a\ndangerous kind of argument, since it draws attention to the fact\nROCKEFELLER\nthat the Presidential candidates are not isolated men, but that\neach belongs to a particular party and a particular intellectual\nclimate. When you choose one of the two men, the party climate\n₦\nand territory go with him.\nDEFENSE\nFor the past half century, since Woodrow Wilson's eléction,\nthe Democratic party has served as a magnet for labor and the\nliberals, for Negroes and Jews and Catholics and other minorities,\nfor school teachers and university faculty, for writers and artists,\nfor intellectuals of every category.\nThe current attacks on Galbraith and Schlesinger remind me\nof the similar attacks on Franklin Roosevelt for the college\nprofessors who flocked to his standard and became parts of his\n\"brain trust.\" If I were a Republican strategist I would stay\nHERE LIES\nclear of this kind of approach. To attack the intellectuals around\nKennedy is to spread the word that the intellectuals are in fact\ndrawn to him. It is to broadcast the tidings that his administra-\ntion might be one of brains.\nSurely it is too late in American history to continue with\nthe shabby and suicidal anti-intellectualism of past Presidential\ncampaigns. The race between the world democratic bloc and the\nRed-Dogging\nworld communist bloc is as much a brains race as it is anything\nelse. Whether America will survive or perish in the long struggle\nahead will depend on how effectively it organizes its intelligence,\nboth scientific and social. To fall behind in the mobilization of\nintelligence is to lose the race and lose the world.\nMURRAY\nKEMPTON\nSen. Kennedy has the quality of urgency in him. He is telling\nwhoever listens that it is later than they think. He advocates\nEn Route With Kennedy.\nplauding at prop intervals; they do not screech\nan ambitious program of social welfare. When his opponents ask\nJohn F. Kennedy's open convertible, its floor\nand moan in isolation; they run after him with\nwhat he plans to use for money, he answers in effect that it\nfetlock deep in soggy confetti, prowled the\na continual universal roar. They sound like foot-\nis better to have increasing expenditures which will be met and\nstreets of Philadelphia yesterday like a vacuum\nball crowds in the last quarter when the home\ncovered by increasing national income than to have a shrinking\ncleaner.\nteam, the short ender, has gone two touchdowns\nnational income which will not meet or cover even the current\nHe made six speeches during the day; their\nin front.\nexpenditures.\nrunning time was a grand total of 42 minutes.\nYesterday when Kennedy was introduced-at\nBut there is a more important question to ask Sen. Kennedy.\nBut he was on the streets nearly six hours, back-\nTemple, the crowd set up a sudden chant of\nNot \"what are you going to use for money?\" but \"whom are you\ntracking enough so that a Kennedy cultist could\n\"We want Jack\" over and over: his voice came\ngoing to use for people?\"\nchoose his corners and see him pass at least five\nback, clipped and slightly impatient, \"Thank you,\n*\n*\ntimes.\nthank you, thank you.\" He held his hands, too,\nIt is too easy to forget that the wealth of nations is their\nBut wherever he lit, his crowds were im-\nlike a defensive captain telling the customers to\nhuman material and that the motive power of nations is their\nmense; his main open air rally at Reyburn Park\nkeep quiet so the line can hear the signals.\norganized brainpower. The Presidency, as Jefferson said in one\ndowntown drew the sort of throng which is cus-\nHe taunts the few hecklers he gets in a tone\nof his letters even before he attained it, is a \"splendid misery.\"\ntomarily overestimated at 50,000; some of its\nof command in extraordinary contrast with Rich-\nIf it gets isolated from the talented and resourceful people, as\nmembers had stood more than an hour; he gave\nard Nixon's tone of grievance. Yesterday, outside\nEisenhower's Presidency got isolated; it can become an intolerable\nthem a six-minute speech.\na Negro housing project, some brave conscripts\nand ineffectual misery.\nHe went through safe precincts and doubtful\nheld up a \"For Peace and Prosperity, Vote for\nThis is what gives meaning to the recent full-page ad listing\nones; he had one mile's progress through an\nNixon and Lodge\" sign. Kennedy announced that\nthe lawyers, writers, artists, historians, and social scientists who\narea so monolithically Democratic that its chil-\nhe had a thing to tell these friends of Mr.\nhave repaired to the standard raised by Kennedy. Among the\ndren, when they go out on trick-or-treat night,\nNixon's.\nmost meaningful is a list of specialists in foreign policy and\nwrite \"Kennedy\" in soap on the store windows.\nPointing that lean brown finger, he said, \"Mr.\nworld politics. These are the men who have spent their lives\n*\n**\n*\nNixon calls a $1.25 minimum wage extreme and\nstudying politics among nations, political and psychological war-\nHis speeches were as short, simple and brutal\nthey wave a sign about prosperity.\"\nfare, the aid race, the undeveloped countries, and the communist\nas a blackjack. The Kennedys play the game\nHe went on to say that the Republican Party\nsocieties themselves. Their suffrage should carry the weight that\nlike the pros; ahead in the last quarter and the\nis against civil rights (which is, of course, why\nattachès to their knowledge.\nother team gets the ball, they red-dog the passer.\nJim Eastland votes Republican).\nAmerica needs not only a new program of domestic and\nYesterday, standing in the rain outside Tem-\n*\n*\nforeign policies. It needs men with enough talent and dedication\nple University, Jack Kennedy even dared red-\nThis is harsh and extreme and oversimple\nto carry them out. The brains race will not wait. I am convinced\ndog President Eisenhower, the coach and a sacred\nstuff, but it is the tone of the winning side in\nthat Kennedy, himself something of an impllectual, will gather\nsubject until now.\nmost elections.\naround him the most brilliant group of brain trusters since\n\"I'm going to make Mr. Nixon an offer,\" he\nIt is in fact the language winners habitually\nFranklin Roosevelt.\nsaid. \"Let President Eisenhower come with him\nspeak, and a political barometer as indicative as\nto the fifth debate.\"\nthe eggs that were thrown at Nixon.\nMake no mistake, he went on; Eisenhower\nI remember in 1956 seeing one poor Steven-\nisn't on the ballot this year.\nson leaflet bearer beaten to the ground by Re-\nPlay Now, Pay Later\n\"It's Nixon versus Kennedy and I look to the\npublicans outside Independence Hall when Nixon\nFrom \"The Crisis We Face: Automation and the Cold War,\"\nfuture with some degree of hope.\"\nwas visiting there. Coming home, a man on the\nby George Steele and Paul Kircher (McGraw-Hill, $4.95).\nHe has nervous feet and nervous hands: he\nbus I had not seen before and have not seen\nThe Russians are not so well off as we are, and they know\nseems to pant a little. The nerves have nothing\nsince-the Devil, I suppose-said that his experi-\nit. Their slogans promise them that they will live better if they\nto do with confidence; he is the most confident\nence had been that the side that plays rough is\nwork harder, and their standard of living gradually has been\npolitical candidate I have ever seen. They have\nthe side that wins. \"Show me a candidate hit\ngranted slow increase. They are urged that it is noble to make\nsomething to do with personal, almost boyish\nwith an egg,\" he said, \"and I'll show you a loser.\"\nsacrifices SO that their country can be independent and powerful.\nsuperstition; you do not, on peril of the wrath\nYou can look it up; it's true. A man was saying\nIn contrast, what are we told? That the good things of\nof God, relax when you're ahead\nyesterday that, after all, the professional foot-\nlife are already here, that a credit card will get you anything\n+\n*\nball team that draws the most penalties wins the\nyou want before you are old enough to vote. Pay later.\nThere is now something different in his\nmost games. Something to do with keeping your\nWe probably shall. Every other major civilization has.\ncrowds. They do not stand and look at him ap-\nmind on the business.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nCOPY\nDecember 3, 1957\nPersonal\nDear Murray:\nThis is just a note to say that I have just had\nthe opportunity of reading your column of November 15\nconcerning the actions of the President's Committee on\nGovernment Contracts,\nI think you would probably agree that this column\nparticular cases, and the purpose of my writing you is to\nlet you know that I have been assured by Mr. Jacob Seidenberg\nthat his Committee would be more than willing to provide you\nX - President's Committee on Govt. Contracts\nKempton, Murray - folder\ncontained something less than the complete facts about these\nwith the complete facts about these cases or any other\nmatters with which they are concerned in the future.\nThe next time you are in town I would be most\nhappy to discuss this further with you.\nWith best regards,\nSincerely,\nCharles K. McWhorter\nLegislative Assistant\nto the Vice President\nCMcW/amk\nMr. Murray Kempton\nNew York Post\nNew York, New York\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nNovember19, 1957\nMemorandum\nTo:RN\nFrom: KAND\nYour old friend Murray Kempton is back in action!!!\ncheck\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nNYPost 1957\nModesty\nBy Murray Kempton\nThere is a mounting conviction among informed observers\nthat Richard Nixon is currently more popular with Negro voters\nthan any other politician.\nI cannot quarrel with their findings, since I can't think of any\npoliticians who deserve the faith and trust of Negro voters any\nmore than Richard Nixon, or of anything worse to say about poli-\nticians than that.\nNixon is chairman of the President's Committee on Govern-\nment Contracts, the body set up by Harry Truman and continued\nby Dwight D. Eisenhower to supervise enforcement of that clause\nin defense contracts which bans discrimination against Negroes.\nThe Vice President is generally represented as feeling that\nthis is a position at once too important and too sensitive to be used\nfor his own political profit, and is loath therefore to talk about it\npublicly. He only breaks that rule at campaign meetings largely\npopulated by Negroes; on such occasions, he lowers his head and\nstammers modestly that nothing is nearer his heart or more con-\nsumptive of his energies than the work of the President's Commit-\ntee on Defense Contracts.\nOn April 20, 1955, Herbert Hill of the National Assn. for the\nAdvancement of Colored People swore out a complaint to Nixon\nagainst Esso Standard of Baton Rouge, Union Carbide and Carbon\nof Texas City, Cities Service of Lake Charles, La., and other South-\nern refineries and the unions which represent them for flagrant,\npersistent and indubitable discrimination against Negroes. The\nheart of the complaint was that these companies hired Negroes\nonly as sweepers and janitors, let them work in higher grades only\non sweepers' pay, and barred them by custom and union contract\nfrom advancement to skilled categories.\nThe bill of particulars assembled for the President's Commit-\ntee by the NAACP was beyond argument. The system described\nboth in the paper of the union contracts and the affidavits of the\naggrieved Negro employes needs investigation about as much as\na washroom sign saying \"White Only\"; it is just that open.\nOver the next two years, the NAACP received no word about\nits complaint beyond a bare acknowledgement from Nixon's execu-\ntive director. In the interim, Hill labored in other vineyards; with\nthe assistance of the CIO Oil Workers, the NAACP won valuable\nimprovements in two plants; thanks to the efforts of these private\nbodies, as an instance, 40 Negroes have been promoted to the\nskilled trades pool at Magnolia Petroleum in Houston. This is no\nsmall thing; but in general the situation in the Southern refineries\nremainReproducad at the Richard Nixon, Rresidential. Library and Museum\nLast June, the NAACP wrote Nixon as chairman of the Presi-\ndent's Committee on Government Contracts asking for some report\non the status of its 25-month-old complaint. On July 8, this reply\ncame back-signed, not by Nixon, but by Jacob Seidenberg, his\ncommittee's executive director:\n\"In order to assure full compliance with your request of June\n5, 1957, the Defense Department has been requested to review the\ncurrent hiring and employment practices of [here are listed the\ncorporations named in the complaint], and report their findings\nto the committee.\n\"The Department of Defense has given the Committee's re-\nquest the highest possible priority. You, of course, will be further\nadvised as soon as we have received the Department's report con-\ncerning this matter.\nCordially yours, etc.\"\nWe have to assume that Seidenberg is writing the English\nlanguage. The inevitable conclusion from reading that letter with\nthat assumption is: (1) The committee did not even transmit the\nApril, 1957, complaint to the Defense Dept. and (2) The committee\nhas now transmitted to the Defense Dept. only the NAACP's letter\nof inquiry, which was merely a summary, and the NAACP's\nS\noriginal complaint lies embalmed, unread in its files. And, what is\nmore, the NAACP has not heard a word from the President's\nCommittee in the five months since the Defense Dept. was sent in\npassionate pursuit of this matter.\nAnd the oil company case does not sleep alone in Richard\ne\nNixon's files. In July, 1956, the NAACP filed a complaint of dis-\n1\ncrimination against seven aircraft manufacturers, including Boeing\ne\nd\nin Wichita and Lockheed in Marietta, Ga. The bill of particulars\nspelled out a situation just as flagrant as in the oil refiineries.\nAfter 15 months of silence from Nixon's committee, J. H. Cal-\n1-\nhoun, president of the NAACP's Atlanta branch, wrote to find out\nwhat progress could be reported from Lockheed in Marietta, Ga.\nCalhoun got this answer from Seidenberg:\nS\n\"You will recall that on April 24, 1957, we wrote to advise you\nthat the case had been referred back to the contracting agency for\nfurther action. We have been following the matter closely, and\nS\npresent indications are that we shall receive a report from the\nagency by the middle of November.\n\"Please be assured that this complaint is under active con-\nsideration, etc.\"\nIt is a dreadful mistake for a civil servant to depart from the\nform letter composed for such occasions. Seidenberg's mistake\nin so departing proclaims itself in the sentence: \"We have been\nfollowing the matter closely.\"\nFor, in point of fact, NAACP's Hill and the International Assn.\nof Machinists have together taken various steps at Lockheed which\nhave improved the situation measurably if not spectacularly. Ma-\nrietta is one place where there has been progress. That is no\nthanks to Nixon and Seidenberg, but I hardly think them exempt\nfrom the habit public officials have of grabbing credit for other\npeople's achievements. The only possible reason for Seidenberg's\nmodesty about the improvement at Lockheed is that he doesn't\nknow about it.\nThe reason for Richard Nixon's modesty about his role as\nchairman of the President's Committee on Government Contracts\nis that, on the record, he could hardly be anything else.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nTHE PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON\nGOVERNMENT CONTRACTS\nWASHINGTON 25, D.C.\nNovember 21, 1957\nMEMORANDUM\nTo:\nCharles McWhorter\nLegislative Assistant\nto the Vice President\nFrom:\nJacob Seidenberg\nExecutive Director\nIn accordance with your request concerning\nMurray Kempton's article in the New York Post, I am\nenclosing for your information a chronological report\nof our activities in the Boeing Aircraft and the\nLockheed case at Marietta, Georgia.\nAll that I can say is that whatever progress\nhas been made in these cases has been done as a re-\nsult of the pressure the Committee has brought to\nbear on these cases rather than what Mr. Herbert\nHill has done. Admittedly we have not released any-\nthing about these cases because they have not been\ndisposed of and our Committee does not make any\nstatement about its complaint cases. It is the over-\nall Committee policy not to make any statement or\nrelease about complaint cases even when they are\nsatisfactorily resolved.\nEncls.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nCHRONOLOGY OF COMMITTEE ACTION REGARDING THE OIL CASES\nApril 20, 1955 --\nThe Committee received from the NAACP complaints\nalleging violations of the nondiscrimination\nclause by the Esso Standard Oil Company, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Cities\nService Refining Corporation, Lake Charles, Louisiana; Lion Oil Company,\nEl Dorado, Arkansas; and Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Company, Texas\nCity, Texas.\nMay 6, 1955 --\nVice President Nixon appointed a special subcommit-\ntee headed by Mr. John Minor Wisdom to consider the\ncomppaints. Messrs. William P. Rogers, Thomas Pike and James Nabrit\nwere designated to serve with Mr. Wisdom. Subsequently, Secretary Mit-\nchell was designated to serve as Consultant.\nJanuary 21, 1955 -- The special subcommittee agreed that the complaints\nagainst the companies should be explored informally\nand that Mr. Wisdom should institute negotiations with representatives\nof the oil companies.\nJuly 22, 1955 --\nMr. Wisdom advised the Executive Director by tele-\nphone that he had had two conferences with repre-\nsentatives of the Esso Standard Oil Company in Baton Rouge and conferences\nwith representatives of Cities Service Refining Corporation. Mr. Wisdom\nfurther stated that these industry representatives said they were in sym-\npathy with the philosophy of the Committee and approved of its methods of\napproach and that they would prefer to have the cases settled on a broad\nbasis rather than dealing with specific allegations of the complaints.\nSeptember 1, 1955 -- Mr. Wisdom reported that substantial progress was\nbeing made with all of the companies cited in the\ncomplaint with the exception of the Lion Oil Company. In this connection\nit should be noted that at this time the Lion Oil Company had recently\nmerged with the Monsanto Chemical Company.\nSeptember 9, 1955 -- Mr. H. J. Voorhies of the Esso Standard Oil Company,\nOil\nBaton Rouge, Louisiana, met with the Sub-Committee\non Review in order to advise them of his plans for the implementation of\nnondiscriminatory employment at the Baton Rouge plant.\nJanuary 16, 1956 -- Mr. H. J. Voorhies advised Mr. Wisdom by letter --\n(1) That the company had placed 25 Negro employees\ninto mechanical-helper jobs, and (2) That 296 Negro employees had applied\nfor consideration for transfer to mechanical-helper openings and that 55\nof them made satisfactory scores. Thirty-two were considered the best\nqualified and were offered transfers to the mechanical-helper classifica-\ntion. Five elected to decline the transfers and two were subsequently re-\nturned to their former jobs.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 2 -\nMemorandum to Dr. Seidenberg\nNovember 18, 1957\nJune 1956 --\nThe Executive Director attempted to get Mr. M. X.\nShannahan, of the Department of Defense, to inves-\ntigate the complaints but negotiations for his services were never com-\npleted.\nJuly 3, 1957 --\nThe Executive Director and Dr. Houchins discussed\nwith Mr. Bannerman the problem of processing the\ncomplaints against the oil companies. Mr. Bannerman agreed to accept\nthe complaints for investigation and the full complaints were forwarded\nto the Defense Department on July 8, 1957.\nJuly 29, 1957 --\nCaptain C. L. Gilbert, the person assigned to the\ncomplaints by the Department of Defense, met with\nthe Executive Director and Dr. Houchins for a full discussion of the com-\nplaints and the action to be pursued during the investigation.\nAugust 2, 1957 --\nDetailed instructions for the conduct of the inves-\ntigations were was sent Captain C. L. Gilbert.\nOctober 25, 1957 -- The Committee received the investigative reports of\nthe complaints involving Cities Service Refining\nCorporation, Esso Standard Oil Company, and the Lion Oil Company.\nNovember 8, 1957 -- The Committee received the investigative report in=\nvolving the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Company,\nTexas City, Texas.\nThe complaints are now being analyzed.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nNovember 21, 1957\nMEMORANDUM\nTO:\nJacob Seidenberg\nExecutive Director\nFROM:\nJoseph R. Houchins\nDirector of Compliance\nSUBJECT: Chronology of Committee Action Regarding Lockheed Air-\ncraft Corporation, Marietta, Georgia (File No. 298)\nJuly 23, 1956 - The Committee received a complaint from the Atlanta\nBranch of the NAACP alleging discrimination against\nNegroes in regard to hiring, upgrading, training, and other incidence\nof employment. (Similar complaints were filed by the Washington\nBureau NAACP and the Gate City Young Republican Club on August 3,\n1956, and September 6, 1956, respectively).\nJuly 23, 1957 - The complaint was transmitted to the Department of\nDefense for investigation.\nOctober 21, 1956 - The Committee received a report of investigation\nfrom the Department of Defense. The report indi-\ncated that a reinvestigation would be conducted at the corporation\nduring the first quarter of the Fiscal Year 1958.\nNovember 19, 1956 - The case was presented to the Sub-Committee on\nReview, which recommended that the Department of\nDefense --\n1. Make every possible effort to bring the cor-\nporation into compliance with the provisions of the standard nondis-\ncrimination clause.\n2. Supply, on a quarterly basis, reports showing --\na. Number of Negroes hired during the re-\nporting period by occupations and departments.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 2 -\nMemorandum to Dr. Seidenberg\nNovember 21, 1957\nb. Number of Negro upgrades and promotions\nduring the reporting period by occupations and\ndepartments.\nc. Number of Negro women hired during the\nreporting period by occupations and departments.\n3. Request the corporation to issue to the Atlanta\nUnited States Employment Office and all company hiring and supervisory\npersonnel a statement of nondiscriminatory employment policy.\nDecember 20, 1956 - The Committee received from Herbert Hill, Labor\nSecretary of the NAACP a \"Summary Report Re Status\nof Negro Workers at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Plant, Marietta,\nGeorgia\", which was transmitted to the Department of Defense as supple-\nmental information to the complaint.\nJune 28, 1957 - A new complaint of discrimination was filed by Mr.\nBryant R. Britt, an employee of the company. The com-\nplaint alleged that the company violated the provisions of the clause --\n1. By restricting the employment of Negroes to certain\nspecified areas. Allegedly, approximately 90 percent of all Negro em-\nployees are in two departments.\nm 2. By requiring Negro workers to use a separate cafe-\nteria and segregated rest room dispensary and drinking facilities.\nJuly 19, 1957 - A report of investigation conducted by the Department of\nDefense was received by the Committee. A follow-up re-\nport was not requested because of the receipt of the complaint mentioned\nunder the date of June 28, 1957 which had to be submitted to the Sub-\nCommittee on Review.\nJuly 22, 1957 - The Sub-Committee on Review considered the matter of\nwhether the Committee had jurisdiction over the complaint\nwhich alleged in part that the corporation violated the clause by requir-\ning Negroes to use a separate cafeteria and other segregated facilities.\nFollowing a review of the complaint the Sub-Committee recommended that\nthe Department of Defense designate a top ranking civilian procurement\nofficer or military officer to meet with Mr. C. S. Gross, the corpora-\ntion's President for the purpose of getting him to take action which\nwould result in the desegregation of facilities and the elimination of\nother discriminatory employment practices at the Marietta plant.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 3 -\nMemorandum to Dr. Seidenberg\nNovember 21, 1957\nJuly 26, 1957 - The Executive Director met with representatives of the\nDefense Department to discuss the actions to be taken\nby the agency relative to the Sub-Committee on Review's recommendations.\nThe contracting agency, after considerable discussion, agreed to comply\nwith the Committee's request.\nAugust 8, 1957 - Dr. Seidenberg discussed with Mr. Max Golden, Deputy\nfor Procurement to the Assistant Secretary of the Air\nForce, the Lockheed, Marietta, Georgia plant situation. He informed Mr.\nGolden of the Sub-Committee on Review's feeling with regard to the com-\nplaints and its recommended action. Mr. Golden's cooperation was soli-\ncited in obtaining a top official to present the Air Force's position\nto Lockheed's top management.\nOctober 31, 1957 - Mr. Boris Shishkin informed the Committee that the\nInternational Association of Machinists have orga-\nnized the Lockheed plant and have integrated their \"Jim Crow\" local.\nNovember 14, 1957 - A report of investigation of the complaint filed by\nMr. B. R. Britt (see June 28, 1957, above) was re-\nceived from the Department of Defense.\nNovember 20, 1957 - The investigative report of the complaint filed by\nMr. Britt against the corporation was presented to\nthe Committee. Following a review and discussion of the case the Com-\nmittee requested the Department of Defense --\n1. To designate an appropriate official, at the\nrank of Assistant Secretary or higher, to urge the corporation's Presi-\ndent to initiate such action as will result in the desegregation of the\nMarietta plant.\n2. To instruct the corporation's President --\na. That segregated facilities in or apper-\ntaining to departments or areas where Government\nwork is performed violate the provisions of the\nclause.\nb. That contracts being performed at the\nMarietta plant will not be renewed unless manage-\nment initiates such action as will result in the\ndesegregation of the plant facilities and work area.\n3. To submit to the Committee within 60 days a re-\nport on the action taken by the company.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nTHE PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON\nGOVERNMENT CONTRACTS\nWASHINGTON 25, D.C.\nNovember 21, 1957\nMEMORANDUM\nTO:\nDr. Jacob Seidenberg\nExecutive Director\nFROM:\nJoseph R. Houchins\nDirector of Compliance\nSUBJECT: Chronology of Committee Action Regarding Boeing\nAircraft Corporation, Withita, Kansas (File 269 - 282)\nMay 17, 1957 -- The Committee received from the NAACP complaints\nalleging that the corporation had discriminated\nagainst Negroes in regard to initial hiring, pre-induction train-\ning, transfer, promotion, and other aspects of employment. The\ncases were referred to the Department of Defense for investigation.\nOctober 9, 1957 -- The first investigative reports of the cases\nwere received by the Committee. These reports\nwere not complete, therefore, supplementary information is being\nrequested.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nTHE PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON\nGOVERNMENT CONTRACTS\nWASHINGTON 25, D.C.\nNovember 21, 1957\nMEMORANDUM\nTo:\nCharles McWhorter\nLegislative Assistant\nto the Vice President\nFrom: Jacob Seidenberg\nExecutive Director\nIn accordance with your request concerning\nMurray Kempton's article in the New York Post, I am\nenclosing for your information a chronological report\nof our activities in the Boeing Aircraft and the\nLockheed case at Marietta, Georgia.\nAll that I can say is that whatever progress\nhas been made in these cases has been done as a re-\nsult of the pressure the Committee has brought to\nbear on these cases rather than what Mr. Herbert\nHill has done. Admittedly we have not released any-\nthing about these cases because they have not been\ndisposed of and our Committee does not make any\nstatement about its complaint cases. It is the over-\nall Committee policy not to make any statement or\nrelease about complaint cases even when they are\nsatisfactorily resolved.\nEncls.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nOFFICE OF THE vice president\nWASHINGTON\n7/29/57\nMEMORANDUM\nTO: RN\nFROM: CKMc\n0KM\nW\nI spent 50 minutes talking with Murray\nKempton of the New York Post this morning. He\nwas paying a \"courtesy call\" and covered a wide\narea of topics, mostly related to the civil rights\ncontroversy.\nHe volunteer some kind words about you\npersonally in connection with civil rights and also\nabout the Republican Party.\nIt will represent some sort of millenium\nif we were ever to get Kempton to print something\nwhich was favorable to you, which wasn't qualified\nand full of reservations, but this sort of softening\nup process should help him understand the integrity\nand high purposeof your motivation in this area.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nDear Mr. Vice President:\nThere is a question DATE I'd like to ask you this afternoon; since it's\nlong-winded, I thought I8d just send it over early so it wouldn't consume too much\ntime in the asking.\nIt goes to our efforts to define the difference between the Eisenhower\nRepublicans and Harry Truman in dealing with the Communist menace:\n(1) You said yesterday that, in voting for\nGreek-Turkish aid in 1947,\nCongressman Javits had passed the fundamental test of understanding the Communist\nmenace. In the same session, Javits also voted against an appropriation for the\nwork of the House Un-American Activities Committee. D If he had been in the majority\nthen, there would have been no Hiss case. Did he pass or flunk the test then ?\n(2) You have said several times over the last few days that the President\nwould never underestimate the Communist menace here and abroad. On Junex2x 21\n1955, at Geneva, the president was quoted by Elie Abel in the New York Times as\n\"stating his belief that the Soviet leaders were as earnestly desirous of peace\nas their Western counterparts.\" Margaret Higgins reported in the Tribune that the\npresident said that he had personally talked to every nue member of the Russian\nand was confident that every one of them wanted peace.\" Daxyauxthinkxthxt Do you\nfeel that in this case the president was underestimating or overestimating the\ncorrectly\ngood faith of a government, which as yourself say has broken every promise it ever\never made.\nThanks,\nMurray Kempton\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum"
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