NIXON, THE HISS CASE AND A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200120008-2
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Content Type: NSPR

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Nixan, the Hiss Case-and a PreT
Richard M. Nixon's new book. Six
Crises (Doubleday; 460 pages; $5.95), re-
sembles its author-on the stump ljnost
too closely. It has the ? free-wheeling
frankness, knack for innuendo, and at-
traction to controversy of a Nixon Cam-
paign.
The book had hardly reaehed'the book
stores, in fact, before a ?, Sulk-fledged
tempest was raging; Is Nixon right When
he charges that Kennedy made.hls cam-
measures with proposal full knowledge OftiCentral
Intelligence Agency Invasion plans? No
one yet knows, but there is. surely more .
such controversy to come. 1`
Despite its stated subject matter,,
Six Crises is preeminent ,a< book .about
Nixon the man-and f W " subjects; are
more provocative, to Republicans and
Democrats alike.
Nixon has tried hard to avoid this. His
account of the major crises in his life
(the Hiss case, the attack on his private
"fund" during. the 1959 campaign, Eisen-
hower's, heart attack In 1955, the anti-
Nixon riots In Caracas In 1959,'the en-
counter. witll KhrushcheV in 1959,- and the
1960 campaign) is kn)tted together by a
running analysis of "crisis" and that it
does to a xnan:
The View From the Top
In his foreward lie' declares that this
is,his major concern: "Since we live in
an age in which individual reaction to
crisis may bear on ,the fate of mankind
for centuries to come, we must spare no.
effort to learn au we can and thus'
sharpen our. responses. If the record of
one man's experience. in'meeting crises
can help . .,. then this book may.
serve a useful purpose,"
Needless to say, though, few will read
Six Crises for this, purpose. It will be
read, v a Nixon knows full - well, because
people want the "inside" story, be ind
Hiss, Caracas, and the rest, , a "few
pnlttteinl firawnrka.
RICHARD M. NIXON: He eij
the six top crises in. his crier./'~
sumption, but he does let it see tti8
Of the six chapters,. it Is
the best reading: 1iies and Ohs nthera
lain, backed . a}- _ fi ez da . ; ,
L d
case. Harry Truman, Nelson Rocketeller, ""'" "'""~'""""`."
.t..,, veaUgatory determined t0 press O fl
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elbow in others. un and Idles loll +1, . oofn t)v tt~rnire
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' Nixon's comments about the Quemoy-
Matsu issue thgt arose during his second
TV debate with Kennedy may goad ,the
Democrats as much as his more publi-
cized remarks about Cuba. According to
Nixon, Chester Bowles contaked his close
friend, Fred Seaton, while the argument
over whether to defend the islands was
raging, and suggested that the n*tter
be dropped In the Interests of national
security.
Indeed, it is .still duestloned by -, 86tti@
Inside the Nixon Camp
Nixon,on the 1960 campaign' has sbcth
Luther .was ail ; , tha ,j30 ' seriously
co s1dered a last-minute atta * n the way:
K y's atesvhad M.- the
te:r
nreiy political J
'"G in a
upp pot o WY in,t e ,
t : ehg +,.p
with advii..ptty
.but ln;
scolded in the,")
cone yu~sions about
lfidenoe,
pendb in great part on ade-,
eratlon--where preparation-
-an oft-repeated themes ?'
*0 careful about the niceties
.~ of ? ;i lal'? ekposure or. self-advertise-
as-he showed in his ' embarrassing
language during
53debate with Rennetlj:
methods ' and his motives
out t 1 to for' all to ON bete; he is+
n ~ t il' loath; in quoting .:praise for.'
hif a f, k ? teneinies will use muCih of
ills
notnbookthatwlU
aa'itat-happensa"W
tse~,s Churchill'ir,.,
,Par 11 certainly wills ? y
.In Courage rnl
Tel tt1 dtlaes it is eminently read-
able; Its length, 13111; it has
CUO of torthe inher-
xit sary to su vive {
N r lh alifortita. - ,Seen .
Of hhtoi'Fi or ?1
and yhd -kitchen;
no' I
t vnagwellbe
than eel
to Theodore7White'S The MakittVlpf" U'?;
President, 1960, what went on inside- the,,
real purpose of this message might be," however, and much of what be
me .to lay off on an issue that wa thtl Nixon tr unsucces 1 t e
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uarn'.n:t increasingly unpopular for Kenne- White House to make a statement VZO&U
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