SAYS NIXON TALK WITH K WAS A 'SORRY' ONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200940090-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 90
• Publication Date: October 19, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Says Nixon TTIk With K
Waf.'a 'Sorry' One
p'utbrigixt (I)., Ark.) says he has been
reliably inform that President Richard M. Nixon ex-
i-re, regret to Soviet mein a is Khrushchev over
the llhi eng of a ow tie nations restr1ution approved by
Congress.
Sen. Fulbright's statemen t designed to counter
the GOP presidential norm eaEe ?crfi~isistt 'ot' i.
John F. Kennedy for saying the United-States should have
would have saved the Parr salsafThit m
I Sen. 'Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
committee, said his informant asserted Mr. Nixon told
Khrushchev during his visit to. Russia last summer that
neither he nor President Eisenhower would have chosen to
have the resolution approved just before the trip.
"Mr. Nixon added, `after all, we are are not that stupid,"'
Sen.Fulbr?ght quoted his source as saying.
o g theVice President's contention that therewas no
eed apologize for th suss y re vital
t o U,S. security, Sen.tt x; "yet; MttNixon haw
pparently felt that the timing of the captive nations re o-
ution was important."
The captive ndtions resolution expressed hope the Soviet
satellite nations would be liberated.
Sen. Fulbrig!ht made his statement yesterday in a letter
to Secretary of State Christian A. Herter renewing his do-
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