NIXON AND CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450094-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: October 25, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Why. Vice President Hits Hard
At Kennedy's Position on Castro
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In Pennsylvania, Oct. 24-Vice but lose it at home oppoNd--
President Nixon. obviously It is possible, of Course, that
thinks he has a winnin issue Mr. Nixon can demonstrate, as
In the Cuban question ie hit he ?tried'r reatedty to da.faday;"
It hard today at every stop that $giafor KCpaneay!
along sugi
the blazing yellow and gestlgn of aid to tM snit
scarlet valley of Shenandoah, forces would .encourag I6oviet
but it is not at all certain that military JntetrvQnt(On rtn Cuba
this is a one=way Proposition. and' lead ; to war in the Carib.
Mr
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clfica.ny forbid any u meat. For Mr Nisi h+1
Intervention, political or eco- nOC been arguing for a cautious
AOmic, with the internal affairs but for a bold. pp11Qi}r ..tops~ty
of any of the American repub- the Communists
aerywhwA
lira, and by suggesting United even in Quemoy' Mi aLt
States aid to the anti-Castro within artill raAge, of fire
forces
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as an. With this, prospgc at#
the spirit at the mtnd he _
?-.4. on iua use. . uuou$ approach. -?~~
Articles 14 and 15 Favored
AnslY' $ of the Inter -Amer? red Bold,f ey " ? .
ican Treaty spe. But even this is raf a surf
with him. And in an election munlsts and that we at
risk
debate befofe &.majority of the war If necessary to pray t the
voters, the spirit of the people confluest
short. of Quemoy and Mats.
may be -more Important tbsn rt. he has seemed vnii.
the spirit of'the law. f gnto risk war 'Oigp miles
This country Is obviously dfs- bane, where, in the har:
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clearly, In violation of the spirit His major point in the.forelgp
of the law. . Policy debate so far.'haa be"
. But In the anti-Castro good that we must eppose.Soviai ex?
of the nation the Democratic P2sfon wherever it appears,
nominee may have the spirit of that we must not. give up ?' one
the American people working inch" of territory to tha f
since Korea has provoked so n"'
much anxiety,. The polls show it. theft
The letters columns are full of untavp
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the, risk Senior tLe :~
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.had the saint ?i ...-
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Morning for Riehayr Nixon was at 8:30 in the real
America of Life ` an _ oo an a tidies' Home Journal with
the man from" fheiReader's Digest bowing.like a waiter at his
back. - At the Long Island City Courthouse there w(wc. 4419 p0,01)1e.
The Vice-President began his day in New York at a breakfast A! Rego Park, a policeman said that. he had been told to p. cpare
of the Magazine Publishers Association enduring the acid bath l' r 5,000 people.e Give 'em a break," he said, "and make it 900."
of cross-examination. by Henry- R. Luce and Elliott V. Bell of Nelson- Rockefeller opened, his mouth and said: ,In this
Business Week eru-all right now, kids, let's have. a little quiet over.,ther"e---here
The grand 'inquisitor was Edward Weeks of The Atlantic at the crucial hour, we who cherish America .."
Monthly. "We will open the heavy artillery with Mike Co'Hles," Richard Nixon talked about a cause greater . than _a.ny party,
meat as America "itself. The applause ca
said Mr. -Weeks. me- from the :core at the
And Gardner Cowles of Look fixed Richard Nixon with his speakers' stdj~-..on the sidewalks the arlajority looked on
glittering eye and expressed regret at haying to ask tough faintly curious bilt heavily unmoved. A wise mai: in the audience
questions at this hour of the morning. But what did the Vice, observed that at moments like this, when Jack Kennedy knows
President "feel is happening- in Red Chinaa?" he has nothing to gain, he bites it off and moves away, but that
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Mr. Nixon ~aologized because he had only the iMor
available a
wii lot seem ro"Tint vi ibfy superior to
a moment later in the afternoon, when his cal*
to underground, ..~ slowed down dr ytg through Jamaica, and someone Caine to
d :China his- a very dedicated, aggressive leadership.shake his hand. He was encouraged to stop the car. The,sidewalks
Communist. There is a basic difference between Mr. Khrushchev ; were crowded; the streets were clear for the access of worshipers,
and Mr. Mao Tse-tung, although "in using these two names, inci-a but none of them crossed and he moved on.
dentaI,iy, I am Scot trying to downgrade other Chinese Communist
leat?srs who may be more influential or as influential as Mao It was a day by no means typical; Tuesday had been better
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But any obvious, attempt on our part to drive them apart would
be counterprtsiluctive because they have a religious tie. "It has
been my pb?ftlori-and will continue to be in the future until
circumstances change-that we would make a very great mistake
to change our position on recognizing Red China."
This ringing declaration having been roundly applauded by
all the inquisitors, including Mr. Cowles, Elliott Bell asked about
the proper role. of government in a recession.
The Vice President did not wince at the savagery of this shot
but bravely fired back that 'the proper role of government is to
watch carefully, and spend money carefully, and use the' credit
functions very imaginatively and' the tax device. "These are the
devices I would use, one; to anticipate recession, and, second, to
fl ht it as yo u get into it and as you get out." went on through this relentless give-and-take past the
allotted television time, witl}out Henry Luce having a char}ce to
get in his licks; the Vice Piesidehtgallantly? agreed to allow 10
more minutes for this ordeal: "'
"I thought," said tiger Luce, "I might ask a question. which
w9,itld give ybu a chance to sav something that hasn't been cov-
ere. What," he Went on, "isyouur grand strategy for winning the
battle for freedom without war?"
"It is a queffitibrr of quality ` `.- . It is a question of understand-
Ing what we are fighting for ... We have got to get some idealism
into our people .. A reorganization of, ll the activities that deal
with this non-military struggle . . . The Vice President of the
United States reporting directly to the President and then oii a
day-by-day" week, mo_ nth-byemonth basis, fighting this battle
aggressively.'-'
And Mr. Luce applauded, and the audience rose and Richard.
Nixon went off. He gathered up his Pat, who had been at break-
fast with the Republican -ladies downstairs-in the America of
;,Richard Nixon, Abraham Lincoln works the ballroom and Mary
Todd the breakfast suite--and bidden farewell by `Jinx F`alken-
berg and George . Murphy. nd u-ite Nelsen Rock fells . ,n a.re
Ihe}P- Str[ fu i:1.x to -'Pie t -s -tdn s w des -ef i eeiia
n ?re
atninering it in with an Insistence .it once
despera1te and soggy.
another day in the
campaign. But the gods chose' a Peculiarly
unfortunate time to give him a dismal occasion.
For he is tired,, and looks unahealthy
and depression sits
,
upon
him like a cloud. He looks like a member" of the lower middle class
out of work. For the moment, tl* momentum has passed from
him. There is a sense, not so much that he has "slowed down, but
that Jack Kennedy has speeded up.
He has done his work, he has avoided mistakes, but he is
beginning to feel the weariness Of those who do not have natural
talent and who .? must- run against men who have. He is com-
mencing to feel a deficiency in magical powers. He is a resou:rrce-
ful man and he is likely to rebound. But for the moment,
yesterday, there was no comfort for him- even In the America of
J' 'he Readers Digest; riding through the America of Queens, he
could feel the peak behind him and the valley under his feet, and
the next peak dimly di~iant. -
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