MR. NIXON'S HIGHWAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450128-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 128
• Publication Date: July 30, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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JUL, 3,n .1960
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By .any fair judgment Mr. Nixon s acceptance try ?1 ;xr,. XbKvsbch6v.th&t
speech was a tour de force. As a fant* tically amp I SR'. in free"" was a
competent political effort 'it had everything- caVstrok.. Some of his pro
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emotion pathos, .humility; . strength, ? detertaw- E- the departments ,ill
tion confidence and religioiu appeal. a slejle !~d ideob j
. The Republican presidential nominee described ' and?rpgs's adequately upft ppjf
himself as a man of the future steeped, to the attslti tbei asptli'atlons, are
himself in the togas of Jefferson, Lincoln, .Theo. Thera ?W" TOWershl!
lore Roosev&t and Wilson as well as those .of` perbollc ecajaA a
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lumsclf as a leader of experience who knows tda* spoc1Se But Mr. p(bM.tit bda
personally the problems from Djakarta to Caracas, . oratorical 3 in his pjp,?
from handling Khrushchev to coping with nation- tact the rewarding choice pj
alism in Africa. Clearly the young Mr. Kennedy, wordy"slfowed the polish o!'_,
as Nlr. Nixon managed to depict his opponent, 11 sonal eompodtl,n, &ad when I
and resourcefulness. than tWa' jlneoln"a>a iii
To invade the Kennedy "New Frontier" Mrd vatift dt ch
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Nixon constructed a broad highway to the future. A 6th l
Accusing the Democrats of "a symphony of POI" shown I* Its
i cynicism," he assured his listeners that, what. pared, fa-
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c,ul promise their opponents. He then painted i bat.'...:, " r - "- '
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picture-uncynical, ? of course-4n which all
against the ills of -age, with educational opportnal-
ties for all, higher 'wages, the greatest pr'ogreatN
in -human right3 since Lincoln, a fair Mn tr,
farmers, the benefits of science and,
development and spiritual revitalization.
If there is a bit of contradiction and
ation in all of this, Mr. Nlxdn nevertheless
not merely on a. high road, . but on an elevated,
freeway. - There was.no direct reference to this
unkind personal.'jabs that Senator Kennedy bad
rather unwisely initiated; rather he repsd- tbi
1)emocratic nominee deftly.by implying
Kennedy's youth had led him Ines-1k.
of suggesting that the Prasidefit shie 4
expressed regrets to Mr. Khrwthcbev
U-2 flight.
There were touches of the old N1;O6-,112
subject matter, technique and verbal associa UOn,
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but little that opened him to fat =rebuttal.
out ever accusing the Democrats 4f .dIsloyil
thoughts, he managed to compare their .ce
nomic growth philosophy with one that
Communists are relectinL . and to suggest
his opponents have lost filth in Ai*&ica.`.
also contrived to imply 'that Mr. K6 8W
arrogant, an implication for which Mr.
has given solne'wart;ant.
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