NIXON ASKS HOOVER, HELMS TO STAY IN JOBS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00161R000400210107-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 21, 2014
• Sequence Number: 107
• Publication Date: December 17, 1968
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Washington Post .
17 b:,..cember 1968
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Nixon AsL-zs Hoover,.
it Helms toSilay in Jobs
By Carroll Kilpatrick
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Waf.hInzton Post,StaftWrIter _. _...
.. 'A.:NEW YORK, Dec. 16?Presi--r ' A full schedule was an- meats to the sub?cabinct. .
.? dent-elect Nixon . annotriced? nounceci for Tuesday. In addi- Nixon described the visit as.
:today that he had asked two tion to the U.N. visit, the Pres-
the longest he -has had- wipt:
..?
security officers ? FBI ident-elect will confer with
Senator-elect Barry Goldwater the General since the clection,
and an indication of his im-?
1Director J. Edgar Hoover and . for the first time since the-
proved condition. . ,
-.7AI...election. As previously announced. .1
. 'CIA Director Richard .
'llelins?to continue in their; Nixon also will confer with
Nixon 'will meet here Tuesday:
-period. ?
lame duck Gov. Tim Babcock
with the Amir of Kuwait, NVili). :.
*present ? posts for an indefinite
: IL was learned that the Pres- 'of Montana, Gov. George Rom-
paid an official visit to Presi-1
iclent?elect also has made a de- ney- of Michigan, who will be
Secretary of Housing and.. dent Johnson in Washingtoni
cision regarding the man Who
Urban Development in the :last week.
?:\vili be his ambassador to the
Nixcn cabinet; en :. Nixon ? will be accompanied-
-United Nations and that a de- .
tric president Fred Bcorrar ch;r:icancci
i
on his U.N. visit- by Secretary
ision will be announced ?
: Herbert Stein of the : Brook ' of Sta te-designate 'William P.
shortly, perhaps Tuesday. It ..
. in
:gs Institution and chairman..Rogersi Henry A. Kissinger,
was reliably reported that Sar- : ?
f ths Nixon Task Force on. who is slated to be special as.'
and Allen W. Dulles, then CIN,
director.
While in Washington, Nixon.
spent -15 minutes with former'r.
President Eisenhower Di. Wal-.
ter Reed Army Hospital. The
President-elect said they con-i
ferred on foreign and del'ensei
matters and also on appoint- .
?
,gent Shriver,: ambassador -to
. :France and a Democrat, had
.. agreed to accept the assign-
. Ment. . has ever had, came as no sur-:1-)Taien ?Office.r -with 1\.le Sise-?%.-
[In Washington,. a close phse, but there had .been al.iDepartment; ? and U.N. ? A.inbsa.*:-
? major concern about the 'ap- question whether Nixon would sada,: J. m. Wiggins.
yriend said that Shriver's .
Ziegler said that Thant-
!nnintment .had12.e.en_AlAc..ao- reappoint Helms.. .
irpro-val of Democratic Party: Hoover, who will e 4 1 ? - -
!!woulci. hold a small informal':
il leaders.
IShriver last week sought.' kept on by a special presicien-!
- : tory retirement age but will be
Jan. 1, has passed the manda-.::
'I'Presi.c,r, eci. asked lor,..t..h.e. j -.
'-. t-el ' -. * '-
reception in ? his suite The '1
a.p_
. the advice' of. Vice Presidentl,i tial exemption. Ile has been:
Hubert H. Humphrey, Sen. .t?
. ? ?
. ? William FulbrIght, (D-Ark.),?? established in 1924 . and has!
director since the Etu?eau was; . . ? . s.? ?? ?.:.: .?..? ..
chairman of the Senate Fol-iovorked in the Justice 'Depart-.
, eign ' Relations Cominittee..,:n'-ic4.si.n.c.:e..19..i.7-.-iie-ls...a.:1). is---71
;Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Me.) L
a nd Sen. Edward: M. Kennedytrici. native. :
()-Mass.). .
Zienler announced that the
l' ?
(None of them indicated op-iPiesident-elect .usked Hoover-
-*position to Shriver's accept.?."to continue his distinguished!
? ance of the U.N. Post, the; serviee.".Asked if there was a:
. sources said. Ilimit to the reappointments,.
"'? * ...1?;.sli river wanted to be sure: :Ziegler said there was not.
? .1 felt it would be in-the interest.
1 thA the leaders of his party x.1: Both Hoover . and. Helms'
of the party as well as as the; rent to New :York at (lifter-
. Nation for 'rdm to take the le?nittil times 'recently to confer .
job, " the friend said. the President-elect. The
? to be a bipartisan arrange-.
"-11 it is:'President?elect also talked to;
. inent," ? he added, "Shriver ;them since. their visits by tel.e?
wanted to he sure it would. :iphone, Ziegler said.
really have bipartisan- ? ap-:. Helms, a native of St.
-pro.val."] -? ? ? Davids, ' Pas., will be 56 in
? Nixon will visit the united- March. He has been in the
Nations Tuesday afternoon to I CIA since 1947. He was depu-
. .
, pay a courtesY? call on Secre-
; tary General U Thant and to
: establish communications with;
.?,... the U.N., spokesman Ron Zie-.
. ? ..ssler announced today after, ments 1 President-elect John
.`..* , Nixon returned from his-visit.: F. _Kennedy' made afte.r his
. :
.:1-. with ?Republicans Congres.r -election in ' 1960 was of his
oionalleaders in Washinr,ton ;--?
Fiscal Policy. sistant to the President for na-
The'reappointment of Hoov.! tional security affairs; -Roberti
er, the only director the FBIt D..A-Itirphy, the President-.elect's1
ty director in 1965 and 1966
and has been director ? since
1966
One. of the first announce-
-,interition to ' retain': Hooter
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