[IKE] ON THE DEFENSIVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00269R001400170001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 94
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 8, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

P . ress and Publication Report re:
GAITHER REPORT . TS #104248
Approved For Release 2003/04/02: GJA-RDP86B00269R0O140G17 OO1-
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tt?'r Fact o 1W By Stewart AlsopI
has been essentially an in- All the President's own
public. statements. in recent
shut[ for reflecting the un- months have been similarly
drily/ing cood defensive in tone.. There were,
the tour. for example, his press con
I.ry, suddenly ference remarks brushing oft
?,,^serted him' the Soviet ICB\l tests and
The question the Soviet satellites as of
i suggested little consequence. And. there
by tirePres were his two "chins up"
~~r.t's r e.a-c r speeches, in which while
tons to the promising to give the ",rough
new situation with the smooth," he' gave a
in which ' hp . great deal of smooth-and
find' himself p a _. precious little. rough.
T h e . answer If only as a practicaY polit-
may be'' pro-'Stewart:'Alsop-ical matter, taking', this de-
virted by the-tone and content fensive stand was precisely
of the President's forthcom calculated (as Vice President
ing State., of the Union mes ' Nixon immediately sensed) to
sa;drfferyr 3es3ion of 'the Nat- l W1hd1.fr bltM E-tt?riltad Asia.'-11' I ; C3
of rYl{I?Se2~i rt} 'lust' 'A : '~fou