NIXON OWN TOP COUNSEL IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS AREA

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• Publication Date: August 25, 1960
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Policy Teaaa-V
Nixon Own Top Counsel!
In Foreign Affairs Area
Reporters of The Washington Post have intensively inter.
viewed many of the men, inside and outside.. of the Govern-
ment, who sire contributing ideas and advice on national
.policy to Vice President Richard M. Nixon. This is the= fifth
of a series of articles based on these interviews.
Hiss . t9 Nikita Sergeyevitch
Khrushchev. Communism -is
still Nixon's, forte, but -now
his horizon `is the world. Nix
on has Said, and so has, his
presidential opponents til,at thug
major challenge facing the
United States and the West is
the struggle on all fronts be.
tween communispi and free,
open societies..
By starting off his series of
campaign policy papers with
any other subject, Richard M.
Nixon. is his own principal ad-
viser.'
Nixon has traveled a long
but quick road from Alger
In foreign affairs, more than I tion of expectations" . which
By Murrey Marder
$talf`. Reporter
Counterpoised in the image
is the picture of Nixon thrust-
ing a forefinger at Khru-
shchev's chest.
Talk of Broader Program
The heart of :Nixon's posi
tive approach to communism
is the familiar theme that the
underprivileged one-third of
the world, he uncommitted
-third, holds the real balance
A 0power. The United States,
Nixon has said, must enthusi-
.istically embrace the "revolu-
tleground.
heavy emphasis on the nature
of this struggle, Nixon's ob-
ject is to stake out a claim for
the Nixon-Lodge ticket as the
one with the more -profound,
more analytical, more compre.
pensive knowledge of the bat-
25 YEAR RF-PP\/I =XAil
courses through these areas.
Without ever specifically
saying so, Nixon has talked of
a broader, more vigorous pro-
gram, than the ,Eisenhower
Administration has allowed.
Nixon' bluntly acknowledges
that, faced with "progress,
Communist-style, at the cost
of f1eedom or no progress,"
the poverty-stricken "will take
communism."
The candidate "best able to'
handle this issue of survival,"
Nixon has said, is the man
who- "has judgment" and
"won't go off! half-cocked ."I
His own background, which
includes participation in the
Cabinet and the National Se-
curity Council, and visits , to
five continents and 56 coun-
tries, plus Henry Cabot
Lodge's experience in the Cab-
inet and the United Nations,
weight the Party's image of
"experience."
Close to Dillon
Nixon sometimes checks
ideas and emphasis with Sec-
retary of State Christian A.
Herter. He has known *him
since 1947 when Nixon was a
groundwork for the Marshall
Plan.
Or, more often, Nixon
checks with Herter's deputy,
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The Policy Advisory Croup continuity in foreign aid" mere instrument of national
which Nixon has assembled There were "two scintilla policy wielded by men with
''yess therefore no collection of tratdrs under Truman,' said leas o cncern for people than
men." Nixon likes "sharp Hannah, "and several under for ncer"
criticism," associates say; he Eisenhower - including at politics
will get enough if he listens least one who was opposed to Hannah said ho, has found
For example, Michigan State the cop?ept, and ,,at 18 that "Nixon is brghter than
University President John A. mentks'b$deSe he decided it roost people think." Similar
Hannah, former Assistant Sec- was worth "omething." m a r it e have come from
rotary of Defense for Ma A fervent edv at of tech every member of the advisory
power and Persvvnel, and now meal a*lstpa.e' to developing group Most of them do not
chairman of the Civil Rights nations, ahnah has said pub- know whether Nixon will
Commission, who was referred licl 1'pgy'hEPm is was mevi- agree with their ideas or not.
to in an earlier atticle; said I " that some of "mission- Almost with out exception,
the Administration has 'fum. aeei&'o# the original Point however they regard Nixon as
bled"parts of the foreign a' our program would diminish. an extremely alert open.
program. But, he said, "It would be a minded person, willing to lie
Douglas Ddillon.
Dillon, escribed accurately
1,, a 'lose friend of Nixon's as
coal customer;' is regarded
a possible Secretary of
S 1,te i a Nixon Administra-
Ioontru erteGovernment., Pl Al
,though he is the State Depart
m Gta No. 2 man, he is Over.
of the Nnaon a mutual
to, amity programs, lid was
formerly Ambassador to
,#nce, Dillon is motet elylhave tapped others lower down
little ,he wn to the public. Ito the State Department for
4 7 tturned 51, the tall can.
-lively dressed D,llun has
fie blue-eye analytical 1ook
nt floe s ccessful investment
r he has been (Dillon,
olce
Iad rd ill with a Groton.
i..,i1 background and an
1?r..'^ t0 '=J att he pas'
n been a -the area
es
banter for an elfeetive Ei#n
+id'progesm, freer wortd?Ice
greater coordination of West-
n policy, more clearly,.,
national goals and a Mort wthera t or repels, de
vigorous domestic economy padding on the listener, he Is
His push for bigger and bald 04 years old and wholly m
aid programs brought him def years le.
into collision with the former At. pace which would floor
and currentfe carries ?- Srt' no no- n 20 years younger, he of the 9reaau div es his time between Her-
tieeable 1 political bruises. n ,led, where he has been beach
Tough Speech Recalled in, govocr meat since 1825, sad
An exceedingly tough Dillon as Sammer Schppl director
speech a month before the for the past 0005 ye L8; WNh-
ilLfated svm,e,t fee re mgo, Did of .in 1 Virginia
last sprang, n as later lambast- where he bend th weekend.
ad by Khrushchev as evidence -presubly churning up the
that the United States' had deasrth hich gush forth the
foredoomed the conference to rest pf the week
failure. Elliott has been an office.
In tt, Dillon warned Khrul holder or adviser, to the Gov
shchev he w ""skating o
very thin ice" er his demands
on West 5 rlin. He called the
Soviet idea of "coexistence" a
"weird and presumptuous"
theory which should be rele-
gated "to the Cry e pheap:" Live
and at live was not the an-
swe said Griloe; to today's
world "we must live and help
II
Dillon does not by any
means oppose Improving 'Z
lotions with the Soviet Union.
Although he depeecetee
On the contrary, he orou B
n our ee.If as a small fry in the Nixon
must do everythimng I.
power to achieve rational coin- circle, :Nixon took him along
.cation with the Comma es an aide on the Vice Presi
n st world" and '-seize any op dent's tour of the Soviet Union
,actually to each agreements i and Poland last year. a
"tin still registered
Democrat," says Elliott, with
grin "lthough I am
what deserted by my partyme-
Elliott has been pan-partisan
enough in distributing ideas.
He contributed some to Nelena
Rockefeller while Rockefeller
was preparing to run against
Nixon for the Presidency, and
also has sent suggestions in
the past to John F Kennedy
("Sack was one of my stu-
dent at Harvaeds" sold Elliott
or We. r I Abrthure Holcombe ' clArchly,
"ally absorbed too 'no' "
Arthur's economic nterpreta-
tlon of political parties." Sum-
nedyzed Elliott 'nul
leader Iwith a cools head, but
a little more synthetic than
Nixon. Nixon is 05 Loss, syn.
thetie man I and
most independent of Judge-
ment..
in the Nixon staff operation
Elliott, who js a member of the
Policy Advisory Group, Yen-
ideas through policy and James d Shepley
n in
and a fuel academic
,late. to to help check on policy
papers.
Covers Wide Field
Elliott'. principal field is fop
sign npOlfay, although he
o ly an authority or gad
Fly ion almost everything else,
from national resources to vision. and ideas come
His opinions an
tumbling out:
"The first priority in foreign
they are easily" fbut implies policy is the credibility of our
he will m,dge tbam), and a',c to meet Soviet threats,
r real l capacity in the fold, and
not lost on paper Ths In.
o s especially theower for n the
of skilled manpower
underdeveloped countries to
meet the Red challenge In the
or ld .
Co
"The Wlogic of history is going
to open differences between
the Soviets and the Chinese
Communists; the basic under
ecoman
publicly by Arthur S. Flew- current is there, but you can't
ming, Secretary Of Health, Ed;l S,,, the Russians the pres-
neetion and Welfare, avd~1? shat they can probe
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of u e A at in ways that would
? hed-gerou. ... In Southeast
New York. Asia ,,a moat tackle something
"There as s any things h ci(e gvic ... In Africa
that come u(le between de i v , d
,.e governo, etc thatean
Detriments of Government Ihat'i you ihemsalvesbefore You try
could be "resolved by a higher anEllint b'""' Over ai.e ofdec]-
th di k onto the Presi-,sire, "more robust" govern.
den d
t's desk, said Dillon. meet. He has urged a "pm-
Dillon said many things. gram reviewing staff" to serve
the President as a hilhl,,
part of the National Security
ty
Council and, among other
things, (ford guidance to the
Budget Bureau which "fe pres.
ently unequipped" to relate
policy priorities to fiscal sup
part. He suggested that the
Vice President should preside
,,or the board.
Same pet Elliott Ideas make
others wince, One is a "North
Atlantic Round Table For
Freedom," Inspired by the
Arthurian round table, com-
White House. Dillon noted thatlthe Free World, with symbol-
Wilson has indicated that. tsm and ritual for each "Coin-I
ABge, as Vice Presided, Demon' Inc'uding a "squire'( ~F
answer, said Dillon. with the Ildr, that u e ideas fall n
Vice President constituting "a:f,qjl, g,,, He
Sort of court of appeal" for''. said: "I retain my freedQie In
He said that as the Soviet
Union develops, "I can't help
but believe they are going to
need m managerial free-
dom to get along-but this is
very long term thing." This
trend should be encouraged,
said Dillon, while making it
clear the United States will
never "bow to threats."
Backs Aid Expansion
Like Nixon, he is convinced
"the big battleground of the
future is the way these under-
developed countries go."
He ants to se the aid
pro e gra msoexpanded and put
re long-range basis'
than year-to-year appreyr,a-
-
tiens, but he recognizes 'an
gressional hostility to tat
Idea.
The current transformation
of the Organization for Euro.
pean Economic Cooperation,
bringing the United States and
Canada into direct participa-
tion to coordinating economic
policies with their European
allies, with the prospect of
alleviating trade bloc conflict,
could be called the "Dillon
Plan." At the a e time, a
coordinating group was estab-
lished for aid policy to under-
developed nations.
Japan has been included on
.,it policy harmonization, and
Dillon "would like to see the
Japan eventually be m
fully inethis thing an trade."
Dillon says "We can't ask the
Europeans to do that until
lure Is haw to handle law-
cost Imports from Japan and
India."
Favors "First Secretary"
Dillon highly favors "a first
aecretsry or something simi-
iee" In the White House as a
coordinator for s ueit" and
c affairs as advocated
"don't get done now because
they are to conflict between
departments. "When people
know that there is a judge and
mething is going to be do
aided," he said "They are more
Inclined to agree." A Cabinet
o$~tllltiter, he said, however, most
rllalease, ieeht to cry
PF if vece nary, tin the
sldent.
Some Nixon advisers think
the Vice President is much op.
posed to creating another
Another idea that might he
worth considering, said Dillon,
is a sort of s per-;enior
policy planning staff" i the
State Department, composed
of "two or three senior people"
to advise the Secretary en his
ever-burgeoning array of prob-
lems and crises.
Others I. State' Used
In addition to Herter and
Dillon, Nixon and his staff
ideas.
The one who comes closest
to being a continuing kind of
Nixon consultant is Prof. Wit
Nam Yandell Elliott, who is
figure as?extsts On the Wash-
ington political scene.
and Truman Adminiat lidmil,
in posts too numerous to geta-
jamis, To
th,eg hhen Nizonnwas P*gT
e
things, w 4
Herter Committee, Sootttlltt~~RBvv''as
Its staff athe tea.
o LtedL`on
the How' ,G his
U- AC1.ia urea 4
EI'Latt also woember of
the Planning Board of the Na-
tion'] Security Council, 1953
o 1957.
Went to Russia With Nixon
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while Nixon In public natur-
ally hldds his tongue on what
he sometimes regards lrv
decisfvensss and too much deci-
s' gress and too much dec..
sioa.debating-by-committee, in
f-irate, on more then one oc.
casion he has bewro "blown his lop."
Nixon "may ng, so
me-
times," said the associate "but
as President you will know
where he stands."
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