OCR Text |
Show Mr. Nixon Reaches Out The following appraisal of Vice President Richard Nixon as a politician appeared originally orig-inally in the New York Post. It was written by William V. Shannon of the Post staff. " . . . Nixon thus has his line out in all directions agriculture, foreign aid, defense, de-fense, judicial patronage and civil rights. He also keeps to his tireless political pace by courting every faction. One can almost hear him saying to himself: " 'The Negroes I must get up to Forest Hills to give Al-thea Al-thea Gibson the winner's cup . . . The church going prot-estants prot-estants must get up to New York to appear with Billy Graham . . . The Catholics, can't forget them must drop over ot St. Patrick's and see Cardinal Spellman while I'm in New York . . . The farmers farm-ers must remember to call Alcorn and Benson . . . New Jersey true, Forbes has no chance, but there is a lot of money in New Jersey, and it can't hurt to put in an appearance appear-ance there . . Henry Luce and all those magazines, hmm, must remember to keep that date in San Francisco and say something about dynamic capitalism cap-italism . . . Labor oh, yes, labor must invite Dave McDonald Mc-Donald of the Steel Workers to the luncheon for the Queen . . . Must remember ..." |