Nixon Campaign Begins Next Week

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29270, 30 July 1960, Page 13

Nixon Campaign Begins Next Week

CHICAGO, July 29.

Mr Richard Nixon will open his campaign for the White House in Hawaii next Wednesday, it was announced today, soon after he had promised his Republican Party “a campaign such as this country has never seen before.”

Mr Nixon heavily underlined foreign affairs as an election issue in his speech last night, accepting the Republican Presidential nomination. He dedicated himself to seek world-wide freedom and to fight communism without war.

Mr Henry Cabot Lodge was nominated without opposition as the Vice-Presidential candidate. As the convention broke up news came that Mr Nixon would go to Hawaii, the nation’s newest State, next Wednesday—nearly a month ahead of his Democratic rival, Senator John Kennedy. Senator Kennedy has said he will open his campaign there about September, -i Hawaii's State Republican chairman, Mr Arthur Woolaway. revealed early today that Mr Nixon would go there next week, announcing further details later. Observers said that this could cut some of the ground from under Senator Kennedy's "new frontier” approach, the theme behind his decision to open the Democratic campaign in Hawaii and Alaska, the youngest States in the Union. In his acceptance speech Mr Nixon told the widely cheering delegates that the next President must resolve “that the United States must never settle for second best in anything. Militarily, the United States must be first at all times,” Mr Nixon said. The next President must be "firm but never belligerent” “He must leave no doubt at any time, whether in Berlin or Cuba or anywhere else, America must not tolerate being pushed around by anybody,” he said. Mr Nixon drew the biggest cheer from the throng of Republicans when he said: "Mr Khrushchev has said that our grandchildren will live under communism. Let us say that his grandchildren will live in freedom.” Mr Nixon also placed emphasis on the “Image” America would have to generate among the other nations of the world. He promised a better training

programme for the United States' overseas representatives.

“Let us make it clear that our aim in helping (other countries) is not merely to stop communism but . . . in the great American tradition of concern for those less fortunate than we . . . that our primary aim must be not to help government but to help people to live the life they deserve.” he said.

It was an emotional speech to which the crowd responded tumultuously, having already been keyed up by the fighting words of the Vice-Presidential nominee, Mr Lodge and New York’s Governor, Mr Nelson Rockefeller. Mr Lodge had set the tone with the declaration in his acceptance speech that Mr Nixon’s election was "of compelling importance” in the “life and death struggle” between communism and democracy.

Governor Rockefeller, the man whose vigorous remarks on touchy issues in the weeks and days preceding the convention had stirred strong feelings, especially in the platform committee, heightened the tone by introducing the Vice-President with high praise both for the man and the party—and promising a strong unified campaign effort. Immediately after accepting nomination from the Republican

national convention, Mr Nixon called a press conference for later today to disclose some of his tactics for his fight against Senator Kennedy., his 43-year-old Catholic Democratic opponent-