National Reports:
SHELDON, FRANK MANKIEWICZ, COURTNEY R.
National Reports San Francisco: Frank Mankiewicz. Minneapolis: Sam Romer. Chicago: Albert N. Votaw. Boston: Courtney Sheldon. Dallas: Biclcnell Eubanlcs. New Orleans: John Carmichael. St. Louis:...
...The extreme Right, at least among its crackpot elements, considers him a dangerous One Worlder...
...the Nixon candidate, denying to the last that he was in any way connected with the Vice President, withdrew before the showdown vote...
...The openness of this Knight-Nixon feud clearly presages a real brawl between the two forces for control of the Republican delegation to the 1956 convention...
...Lincoln listened to it with one ear but heard the thundering din more distinctly in the other ear...
...But in the campaign just concluded he went a long way toward justifying the "white-collar McCarthy" title hung on him by Adlai Stevenson...
...As Vice President, his work as a "fixer" and modifier of anti-McCarthy sentiment is well known...
...It remained for Nixon to do the heavy--and the dirty--work, and he set to with a will...
...His operatives are actively working for the candidate of the party's extreme right wing...
...The final awakening came when the Air Force began to expand its New England bases in the interests of continental defense and reserve training...
...his attacks on State Senator Jack Tenney, a Gerald Smithite, only confirmed this opinion...
...Governor Knight, running scared all the way, had little to say for any of the Congressional candidates and gave only the most cursory endorsement to interim Senator Thomas Kuchel...
...Some of these patterns cut aerial swaths across entire towns, such as well-to-do Lincoln, where large-sized lots and country comforts have long been an attraction to middle-incomers...
...Few suburban commuters are so unhappy that they are moving back to the big city...
...With one voice, a Lincoln town meeting said it was "unable to find any evidence that the defense of metropolitan Boston could not be accomplished at some point farther removed from this dense center of population...
...It is not clear when this era was overtaken by the age of noise...
...This, said some, was all in the name of progress...
...This week, Nixon has begun action on a new front...
...The extreme Left has hated him since the Hiss case and has not scrupled to attack him in areas where he is not vulnerable (for example, by making totally unfounded attempts to link him with anti-Semitism...
...Atlanta: Joseph Fiszman...
...The noise level was rising but not intolerably so...
...Probably never before in California's wild political history has anyone risen as fast as Nixon...
...The technique was undoubtedly successful this time, but whether these taeties will win Nixon the support of California's Republican politicians is, at this time, extremely doubtful...
...But the victory turned out to be a hollow one...
...Eight years ago, he was a young lawyer just out of the Navy...
...His attacks on the Truman Administration for getting us into war in Korea sounded strange on the lips of one who had told an American Legion convention that the decision to send troops to Korea was a correct and courageous one...
...Now that the work is done, Nixon supporters show no reticence about reopening the feud...
...Bulldozers already had grunted through the woodlands, power-shovels snorted ceaselessly, and power-saws whined mercilessly as they sliced through acres to clear the way for new homes...
...In 1948, he was one of the "liberal" Republicans who signed the manifesto of a group then called the Republican Advance...
...Here, ignoring some of the real gaps in Condon's defense against "security risk" charges, gaps which caused a number of liberals to desert Condon's campaign, Nixon relied on this line of reasoning: "There are no charges against Condon's opponent...
...The Air Force has been through the routine before...
...All observers would probably agree that the whirlwind campaign put on by the Republicans in the last two weeks of the race was chiefly responsible for cutting GOP losses to a minimum in the House and in the State Legislature...
...Even the GOP's polls showed Republicans trailing throughout the state by early October...
...By the time the heavy firing had commenced in the state's Congressional races, however, the feud was on again...
...News and World Report that the candidates who won did so without any help from Knight, "who paddled his own canoe," and was lavish in his praise for the Vice President...
...They are merely sputtering about their misfortune and muttering warnings about mass political action...
...Representative Pat Hillings, a staunch Nixon man and his successor in Congress, told U.S...
...Rumbling gravel trucks and dynamite blasts, heralding new double-barreled auto traffic lanes--followed later by the monotonous hum of speeding tires and motors--were seldom far away...
...Between these extremes, Nixon has presented Californians with a number of faces...
...In Fresno, he went further and spoke about Condon's "Communist involvement...
...Last summer, at the state Republican convention, the then Acting Governor Goodwin J. Knight won a victory over the Nixon forces...
...Nixon supporters took great pains to deny the split, and things were largely smoothed over...
...The jets arrived and flight patterns were established...
...But such talk and appeasement apparently accomplishes only so much...
...At the moment, it looks as though they are backing a loser, but powerful pressures are being exerted...
...Apparently, Nixon adheres to the late Wendell Willkie's theory that what is said at election time need not be consistent or reflect one's real feelings, but represents only "campaign oratory...
...The sonic-bang climax was not wholly unexpected in the suburbs...
...More public tolerance, please...
...Jet Age Invades New England's Suburbia By Courtney R. Sheldon BOSTON THERE WAS a time not long ago when the tranquility of New England suburbia was jarred only by the high-pitched glee of children playing and the occasional backfire of an inconsiderate auto...
...This is hardly enough to assure his ambitions...
...Today, at 41, he is an ex-Congressman, ex-Senator, Vice President and unquestionably the best-known Republican in the state...
...And there is no doubt that without Nixon the campaign would never have gotten off the ground...
...But no one who has heard the cannon-clap of a jet breaking the sound barrier questions its demise...
...This pattern was repeated throughout the state...
...at the moment, he has no grasp at all, apart from the gratitude of some Congressmen...
...His agents are busy lining up votes for one of two Republican contenders for Speaker of the Assembly, California's lower house...
...Richmond: Lawrence King...
...let's elect a man about whom there is no doubt...
...New "garden-type'' industrial centers mushroomed, bringing unending lines of brake-screeching trailer-trucks and rattling freight cars...
...It is more likely that those who can afford it will push outward to a still farther suburban rim, with both their eyes and ears open...
...His urging of support for Ike on the grounds that peace was achieved in Indo-China without the use of American boys sounded even stranger from the man who urged sending troops when Dienbienphu was under siege...
...The Air Force, however, has no intention of moving...
...Typical of this behavior was his campaigning against Representative Robert Condon...
...Louis: William Wyant Jr...
...If Nixon succeeds in dictating his choice to the Assembly, he will have gained a powerful grasp on the convention delegation, for it is at this level that California politics is largely determined...
...In his two major campaigns in this state, against former Congressman Jerry Voorhis in 1946 and for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas in 1950, he stood by and allowed his supporters to engage in some of the nastiest McCarthy-type smearing ever seen here...
...This last crack might warrant further investigation...
...Just how suburbanites will win support from the rest of the populace--most of them city-dwellers within earshot of subways, trucks, buses and factories--is not clear...
...Representative Joe Holt, another leading member of the Nixon "team," echoed his sentiments and added, cryptically, "FBI cooperation helped...
...It would be too costly, and, besides, the Air Force does not want to get too far away from the homes of its reservists...
...However startling these were to a napping suburbanite, they were only slight interruptions in the joy of living beyond the fume and fuss of the big city...
...It has even been known to go so far as to change a flight pattern so that a baby could get its regular after-lunch nap...
...He deliberately pitched the campaign to an emotional know-nothing level, all the while hinting darkly of secret FBI reports which he had seen...
...Obviously, if Nixon is to have a chance at the Presidential nomination he must have a firm grasp on his own state's delegation...
...Californians are of many minds about him...
...Nixon's line generally was that the Democratic candidates, if not traitors, were at least headed in that direction, and only the GOP offered "real Americans" to the voters...
...In the 1952 campaign, at least in California, he was relatively subdued...
...Nor is there any significant remedy in sight for cutting down on jet noise...
...It was a sordid effort, but one that brought out the vote and unquestionably saved the Republicans a few House seats...
...Nixon Rallies Home State Support By Frank Mankiewicz SAN FRANCISCO THE SIGNIFICANT result of California's off-year elections is the emergence of Vice President Richard M. Nixon from a shadowy, ill-defined, behind-the-scenes position to one of real power in the state...
Vol. 37 • November 1954 • No. 48
