Richard Nixon Presidential Library White House Special Files Collection Folder List Box Number Folder Number Document Date Document Type Document Description 69 3 05/05/1961 Memo Excerpts from Address of Richard Nixon before The Executives' Club of Chicago. 4 pages. 69 3 08/26/1959 Newsletter Human Events- Nixon vs Rockefeller. 69 3 10/01/1960 Newsletter Battle Line- Democrats Ready To Spend What It Takes! 69 3 09/30/1960 Newsletter Battle Line- Soviet Prestige Plastered But Democrats Continue 'Operarin Downgrade' of US. 69 3 10/01/1960 Newsletter The Kiplinger Washington Letter. 69 3 n.d. Newsletter The Top of the News with Fulton Lewis, Jr. - Great Debate. Friday, October 19, 2007 Page 1 of 5 Box Number Folder Number Document Date Document Type Document Description 69 3 n.d. Newsletter Nixon-Lodge Newsletter. 69 3 10/06/1960 Newsletter Human Events -- Commentary. 69 3 10/06/1960 Newsletter Human Events- Why nixon Over Kennedy. 69 3 10/06/1960 Newsletter Human Events- The Washington Newsletter. 69 3 10/06/1960 Newsletter Human Events- Fourteen Million Stockholders Deserve A Break. 69 3 08/13/1959 Letter To: HR Haldeman. From: Walter Barlow, VP of Opinion Research Corp. Re: Gov. Rockefeller's opinion poll researcher. 69 3 07/16/1960 Newsletter The Kiplinger Washington Letter. Friday, October 19, 2007 Page 2 of 5 Box Number Folder Number Document Date Document Type Document Description 69 3 07/28/1960 Newsletter Human Events- You Bet I Am A Republican. 69 3 07/28/1960 Newsletter Human Events- Reflections On FDR. Not scanned. 69 3 07/28/1960 Newsletter Human Events- The Kennedy Revolution: Part 1 69 3 07/28/1960 Newsletter Human Events- Kennedy for President? 69 3 07/28/1960 Newsletter Human Events-- Railroad Workers Ride Gravy Train. Not scanned. 69 3 07/28/1960 Newsletter Human Events- The Washington Newsletter. 69 3 07/23/1960 Newsletter The Kiplinger Washington Letter. Friday, October 19, 2007 Page 3 of 5 Box Number Folder Number Document Date Document Type Document Description 69 3 07/21/1960 Newsletter Human Events- The Washington Newsletter. 69 3 07/21/1960 Newsletter Human Events- Commentary. 69 3 07/21/1960 Newsletter Human Events- Catholicism and Labor Unions. Not scanned. 69 3 07/21/1960 Newsletter Human Events- The Senate's Free-Spending McNamara. Not scanned. 69 3 07/18/1960 Newsletter Political Memo From COPE. 69 3 n.d. Newsletter The Top of the News with Fulton Lewis, Jr. 69 3 07/18/1960 Newsletter The Top of the News with Fulton Lewis, Jr. Friday, October 19, 2007 Page 4 of 5 Box Number Folder Number Document Date Document Type Document Description 69 3 05/05/1961 Memo Exerpts of Remarks of Richard Nixon at the Ceremonies Inagurating The Republican Citizens League of Illinois. 69 3 05/06/1961 Memo Statement of Farm Policy by Richard Nixon. 69 3 05/09/1961 Memo Exerpts of Remarks of Richard Nixon at the Detroit Press Club Luncheon. 69 3 05/09/1961 Memo Exerpts of Remarks of Richard Nixon at Detroit, Michigan. 69 3 05/05/1961 Memo Exerpts of Remarks of Richard Nixon before The Executives' Club of Chicago. 69 3 05/10/1961 Memo Exerpts of Remarks of Richard Nixon at Columbus, Ohio. 69 3 n.d. Memo Exerpts of Remarks of Richard Nixon delivered from May 5 to 10, 1961. Friday, October 19, 2007 Page 5 of 5 Excerpts from Address of RICHARD NIXON before The Executives l Club of Chicago May 5, 1961 My first speech on national issues since the election presents a difficult problem. It isn't that I am not receiving plenty of advice. As Governor James Byrnes told me on his 82nd birthday Tuesday, unsolicited advice is the cheapest commodity you can find because the supply is so great and the demand so little. The trouble is that no one agrees as to what I should do. Some say -- continue to be a good loser; speak but don't say anything controversial. Others say -- pour it on. Still others say -- dontt make any speeches -- the new Administration has been in power for only 100 days, the new President is popular and, therefore, it would be very unpopular for the losing candi­ date to make public statements that might be interpreted as critical of the Administration. I must admit that this last type of advice ~s tempting, to say the least. It has been some­ what of a relief to be out of the arena -- to be free from the attacks of the political opposition. And, in any event, the role of a defeated candidate, if he does choose to speak, is not an easy one to define. He has no official position. As a result, the members of his own party who do hold elective offices understandably believe that they, rather than he, should speak for the party. And he always runs a risk that the members of the other party will accuse him of bad sportsmanship if he does anything other than compliment the new Administration. I shall have to admit, therefore, that the more popular course for me to follow would be either to be silent or, when I do speak, to limit myself to the generalities and pleasantries which satisfy everybody and displease no one. This course would be an easy choice if the situation were normal -- that is, if our prob­ lems, no matter how pressing, were of the type that could be solved in time without serious risk to our existence as a nation. The situation is far from normal. Our existence is threat­ ened and in recent weeks the threat has manifestly increased. I have therefore reached the conclusion that the time has come for me to speak out on national issues. But, in doing so, I want the country to know exactly the role in which I shall be speaking. I do not speak as a candidate or as one planning to be a candidate for any public office. I do not presume to speak as the self-appointed leader of the Republican Party. Nor do I speak as the representative of the Administration in which I was proud to serve. I shall speak as a private citizen, saying those things I believe are in the best interests of the nation, without presuming to claim that my views represent those of my party or of the Administration of which I was a member. I am convinced that in this independent role, I shall best be able to serve the nation. Among the guidelines I intend to follow are these: Our criticism of the Administration should be responsible, constructive, on issues of real substance. This is no time for nit-picking. The type of fundamental issue that I have in mind is how our national effort is being mobi­ lized to meet the threat to our existence. For example, the new Administration has made proposals which would impose upon the nation, over a two-year period, an additional five bil­ lion dollars burden in Federal spending, an additional ten billion dollars in new obligational authority, with t:qeresuJ;t ~9£tt *8~ shall have.a new deflrcit of at least five .hiUions even if reve­ nues are esti..tnated on the optimistic side. / Of this new total of 15 billions in spending and obligations, less than one-third is to be spent for defense and national security over and above the Eisenhower estimates. Fully 11 billions are budgeted for spending and obligational authority in non-military areas such as health, wel­ fare, education, housing and public works. These programs include an education bill which in providing Federal subsidies for teachers I salaries would, in my opinion, inevitably mean Federal dictation of what is taught in our - 2 ­ schools; a housing act that would stifle private initiative; a farrn program that will make the American farmer hopelessly dependent upon and controlled by Federal bureaucrats; a health program for the aged that will, in my opinion, inevitably lead to compulsory health insurance for all. During the recent campaign, I set forth in detail alternative programs in the fields of health, education, housing and agriculture which I deeply believed then and now were more consistent with our American principles because, as distinguished from the Kennedy programs, they recognize individual and private enterprise rather than government action as the primary instrument of progress on which we should rely. I shall continue to fight for those principles in the domestic area which I believe are so im­ portant for the future of the country. At a time when the frontiers of freedom are under constant attack abroad, I believe that the national interest requires that we resist such programs as I have described which would chip away at the freedoms we enjoy at home. And, before we embark on any new spending programs at home, we should put first things first and be ready and able to do what is necessary to strengthen America and the Free World so that we can meet the increased t hr'eat of Communist aggression which now confronts us abroad. In view of recent world developments, there is an obvious need for us to develop more ef­ fective programs to meet this threat. How can those of us in the loyal opposition playa con­ structive part in developing such programs? The easiest and, on the surface, most popular course would be simply to abdicate any re­ sponsibility in this regard and endorse the programs past, present, and future of the new Ad­ ministration in the name of bi-partisanship.