PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 11/22/1966 - HFSID 203

RICHARD NIXON
He thanks the editor of The Nation for an editorial that amused him, but which he doubts would be warmly received by President Johnson.
Typed Letter Signed: "Dick", 1p, 8x10½. New York, 1966 November 22. To Richard L. Tobin, Managing Editor, Saturday Review, New York. In full: "I appreciate your calling my attention to the editorial in The Nation; it was amusing, although I imagine it would not have received a particularly warm reception at the Johnson Ranch. With best personal regards." The lead editorial in the November 14, 1966 issue of "The Nation" was headed: "The Elephant Is Tempted". In part: "The place was Boise, Ida., the scene a hotel room; the time a week before the election; the hour 4:29 A.M. The restless former Vice President, out campaigning for Republican nominees, awakens with a start and summons his traveling staff to an immediate conference. According to 'The Wall Street Journal', the purpose of Mr. Nixon's pre-dawn conference was to plan 'a counterattack against the claims of accomplishment' President Johnson was certain to advance on returning from his seventeen-day election swing through the Pacific. A day or two later in Philadelphia, Mr. Nixon announced that the leaders of both parties should meet with the President, in a bipartisan cold-war summit, as soon after the election as possible to plan 'a strategy for victory.' If some such conference is not held, and if the war in Vietnam drags on, then the Republican Party might be grievously tempted' to run a candidate on a peace platform in 1968. Just think of that! The opposition party...grievously tempted to adopt the position which in 1952 enabled it to walk away with the Presidential election! To be shocked from bed at 4:29 A.M. by the thought that Lyndon Baines Johnson intended, in the final weeks of the campaign, to protect his exposed 'peace' flank, is a measure of the bemused state of GOP leadership...." In 1968, President Johnson decided not to run for reelection. Richard Nixon received the Republican presidential nomination and was elected 37th U.S. President. Fine condition.