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Richard Nixon handwritten notes regarding foreign policy and the communist threat. Notes are from a collection of handwritten Nixon documents collected by Nixon's biographer and New York Herald Tribune political journalist Earl Mazo, who wrote, ''Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait''. Published in 1959, the book's source material was written near or before 1958, when Nixon was Vice President. Nixon writes in pencil, ''...What position on Foreign Policy: 1. Recognize threat - its character - determination to dominate world - 2. How do we meet it? 1) Military strength - obvious 2) Allies - obvious (can't do it alone) 3) But people don't understand adequately the area of greatest danger - non-military 4) Need to step up 1) Economic Technical assistance - Loans 2) Private Enterprise - 5) Info - 6) Exchange - Leaders - doubled''. Verso reads, ''Differences: Foreign - Civil Rights - Economic - {attitude toward merits / govt versus private set''. Document measures 5.5'' x 5.75''. Near fine condition with perforation through center.
Richard Nixon Handwritten Notes -- ''...Recognize threat - its character - determination to dominate world...people don't understand adequately the area of greatest danger...''
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